words of what the entire world already knew about the cia's practices would somehow disclose secrets and harm u.s. national security so i find it somewhat ironic that someone who is affiliated with the one hand say these practices are perfectly legal but at the same time every time the times try to go into court to test that proposition the cia insisted that courts should have no role in policing the cia's misconduct yeah i mean i find it very odd as well i was going to have that exact question myself as you know if it's not illegal then what's the point of making it so secretive what's the point of hiding it now yourself also have been involved in a number of these cases you know and courts of suspects that who are you know a victim's rendition and yet they do i dismiss them under the state secrets privilege so if that's the case and we do you feel like you're ever going to win as long as they can always us use that blanket term and just you know you say it's a secret and it all gets thrown out by say this you know in some ways i think the cases have been valuable even though they'v

there was some cia cables that were released by the senate intelligence committee in late 2006 on this that prompted a letter from a bunch of members of congress to the cia and to the bush white house asking for more information about him, what did it know about his interrogation, what happened to him. i reported about that at the time. in 2007 i posted a copy of the letter on our website. a few months ago, the aclu had filed a request for information about extraordinary rendition cases, got back a bunch of responses. they asked about the case, and i noticed there were huge reductions in the responses, including a letter written by members of congress to the bush white house with big black-out parts of the letter of the cia saying these portions of the letter were classified. well, i had written about the letter three years earlier, i posted it on our web site. it was still on the web site of one of the members of congress that wrote the letter. this classified letter. and i wrote a story about it a few days later, and the cia said, well, ok, we will declassify this letter that has bee

there the cia even told no that not to publish that information. told. me not to use or did not say she was she was a. former president bush was not a. human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service. name is going to appear and i'm sure they're both. deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak despise name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time for sharing the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it and they are good individuals they're important members of our white house team and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity in any way both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says that in his new book rove and libby lied to him and it turns out a lot of

the cia even told no that not to publish that information but no that did. told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was she was uncovered. in any activities former president bush was not amused human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service . is going to appear i'm sure that both. deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak despise name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also sprayed the covert agents name to reporters at the same time for sure in the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it and there are good individuals there are important members of our white house team and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity in any way both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says in his new book rove and libby lie

the cia even told no that not to publish that information but no that did. told me he asked me not to use your name did not say she was she was uncovered. in any activities former president bush was not amused human intelligence spies. is very important. it's pretty hard to get it. if somebody working clandestine service . his name is going to appear i'm sure that. deputy defense secretary richard admitted he was the first to leak despise name and he apologized for it. but white house staffers karl rove in lewis libby also spraying the covert agents name to reporters at the same time for sure in the president's own press secretary they had nothing to do with it they are good individuals they're important members of our white house team and that's why i spoke with them so that i could come back to you and say that they were not involved i went to both those individuals asked them point blank were you involved in the leaking of valerie plame identity in any way both them told me unequivocally no but scott mcclellan now says that in his new book rove and libby

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nsa seems to be contrary to the cia, which i've had a knockdown drag out fight with. now since the reclassification scandal 2006, now they won't answer my phone calls anymore. nsa has been the exact opposite. basically everything i've asked for, they have given me, including for my book, my new book on obama and the intelligence community. they have been getting the material about activities in afghanistan and iraq and the war on terrorism. it's quite remarkable. and i think i would be remiss if i did not thank them. and they did in the forward to my book but, you know, tom johnson and bob hennig and a host of other nsa historians literally made my job so much easier. it basically allowed me, i spent 25 years piecing together little bits of pieces of the nsa's history. and when nsa declassified for my book, literally it was like everything opened up. everything, all the little pieces i've been thinking leading for over two decades suddenly became clear. it was only when nsa began declassifdeclassifying this material, beginning in the late 1990s, i was able to write th

what's up, cia? they wrote back saying we really can't answer because there's a criminal investigation going on, and we'll let you know when that's over. well, this week, the justice department announced that that criminal investigation was over. to the national archives said sure enough this is back on the radar screen. we're not going to let this matter drop. it depends to suppress the cia and demand answers as to how it complied with the federal records act. >> michael, why did the justice department drop the case in the first place? i can't remember a case more clear destruction of evidence. well the special council appointed by the last -- he spent three years on this. he was focused on whether or not it could be proven that this material was wanted in a criminal case in an ongoing legal proceeding. if it can be shown that the cia officials knew that and did so deliberate rattly to conceal the tapes from that legal proceeding, he may have a criminal case. we don't know what he found, all we know

