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the guest will be senator joe lieberman. we are going to show you what senator joe lieberman had to say on the vulnerability to cyber attacks. he thinks iran is behind the cyber attacks, especially the one on bank of america and j.p. morgan chase. [video clip] >> we are under constant sniper attack, including large parts of our -- we are under constant cyber attack, including parts of our infrastructure that is supposed to be secure. the recent cyber attacks on major american financial institutions including bank of america and j.p. morgan chase is a powerful example of our vulnerability. islamic website, these attacks were announced. they explained the intention to attack the banks and the stock exchange as a reaction to the anti-muslim video. i give you my belief. i do not believe these were just hackers who were skilled enough to cause a disruption to the web sites in cyberspace. i think this was done by iran, which has its own developing cyber attack capacity. i believe it was a response to the increasingly strong econom

joe lieberman worried. what do you think of this? >> i don't have any -- i have confirmation, i haven't heard it from the u.s. government directly, but i am not surprised this. a year or so ago we have evidence that the iranian revolution nature reguard co-- revolution ari carguard core wa sending someobody in washington to assassinate the ambassador from saudi arabia in washington. this goes back to iran. hezbollah was created the iranian regime. they are now spreading out across the globe in ways that they didn't do up until about a year or two ago. they were just around lebanon and working against israel, so this seems very credible to me. i am grateful to the mexican authorities for grabbing these guys and turning one of them who is an american apparently over to u.s. authorities. >> you were ahead of the curve on this the idea that we might have made it harder for bad guys to get here through the legal means or the way the 9-11 hijackers did but we haven't cleared up this border issue where they cannot easily but with a lot less

also ahead the day after tomorrow, october 5 there's the 90-minute debat between senator joe lieberman and dick cheney. it will be held at center college in danville, kentucky. the moderator will be bernard shaw of cnn. thank u,nor bush and vice president gore. from boston, i'll jim lehrer. thank you and good night. [applause] [captions performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] 6 >> see the presidential debate. next, vice president biden campaigns in florida. then vice-presidential candidate paul ryan speaks at ai rally in new hampshire. after that, the 1984 presidential debate between ronald reagan and walter mondale. >> tomorrow on "washington journal" two presidential candidates cake cake your calls and questions. jill stein from the green party, and the author of "party matters," virgil goode. >> it is the number one priority, and it is the most untouchable thing. that is going to cause more trouble than any other prop problem we have currently in the united states. getting medicare costs under control is the number one thi

"washington journal" live at >>" joe lieberman. two reporters with us today. >> i thought we would start with the national securities moment since the attacks in libya. the head of the national security council testified that the attack was indeed a terrorist attack. she said it appeared opportunistic. what more do we know about it being opportunistic and not premeditated? are we seeing evidence that it was planned? who might be behind it? >> i was curious by those who are hesitant to call it a terrorist attack. it had all the attributes of any accepted definition of terrorism. it was the use of violence to carry out a political mission. clearly that is what happened. i do not think we know enough now to know whether it was opportunistic. whether it was planned to occur on september 11 or whether it was a plan they had on the shelf and when they saw what was happening in response to the anti-muslim film, they seized the moment in carried it out. it clearly was not just spontaneous. they knew what they were doing. the effects are no

senator joe lieberman said he believes that iran is behind the cyberattacks between bank of america, jpmorgan chase and all that happening last week and he thinks it's in retailiation for the sanctions. do you believe that's the case? does iran have that capability? >> you know, i'm not a cyberguy. i would be sort of doubtful. i think, number one, there are lots of folks who have that motivation to go after city bank a and others and every day in the united states there are those who are sort of mounting cyberattacks against major u.s. companies. i have no particular knowledge of that. in some ways, i think the point here is a good one. worth asking the question, why? we have a situation where we attacked their nuclear authorities, exactly, and in my own view, there are countries i don't believe the u.s. is one of these countries, but countries that are assassinating their scientists. again, i'm against the nuclear program, i think it's a bad idea, you should stop. if you attack them with cyberattacks, you know, they're probably going to retaliate. >> it's like poking the hornets nes

