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Some of those devices which would've enabled the cia to use this? >> we have indeed, for killing people. >> don't pointed at me. when it, fires it fires silently? >> almost silently, yes. >> when it strikes the target, does the target know that he has been hit and about to die? >> that depends on the particular dart used. >> that was idaho democratic senator frank church in 1975, grilling cia director about the cia's secret targeted assassination program. that hearing was one of several held by what has today known as the church committee. he was a special committee led

Disconnect between the white house and what we are hearing out of ukraine? it's really bizarre. >> it's not bizarre. the -- um -- ukrainian government has got to maintain some degree of order and calmness among the citizens. otherwise, they can't protect their own country. so, we shouldn't look at that as bizarre. now, if the russians are going to attack, you would expect it to begin with an assassination program of key-government and military officials. they have got it's probably already infiltrated. they may have special weapons in there, including novichok, the chemical weapon that the -- ...

Controversial government. and we've done everything humanly possible, i believe, to try to make this work. now, if you compare this work with vietnam. first of all, in vietnam, we did have an effective counterinsurgency program called the phoenix program. and it involved going in at night and forcing the viet cong to either surrender or they died on the spot. some people called it an assassination program. the cia was taken to task for it and heavily criticized afterwards. and probably we said we'd never do something like that again. so, we're probably not really doing that in afghanistan, alt...

And it's impossible to know what's just a bubble on a genuinely declining vector and what's a new trend that we'll see. that takes decades to decide. but what we can say with certainty is that over the last three decades, the vector has been dramatic and in the right direction. next on "gps" the investigative journalist bergman says israel has assassinated more people than any other country. he'll crack open the history of israel's targeted assassination program. polk county is one of the counties that you don't think about very much. it's really not very important. i was in the stone ages a...