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Former Acting CIA Director Michael Morell on CIA Iraq assessment: "We were wrong on the chemical weapons judgment, we were wrong on the biological weapons judgment, and we were wrong on the nuclear weapons judgment."

By clock on April 7, 2010. Continuing with the tradition from last two years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2010 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January. See all the interviews in this series here. You can check out previous years interviews as well: 2008 and 2009. Today, I asked Beth Beck from NASA to answer a few questions. Welcome to A Blog Around The Clock. Would you, please, tell my...

Requirement that nato agreed to some years ago, long before the president trump presidency, what is going to happen? is there going to be some shake in that u.s. commitment? is there a suggestion that nato becomes a pay for play kind of operation? i dont think there is at this point. i think that the secretary general made what is perhaps the key point. this whole debate about nato spending has in fact been going on for years. the debate about nato getting into terrorism operations, terrorism an...

Attacks that were failed early this year including the one on a paris-bound train where americans overpowered the gunman. abaaoud moved to syria in 2014 and recruited his younger brother to join him in syria. abaaoud has boasted in isis propaganda about avoiding capture and his ability to travel between europe and syria without being noticed. just remarkable. his own father was quoted as saying he was relieved his son was dead and he believed abaaoud had been a psychopath and a devil. joining me...

Guys, that says something. >> lets talk about all this and more. the former cia operations officer, glenn carl is joining us. glenn, what do you make of this? you had a top position in the intelligence agency for many years, oversaw terrorism analysis. this notion that a guy like abu bakr al baghdadi, roaming around freely at the camp before he was eventually released by u.s. military personnel is pretty stunning. >> we looked, of course, really hard at trying to develop a profile, who would bec...

Would insist otherwise. nonetheless it is a terrorist organization. they say at that time it was not -- they couldnt be certain that was the case. they at no time want to prejudice the investigation already being launched by the fbi at that time. and thats why that language wasnt used at the time -- >> wait a minute. they put it in the talking points because they believed ansar sharia was involved. then they took it out because they put it in? this doesnt make any sense. it was put in by the int...

>> did he say dont call it a terrorist attack? >> not in so many years but thats clearly the import. >> the language is pretty stark. it says we know extremists with ties to a.q. participated in the attack. which complies -- which implies complicity in the deaths of the american officers. >> thats from this guy who is the director of terrorism analysis. >> thats pretty stark. >> before it was drafted by the analysts. the points were drafted by analysts who said, this is the best information we h...