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Film, which prized me because he's a jew. now listen, they have the equivalent of "60 minutes" over there. i'm telling you, if you're watching the al jazeera "60 minutes" and hear tick, tick, tick coming from your tv, dive out of the room. >> bill: we don't want anything to do with that, right? i don't think al jazeera will be successful. i don't think there's a big demand for it. one of their ads, they go no talking points, a reference to your humble correspondent here. you know, that's fine with me. no talking points. >> well, yeah, they may not have your talking -- they may have your talk p...

Ditting? >> the most unusual thing is that the cia was writing the talk points. on a good sunday morning, you get policy talks. on most, you get political talks. neither of those are intelligence talks. why is the intelligence organization writing when the page is blank? the way this should happen, it is a policy side. write down what it is they want to reveal to american people and send it up river for the cia, i'm going to be a little flip here, to check the spelling and the facts. al qaeda, terrorists, extremists, are all words reasonably accurate in describing what happened. each is freigh...

Mining was instrumental at least in foiling one plot in pakistan that was going to lead potentially to the bombing of new york subways. and one of the people cited is a senior intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity. so it seems that an administration upset about leaks is perfectly happy to leak one when it's in the matter of depending a program that is controversial. >> the hypocrisy over leaking stuff and then going after other people who leak things you don't like is rampant. but to connect that to anna's comment, so much of what happens and what gets reported out of washi...

Ditting? >> the most unusual thing is that the cia was writing the talk points. on a good sunday morning, you get policy talks. on most, you get political talks. neither of those are intelligence talks. why is the intelligence organization writing when the page is blank? the way this should happen, it is a policy side. write down what it is they want to reveal to american people and send it up river for the cia, i'm going to be a little flip here, to check the spelling and the facts. al qaeda, terrorists, extremists, are all words reasonably accurate in describing what happened. each is freigh...

Ditting? >> the most unusual thing is that the cia was writing the talk points. on a good sunday morning, you get policy talks. on most, you get political talks. neither of those are intelligence talks. why is the intelligence organization writing when the page is blank? the way this should happen, it is a policy side. write down what it is they want to reveal to american people and send it up river for the cia, i'm going to be a little flip here, to check the spelling and the facts. al qaeda, terrorists, extremists, are all words reasonably accurate in describing what happened. each is freigh...