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On it, that is reserved for only the sane. not for fundamentalist fanatics who dream of the day they can humble away and reduce israel to a hole in the desert. that may sound dire. yet, it is a logical assumption. given irans support for terror and terrorists. flaming rhetoric that, frankly, gets old but no les positive potent. secretary kerry has even gone so far as to say that any deal with iran will be fail safe. we have a strong suspicion that pledge may have as much of a chance at keeping t...

With iran would be, quote, fail safe. but lawmakers say theyre skeptical and the u.s. should put in more economic penalties. jonathan hunt is working this. this is not an easy sell. >> reporter: know and the debate on capital hill is becoming more strident and in some cases more bizarre. senator john mccain of arizona making headlines today, rather than president obama. he is among those who simply do not trust the iranian president rouhani and the rest of the iranian leadership, and senator mcc...

May be whatever it is but im going to pause because its a process. >> i may have the biggest army in the world bar none, everyone else added up together but im not going to send my cruise missiles without following the process. even backing it up before that, this is a situation the president was in. no security council backing for this action. the fail-safe in the u.n., wasnt fail-safe the general assembly council connect, no assembly backing. were already outside international law for one thin...

I think the main thing i want to emphasize is, i dont have an interest, and the people of the nsa dont have an interest in doing anything other than making sure that where we can prevent terrorist attack, where we can get information ahead of time, that were able to carry out that critical task. we do not have an interest in doing anything other than that. and we tried to set up a system that is a fail-safe as so far we have been able to think of, to make sure that these programs are not abused....

And violate regulations. >> reporter: the defense department has noted seven different personality traits associated with espionage and betrayal including risk seeking, impulsiveness and narcissism. >> people who do display narcissistic tendencies tend to think they can live by their own rules an dont necessarily have to conform to societal expectations or rules. >> reporter: the psychological evaluations and background checks are far from fail safe. >> the best predictor of future behavior is p...

Whether they are more or less likely to be a whistle-blower and to violate organizational norms and regulation. >> the defense human resource activity, a branch of the defense department, has noted seven different personality traits associated with espionage and betrayal, including risk-seeking impulsiveness and narsism. people tend to believe they can -- they dont have to conform to expectational -- >> the psychological evaluations and background checks are far from fail-safe. >> the best predi...

Agents. they are going to trial in his case on monday. they have more ample evidence of unethical conduct and there is no fail safe. government attorneys that were supposed to be the fail safe or second set of eyes are continuing to protect corruption and mismanagement. its not going to change as long as these managers never face accountability. >> mike: you were an attorney in the department of justice. how shocked when you hear about his own situation? >> since i have been a whistleblower atto...

>> to some degree its an acceptance of this and at the same time -- i wonder, josh, as michael notes there was no department of homeland security set up after this, right? and just the death toll for boston is not the same as it was over 9/11 and to some degree, i think that speaks to sams point about us getting more used to terrorism. but at the same time, the scope that we, we increasingly understand that the methods of capture or surveillance may not, may not work. maybe its not even about, i...

Certainly the timing given whats happening in the north. is interesting. significant and the way its going to be interpreted in the north. one of the things that richard reported was that the hotline had been severed. theyre no longer connected with the south. which was the fail-safe if there were an error, miscalculation that one could pick up the other and general to general, they could talk. if not leader to leader. one thing that has not stopped as of the last time i checked was the cross-bo...

Revenue, year after year after year? our taxes will go up, is spending going down? if spending goes down that means more austerity at home and abroad throughout europe and in asia? that means kind of reservation -- stimulation and continued slow job growth. >>shepard: we are reading about the fiscal cliff and if we stay with the fail-safe, not that people think it will, but if we do, our austerity measures would be three times that of spain. and spain now is at 25 percent unemployment. >>guest: ...