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On his frustration in trying to get the basic data. that was certainly a surprise. >> what does he say? >> youll have to read it. >> that will be part two. well look for his quote. despite the enormous growth, the enormous number of people involved, they couldnt connect the dots and you make this point in the article, on the christmas day bomber, even though there was a lot of evidence pointing to what was going on, the mutallab, and also, they couldnt connect the dots on nidal hassan, the ft. h...

Seem plausible. you can spend time on that. moving it around from agency to agency, from type of work to other types of work and just see where the problems are. >> we look forward to part two and three and all the other parts coming along. thanks for joining pups. >> thank you, wolf. >> well have to dig deeper with our national security contributor fran townsend. she worked in the justice department during the clinton administration and shes a member of the cias external advisory board. youve h...

Conversation is how far on a map can you go. it gives you the nearest city state, which means the nearest city within a state. and thats as far down as we go, both for the government and for companies. on the government side, the dots dont say exactly what organization it is thats doing the work, it just says that its government work and it doesnt tell you what kind of work is being done. so really, its just a dot on the map. maybe near the city that its being done in, but not near the location ...

There right now with no work for them. you are right. we will see when. and the new commander in afghanistan. thats happening tomorrow. some 40 foreign ministers and the u.n. secretary general will be there to discuss how to stablize and strengthen afghanistan afghanistans. nbss chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is

Nbcs justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: since the 9/11 attacks of 2001, "the post" reports, the intelligence community growing so fast in the washington, d.c. area that 33 buildings complexes for top secret work gone up or under construction totalling 17 million square feet. >> it is really exciting to come and spend time in this fine facility and to meet the men and women who work at the national counterterrorism center. >> reporter: the 9/11 attacks sent the nation scra...

These are honest, decent, hard working folks who have fallen on hard times and have nowhere else to turn exception unemployment benefits and need emergency benefits to help themwetter this economic storm. tomorrow we will have another chance to offer them that relief to do right by not just jim and leslie and denise but all the americans who need a helping hand right now. its time to stop holding workers laid off hostage to washington politics. time to do whats right. not for the next election b...

Has been growing so fast in the washington d.c. area that 33 building complexes for top secret work have gone up or are under construction totally 17 million square feet. >> it is really exciting to come and spend time in this fine facility and to meet the men and women who work at the national counter terrorism center. they are scattered around the country at more than 10,000 locations. no questions say intelligence experts. the system has produced good results but is the work in progress? >> t...

Then youve got general petraeus saying today its going to be considered responsible deadline. can they continue to fake this? that theres a clear message here when they know they dont want a clear message? they want ambiguity? >> its clearly a work in progress. and i love the juxtaposition of these two hearings. they encapsulate the situation. and it embodies the fact that unlike clinton at this point in his presidency, obama is driving his agenda, still passing laws, going forward. >> picking j...

Integration, segregation or decency. >> it is a uniquely american life and he talks about america, the last thing that he says he quotes langston hughes and he says, america will be, that this is a work in progress, that this is the great experiment. and it is. and we all have a stake in it and that we are all sort of in some some way responsible for realizing it. >> i found a little note to myself that i had when i was writing it, information is the enemy. because you tend to want to -- gosh, t...

>> marshall was a man of heroic imagination. 100 years after the end of slavery in the 50s, he looks around and lives in a segregated society where people cant go to lunch counters, schools, swimming pools, all of that discrimination, housing and decides that you can use the law to change it. that was such an act of imagination. >> whoever calls the shots determines whether we have integration, segregation or decency. >> it is a uniquely american life, and he talks about america. the last thing ...