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Little bit. as you know, we have a new director of the cia, john brennan who in the past has advocated for that move from the cia to the d.o.d. do you think he still sees that as a valuable move now that he is the one in charge of the cia? >> well, it is an interesting question. he was in some ways the driving force behind this idea. i suspect this was something that president obama was comfortable with. wanted to do. but internally, within the intelligence community and in the white house, this was john brennan's baby moving the drone program to the military from the cia. now he has a differe...

A little erratic and unstable. >> what is stopping them -- what would be stopping them from doing that now, michael? >> well, there are questions of civil liberties. one of the things, you talk to fbi and even many people in the muslim community about is can the united states emulate a very aggressive program being done in britain called the prevent program. you have a lot of outreach from law enforcement, even the national health authorities. they set up liaisons with these communities. that raises questions of ethnic profiling. it has been very effective since the terrible attack in 2005, th...