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The forward towards alice faces a life sentence for aiding the enemy and 20 other counts including espionage, computer fraud and also theft. hes accused of leaking 700,000 classified with her documents and diplomatic cables to that website, wikileaks. they have to prove he had an evil intent in aiding the enemy. and to convince the judge manning in those documents would end up in the hands of al qaeda. as intelligence expert he was trained to know just how important this information would be to ...

That ability to target them, thats not the big concern of, simply that the terrorists now know too much. john? >> the other striking thing about this, barbara, is a 29-year-old guy who didnt graduate college who works for a contracting firm in front of the computer terminal, its pretty shocking to a lot of people that he had this kind of information. how careful is the government about giving out security clearance, and do they have to re-assess that? >> reporter: i think this is now huge. he on...

This information disappears and then they cant find out if they need to do a database search in a moment in time because they find a cell phone from a terrorist or they break up a terrorist cell somewhere in london. you know, you hear some intelligence experts give us very rational explanations about this, but my concern is why are we getting it from intelligence expert if some of this is very basic and you can explain it publicly, then the administration, congress, the judicial branch who are a...

Unclassified information as opposed to classified. >> brian: lets get this straight. unclassified information for the one person in the white house, not a terror expert, not an intelligence expert, an ambassador to the u.n. given unclassified information on five national shows. if those are the facts, i dont know where to start. >> eric: we have a bigger problem if general petraeus testifies that it was not the video and it was, in fact, terror. now two months later with four days into the mess,...

They are themselves a threat to america. mr. kennedy, i would like to ask you, is al qaeda more or less established in libya since our involvement? >> i will have to take that question for the record. im not an intelligence expert. >> you dont have the intelligence you are saying? ill go on to the next question. >> i think it other two may have an opinion. >> i wanted to ask ambassador kennedy. next question, ambassador kennedy. how many shoulder to air missiles are capable of shooting -- that a...

Benghazi? >>reporter: these are conversations i have had with people familiar with intelligence. this area, libya, north africa, was considered a hot zone or a hot region. since june of this year there were at least four incidents, either successful or plots, against diplomatic interests or on diplomatic personnel. so it was considered a hot region, active. now, when they say there was no "actionable intelligence," that means that there wasnt something specific enough in the opinion of the intel...

Former c.i.a. convert officer and president of the global intelligence and security firm, mike baker. you heard catherine talking about they did not have "hot," intelligence, the signs were everywhere with attacks in different areas. we know there are all kinds of missing weapons in libya. we know it was lend. -- we know it was 9/11. but there was no "hot" intelligence. >>guest: i dont believe the white house had actionable intelligence about a specific attack in beach gaza but the bigger proble...

Right. so thats going to be a challenge for her. but she is somebody that because of who she is and the issues that she focuses on will have appeal on the movement conservative right. but, yeah, she has to be more careful now, because theres going to be more scrutiny. shes not just a backbencher congresswoman from first, second, and thinker term whos out there trying to get better known. once she is on this stage, shes going to face a lot more scrutiny and tough coverage. >> has she any way to s...

Immediately. others have defected to the opposition. a new website reportedly authorized by irans government is calling for suicide attacks in bay irani after saudi troops supported bahrains government, cracking down on protesters there. the eu is defending bahrains actions. and here with me now to sort through all of this, intelligence expert, former congresswoman, jane harman, who is now the president of the wilson center, a nonpartisan think tank here in washington. well, where to start? fi...