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The ground? >> i don't know what the president is thinking is on this. we don't have large scale combat units or humanitarian units on the ground. i think it would be less than honest to say we have no boots on the ground. >> americans in uniforms and with communication equipment who are in the military who are on the ground? >> i would hazard to say probably not in uniform but, yes they are probably able to give two critical things. realtime intelligence, eyes on the target and most importantly they are trying to reach out to the rebel elements to tell us who is doing what. >> if we have amer...

Tunisia, egypt and perhaps other places. do you think that is a fair accusation or is this just the ole washington blame game kicking into high gear again? start with you, congressman rogers. >> i think it's the washington blame game. if you go back and took a very critical look, dutch was a prosecutor, i was in the fbi. we understand the thoroughness in an investigation. i don't know how you say that. nobody had a crystal ball. nobody could say on this day that an event that happened 1400 miles away was going to trigger it. what we did know was all of the elements were there for this to happe...

>>. >> when the berlin wall came down in 1989, it was a surprise. no one saw it coming. the cia had no clue. they didn't know it was going to happen. in his book "legacy of ashes history of cia" reporter tim wiener shows the night the berlin wall came down, the chief of the soviet division who might have a handle on it, was holed up at headquarters watching tv news coverage of what was happening in berlin to come up with what he was going to tell the white house because acco according to the history of the cia in a crisis tv news coverage provided what passed for realtime intelligence. same th...

Democrats said today that they would like more time to study whatever the attorney general has in mind, shep. >> shepard: what would that mean in practical terms, cat? >> there is no real details about how it might work in the future. statement pretty clear there has been evolution in his thinking on miranda and how to get realtime intelligence. in the last five month there has been controversy over when to read terrorist suspect his rights. mutallab was questioned for 50 minutes before being read his rights. faisal shahzad was questioned for three hours before he was mirandized. in both of th...