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Place there arent many members of congress publicly, you know, when these letters are sent up by apac and other pro-israel groups, hagel among maybe six or four senators that didnt sign them and 90 senators did sign them. on operations like the libya operation, he was a critic of that. he seems to be opposed to a lot of u.s. military interventions overseas whether they be for humanitarian reasons or other reasons. i dont know if id say hes outside of mainstream but an argument is made he could b...

Kind of intelligence we had prior to the attack on four americans in benghazi. the administration blamed that attack on a protest that got out of hand. a story questions the past days as fox has learned more and more things about this attack. confirmation from two intelligence sources that said our intel community knew from day one this was a terrorist attack. here is charles krauthammer. >> the question is not the wisdom of the libya operation. this was clearly deception on the part of the admi...

Difficult environment. the intelligence, nobody intentionally deceiving anybody. >> bret: charles? >> question is not the wisdom of the libya operation. question is the honesty of the obama administration. this was deception on the part of the administration and sending susan rice to say this is spontaneous demonstration when you reported it was known inside the administration within a day it was not. it was a terror attack. why did they deceive? of course. the attack took place five days after ...

The use of airspace for operations they did not much like. denying airspace is not seen as all that hugely unfriendly of a thing. we had a lot of european allies deny it in the middle east crisis and france denied it in the libya operation. if iraq wanted to deny iran airspace it would not be a huge deal by the standards of the international community or how these kind of things work. as you know, iraq is won by a shia majority government. they are worried about being -- seeing president assad f...

police and sheriffs officials in ohio after the owner of a preserve, game preserve, killed himself and let them loose on the town. the one monkey they couldnt find, police say the t cheetah, ate that monkey. >> authorities defending the decision to take those animals down. saying it was us or them. ja jason carol. >> reporter: so many questions this morning. why terry thompson the man that owned all the animals, why he opened the cages and set those animals free. knowing that many of t...

Okay ... our pentagon correspondent. the house voted down an amendment to homeland security bill that pertained to the "washington post" -- war powers act. >>guest: introduced by a congressman from california banning funding for anything that was in contradiction of the war powers act, the it is days the president has to consult with congress when there is a mission is as the libyan mission and it is important to point out that 60 days after the libyan mission started, that war powers act has re...

It also says that if a president does start the war powers resolution also says if a president does start a u.s. military operation without a prior okay from congress, congress has to give authorization for that operation within 60 days. and if they dont, then that operation ends. that military operation must cease so says the war powers resolution which is technically the law even though presidents really dont follow it. and congress doesnt make too much of a stink about it anymore either. we j...

Powers resolution, which reasserts what the constitution already clearly says, that the authority to declare war is vested in congress, not in the presidency. it also says that if a president does start -- the war powers resolution says that if a president does start operation prior okay from congress, congress has to give authorization for that operation within 60 days. and if they dont, then that operation ends. that military operation must cease so says the war powers resolution which is tech...

So says the war powers resolution which is technically the law even though presidents really dont follow it. and congress doesnt make too much of a stink about it anymore either. we just hit the 60-day time limit for u.s. involvement in the nato operation in libya. we hit that timeline on friday. is our involvement there being cut off because theres been no okay from congress on the war powers authorization is the law of the land? no. as i said it is the law of the land but not one anyone really...

Orp organizations to come out in front and be the new leader. >> they dont fight. they have other people doing their fighting. they write the releases. >> former secretary of homeland security michael chertoff joins us live and we have just learned, mr. secretary, according it a u.s. official this was c.i.a.-led operation meaning the navy seals squadron was on loan to the c.i.a. under its command and control during this mission. does that surprise you? >> it doesnt surprise me and i think we all...