Lets Make Libya News Today

Administration has this dilemma. that is they sold this to the country as a humanitarian defensive effort and now its apparent that with the coalition vowing it will get gadhafi out of there, that the only way they may be able to succeed unless there is a regime crack is that they have to go in much more decisively militarily and thats going to be very, very hard to sell. >> well, look, the presidents statements about the boundaries and perimeters of our military intervention hab so rigid, no bo...

Of what were seeing, is there any sense there is an effort to impose any command structure on what remains of the opposition forces? obviously they see theyre going in the wrong direction. is anybody in the transitional government saying, fellows, we need a new game plan, this individual will now be in charge? any effort to regroup and do something different? >> reporter: well, we know theres lots of statements coming out of officials in benghazi about the importance of putting up a defensive po...

Weeks ago authorize secret cia operations if libya. what does that mean the cia can do there? >> well, i think what -- that would be specifically outlined in the presidential finding. there would be a very limited number of members of congress that might know. youre authorized to have cia shoes on the ground as i think you guys identified earlier in your program. >> no boots, dont use that term. >> no boots on the ground. shoes on the ground is okay. that you can go in and maybe do reconnaissanc...

>> the harsh reality of the battlefield is intervening the best laid plans never go as you want. what were seeing is an opposition force being routed. we are hearing there are fewer than a thousand total in the field there who they have no arms, no command structure, no intelligence and theyre simply in retreat and yet at the same time were finding out the president sent the cia in and folks in the white house must be scratching their heads saying now what? how can we salvage what is increasingl...

Readiness almost nonexistent. when you see the interview im about to show you i think youll come to the same conclusion i did, it is almost inconceivable that these rebels can beat gadhafis army. we learned this at the same time the president signed an order giving cia support to the libyan rebels. cia personnel are on the ground in libya right now. when the obama administration decided to intervene in libya, did they know how incredibly few resistance fighters there are? well talk to david gerg...

Army men who defected over to the revolutionaries -- revolutionaries themselves as they call themselves are young students from benghazi, engineering students, university medical students, there are storekeeper, army reservists who fought in chad back in the 1980s. there are agronomists, industrial engineers, people who worked in england and the united states and support them in a number of ways, its a fairly representative collection so it seems of the citizenry of libya. its a north african st...

Last ten years have been -- we all know whats happened in the last ten years, but in libya it seems there is a small group of devout muslim men, some of whom fought in wars over the past decade in other countries but they do not have control of the movement and they seem to even welcome the american presence this time. they are very small in number. they are not particularly hostile and they are far outnumbered by the kind of people i described before. there are nuances and there are shades to c...

Libya three, four months ago was a close ally of the united states, helping us fight al qaeda and radical jihadist elements. >> let me stop you there. it is one of these things that drives me nuts. i recall gadhafi being the butcher, and all of a sudden the u.n. almost unanimously decides hes not such a bad guy, lets make libya the head of the human rights commission at the u.n., that all of a sudden this year, no, hes a bad guy again, so bad that human rights, humanitarian issues will drive us ...