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For what appears to be detention programs for immigrants. are there potential legal issues here? i know there is some flexibility in budgeting and that's sort of baked into the way the government runs. but is there a legal problem here of congress specifically appropriated homeland security funds instructing the administration on how to spend money in this area, and then the administration ignored those instructions and decided to spend this money on something else? >> i believe that this movement of funds is within the flexibility the administration has. they have to do a report to congress. ...

Essential to effective congressional oversight of intelligence activities or any other government function. >> before the morning was over, director brennan went on the record with our own andrea mitchell, denying any effort to hinder that senate investigation. >> i know there are a lot of claims out there that the cia has sought to prevent the ssci from doing its work, but that's not the case at all. >> this fissure has roots that date back to the bush administration. brennan is not just an old obama ally somehow only swept into the white house in 2008. he was a cia lifer working at a high le...

Elsewhere some progressives saying he was a fan of george w. bush. and he was. he's not a partisan hack. he is one of the most aggressive judges against the detention programs at judge guan tan mow. one of the most respected judges in the country for constraints on the nsa. you couldn't have asked for a better judge. >> let me jump in on that. >> sure. >> and say i think there is no doubt this judge has a record of standing up to administrations of both parties and appointed by bush but on the guan tan mow case, particularly in 2008, took on that administration. rejected claims on security fro...

Iraq before that is well acquainted with intelligence gathering. >> well, yes -- yes -- that's very true but from a consumer's point of view, and that's important, i don't want to take anything away from that, but i think what we need now, i think, is to get back to the point where we've got someone in there with an operator's point of view. we have to remember, when panetta was named to take over the cia i believe in february 2009, there were very clear reasons why they wanted the distance and the separation. they wanted to bring in an outsider and panetta had been chief of staff to clinton, ...