for an agency that journalists tend to portray as hyper secretive this seems to be contrary to the cia which i have had a knock down drag out fight with since the reclassification scandal 2006 now they won't answer my phone calls anymore. nsa has been the exact opposite. basically everything i have asked for the have given me in putting for my book, my new book on obama and the intelligence community is the giving me material about activities in afghanistan and iraq and global war on terrorism which is quite remarkable and i think i would be remiss if i didn't zoos them and i did in the forward to my book but tom johnson and bob and a host of other historians literally made my job so much easier. they basically allowed me -- i spent 25 years piecing together little bits and pieces of nsa's history and when the classified their tomes for my book, literally it was like everything opened up. all of the little bits and pieces that i had been accumulating for over two decades suddenly became clear and it was only when the nsa began to classifying this material beginning in the late 1990's t

and khalid sheikh mohammed was waterboarded in the cia program and, accord go ahead -- according to cia officials ghailani was not, shep. >> bret: last week the khalid shake mohammed trial is not coming to new york. you had republican leaders recently saying they are going to fund any efforts to bring detainees from gitmo to america for these trials. is this verdict now essentially the nail in the coffin on this effort by the administration? >> well, i would say now they there are really just two leading options that the administration has to choose between one is indefinite detention for the 9/11 suspects. though no trial in the immediate future or sending them back to the military commissions at guantanamo. just on a personal note, i think one of the greatest casualties here are some the 9/11 families who had adult children at the world trade center and also at the pentagon and in shanksville, pennsylvania. a number of them have told me that they believe that they will be dead before they ever see a full trial in this case and i would emphasize that it's been a year since the attorney

bombing attempt at a suspected to have originated out of yemen the powers seem to be clamoring for more cia involvement in the region but it's sending u.s. covert ops and kill teams really going to put out the fire or will it simply continue to fuel it then is minority report becoming all too real for some americans turns out the latest terror scare in washington d.c. was a plot hatched by the f.b.i. so are we going to start prosecuting people for their intentions rather than their actual crimes then according to a new study out of the u.k. alcohol is the most dangerous drug to both your person and of society it's worse than heroin and crack so how could this vote for advocates of across the board decriminalization common to speak with jacob sullum of reason magazine on the reaction to this new study next we'll have satirical rapper go remy perform his latest rap saudis without he's live on the show with war recession the endless negativity surrounding tomorrow's elections maybe the only thing to do is to rap and to laugh and earlier we brought you the amazing story of karen o. she's a duke

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . ascends are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home and yes terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it teaches a lot of people to despise us to have compassed our team washington d.c. thing jacob horn burger president of the future of freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy.

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year and two funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us in. sens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it teaches a lot of people to despise us to have hope that our team washington d.c. thing. jacob hornberger president of the future freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy this is

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations who campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . ascends are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it teaches a lot of people to despise us to have compass our team washington d.c. thing. take a hornberger president of the future of freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy this i

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress and millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year and to funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . ascends are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it was a lot of people to despise us to have our team washington d.c. thing and take apart a burger a president of the future of freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad as frightening the u.s. economy this

in your book you write about the cia. one hard lesson i've learned, ass covering trumps national security every time. >> guest: i'm afraid that's it. i mean, there are a lot of people who it's their first, their first priority is national security, but it gets caught up, for example, immediately after 9/11 the first thing i ended up doing was compiling a list of all of the intelligence we put out because we knew we were going to be called before congressional committees, and we knew that investigations were coming up, so while you're also trying to look out for another terrorist attack and what might be happening, you also have to, you know, you're immediately -- you immediately have to go in defensive mode. >> host: so when you hear the term flawed intelligence from inside the agency, what's your perspective on that? >> guest: well, the term flawed intelligence has also been used by people who have no idea what the stream of intelligence looks like. in retrospect, it's -- you can match up what reports foretold the attack

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year to funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home values terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it teaches a lot of people to despise us. our team washington d.c. . and still ahead for you this hour a second chance at freedom russia may be criminals could soon walk out of prison find out why their terms are being cut shor