senators sometimes called the three amigos, john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsey graham, crushing wine grapes in the former soviet georgia made for some very interesting pictures on the web. and perhaps after realizing how this looked, sator mccain's office put out a very sober press release late today about the serious business of the trip, including a meeting with president shalikashvili, whose office took the video down from the web. no mention in the press release of the dance of the wine makers. >>> clint eastwood spoke out for the first time since the speech at the gop convention last week. those who watched felt as if he was making something up on the fly. it turns out that's pretty much what happened. our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: a week later at the democratic convention, clint eastwood's chair was still getting laughs. >> i know it's an iffy chair. it makes you nervous, doesn't it. that's all right. i'm going to sit on it. >> what do you mean shut up? >> reporter: it was a rambling, unscripted appearance at the republican convention that went mor

well, now, senator joe lieberman and others coming forward with this letter. >> alisyn: and also, who is going to take responsible for the tactffactactfufact-- spblt for three weeks later. 20 days past the september 11th attacks and fbi isn't in benghazi, they're in tripoli, for security reasons they say, they say that the libyan security forces aren't providing them with security and some sort of visa problem. this is unheard of. so, senator bob corker and joe lieberman among others, they want answers from clapper about why it's happening. >> dave: to the point at that tony schaeffer made on our program yesterday, he's worked with the fbi, some of the toughest and highly technically trained individuals on the planet. comfortable going into hostile zones like benghazi, it must not be an internal reason, it must be someone else they can't go in. >> clayton: bee seeds the tactffac tactffac fact-- besides the fact that libya is a free country and not the hot son that-- as it's unfolding and discussions about james clapper on the show this morning, who is james clapper we'll taking a look

senators sometimes called the three amigos, john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsey graham, crushing wine grapes in the former soviet georgia, made for interesting pictures on the web. perhaps realizing how this looked, senator mccain's press office put out a sober release today about the seriousness of the trip, including a meeting with shalikashvili whose office took the video down from the web. no mention in the press release of the dance of the wine makers. >>> clint eastwood spoke out for the first time since the speech at the gop convention last week. those who watched felt as if he was making something up on the fly. it turns out that's pretty much what happened. our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: a week later at the democratic convention, clint eastwood's chair was still getting laughs. >> i know it's an iffy chair. it makes you nervous, doesn't it. that's all right. i'm going to sit on it. >> what do you mean shut up? >> reporter: it was a rambling, unscripted appearance at the republican convention that went more than twice as long as it should have. it

certainly it also has made lawmakers like senator joe lieberman come out even stronger than before in favor of the need for immediate cybersecurity legislation i want to show you a letter that he wrote to president obama just this week he says the danger is real and intimate imminent yet we have not acted to defend against it he says we know our adversaries are already stealing data valuable intellectual property and exploiting our critical infrastructure those systems that control things like water electricity transportation finance and communications therefore i urge years. you know your executive authority to the maximum extent possible and to defend the nation from cyber attack i think you bring up a really good point tim that that we don't know everything that's in you know the executive order here and that it's possible it could go too far what are people like you and others you know in the cyber community around the united states what are what are your concerns our concerns are exactly that that it will go too far and cut into our civil liberties and and censor speech and and a

certainly it also has made lawmakers like senator joe lieberman come out even stronger than before in favor of the need for immediate cybersecurity legislation i want to show you a letter that he wrote to president obama just this week he says the danger is real and intimate in the event yet we have not acted to defend against it he says we know are and for adversaries are already stealing value valuable intellectual property and exploiting our critical infrastructure those systems that control things like water electricity transportation finance and communications therefore urging. you're executive authority to the maximum extent possible and to defend the nation from cyber attack i think you bring up a really good point tim that that we don't know everything that's in you know the executive order here and that it's possible it could go too far what are people like you and others you know in the cyber communities around the united states what are what are your concerns or are concerns are exactly that that it will go too far and cut into our civil liberties in and censor speech and a

senators sometimes called the three amigos, john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsey graham, crushing wine grapes in the former soviet georgia made for some very interesting pictures on the web. and perhaps after realizing how this looked, senator mccain's office put out a very sober press release today about the serious business of the trip, including a meeting with president shalikashvili, whose office took the video down from the web. no mention in the press release of the dance of the wine makers. >>> clint eastwood spoke out for the first time since the speech at the gop convention last week. those who watched felt as if he was making something up on the fly. it turns out that's pretty much what happened. our report tonight from nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: a week later at the democratic convention, clint eastwood's chair was still getting laughs. >> i know it's an iffy chair. it makes you nervous, doesn't it. that's all right. i'm going to sit on it. >> what do you mean shut up? >> reporter: it was a rambling, unscripted appearance at the republican convention that went more t

