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Years i was present with many conversations involving the president where techniques were discussed. so i just assumed that someone, someone had given him a briefing about what was actually going on because he certainly seemed to be aware of it. if you read his book, decision points, beginning 2002 he talks about conversations he had with tenet about interrogation techniques, i don't know how much detail the conversations went into but clearly the president was aware, had a general knowledge about what the administration was involved in. shannon: okay. i want to refer to a little bit what we g...

Done to justify this. >> so i want to come back to that day today and the limited experience. on one piece here. f the example here for me is president george w. bush in decision points saying the worst moment of his presidency was being called racist by kanye west. and there's a part of me that thinks, great, i am happy my president does not want to be thought of that way. there's value in my president not wanting to be thought of as racist. but the idea being called racist was equivalent to the experience of living katrina and its aftermath, which is i think what happens in this particular d...

Calculations of the aircraft's likely flight path is fed into the search strategies and the tasking of search aircraft and ships. senior officials of malaysia and australia are currently drawing up a comprehensive agreement regarding australia's role in the search and the broader investigation. this agreement will set out such matters as the critical decision points in the search, the handling of accident victims, the custody and analysis of the aircraft wreckage, and the down loading of information from any flight recorders that may be recovered. yesterday, i advised that based on the continu...

Reality of reduced resources and a challenging and changing strategic environment requires us to prioritize and make difficult choices. some of those choices we must make now. for other choices, particularly those involving the size of our armed forces, we have built decision points into our budget plan. >> well, long detailed news conference tonight, defense secretary chuck hagel laying out a plan to draw down nearly all of its combat forces from afghanistan this year, and also cut the active duty army forces, the number, significantly, and take out one kind of aircraft, the a-10 warhog. what...

Have to take into account. walking into the oval office, i would have advised president obama that a lacky is an enemy combatant. i would also caution, given supreme court decisions, i'm not sure the court would agree with that assessment. >> the first obvious question, does it matter if it's a drone or if it's a weapon in the hand of a u.s. troop member? does it matter in the analysis? probably not, right? >> again, there are two decision points. are you an enemy combatant, and second, are we going to take you out. that's all compressed on the battle shield into one decision point. >> right. ...