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Western organizations like the u.n. and u.s. embassy are taking security precautions. i spoke to one person at the embassy earlier who said it appears that army of western security contractors have descended into the u.s. embassy to provide security. >> shep: the view from kabul from conner powell. thank you. benghazi, days after the assault that killed the american ambassador, some people are taking to the streets with signs. not of hatred, but support. look at this. one man held up a paper, apology that reads, this is not the behavior of our islam and prophet. a reminder that islam is a reli...

Wikileaks task force set up by the u.s. government to deal with these. the task force findings were relative to nbc last summer who published an article going through the task force, going through the impact report and summarizing it in a sense there being no national security problems in the releases. no people were targeted as a result of the wikileaks releases. and a large part of the fury on capitol hill trying to prosecute manning being due to peoples' political aspirations being inhibited. so if the impact assessment if the report says they were not indeed happening, it makes me wonder w...

Introducing legislation to ban afghan to work as cards at u.s. bases. the and the senior civilian n.a.t.o. representative in afghanistan until last year. >> i think that's a bad idea and i think it limits the flexibility of our commanders on the ground. there are some very good reasons to have private security contractors and others do certain missions and free our soldiers up. >> and thinks the president's plan to draw down to 68,000 troops by september is too much too fast the president doesn't want u.s. troops to be in afghanistan any longer than necessary. at the pentagon, jennifer griffin...

with a double-digit lead over newt gingrich. part of his advantage comes from early voter who is went his way more than 50% of the time. here's a reaction from gingrich, just a short time ago. >> mr. speaker, do you still see a path to the nomination? >> of course. >> how? >> unify the conservatives, you win the delegates, and then you have the nomination. >> freshman florida senator marco rubio is a very popular man these days. he's been mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice for whomever comes out on top. but he says, no way. >> my answer hasn't changed on that. i've answ...

>> according to the state department they're needed to provide security to the embassy personnel who are operating in iraq. there are 11,000 u.s. personnel at the embassy in baghdad alone. they have three consulates in iraq, u.s. convoys to be protected. 5,000 security contractors are tasked with protecting the embassy personnel. this gives them eyes in the sky. a small drone that iraqi insurgeons captured in january was shown on the air in lebanon this month. the embassy has a large consulate in basra, so these drones have gotten a lot of attention but the state department says they're in neg...