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Yet, you have the national security advisor talking about a covert action program. >> the justice department says the u.s. attorney have a proven record of independence, they question whether they can be objective. the vetting of vice presidential candidates. >> political appointees of the obama administration are tasked with doing investigation and reporting to guess who? to attorney general eric holder. >> senior intelligence official says the leaks endanger op t operation and lives. >> we are looking to prosecute those who we can prosecute, but limit information sharing. >> democrat feinste...

Security adviser talking about a covert action program. >> reporter: the senators questioned whether this u.s. attorney can be unbiased being that he donated to president obama's campaign. >> where is the outrage in this administration? where is there any indication that within the obama administration officials are outraged at the criminal leaks of classified information that put our agents and our friends at risk? >> reporter: more than 30 senators have signed onto the letter. none of them are democrats. dianne feinstein told fox she was good with the u.s. attorney option unless they do not ...

Also important for us to remember we have a broad range of issues that we work with pakistan together. and i can remember going to pakistan, in the 1980s, when i was on the intel committee, and we were running a covert action program, to support the afghan mujahideen against the soviets and were duoing it in conjunctin with the pakistani government and we were knitted together in that program and it was successful and work. and we have a lot of interest in that part of the world and an interest, obviously, in india and pakistan together and the potential that may be represented in terms of the...

Carnage. the enormous human toll that's taking place there. >> governor, one other thing you touched on. you have gone beyond the no-fly zone and suggested go about arming the rebels in libya. now, do you know something about these rebels perhaps that i or others don't? from what i can tell, we know vrl little about what they want and where they want to take the government. we have the experience of arming afghanistan and arming bin laden. how do we go about that prudently? >> well, first of all, you have to do this, i believe, through an authorized covert action program. i don't believe you n...

Torture? >> i think she's the best person to do this job. he's a dedicated, experienced professional. was she part of a covert action program that was authorized by the president of the united states, that was deemed lawful by the highest legal body within the executive branch, the office of legal counsel at the department of justice, committees who authorized funds for it, and some of those members happen to have amnesia. so her nomination should be given appropriate scrutiny. they should look at what she did, but she was carrying out a dually authorized legal program, as controversial as it ...