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Perhaps not as good analysis as -- of trends and events as we perhaps could have had. but i wouldnt call it an intelligence failure. >> call it lack of imagination? >> lack of imagination, not being able to see what is possible. >> thats what they said about 9/11, right? >> let me turn to you the region. you mentioned, this started really with a fruit and vegetable seller in tunisia, who set himself on fire because he was arrested or his goods were taken away because he wasnt licensed, and he se...

Crisis in egypt. just yesterday, we were reporting that they, indeed, were notified and the white house went on the record today denying there were any dental problems. i dont get it. >> i think the key thing here is today the white house is very public and trying to insist there was no conflict and there had been no intelligence failure. >> the president expects that in any case that he will be provided with relevant, timely, and accurate intelligence assessments, and thats exactly whats been d...

Was no intelligence failure. >> the president expects that in the case he will be provided with relevant, timely and accurate intelligence assessment and that is what has been done throughout the crisis. >> the question of who knew what came to a head in a senate hearing on thursday. >> i have doubts if they lived up to the obligation. >> supposed to be meeting for number two intelligence official. but spoke about mubaraks hold on power. >> can you tell me when they first alerted the president a...

A waiter though he was wearing a dress uniform with metals on his chest and four stars on his sleeves. attendees said she was not wearing her glasses and was mortifyed. chiarelli laughed it off and jarret letter september him a note saying she will serve him a drink next month. he invited her to dinner next month. presidentballball ipresident obg the suggestion that mubarak step down. lawmakers and others are asking questions about what intelligence officials knew and shared prior to the uprisin...

The policy with the natural gas the suez canal. it is important in this entire discussion. we need to keep -- it is going to be interesting the role that the egyptian people, the younger egyptian people are going to play in this transition is going to be significant and probably something -- >> sean: this is not gratuitous shots at the administration. they did sell a different foreign policy. where joe biden had all this experience and barack obamas outreach to the muslim world. >> 3 a.m. phone ...

The policy with the natural gas the suez canal. it is important in this entire discussion. we need to keep -- it is going to be interesting the role that the egyptian people, the younger egyptian people are going to play in this transition is going to be significant and probably something -- >> sean: this is not gratuitous shots at the administration. they did sell a different foreign policy. where joe biden had all this experience and barack obamas outreach to the muslim world. >> 3 a.m. phone ...

And they did so with legal standing. it was legal according to international law. the other thing they said is there were a group of activists who had come on the boat in turkey, clearly looking for a fight. now, its probably not a big surprise here that the israeli government in their commission have cleared their own soldiers in their incident. but the big question here is that the report leaves open is the intelligence failure. how could israel and how could the military intelligence group mi...

No one is surprised by the commission coming down on the side of its own soldiers but it did open up the question of the intelligence failure. how could their intelligence service how could be the military be caught so unprepared for a group looking for a fight? >> heather: thank you for that. >> gregg: caught on videotape a spectacular highway crash. out of control truck careening toward an oncoming vehicle. how it came to be a end. >> and buyer beware, lower credit card fees. they may just be ...

Nobody is ever to blame for anything anymore. every time institutional failure happens, it wasnt me. on the iraq war, for example, george bush made an art form out of pulling out the shaggy defense. >> the intelligence failure on iraq, a lot of people put their reputations on the line. the strategy to remove saddam hussein, wasnt just people in my administration. it wasnt just our cia. it was the intelligence services all over the world that believed the same thing. >> wasnt me. it was the intel...

This is a big statement. but we, but fbi, lets put it this way, cannot keep track of every immigrant in this country. what happened in times square was not an intelligence failure. in fact it was a brilliant wrap-up of this guy. but what im really afraid, chris, is the next time one of these guys are going to get through. and whats it going to do to this country? its going to rip it apart. because people are going to be looking for quick, immediate answers. >> how so? >> you know, theyre going t...