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year to funding for political organizations who campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most u.s. . the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we use taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it was a lot of people to despise us to have compassed our team washington d.c. thing. taken hornberger a president of the future of freedom foundations has funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy this is essentially u.s. foreign

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress and millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home just terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it was a lot of people to despise us to have our team washington d.c. and take a poor worker a president of the future freedom foundation says funding regime change abroad is threatening the u.s. economy. this is essential

agency for international development and its partners spearheading this effort like the cia usa id the national endowment for democracy and the slew of similar organizations receive funding from congress millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations who campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money's being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism not just abroad but also here at home when you're terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn't work it was a lot of people to despise us to have our team washington d.c. and a little later in the program we'll tell you how it can marry put a russian woman behind bars find out why she's serving your sentence and how she

this is the part will valerie plame learns she's been outed as a cia act. >> never worked for the cia -- >> as an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction. he just went ahead and did it. >> did this run overseas? >> it's in the newspaper, valerie. novack's column is he syndicated overseas? >> everywhere. >> well, the number of people that had a hand in outing her, you could argue in terms of reporting to the press were, as you know, michael, fleischer said something to pincus, novak said something to miller. there were a lot of people out there talking. >> right. it was, it was -- look, dick armitage of the state department was the first one to disclose valerie plame's name to novak, but the white house jumped on it very quickly on their own. before novak wrote his column, rove was confirming it. ari fleischer got out there and dumped this information on him and judy miller got it from scooter libby. so, there is definitely a white house effort to use this information for whatever. >> to destroy joe wilson's wife. ambassador wilson, your view watching the film and putting it to

that is to say he was working for the cia and perhaps the fbi, as well, for many years. but nobody knew it. and finally he decided the time was to get out while the getting was good. >> reporter: the ten moles he reportedly planted in the u.s. were traded back to the russians in a spy swap last july. ever since, chapman has been a moscow sensation, posing for photo spreads, an honored guest at the recent russian space shuttle launch, even marketed as an action figure. a former spy himself, prime minister putin told him the spies were caught as a result of a russian traitor. he said sellouts always end up in a ditch, either drunk or drugged, adding the other day one such traitor kicked the bucket exactly like that abroad. tonight, u.s. officials won't comment but don't deny they had a well-placed russian counterspy. if true, it's an intelligence bonanza. >> he was in a position to know everything that was going on here that the russians were doing. >> reporter: despite talk tonight of russian threats to assassinate the defector, the cia and fbi have a long track record of

at the cia the counterterrorism center, cia di office of terrorism analysis, the national counterterrorism center at dia the joint intelligence task force for counterterrorism, the fbi joint terrorism task force, the 72 fusion centers to integrate cd information around the country. at the nsb, the national security branch, counterterrorism division is now there. at dhs they have a homeland counterterrorism division. at state department now they have the i in our office of terrorism. at treasury the office of intelligence and analysis and terrorist financing. the department of defense have a criminal investigative search services job was to investigate fraud against the government and contracting also now as a counterterrorism mission. the reason they did that is because that's where the money was. just on counter proliferation, it has been in a over weapons of mass destruction proliferation, the cia has a ei win back on counter. the ncs, the national counter proliferation center. at dhs the domestic nuclear detection office. at the fbi, nsb, weapons of mass destruction directed. at doe the

the justice department had no idea no in part it's the cia doing it in their own bubble it's the army doing it in their own bubble they helped clear. butcher immigrate out of europe for example it's the space agency recruiting rocket scientists like vernon von brown and others what we have here is it's a horror story about that sheltering of the nazis and then it's a kind of success story in the second thirty years as they chase down these guys take away their citizenship reveal the truth tracked down even people who were serving presidents of austria kurt waldheim this office exposed what he had done to collaborate with the nazis in world war two so horror story about this very black part of american history success story over a long time that you can still push for justice well that's that's what americans love right i love to bring someone down you know i need them back up so and that sense you know if this does like you said you know mark a very dark period in american history something that definitely isn't going to look good on its record but then if they tried to make up for it

