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Napolita napolitano. he's nominating jay johnson. former pentagon lawyer. this doesn't come without controversy. barbara starr is live at the pentagon with more details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. jay johnson, very well known here at the pentagon where as the top lawyer he oversaw a staff of 10,000 pentagon attorneys around the world. very much a legal expert with a back ground in terrorism issues. he has spoken extensively about -- he believes the american people need to change the way they think about the war on terrorism, that it's becoming much less about military operations ...

The foreign intelligence surveillance court, something i worked with and supervised attorneys in the justice department when i there was and have to do a court order and request from the court which reviews your reasons for it and the legal basis for it, what it is you want. let's be clear, your honunder tt order, all they are getting is the meta data, who called you, the numbers, the duration of the phones, not authorized to collect the content or listen to the content of that phone call, and, in fact, for some reason they develop additional probable cause, they have to go back to the court a...

Inside? >> right now it's difficult for him personally to get back inside because we will want for him and i would think our border control is good about catching someone we are looking for. that doesn't mean he can't use the information he listened and feed it to the new group of terrorists who will come over here. >> we talked about he he is the new sheik mohammed and he may have contact or at least some kind of contact with osama bin laden. do you my that? is anyone really in contact with osama bin laden? >> if he is still around. and i'm talking about osama bin laden i'm sure this guy is i...

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Shia. that was a mistake. we could debate that for years to come if that was his -- i do think it was a serious mistake, but we helped condition his behavior. right now the threat is to the united states and to our european allies and a rising al qaeda army. these are not monkey bar terrorists out in the desert planning some very low-level attack. these are sfisz indicated command and control seasoned combat veterans who understand the value of terrorism operations, external to the region. meaning europe and the wraits. that is about as dangerous as you can put together. for us to say maybe so...