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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100812:23:37:00

Today s most important person you don t know went on trial today in a courtroom you re not allowed into. khadr is a terror suspect in cuba. captured on an afghanistan battlefield in 2002 when he was just 15 years ofld. the defense contended he was a child soldier forced to fight by his father. the prosecution calls him an unlawful combatant and war criminal who helped plant roadside bombs and who killed a u.s. soldier with a agree nature. the soldier s widow was in the front rhoda. witnesses aren t identified by name. seven military officers are hearing this case which is expected to last several weeks. let s talk that over with my guests. don bahr and a republican strategist with deep ties on capitol hill and in the bush administration. more than the particulars of this case, don, to me as people see and watch the coverage of it, will it reignite the debate ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100809:18:50:00

Even so, in the defense arena, large and well-staffed intelligence structures now exist in the services, the defense agencies, the combatant commands and in the war theat s theaters. to some extent, we re still struggling to find the right balance between centralizing intelligence versus embedding them closer to the front. nonetheless, we should not flinch from eliminating unnecessary redundancy and directing more resources to places where they are needed. i m directing an immediate 10% reduction in funding for intelligence advisory and assistance contracts and freezing the number of senior executive positions. we must also take further steps to end needless duplication within the department s intelligence community. accordingly, i ve directed a zero-based review at department s intelligence mission, organizations, relationships and contracts to be completed by november 1st. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100809:20:06:00

Level of security? very difficult. i worked with them in somalia. many times each has its own rules for performance. they will go out and contract for a security support. it s so different. what s the overall environment? are they viewed as a combatant in the eyes of one or more of the parties engaged in a war? usually the u.n. is targeted because it s viewed as an international symbol. the small organizations are not targeted on a regular basis. that s what makes this somewhat unique. what do you say to those who look at this or you can pick your favorite set of statistics as they all have gotten worse over the past year coming out of afghanistan as measured by civilian casualties, military casualties, money spent, duration of the war, pick your favorite category. at what point are we in a mission impossible situation versus the taliban when it comes to fighting a ground war in that ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100723:23:37:00

Afternoon read this way, sadness that our comrade and his talents are leaving us before he could see his last mission through. as you just heard that very last part before he could see his last mission through the secretary decided, kate, to drop that. now let s rumble through some stories on my radar tonight. joining me to help the veteran democratic strategist peter fenn and the veteran republican combatant i ll call him, rich galen. i said veteran. doesn t mean old. did the veteran democratic vice president let his mouth get the better of him again? this is what joe biden said at a north carolina fundraiser yesterday while touting the administration s accomplishments. now that the heavy lifting is over, we can go out and make our case. you know, i am so disappointed in joe biden. i write a column three days a week and i thought he was going ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100708:18:07:00

Guidance will include the quality of press engagement by ensuring the people the media talk to can speak with accuracy and authority. this should not infringe or impede the flow of accurate or timely information to you or the public. that is not my intent nor will i tolerate it. an additional personal observation. over the last two years, i have lost a first rate central command commander and an jute standing commander of isat in afghanistan, due to their own missteps in dealing with the media. i ve had to recall a combatant back to washington for speaking out inappropriately on a sensitive foreign policy issue. i ve had two very different presidents, each on several occasions express concern to me about senior defense officials, both civilian and military, speaking out inappropriately on foreign policy issues. these instances, together with my own frustration with premature disclosures of ....

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