in the united states though we have only two parties represented in congress plus two independents joe lieberman and bernie sanders so why is that how have other democracies been able to break the two party to optimally that we here in america have not been able to well it in america we have something called first past the post elections are winner take all asians take the house of representatives for example there are four hundred thirty five seats each corresponding to a specific congressional district district a list of candidates run for office whatever candidate gets the most votes wins the one seat that's up for grabs and everyone else loses and gets nothing. even if the winner wins by just one vote he wins it all the loser gets nothing that's a winner take all election but only a handful of democracies actually nine of them have winner take all actions like we do in the united states in fact in more than ninety other democracies around the world they don't have winner take all actions like we do they have something called proportional representation and that's one key to breakin

in the united states though we have only two parties represented in congress plus two independents joe lieberman and bernie sanders so why is that how have other democracies been able to break the two party to optimally that we here in america have not been able to well it in america we have something called first past the post elections are winner take all actions take the house of representatives for example there are four hundred thirty five seats each corresponding to a specific congressional district h. district a list of candidates run for office whatever candidate gets the most votes wins the one seat that's up for grabs and everyone else loses and gets nothing. even if the winner wins by just one vote he wins it all the loser gets nothing that's a winner take all election but only a handful of democracies actually nine of them have winner take all actions like we do in the united states in fact in more than ninety other democracies around the world they don't have winner take all actions like we do they have something called proportional representation and that's one key to bre

certainly it also has made lawmakers like senator joe lieberman come out even stronger than before in favor of the need for immediate cybersecurity legislation i want to show you a letter that he wrote to president obama just this week he says the danger is real and intimate in the event yet we have not acted to defend against it he says we know are and for adversaries are already stealing value valuable intellectual property and exporting our critical infrastructure those systems that control things like water electricity transportation finance and communications therefore urging. you're executive authority to the maximum extent possible and to defend the nation from cyber attack i think you bring up a really good point tim that that we don't know everything that's in you know the executive order here and that it's possible it could go too far what are people like you and others you know in the cyber communities around the united states what are you what are your concerns or our concerns are exactly that that it will go too far and cut into our civil liberties in and censor speech an

certainly it also has made lawmakers like senator joe lieberman come out even stronger than before in favor of the need for immediate cybersecurity legislation i want to show you a letter that he wrote to president obama just this week he says the danger is real and intimate in the event yet we have not acted to defend against it he says we know are and for adversaries are already stealing value valuable intellectual property and exploiting our critical infrastructure those systems that control things like water electricity transportation finance and communications therefore urging. you're executive authority to the maximum extent possible and to defend the nation from cyber attack i think you bring up a really good point tim that that we don't know everything that's in you know the executive order here and that it's possible it could go too far what are people like you and others you know in the cyber communities around the united states what are you what are your concerns or our concerns are exactly that that it will go too far and cut into our civil liberties in and censor speech a

. >> jennifer: those were senators joe lieberman and john mccain urging to maintain the american presence in libya and egypt. as it stands the u.s. gives $4.1 million to libya but house republicans are urging today's events to push for cutting that funding. they want to take it out of the federal funding bill, which is going to keep the country from falling off the so-called fiscal cliff. at a heritage foundation event tea party freshman jess landries said, it would show a tremendous amount of leadership if the president were to come back and demand the amount of money that was given to libya and egypt be stripped out. remember the regimes in place in those two countries came out of his policy. he built that. so you couldn't help but springing that zinger during a fiscal crisis. go on. the house votes tomorrow which would extend funding through march and prevent a shutdown before the election. coming from us from those policy shocked waves is reporter and political punish can't joe williams. welcome inside back "the war room." >> good to be here, governor. >> jennifer: good to have you ba