the cia tapes were shot at a secret overseas prison after the 9/11 attacks. they reportedly captured two top suspects facing waterboarding, a form of simulating drowning this human rights groups and obama administration officials say is torture. those tapes were destroyed in 2005 out of fear they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identities of the interrogators. despite yesterday's announcement, cia officials could still be charged with making false statements during the probe. >>> south korea's the latest stop on president obama's travel agenda as he dashes from country to country on his extensive tour of asia. in seoul he and other world leaders will be tax lending economic issues -- taxling economic issues at the summit. he spent tuesday in indonesia where he reached out to muslims saying america will never be at war with islam. meanwhile, a conservative muslim minister hasstered up controversy with some indonesians labeling him a hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. some believe it's improper of muslim men to touch the sk

to the washington's foreign policy objectives so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development usa id and its partners spearheading this effort millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations who campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is being spent to meddle. and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call u.s. manipulation of foreign elections promoting democracy how would we americans feel if for example the chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to china why is terrible we use our taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doe

to to washington's foreign policy objectives so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development usa id and its partners spearheading this effort millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call us manipulation of foreign elections promoting democracy how would we americans feel if for example the chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to china for years terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn

political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced a democratically elected leaders from him and most of back in iran to sell the door again day in chile. in their place all too often brutal dictatorships and governments that committed heinous crimes against their people. to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion we do this through surrogates and we do this through non-governmental organizations and we do it through people who are less suspecting of the evil that may lurk behind their actions and perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons of our guard you bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as highness as it always was you bet the concept of democracy promotion is simple finance train and politically back local opposition forces around the world that support washington's agenda but in america in eastern europe with the velvet revolutions in africa. the middle east or really all over all over the world and so the us set up these di

political and economic interests were safeguarded cia backed coup d'etat was announced a democratically elected leaders from hama knows a death in iran to sell the door again day in chile. in their place all too often brutal dictatorships and governments that committed heinous crimes against their people. to replace the overt support for dictatorships a new concept for regime change was born one that sounds and looks better democracy promotion we do this through surrogates and we do this through non-governmental organizations and we do it through people who are less suspecting of the evil that may lurk behind their actions then perhaps they were before. have we learned some lessons of that guard you bet do we do it better you bet is it still just as heinous as it always was you bet the concept of democracy promotion is simple finance train and politically back local opposition forces around the world that support washington's agenda might in america in eastern europe with the velvet revolution in africa. be the result will be all over all over the world and so the us set up these differ

to two washington's foreign policy objectives so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development usa id and its partners spearheading this effort millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is being spent to meddle and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call u.s. manipulation of foreign elections promoting democracy how would we americans feel if for example the chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to china why is terrible we use our taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doe

to to washington's foreign policy objectives so while the goals remain the same it's no longer the cia but the u.s. agency for international development usa id and its partners spearheading this effort millions and millions of u.s. taxpayer dollars go every year into funding for political organizations from campaigns in different countries around the world that promote u.s. agenda and most us citizens are unaware of the fact that that's how their money is being spent to meddle. and influence and interfere in other nations affairs the concept of facilitating regime change to democracy promotion has garnered widespread criticism congressman ron paul once wrote it is particularly orwellian to call u.s. manipulation of foreign elections promoting democracy how would we americans feel if for example the chinese arrived with millions of dollars to support certain candidates deemed friendly to china oh yes terrible we used taxpayers' money to go over and use our military and our cia and these programs to say this is what you ought to do and influence and there's no authority for that it doesn

we have a clip from the film that shows valerie plame played by naomi watts talking to plame's cia boss. >> i know it's not easy but i want you to know how much the agency appreciates your silence in the light of this matter. we can't afford to have this knife fight go on any longer. >> i get death threats every day. people threaten to kill my husband, hurt my children. i went to the agency and i requested security to protect my family. i was declined because, quote, my circumstances fall outside the budget protocols. if this is a knife fight, sir, right now we're fighting it alone. >> wilson versus the white house, huh? i feel as a friend i should tell you that those men, those few men in that building over there are the most powerful men in the history of the world. >> the movie's director joins us here today. welcome welcome, doug. the movie is the story of wmd and the white house effort to perpetuate the myth that there were weapons of mass destruction was powerful. in the book, president bush's memoirs, he says the single sentence in my -- he's talking about his state of the union

of mass destruction in the run-up to the iraq war. >> and the movie is about valerie blamplame, the cia agen whose identity was leaked by the bush white house in that run-up. we have a clip from the film that shows valerie plame played by naomi watts talking to plame's cia boss. >> i know it's not easy but i want you to know how much the agency appreciates your silence in the light of this matter. we can't afford to have this knife fight go on any longer. >> i get death threats every day. people threaten to kill my husband, hurt my children. i went to the agency and i requested security to protect my family. i was declined because, quote, my circumstances fall outside the budget protocols. if this is a knife fight, sir, right now we're fighting it alone. >> wilson versus the white house, huh? i feel as a friend i should tell you that those men, those few men in that building over there are the most powerful men in the history of the world. >> the movie's director joins us here today. welco welcome, doug. the movie is the story of wmd and the white house effort to perpetuate the myth tha

