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Their plan is. >> i understand youve been speaking to some of your sources. what did they tell you about bergdahl and how he disappeared? >> there are all of these stories going around. washington post has a story out right now that i covered for "the blaze" that when he got picked up by the haqqanis that he was inebriated. thats back to villagers that they interviewed. he was under the influence, stumbled around out there. the only intelligence reports that i know of about his health is where h...

Reporters, though with much better tools. which they piece together ask say here is our best assessment of possible things that might happen. in this situation, you throw in the wild card, which is vladimir putin. and representative adam schiff, on the house intelligence committee saying, listen, with him, he could have made that decision last minute so no one could have predicted it. thats their defense. but listen, the bottom line is, they were caught off guard. >> i read an interesting report...

Sound better, more palatable to the american people, but in the end, once you sit in that chair and start reading the intelligence reports, you tend to change your mind and become a little more for some of these programs than you were before you became president and the net effect wont be very significant. >> i think hes probably right about that. i remember seeing daniel elsburg speak, when youre brought into the sort of brotherhood of secrecy, you come to associate with it, right, all of a sud...

Indicate that even the phone calls of an jael america i will are fair game in the spy game what did they say about the presidents knowledge of this kind of spying? >> whether he intended to or not james clapper seemed to give the president cover here because he said the president in general would know about the output of the intelligence gathering but might not know the source of it. when he is reading these intelligence reports. he did say the white house, national security council, would know ...

Ammunition, involves the, quote unquote, soft targets, this is something they could do especially in kenya, into the future. im skeptical that there is a real al qaeda connection in terms of al qaeda central planning this. this is something that sounds that it was primarily cooked up by -- cooked up locally by people who know the territory. the westgate mall has been the subject of intelligence reports in east africa for a number of years of the its a somewhat obvious target but clearly wasnt ve...

This disclosure process, theyre going to have to tell the opcw, this watchdog agency, where these weapons are and the inspectors from the agency are going to have to monitor those weapons. but its an issue of verification that syria really is telling the truth. and so this agency will be receiving reports. there are all sorts of intelligence reports that the u.s. and other countries are getting. theyll pass them on to the inspectors. if syria may have a cache of chemical weapons that theyre not ...

39 legislative days. what does it mean for immigration? what are the implications for his domestic agenda? >> well, you know, we dont know. in fact there probably will be implications and well have a big debate about it however this comes out. bottom line, and this is where i appreciate the president and also republican and democratic leadership, theyre telling the members that youve got to dig deep into your soul and this has got to be your moral conviction about whats right. it cant be the pol...

Defending regime government that has caused so much bloodshed and really crossed the line from any kind of civil war into weapons of mass destruction, into one of the highest crimes of intel national law. how do you personally sleep at night? >> i believe that the use of chemical weapons or nuclear weapons is a horrible appalling crime. those who perpendicular such a horrible crime, whether israelis or others, should be held accountable to the international established mechanisms. not to the bul...

Its going to be his background that is going to mitigate that down a little bit. >> so, bradley manning goes into the arm ay and has access to all intelligence reports and he is a computer genious. obvious if he did a background check on him. why was he admitted into the army and put into that position? >> that is the $64,000 question. and i keep asking that myself that very question. it seems obvious to me that at least shortly after he had joined into the military, from what i read of his biog...

Of intelligence reports that came out of that program, that would not otherwise have been available, yeah. >> do you not understand the concern that people have, not so much that the program in and of itself or that you general hayden, are at issue. but that if history has taught us anything. programs like these are abused, they are not always just 100% good actors you know the federalist papers and these, you know were not angels. and the idea that you look at the irs scandal, you look at the a...