then senator joe lieberman. then the house hearing on operation fast and furious. >> when i first came down to washington i did not know what an ig did. we seldom would run into their law enforcement arm. there would be our agents. for a while i was perry mortgage fraud cases. i was dealing with the inspector general. i did not know what the ig was doing. one of the first things i did was go down and meet the different ig's. over the next couple of years, i found the inspector general's -- although they are supposed to be eased fears watchdogs of thing out for waste, fraud, and abuse, they were just like any other governmental agency. their number one concern. -- seemed to be how to have concern over their budget. it was really a goal along get along attitude. there were three different types of ig's. a lap dog that would curl up on the lap of management a watchdog, and a junkyard dog. when i was going through the confirmation process, i was told that i needed to be like a junkyard dog. >> more from neil barofsk

more than a year after the arab spring what this means for the region, why senator joe lieberman says a moment of truth could be coming for iran. he will be here live next. jenna: middle east region in chaos. terror attack in libya, riots spreading in other countries including egypt, yemen, tunisia and iraq. we can't forget what is happening in iran and iran's march towards nuclear program, nuclear weapons and what's going to happen next. our next guest says quote, i think we have a moment of truth coming. it is about the stability of the middle east and ultimately about the stability of the entire world. senator joe lieberman said that he is chairman of the senate homeland security committee, a member of the armed services committee. senator, talk a little bit more about that. what does the moment of truth look like? >> here is what i said when i said we're coming to the moment of truth in the world's relationship with iran. we've got united nations organizations, international atomic energy agency, reporting to the world that iran continues to increase its supply of enriched nuclear

joe lieberman did this in 2000 when al gore picked him to be vice president. i'm going to run tv ads and make sure i get re-elected to the house of representatives. ryan can't be both in the house and vice president. so he's a little -- >> jennifer: let me share with you another set of polls. this is from cnn. 59% of voters think that president obama is more likely to win the debates. 34% romney will. in the expectations, is it better to have people believe you're going to lose or win the debate? >> usually, it is better to have low expectations and overperform. the voters have firm views of governor obama and what they're looking for are answers to issues and values. not this question of expectations. >> jennifer: that's so interesting. >> substantive set of debates. >> jennifer: i'm going to be interested in what happens too. one last question. "washington post,ance" news, registers voters ask who would you rather invite to dinner at your house 52% favored obama. is this a frivolous question or does it matter? >> my friend said jeff could take him to dinner

. >> harris, late today the chair and ranking members of the senate homeland security committee joe lieberman and susan collins sent this letter to the state department asking for an investigation into the consulate security given the heightened threat environment in benghazi last three months june 6th. improvised device was thrown at the consulate perimeter. mid june the alabama's motorcade struck by rpg and to your to your tunisian consulate. it was in the cross hairs. >> this was a place targeted months before with an ied. clearly a target that they wanted to hit and they wanted to cause casualties. i find it a little, you know, the glaring question of a 9/11 date just too many coincidences here. >> tonight, fox asked whether the four recent attacks in benghazi before the ambassador's murder were brief to the president as part of the president's daily brief also known as dpb. there was no immediate response from the director of national intelligence, the nation's top intelligence official nor the spokesman for the national security council, harris. >> harris: as the investigation into what

he was also a stand-in for edwards, senator john edwards, vice president al gore, senator joe lieberman. why is he the go-to stand-in guy? >> he's a pretty smart character and cookie, too. i think having been a congressman, he's obviously united states senator now. he knows policy. he was a trade rep. he was a white house -- in congress. this guy knows his stuff. but i think interestingly apparently, he's somewhat of a method actor. he listened to tapes, for instance, of the books on tape of barack obama and he's really able to take on the effect and the cadence of the person he's playing. and he, too, has great bedside manner. he's somewhat of a prankster. he develops very warm relationships not only with republicans but democrats have nice things to say about him. >> jennifer: interesting because he was so close to being selected for vice president. i don't know that being a debate stand-in is a good second nod. but president obama is going to be heading to henderson nevada for three days of debate prep behind closed doors. when you and i helped to prepare joe biden i'm curious from y

he was also a stand-in for john edwards, senator john edwards, vice president al gore, senator joe lieberman. why is he the go-to stand-in guy? >> he's a pretty smart character and cookie, too. i think having been a congressman, he's obviously united states senator now. he knows policy. he was a trade rep. he was a white house -- in congress. this guy knows his stuff. but i think interestingly apparently, he's somewhat of a method actor. he listened to tapes, for instance, of the books on tape of barack obama and he's really able to take on the effect and the cadence of the person he's playing. and he too has great bedside manner. he's somewhat of a prankster. he develops very warm relationships not only with republicans but democrats have nice things to say about him. >> jennifer: interesting because he was so close to being selected for vice president. i don't know that being a debate stand-in is a good second nod. but president obama is going to be heading to henderson nevada for three days of debate prep behind closed doors. when you and i helped to prepare joe biden i'm curious from you

