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Maybe the administration and john mccain would have agreed? >> first of all, i think its important to note he was quite bipartisan in his criticism of presidential administrations. he was very frustrated with the bush administration prior to the surge. he felt iraq was going down, and it was, and needed to be turned around and we needed not only more forces but a different approach. thankfully i think we were able to validate the confidence he had in that. he and senators lieberman and gram, the...

Motivation there was always the greater good. but no one had the backs of americas new greatest generation, those who fought the wars of the post th9/11 era tha he did. no one did more to make sure they had what was needed to prevail on the battle field. no one did more than he did at the outset of the surge and even my own confirmation hearing, the very, very tough six or eight months until the results were very, very clear, just to keep the senate together. i think there was a point at which t...

And the low light is the same as charles, i mean, i would just add to that that the way the media didnt cover the issue outside of fox news and a couple other people, the way the administration really has not been forth coming in answering questions about it, how little we still really know just all together, just made added to what charles talked about basic foreign policy implications. made the whole thing really one of the low points of this year. >> bret: is your sense that this has ended th...

It very clear that this is becoming one of the most dangerous places american diplomats and government personnel could be, probably outside a war zone like afghanistan. >> reporter: senators lieberman and collins write that despite repeated requests their investigators have not been given a detailed timeline on the cia talking points, specifically how the talking points were massaged and watered down with terms like al-qaida dropped, quote. according to a senior intelligence official the timelin...

Terrible thing. the post master general originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general ha...

Originally wanted to shut down half of the processing plants in america, about 250 of them. all told, he wanted to shrink the workforce by over 200,000 workers in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the great depression. wanted to end saturday mail delivery. wanted to slow down mail delivery standards. what happened is senators lieberman and corp. introduced the bill that certainly was a heck of a lot better than what the post master general had proposed. in my view, it did not go fa...

Is he remorseful? >> hes in pretrial confinement pending the transmittal of his charges. weve conducted an article 32 and theres been a 706 examination, sanity board conducted. what is of extreme importance the fact that we have yet to be in receipt of important discovery. bottom line is, much of the discovery related to this case, that ive been asking for, for a year like senators lieberman and collins has not been provided. the president directed an intelligence review in november of -- >> jud...

Is he remorseful? >> hes in pretrial confinement pending the transmittal of his charges. weve conducted an article 32 and theres been a 706 examination, sanity board conducted. what is of extreme importance the fact that we have yet to be in receipt of important discovery. bottom line is, much of the discovery related to this case, that ive been asking for, for a year like senators lieberman and collins has not been provided. the president directed an intelligence review in november of -- >> jud...