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has cracked the code of the u.s. militarys all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their a...

militarys all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they h...

good evening, im tom foreman in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, iran goes on the attack in the drone war. the iranian government claims it has cracked the code of the u.s. militarys all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it wa...

Scent of gary powers and the soviet union, and why is the obama administration downplaying this? there is gary power, huge back in the 1960s. >> thank goodness we have drone technology that doesnt endanger our pilots or the propaganda the iranians have would be greater but a curiosity of the obama administration, is the president almost single-handedly is responsible for killing usama bin laden, but, he seems to have been away when the drone went down. i dont understand that disconnect, myself. ...

Government do at area 51? >> well, the base was set up for the cia in 1955 to test the u2 spy plane. it became so famous when gary powers was shot down over the soviet union in 1960. after sputnik launched, the cia began another program to spy on the soviet union called the oxcart, and that was a mach-3 spy plane. in the 1960s three times the speed of sound flying at 90,000 feet. so the base has always been a place to furb technology and -- push technology and science faster and further than any...

Three mile island was rated a five and the chernobyl catastrophe was a 7. >> woo f. we learned one thing from chernobyl, it is that we dont know. the radioactive clouds spread over the them fear sphere after chernobyl. >> is there a nuclear coverup in japan? history tells us it has happened before at the height of the cold war in 1957. there was another level 6 nuclear accident shrouded in mystery in the former soviet union. on may 1, 1960, it became one of the prime targets on frances gary powe...

Spies are not doing their jobs, there might have been a problem. but they got to the bottom of a starbucks cup. >> gary powers, i mean, this is what -- happens. this is what happens in these situations. doesnt matter the degree that they were successful, doesnt matter whether it is equal swapping. >> do you think thats a fair trade? we have all of these intellectuals and we are giving them 11 "d" bags that tried to friend me on facebook. >> we also got yakoff smushoff. >> we are trying to del po...