Michaelo Halon News Today

Diplomatic cables that embarrassed the u.s. government. >> because manning and wikileaks have become so fa nous, theres no doubt perceptions have been changed. theres no doubt people heard of more specific things than on the other hand. a lot of this kind of information was in the public debate. >> reporter: for example, michael ohalon says black water killed incident iraqis in a baghdad square. his point is before manning, americans already knew their leaders made critical mistakes in these war...

Has denied this claim. so where does all this go from here? >> well, its going to be a he said/she said, it seems. look, fox news and the republicans and chairman issa have an agenda. one is to embarrass the president. and two, clearly, it seems its to embarrass former secretary of state hillary clinton. and julian laid out the case better than anybody could about why this isnt really going to go anywhere. and why this is clearly yet another opportunity for darrell issa to try to, i should say, ...

The post-assad syria is what everyone is most concerned about. and that is what has led to the paralysis now. as michael was just saying. >> i dont hear that being rehearsed by republican politicians demanding action from the administration. they dont seem to be talking about post-assad. theyre talking about doing something now because the red line has been crossed. >> well, thats certainly the republican calculation. i think its also the question is you cant start thinking about the day after w...