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We've been discussing senator frank lautenberg of new jersey died monday at age of 89, the last remaining member of the senate to have served in world war ii. there are just two world war ii veterans left in the house, congressman john dingell of michigan who away the longest serving member of congress in history, and republican ralph hall of texas. lautenberg's death marks a significant decline in the number of military veterans serving in congress overall. in 1977, 81% of the senate served in the military. now that number, despite a decade of war has fallen to just 16. the house of represent...

No reason to be doing this. i think you have to recognize that this is partly, frankly, the military of industrial complex. guys who want to sell tanks and planes and partly a bureaucracy that always wants to placate our opponents. >> sean: all right. mr. speaker, always appreciate having you, thanks for your insight and your time. coming up next, we'll bring you the brennan tames. you don't want to miss these, the irresponsible reckless comments from the cia director that they do not want you to see. >> we're not waging a war against terrorism because terrorism is, but a t officemax is celebr...

Term imminent so it means something other than an imminent defense. >> sean: and they can decide and manipulate it any way they want. senator reisch, what the white house is saying that these drone strikes against american citizens without any real criteria is legal, ethical and wise, but not water boarding which by the way we only used against three people. >> you know, sean, we're at the incipient stages of a new way of fighting war. they're going to be fought by using drones and as a result of that, legal questions come up. i think probably everyone gets very squeamish when you talk about s...

President delegated power to them. and there are a lot of strike-- anybody who has seen "zero dark thirty," those interrogations gave us a lot of intelligence information and in a war against a terrorist movement intelligence may be more important than killing and we're cutting ourselves off from that. and the third problem is the drone avoids an easy way of thinking. peep described it as whack-a-mole. it isn't. comparing one particular missile from one particular drone in one particular country is a very long way for having a strategy for victory. >> sean: it even gets worse than that, it's e...

Terrorism. >> we're not wage ago war against terrorism because terrorism is, but a tactic that will never be defeated any more than the tactic of war will. rather, such thinking is a recipe for endless conflicts. we're not at war against terror because terror is a state of mind. >> sean: good grief. that's not all. just a few months later he said this about jihad. >> nor does president obama see this challenge as a fight against jihadist. describing terrorists in this way using a legitimate term jihad, to purify ones selves again a moral goal. >> so these comments and more will the senate conf...