that's for joe lieberman's old seat. in indiana joe donnelly is keeping up with richard mourdock. up in maine an interthree-way. ang grus king, an independent, jumped in the race with olympia snowe announced she was going to retire. he's facing a challenge from summers. cynthia dill trails well behind. i'm betting on king up there. let's talk about in fascinating race in indiana where the notre dame guy joe donnelly is running. normally indiana it's is a killer state for democrats. what do you think of that race? >> it gets to another point which we haven't discussed which is that in some of these key states republicans didn't get the candidate they wanted. indiana is one of them. obviously todd akin in missouri is another. olympia snowe retiring is another. republicans wanted a candidate and didn't get him or her. you're seeing republicans pay a price for it. the betting money is that mourdock will prevail but it's much closer. in maine angus king is suffering because e promised not to caucus with either party. a lot of democrats are worried to support -- >> you won't get any ass

that's for joe lieberman's old seat. in indiana joe donnelly is keeping up with tea party favorite richard murdoch. up in maine an inter three-way. angus king, an independent, jumped in the race when olympia snowe announced she was going to retire. but king is now facing a challenge from republican secretary of state summers. cynthia dill trails well behind. i'm betting on king up there. let's talk about in fascinating race in indiana where the notre dame guy joe donnelly is running. normally indiana it's is a killer state for democrats. except for bye, birch bye and evan bayh. what do you think of that race? >> it gets to another point which we haven't discussed which is that in some of these key states republicans didn't get the candidate they wanted. indiana is one of them. obviously todd akin in missouri is another. olympia snowe retiring is another. republicans wanted a candidate and didn't get him or her. in each of those cases, you're seeing republicans pay a price for it. the betting money is that mourdock will p

you had support not just of president obama and his team but from john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsey graham and republicans, adds well. this is a bipartisan initiative. nobody wanted gadhafi to stay in power. right now there's a fight developing between the romney campaign and the obama campaign on the statements they came out in the aftermath of cairo and to a certain degree libya. let's throw to viewers and let the viewers listen to what mitt romney said a little while ago referring to the initial statement that came out of the u.s. embassy in cairo. >> i think it's a -- a terrible course to -- for america to stand in apology for our values. that instead when our grounds are being attacked and being breached, that the first response to the united states must be outrage at the breach of the sovereignty of our nation. and apology for america's values is never the right course. >> he was referring to free speech and the aftermath of this controversial anti-prophet muhammad video that's been posted on youtube. here was the initial statement from the u.s. embassy in cairo. the embassy o

this chairman joe lieberman of the senate homeland security committee says he thinks it's iran. iran reportedly denies it. though reuters report iranian hackers have attacked american banks over the past year as part of a broad cyber campaign. the unknown hackers complaining responsibility for these attacks reportedly say they are in response to insults to mohammed in that video sweeping the middle east. though some analyst claim the hackers have simply using that video as a diversion. shep? >> shepard: rich edson in d.c. thanks. we are six weeks away from election day. but as we reported, some voters are already casting ballots and more states are about to start early voting. we will tell you what the analyst say that could mean for the candidates. plus, there is word those new voter i.d. laws could make for a long election night. or even week. why we may have to wait a while to learn the winner. and flame throwing protesters hit our 401(k)'s. new violence over europe's big money mess is hurting markets here at home. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and fo

joe lieberman. there's no one more hawkish about iraq back then than lieberman. so you have an interesting, i hope, political debate. from does he actually win re-election or do we have to read the book? >> of course you have to read the book. i will only say that i think -- i leave it on a cliffhanger. so maybe i can do another. >> everything happens for a reason. would there have been a barack obama -- >> first, i think everything doesn't happen for a reason. mere fate governs. you want to hear god laugh? make a plan. i do think -- i didn't take it that far. but i do think that the barack obama presidential race was conditioned on a profound disaffection with politics as usual which hurt not just the republicans but hillary clinton. so you -- whatever 2008 produced in my alternate universe, you would have had to have had an appetite for something really different and new so that the normal options -- >> it's possible the republican party would have gone through their transformation that they're in now earlier. >> that's the neat thing. the reason i do all these

