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>> these are extremist activities. i want to make sure that it is very clear we are talking about activity, not what is going on between somebody's ears, what they are thinking or feeling. it is about what they act on extremist ideology that puts the force at risk and to some of it can lead to violence. there's a whole range in the course of the 100 that we talked about, whole range of activity, some more severe than others. the numbers are really small when you think about it, 3.5 million men and women strong, 100 cases over a year is not very much. we are certainly not surprised by that at a...

Their base back in california in san diego. they are under investigation for consumption of alcohol, which of course is completely against the rules, completely illegal when you are deployed to a front line. the allegation is not that they were drinking while they were on counterterrorism missions, but during their downtime that they were consuming alcohol. a full investigation into those 20 navy s.e.a.l.s under way to see what they can prove against them, what the allegations really are. was it simply alcohol, could there be broader allegations against them. that is a full investigation under...

>> dana: i know that you know a lot about national security law. how unusual is this in a military branch to have an accusation like that? >> it's an unfortunate story because what you're seeing is a breakdown of unit discipline and one of our most elite units, the seal teams. even if petty chief gallagher is innocent and didn't do this, you have examples of people who are in sniping positions shooting at civilians. you can't tell who. you have people accusing each other of committing war crimes. it's a breakdown of discipline. unfortunately i think it's because of the irregular combat and the...

Lot of questions out there. >> i want to switch gears and talk about the pictures printed 0 this week on the front page of the los angeles times. two-year-old images of u.s. soldiers posing with the mangeled bodies of suicide bombers who killed themselves, by the way, terrorists in afghanistan and the pentagon urging the paper not to print them for fear of inciting more violence against our troops and times going ahead and printing it anyway and releasing a statement after careful consideration we decided that publishing a small, but representative fl fill our obligation to readers to report v...

Lot of questions out there. >> i want to switch gears and talk about the pictures printed 0 this week on the front page of the los angeles times. two-year-old images of u.s. soldiers posing with the mangeled bodies of suicide bombers who killed themselves, by the way, terrorists in afghanistan and the pentagon urging the paper not to print them for fear of inciting more violence against our troops and times going ahead and printing it anyway and releasing a statement after careful consideration we decided that publishing a small, but representative fl fill our obligation to readers to report v...