. >>> the justice department says no criminal charges will be filed against cia officials who destroyed 92 tapes that showed the brutal interrogation of the secret tapes were shot at overseas prisons after the 9/11 attacks. they reportedly captured two suspects facing waterboarding, a form ewe simulated drowning. those tapes were destroyed in 2005 out of fear they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identity of the interrogators. cia investigators could still be charged with making false statements to the probe. >>> president obama dashes from country to country on his extensive tour of asia. he is head to seoul. he spent tuesday in indonesia where he reached out to muslims saying america will never be at war with islam. meanwhile, a conservative muslim minister has stirred up controversy with some indonesians labelling as a hi o hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. the minister is claiming mrs. obama forced the handshake on him. >>> federal officials say they've arrested three former marines for selling weapons to a las vegas gang. the suspects ringleade

a top cia official ordered them destroyed. a criminal probe continues into whether interrogator's went too far in their treatment of the suspects. >>> it is the first u.s. policy inial and it is under way o virginia. the men from somalia are accused of trying to overtake the u.s.s. nicholas off the coast of africa in april. a federal judge says it is expected to last three weeks. they will likely face life in prison if convicted. >>> in moscow, the two attacks on journalists in just 48 hours. journalists are taking to the streets in support of the two reporters. both men were severely beaten over the weekend. one is now in a, and his colleagues say the russian government is behind the attacks which are a way of censoring the media. in the past decade, 19 journalists have been murdered in russia. >>> coming up on abc7 news at 6:00 p.m., a wave of new drivers about to hit the road. are they are risk? >> the consumers do not want to buy these apples. >> a triple disaster. why some worry this year's cropp is not worth eating. >> s

. >>> the justice department says no criminal charges will be filed against cia officials who destroyed 92 tapes that showed the brutal interrogation of the secret tapes were shot at overseas prisons after the 9/11 attacks. they reportedly captured two suspects facing waterboarding, a form ewe simulated owning. those tapes were destroyed in 2005 out of fear they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identity of the interrogators. cia investigators could still be charged with making false statements to the probe. >>> president obama dashes from country to country on his extensive tour of asia. he is head to seoul. he spent tuesday in indonesia where he reached out to muslims saying america will never be at war with islam. meanwhile, a conservative muslim minister has stirred up controversy with some indonesians labelling as a hi o hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. the minister is claiming mrs. obama forced the handske on him. >>> federal officials say they've arrested three former marines for selling weapons to a las vegas gang. the suspects ringleaderho

former cia officer, thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. fascinating conversation. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> all right. coming up, speaking of republican fights, the one in alaska has gotten hilarious. we get a report on joe miller's absurd tactics to stop his republican opponent. plus why is centrist a dirty word? how political centrists may be doing the most damage to the country. and why game show hosts are so overwhelmingly republican. that's really interesting. [ female announcer ] humana and walmart are teaming up to bring you a low-price medicare prescription drug plan that has the lowest national premium in the country of only $14.80 per month. so you can focus on the things that really matter. go to walmart.com for details. i worry about my son playing football. which is why i'm really excited. because toyota developed this software that can simulate head injuries and helps make people safer. then they shared this technology with researchers at wake forest to help reduce head injuries on the football field. so, you know, i can feel

the cia tape was shot at secret overseas prisons after the 9/11 attacks reportedly capturing two top suspects facing waterboarding, a form of stimulating drowning that human rights groups and obama administration officials say is torture. those tapes were destroyed in 2005 out of fear they could be leaked to the public and compromise the identity of the interrogators. despite yesterday's announcement, cia official koss still be charged with making false statements during the probe. >>> the latest stop on president obama's agenda as he dashes from country to country on his extensive tour of asia. in seoul, he and other leaders will be tackling issues. he spent tuesday in indonesia where he reached out to muslims saying america will never be at war with islam. meanwhile, a conservative muslim minister has stirred up controversy with some indonesians labeling him as a hypocrite for shaking first lady michelle obama's hand. conservative muslims believe it's improper for males to touch the hand of any woman that they are not related to. the minister is claiming mrs. obama forced the hands

