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President omar suleiman who is the intelligence director and has close ties to the united states intelligence agency. so we don't have to be dealing with the people immediately around mubarak to get the message through and more importantly also the ambassador, she has her hands full worrying about the 90,000 americans trying to get out. the embassy the largest we have in the middle east. i'm sure that's probably at this point in time job one. but there's also political counselors in the embassy who are taking their temperature readings with the muslim brotherhood as well as with mohammed el ba...

Analysts turn out 50,000 intelligence reports every year. you can bet a lot never get read. at 263 organizations have been created or reorganized as a response to 9/11. that of course means hiring lots and lots of people. don't ask them where osama bin laden is because nobody knows. with such a sprawling bureaucracy it's no wonder they couldn't put together the dots in recent attacks including the shootings at fort hood and the attempted christmas day bombing of an airplane in detroit. the government is pushing back against "the washington post" report. the national intelligence director says ...

Use of executive power here is very interesting and vis-a-vis how the a.c.l.u. is responding because it's the use of executive power that goes beyond some of what they objected to from president bush. >> paul: it's fascinating to me, i think, dan, if president bush were still doing this, would we see even more opposition to this, do you think? because as a democratic president who's doing it maybe some of the opposition from the left is more muted than it might otherwise be? >> i don't think there's any doubt that that's the case. i remember the swift program the treasury used to track terrori...

Use of executive power here is very interesting and vis-a-vis how the a.c.l.u. is responding because it's the use of executive power that goes beyond some of what they objected to from president bush. >> paul: it's fascinating to me, i think, dan, if president bush were still doing this, would we see even more opposition to this, do you think? because as a democratic president who's doing it maybe some of the opposition from the left is more muted than it might otherwise be? >> i don't think there's any doubt that that's the case. i remember the swift program the treasury used to track terrori...

Use of executive power here is very interesting and vis-a-vis how the a.c.l.u. is responding because it's the use of executive power that goes beyond some of what they objected to from president bush. >> paul: it's fascinating to me, i think, dan, if president bush were still doing this, would we see even more opposition to this, do you think? because as a democratic president who's doing it maybe some of the opposition from the left is more muted than it might otherwise be? >> i don't think there's any doubt that that's the case. i remember the swift program the treasury used to track terrori...