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pay for unemployment insurance but was not pay for tax cuts for the wealthy. >> a. "washington post" investigation reveals the multimillion-dollar world of intelligence gone haywire. and having a tea party in congress. >> what we are going to do is in by real people in and get their great ideas. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> some of you may remember the good old days of newspapers and tv and radio news where you had hours to work on your story and...

Behind for days ahead of time. and side by side with dana priest, who is, whatever you may think of her, is a veteran correspondent washington. she is a reporter. in the standard conventional sense of that word. bill arkin has never been that he came out of human rights watch, green peace, the institute for policy studies, all left wing organizations. he has been a defense intellectual of the left for many, many years. he has written -- the post said he had been a reporter and columnist for them...

Apparatus, and thats the many thrust of the story that cost a fortune and nobody knows, you know, what they are doing. and they cant crosscheck them. and its completely out of control. so arkin actually turned on his own by making the obama administration look like they cant handle the u.s. intelligence apparatus. >> brit: look. i dont know whether he voted for barack obama or not, or whether he is obama same pa theismaner. what i do think about arkin is he is a person who has been a very strong...

Called american troops in iraq mercenaries and who is seen by many people as not a middle of the road journalist but as a left-wing antiwar journalist. i dont think you would want to share your by line with that person. >> bill: it taints the article and makes everyone suspicious of it. >> it taints the article, exactly. >> bill: why do you think the post put him back on a front page assignment? >> i am guessing if this is a two year investigation, who knows he may have come up with this story. ...

You couldnt rely on publications or you would miss stories that were interesting. you would wind up repeating what they were doing when is often not the major news of the day in my view. thats a discipline that i think has not been imposed in the newsrooms of the media outlets themselves. >> bill: it really is stunning at this point. cbs news still is big. i mean, i think we have eclipsed them and all the other network news influence but they are still big. now, on the arkin front, william arkin...

Behind for days ahead of time. and side by side with dana priest, who is, whatever you may think of her, is a veteran correspondent washington. she is a reporter. in the standard conventional sense of that word. bill arkin has never been that he came out of human rights watch, green peace, the institute for policy studies, all left wing organizations. he has been a defense intellectual of the left for many, many years. he has written -- the post said he had been a reporter and columnist for them...

Out-of-control intelligence apparatus, and thats the many thrust of the story that cost a fortune and nobody knows, you know, what they are doing. and they cant crosscheck them. and its completely out of control. so arkin actually turned on his own by making the obama administration look like they cant handle the u.s. intelligence apparatus. >> brit: look. i dont know whether he voted for barack obama or not, or whether he is obama same pa theismaner. what i do think about arkin is he is a perso...

Publications or you would miss stories that were interesting. you would wind up repeating what they were doing when is often not the major news of the day in my view. thats a discipline that i think has not been imposed in the newsrooms of the media outlets themselves. >> bill: it really is stunning at this point. cbs news still is big. i mean, i think we have eclipsed them and all the other network news influence but they are still big. now, on the arkin front, william arkin, unbelievable left ...

Publications or you would miss stories that were interesting. you would wind up repeating what they were doing when is often not the major news of the day in my view. thats a discipline that i think has not been imposed in the newsrooms of the media outlets themselves. >> bill: it really is stunning at this point. cbs news still is big. i mean, i think we have eclipsed them and all the other network news influence but they are still big. now, on the arkin front, william arkin, unbelievable left ...

Called american troops in iraq mercenaries and who is seen by many people as not a middle of the road journalist but as a left-wing antiwar journalist. i dont think you would want to share your by line with that person. >> bill: it taints the article and makes everyone suspicious of it. >> it taints the article, exactly. >> bill: why do you think the post put him back on a front page assignment? >> i am guessing if this is a two year investigation, who knows he may have come up with this story. ...