now do you remember when it came out that the cia had destroyed ninety two interrogation tapes in two thousand and five well according to the justice department a federal prosecutor has decided not to bring criminal charges in that case the tape showed to interrogate interrogations of two men believed to be top al qaeda operatives at a klan distance yeah a prison in thailand and the interrogation tactics included waterboarding which just spite what george w. bush thinks is illegal now they did this despite direct orders from the white house not to destroy the tapes they withheld disclosure of the tapes destruction from congress from the courts and from a commission that investigated the september eleventh attacks and all the while jose rodriguez the head of the cia's clandestine service at the time who approved the tapes destruction well he's been described as an american hero by his attorney so we don't say for obama's d.o.j. is this just another example of them looking at the other way when it comes to torture earlier i caught up with christopher anders senior legislative counsel in

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a new movie that chronicles the cia leak scandal involving valerie blame goes into wide release this weekend. >> valerie, turn on msnbc. >> mom, why can't i have some soup? >> we launched an investigation. ashcroft just announced it. they say he's going to convene a grand jury. >> the fbi is now conducting a criminal investigation into who leaked the name of the cia undercover -- >> they want me to comment on the investigation. >> i'm now joined by former ambassador joe wilson and his wife, former cia agent valerie blame author of "fair game." morning, welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> i wonder why we picked that, could it be because it said msnbc? one thing i thought about as i was considering talking to you today is you know what it is like to be in the eye of the storm in washington, d.c., and there's a lot of argument that when barack obama came in, obviously, the election was about change. argument that this new wave that's coming in starting today is about change and i'm wondering as you've watched what happened since your story started to unfold, valerie, do you think w

the cia destroyed some of the tapes of two al qaeda operatives in 2005. the justice department is still investigating whether the interrogators went beyond the legal guidance they got on rough treatment of suspects. >>> he says he is not guilty. that was his plea yesterday. he was arrested last month and federal officials say he was plotting with people who he thought were al qaeda members. they were federal agents though. his trial will begin in april. >> the national mall is about to receive a much-needed facelift. >> the secretary of the interior and national park service took on us a tour. a new sea wall will be complete by next year's cherry blossom festival. they signed a record of decision. there is along-term master plan to upgrade the entire mall. it is now in place. >> america cannot stand by and let the national mall continue to be a national disgrace. they will raise half of the retired funds to restore and approve this space to make it something we all can be proud of. >> now coca-cola has donated 700,000 recycling bins for the mall. >> our t

i worked with the cia and the fbi -- a cia chief of station is a foreign intelligence officer responsible in a country like pakistan for collecting strategic information about al-qaeda. he is not responsible when a bomb goes off in karachi. he is not a security officer and is not responsible for geographic security. that is securing space in a foreign country. he owns tactics to collect intelligence. he does not own turf. pakistanis do. the special agent charged in los angeles is responsible when a bomb goes off. but that officer, that domestic security officer is not truly an intelligence officer. that individual doesn't own the tactics. you can't throw up a problem and say i'll put up interception capability, i'll put a human source next to this person and i'll listen to their phone calls and steal their girlfriend. the director in los angeles owns the turf not the tactics and my first point and i'll stop in a moment we have to drive to what an understanding of domestic security officers who are not foreign intelligence officers and tired of hearing arguments why don't we do it domestic

there was some cia cables that were released by the senate intelligence committee in late 2006 on this that prompted a letter from a bunch of members of congress to the cia and to the bush white house asking for more information about him, what did it know about his interrogation, what happened to him. i reported about that at the time. in 2007 i posted a copy of the letter on our website. a few months ago, the aclu had filed a request for information about extraordinary rendition cases, got back a bunch of responses. they asked about the case, and i noticed there were huge reductions in the responses, including a letter written by members of congress to the bush white house with big black-out parts of the letter of the cia saying these portions of the letter were classified. well, i had written about the letter three years earlier, i posted it on our web site. it was still on the web site of one of the members of congress that wrote the letter. this classified letter. and i wrote a story about it a few days later, and the cia said, well, ok, we will declassify this letter that has bee