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Further information. we'll be talking to dan benjamin, a former counter-terrorism officials, about the fact that the u.s. and the russians both sides hold back, they don't want to share a lot of information. for one thing on human rights issues, the u.s. doesn't want to share information on potential dissidents with the russians for fear of retaliation against them and their families back overseas. there's been a lot of confusion -- >> i was going to say i think that's true, but at the same time, the intelligence people tell us that they did not let that cloud their judgment in this case, th...

You are in charge of your special program there. first of all, dan, what about all of this confusion over what do we do when the russians ask us for information, how we did or did not provide it. the fbi says they checked him out. he was put on a very low-level sort of sublevel watchlist and went back to the russians, didn't get back any answers from the russians. does that mean somebody sort of riss in limbo? how did it work in real time? >> well, my understanding, andrea is that in a case like this, the fbi would take the information, check their databases, check any information they might h...

0 understand sometimes about all of you is that every one of you, in spite of what the chief said, joined the force, became a law enforcement officer, for the same underlying reason -- you felt a sense of obligation. you thought you could help. you all had that sort of inexplicable sense of duty, and that gross underestimation of your value and how important you are. that's the single element i think that runs through all of american law enforcement. when events like this occur, the nation is always reminded you have your bravery, but unfortunately having attended so many funerals and memorial...

if i had more time, i would go through the considerations that led us down this path and perhaps we can talk in greater detail about the reasons that led us to be skeptical of big usia, to reject a leadership role for dod, raise questions about the capacity of the state department to take the lead, etc. let me spend a couple of minutes on the recommendations that we did make. we talked about putting the national security council in the lead. a deputy assistant to the president for national security providing over and empowered interagency committee, the counter terrorist committee an...

they will become less susceptible to radicalization. the report lays emphasis on an islamist. as a reaction to the west and maturity. -- and modernity. the attacks on the united states are often tactical and the real enemy seems to be, the near enemy, seems to be the regimes in the eyes of al qaeda and other extremist groups. these enemies of god, all -- as al-qaeda defines them, are fair game. the victims of these are overwhelmed in malls -- muslims. -- overwhelmingly muslims. nobody has documented this. we should not wait for the next conquest to tell us about this going on in the ...