Page 14 - Fallback Position News Today

Successful in getting broadcast producers who dont really want to deal with the headache of it, why put on these controversial stories that we are going to have to fight people on when we can fill the broadcast with other perfectly decent stories that dont ruffle the same feathers. >> so you are saying that you and other journalists have made these observations. are you saying you personally got pushback from the obama administration and white house officials or they went over your head and trie...

Female politicians, california senator dianne feinstein to co-chair the powerful senate intelligence committee which recently completed a report about the cia using torture, alleged torture, torture, whatever, after 9/11. former cia director michael hayden believes the report is biased and referenced a "the washington post" column by david ignatius. >> he said that senator feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an an unamerican brutal program of detention and interrogati...

Female politicians, california senator dianne feinstein to co-chair the powerful senate intelligence committee which recently completed a report about the cia using torture, alleged torture, torture, whatever, after 9/11. former cia director michael hayden believes the report is biased and referenced a "the washington post" column by david ignatius. >> he said that senator feinstein wanted a report so scathing that it would ensure that an an unamerican brutal program of detention and interrogati...

This report? >> i think thats an old male fallback position. and theres no question that there are a lot of people out there. i suspect one of them is former cia director hayden, that does not want the report to come out. so one of the things you do is try to blur the reputation of someone connected with the report. obviously im the chairman of the committee and connected with the report. i support the findings. i believe they are factual and voted for declassification and i believe we should be...

The ones manning a checkpoint right now. some of them have military experience, but essentially, theyve been working civilian jobs, and they say the army, the ukrainian army is not tough enough to stand alone, we must also do our bit to help them. and so, theyve set up these kind of barricades at a roadside che checkpoi checkpoint. they say if russians were to roll on, they would set this stuff on fire to set up a smoke screen, if russian troops come down what is a major highway towards kiev. th...

Columbia and harvard law school. i think its ideological combined with grossen attention to international threads to our country. the net effect seems to me to be unquestionable the states. the adversaries, whether theyre states, terrorists, over the remaining year of his term are going to be eager to act in theirself interests before he leaves office. >> as we are seeing with putin. i mean, he believes in russian exceptionalism. it sounds like ukraine, crimea, are going to be back in, what was ...

Columbia and harvard law school. i think its ideological combined with grossen attention to international threads to our country. the net effect seems to me to be unquestionable the states. the adversaries, whether theyre states, terrorists, over the remaining year of his term are going to be eager to act in theirself interests before he leaves office. >> as we are seeing with putin. i mean, he believes in russian exceptionalism. it sounds like ukraine, crimea, are going to be back in, what was ...

Columbia and harvard law school. i think its ideological combined with grossen attention to international threads to our country. the net effect seems to me to be unquestionable the states. the adversaries, whether theyre states, terrorists, over the remaining year of his term are going to be eager to act in theirself interests before he leaves office. >> as we are seeing with putin. i mean, he believes in russian exceptionalism. it sounds like ukraine, crimea, are going to be back in, what was ...

In syria, the congress would not approve. the american people did not want the united states getting militarily involved in another war. >> that was a fallback position. if they crossed the line then they did nothing. >> correct, and when the president said he wants the american people to speak, he wants the congress certification for this action there was not any support for it. and i hope you remember it. now, with regard to what is happening in the ukraine, i think you should look immediately...

In syria, the congress would not approve. the american people did not want the united states getting militarily involved in another war. >> that was a fallback position. if they crossed the line then they did nothing. >> correct, and when the president said he wants the american people to speak, he wants the congress certification for this action there was not any support for it. and i hope you remember it. now, with regard to what is happening in the ukraine, i think you should look immediately...