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The forward towards alice faces a life sentence for aiding the enemy and 20 other counts including espionage, computer fraud and also theft. he's accused of leaking 700,000 classified with her documents and diplomatic cables to that website, wikileaks. they have to prove he had an evil intent in aiding the enemy. and to convince the judge manning in those documents would end up in the hands of al qaeda. as intelligence expert he was trained to know just how important this information would be to al qaeda once it had been released publicly. that is key. the government alleges manning through wo...

That ability to target them, that's not the big concern of, simply that the terrorists now know too much. john? >> the other striking thing about this, barbara, is a 29-year-old guy who didn't graduate college who works for a contracting firm in front of the computer terminal, it's pretty shocking to a lot of people that he had this kind of information. how careful is the government about giving out security clearance, and do they have to re-assess that? >> reporter: i think this is now huge. he only had this job for three months. he was not an intelligence expert, by all accounts. as you say,...

This information disappears and then they can't find out if they need to do a database search in a moment in time because they find a cell phone from a terrorist or they break up a terrorist cell somewhere in london. you know, you hear some intelligence experts give us very rational explanations about this, but my concern is why are we getting it from intelligence expert if some of this is very basic and you can explain it publicly, then the administration, congress, the judicial branch who are all in this together ought to explain this more publicly. >> michael, let me go to you. i actually h...

Unclassified information as opposed to classified. >> brian: let's get this straight. unclassified information for the one person in the white house, not a terror expert, not an intelligence expert, an ambassador to the u.n. given unclassified information on five national shows. if those are the facts, i don't know where to start. >> eric: we have a bigger problem if general petraeus testifies that it was not the video and it was, in fact, terror. now two months later with four days into the mess, he said it was a response to the video. then this. this is the c.i.a. time line. this is the time...

They are themselves a threat to america. mr. kennedy, i would like to ask you, is al qaeda more or less established in libya since our involvement? >> i will have to take that question for the record. i'm not an intelligence expert. >> you don't have the intelligence you are saying? i'll go on to the next question. >> i think it other two may have an opinion. >> i wanted to ask ambassador kennedy. next question, ambassador kennedy. how many shoulder to air missiles are capable of shooting -- that are capable of shooting down civilian passenger airlines are still missing in libya? this happened...