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When they became hollywood block busters we had harrison ford playing jack ryan. that made harrison ford this larger than life figure. alec baldwin also played jack ryan. ben affleck played jack ryan. in 2003 he wrote "the teeth of the tiger." he introduced jack ryan, jr., as the next big intelligence agent in washington. he has a book that will come out december 3. there is an unpublished novel thats coming out called "command authority." well see more of his work in a couple of months. its sho...

Manning had been diagnosed with gender disorder. his attorney revealing his new middle name, elizabeth. questions for eric holder about reports the nsa is giving intelligence agent to drug agents. they will respond to the allegations the dea uses information from overseas wiretaps to launch investigations. if its true, this is a serious overreach by the government. we are learning more this morning about the behind the scenes diplomatic chess game that kept edward snowden close for six weeks...

Might have stayed simply an internet conspiracy theory had it not been for this man. >> it is a document that i got about five weeks ago from an intelligence agent from france who had been doing an inquiry, and had some contacts with people in the u.s. navy. >> it was pierre salinger, a former white house secretary, u.s. senator and network correspondent who went public. salinger who died in 2004 claimed to have official proof that a navy missile shot down twa 800 specifically naming this ship t...

And beyond that, ill refer to the justice dertment. >> reporter: white house press secretary jay carney blamed china for letting snowden flee hong kong and warned -- >> this is a deliberate choice by the government to release a fugitive despite a valid arrest warrant, and that decision unquestionably has a negative impact on the u.s.-china relationship. >> reporter: as of monday afternoon, the administration believes snowden remained in russia. the president made a call to president putin, and i...

Intelligence agent of france. >> reporter: in march of 1997, pierre salinger claimed to have verified the friendly fire coverup, specifically naming the u.s.s. normandy as the ship that fired the missile. but there was a problem with his claim. his proof turned out to be the same unsubstantiated document that had been on the internet for months. investigators concluded the u.s.s. normandy never fired any of its missiles and even if it had it was out of range. more than four years after that expl...

>> the leadership of senate and house intelligence committee says snowden is misrepresenting the facts, especially on nsa collection of web content. >> it is not a target on americans, it has to be a non-u.s. person believed to be on foreign soil. >> the program here is legal. it has been passed by department of justice as a legal program. it is carefully audited. >> a former intelligence agent says it could be leekds by a junior justice department lawyer because snowden is apparently implicatin...

And now of course in custody for ald murder. back t alleged murder. jon: he wound up on jimmy similar he wills show as a result of that whole strange internet thing, right? >> reporter: he became famous by it. what this might be indicative of too is the fact that he maybe underestimated how famous he was. law enforcement started watching, they saw clues in the video, things didnt really add up. jon: thank you very much harris faulkner. >> reporter: sure. arthel: jon right now new reaction to the...

>> i am patti ann browne. the white house is trying to contain three scandals this morning. jay carney struggling to deflect a barrage of questions. >> why the justice department handled benghazi and the irs targeting of conservative groups. as you wake up there is brand new information on all three and we will get to all of them in just a moment. first your 5@5:30. an american diplomat accused of being a sky rushed out of the country. ryan fogle a third secretary at our embassy tried to recruit...

And iraq had nothing to do with each other. and afghanistan and iraq, its two different wars, two different issues, and yet we forget how closely linked the administration at the time put the two. >> absolutely. and in fact mark rossini, who you just saw there, it was his job to evaluate that intelligence report mohammed alta had met in prague. they gave him a photograph that supposedly showed the meeting. he looked at it and said, this is not mohammed ata. he reported up the chain, and then he ...

Im honored to appear before you today as the presidents nominee to lead the central intelligence agent. im grateful to president obama for sending my name forward. thank you for your service to our nation and strong support for those who defend it. this includes the extraordinary men and women of the cia, and inintelligence community so many of whom like me call virginia home and call you our senator. i would the not be here today without the love and support of my wife kathy, my life partner an...