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To senior al qaeda leadership in pakistan. so there were clearly al qaeda ties. it is a stretch to -- inaccurate to make a sweeping and kata gore cal claim that al qaeda had nothing to do with this. >> and you make the focus that pointing all of this on al qaeda is focusing on the wrong thing. >> it is a strong man argument if you remember what the outcry was about after susan rice went on the shows, nobody knew who did it but it was a good belief that it was a terrorist attack and they took time until they did come out and say that. so it wasn't that it was al qaeda per se, even though i thin...

Absolutely going to have to look into and take care of. with all the tension in the middle east, you have an administration eager to say this war is over and when they retreat, caus ensues. that's what we're seeing. no troops potentially left after 2014, in their mind, what is the benefit of having proper oversight of afghanistan because we're just going to be leaving anyway. >> here's another sort of deeply disturbing part of a deeply disturbing story. 43 cases of this, according to the inspector general's report. 43 cases where we have contracts with al qaeda-affiliated groups but the u.s. a...

What was a little bit different was the obama campaign also raised the criminal prosecution and claimed that the activity was criminal. kind of a stretch when you deal with first amendment speech to deal with that it could be criminal. in hindsight when you combine this with what happened since whether it is the president criticizing the united speech state of the union address and massive call for additional disclosure requirements and pushed by the senate democratic leadership calls on other agencies to do thing about these so-called shadowy groups. it starts to look pretty bad when one trie...

Campaign against us, full disclosure, but bob bauer contacted the fec about the conservative group and the fec takes that water and carries it over to the irs to lois lerner. >> sort of. >> there's two groups at issue. one is the american future fund which i mentioned and the american issues project. >> the one bob bauer was asking about? >> the presidential campaigns filed a group against them as did a reform group from washington, d.c. they were pretty hot and heavy about an ad that ran at the time of the democratic national convention and claimed the ad was illegal because it was banned pol...

Something. if, indeed, that's happening. when we're funding the enemy to kill us. why do we suddenly have to worry about due process? >> i don't think we do and that's why this is a shame and when these 43, i guess, contracts, are discovered, they ought to be shut down and terminated immediately. new procedures in place to make sure we're properly vetting locals who are taking these contracts and albeit smaller contracts billions of dollars spent. we ought to ensure that we're vetting these folks to make sure no ties to al qaeda and no ties to the taliban and that not one dollar of american mo...