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Would have in an i.t. office. >> thats fascinating. in terms of security contractors, and weve seen statistics saying that, you know, as many as 70% of the positions inside the world of those who have top secret clearances are actually private firms. should americans be -- is this one point of the debate that these revelations should spark us in about the nature of the intelligence system right now that is so heavily privatized? >> well, it is an issue, because theres an awful lot of work thats ...

Positions inside the world of those who have top secret clearances are actually private firms. should americans be -- is this one point of the debate that these revelations should spark us in about the nature of the intelligence system right now that is so heavily privatized? >> well, it is an issue, because theres an awful lot of work thats being done in the private sector that a decision was made some time ago that they were not going to increase the federal workforce but they were going use c...

Never told them they were looking into marathon bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev. is our intelligence system failing? next. a simply wild police shoot-out caught on camera. how the suspect was able to surprise police, coming up.

People for political advantage with an election looming. its so obvious they have been lying all along, and the way to get at it now is to keep pulling the thread, go back to the cia. i worked the interagency process within the intelligence system, and you could argue and did argue about the enter operation of the facts, but you never played with the facts. you didnt change the facts, and we now know, beyond dispute, that at the state departments behest, the facts were changed before the talking...

In september, i mean, susan rice shouldnt have said the things she said on the sunday morning talk shows, which maybe what she said wasnt the full picture. although, again, it was a pretty chaotic situation, but that was, you know, six, seven months ago. i thought wed been through that, yet congresswoman, those same things that we were hearing back in, you know, october, were being trotted out again today. >> youre right. they just kept bringing up all these attacks, these partisan attacks, but ...

Maybe what she said wasnt the full picture. although, again, it was a pretty chaotic situation, but that was six, seven months ago. i thought we had been through that, and yet congresswoman, those same things that we were hearing back in, you know, october were being trotted out again today. >> youre right, they just kept bringing up all these attacks, these partisan attacks. what i dont understand is, after 9/11, republicans and democrats came together and we were united and determined to prote...

Months before the attacks happened. this is what the government knew about the suspects prior to the attacks. he thinks the intelligence system actually worked. peter boos sees live with the latest. hi there, peter. >> hi heather. it has been two weeks since the older bombing suspect tamerlan tsarnaev was killed nobody claimed his body yet. we learned his uncle has contacted a mosque in cambridge massachusetts about possibly setting up a funeral. all plans for arrange ams are on hold because the...

Amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies and against us. >> i had a seat to the stage next to the lectern where he was speaking and i literally 3w089ed at that. >> with our help, a liberated iraq can be a great nation once again. >> vice president cheneys speech to the veterans of foreign wars is the opening salvo of the bush administrations effort to sell to the american people what white house insiders call "the product." >> thank you very much. >> it was a shock. it was a ...

>> well, we had lots of stories in the book that couldnt make it into an hour-long documentary about dissent and disagreement up and down the chain of command in the intelligence system that really was totally ignored by those at the top. a real good example is people remember last night hearing the story about the aluminum tubes, and they saw houston woods, who was an expert at the department of energy who said saddam hussein cant use these aluminum tubes for his nuclear weapons program. theyre...

Sell to the american people what white house insiders call "the product." . >> thank you very much. >> it was a shock. it was a total shock. i couldnt believe the vice president was saying this. and doing work with the cia on iraq wmd, through all the briefs i heard at langley, i never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program. and thats when i began to believe theyre getting serious about this. they want to go into iraq. >> two weeks after the speech, cheney again mak...