and that's why senator joe lieberman and lindsey graham and i had not just a bipartisan but a tri-partisan resolution which basically said that the focus should be on preventing them from getting the nuclear weapons capability. we have to be determined to do that. i doesn't mean we don't play out and push very hard all of the sanctions that are in place. but we have to be very determined to stop iran from getting nuclear weapons capability. >> iran confirming just within the last 24 hours that it does have non-military assistance in syria. this, just another element to some of the concerns that benjamin netanyahu brought up. >> well, look, i don't believe iran when they say they've got -- could force soldiers or forces on the ground they're not providing. iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism around the world, including putting boots on the ground if not weapons on the ground in syria. they are a bad actor in the region and i think iran's actions threaten all of us. that's why we have to be determined against them. >> senator bob casey. thank you so much for your time today. >> th

we have senators john mccain, joe lieberman, lindsay graham putting out a statement criticizing the president's strategy. they say in quote, in particular, we're concerned that the rush to build up the afghan national security forces as quickly as possible, so that u.s. forces could begin withdrawing on the administration's timetable has contributed to the problem of the so-called insider attacks. do you agree with that estimation that the timetable and the rush to withdraw is the problem? >> we've been in afghanistan for over ten years and we've had forces out there working with the afghans all this time. we've had for several years, seven or eight years a building program for the afghan security forces so there is nothing new in this. yes we're bringing people in. but the fact that we're trying to build a large force doesn't mean that if we built a smaller force we'd have any better luck in terms of screening out people who might turn hostile once they were up and confronting u.s. troops and had an opportunity to harm. i think that is not the issue. the issue is really can we find a way to in

this week we had a chance to sit down with senator joe lieberman. he spoke about a lot of different topics. attacks on the u.s. consulate, the fate of cyber security, and the bill in the senate and his return to private life. one of the topics that he did address was the crisis or at least who was responsible from the crisis stemming from that video and what happened in libya. >> it just perplexes me that this video done by one man from what i can tell and his son, crude, a parent, and tight islam is allowed to set off these demonstrations. you would have to look at the president's attempts to rebuild our relationship with the muslim world has not succeeded yet. we have to get to a point where not only we, but more importantly, the leaders in the muslim world say, this is a terrible film done by two americans. it does not represent the american people. it was not done by the american government. it simply is not an excuse to go on a rampage against american targets and americans. in other words, you cannot say that it was just this one man in califo

. ♪ >> on wednesday, john mccain and joe lieberman spoke on the senate floor to mark -- to.mark the attacks on september 11. >> it is with a heavy heart that i rise today to speak about the horrific attack yesterday on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that killed four american citizens. sean smith and ambassador chris stevens are among the identified. i didn't know sean smith. i know he is a great american who served his country. but i have gotten to know chris stevens quite well. in his death, the libyan people have lost a great champion and believer in the peaceful aspirations of their democratic revolution. the american people have lost a selfless and dedicated servant of our interests and our values. and i have lost a friend. my thoughts and prayers today are with chrises family and his loved ones and those of his fallen colleagues. our first order of business now is to make sure that our citizens living in libya and egypt and elsewhere across the region in the world are safe. americans look to the government in libya and egypt and elsewhere to meet their responsibilities in this regard.

lieberman and senator lindsey graham. in a statement they blamed the obama administration saying we are concerned that the rush to build up the afghan national security forces as quickly as possible, so that u.s. forces could begin withdrawing on the administration's timetable, has contributed to the problem of the so-called insider attacks. they do have a point when it comes to the fact that they did build up the afghan security forces much too quickly. a couple years ago the goal was to bring the afghan security forces to a level that was more than 300,000 and we said it two years ago and we've said it now, it seemed to be more about quantity than quality. i went to the training centers where they were recruiting these soldiers and police officers, and they were just villagers who were coming in. people who did not know anything about security forces, maybe it was someone who wanted a better salary and, obviously, the taliban said they used that opportunity to infiltrate the security forces. but at the same time, the ob