cia budgets can have estimates on the pentagon now is required for the budget. how much of these special access programs, what do they do? how many companies. it still needs to be done. even when you see shrinking budgets for the pentagon for big things like tanks and aircraft carriers, the budgets for intelligence missions and intelligence operations are a lot cheaper to hire people for intelligence gathering sent on an aircraft carrier. these budgets continue. >> host: train to come any idea how many people in pakistan are in the pentagon payroll for the cia payroll are working at the cia? >> guest: -- on since the 2010, 2011 period of time. after raymond davis, after the bin laden raid basically shut down a number of not only cia operations, but they sort of declared u.s. special operations. so the perceived threat has received it. so after that 2011 timeframe that is the relationship of the u.s.-pakistan, numbers of air can undercover is significant. >> host: how many paramilitary groups are in pakistan? >> guest: while so this is another dispute. they deny

>> not clear what the senate is going to do but they have put pressure on the pentagon in the past. they have had gao study this issue and actually the pentagon was supposed to come up with some uniform standards so that all the uniforms would presumably meet the same -- but the pentagon dragged its feet on that so i think there's a decent chance this will pass. >> how much is this going to save and is it really about savings or symbolism? >> it will safe a few million dollars, three or 4 million to develop a new uniform which clearly in the context of a $500 billion budget is not a huge thing. i think this is -- this is similar to the hill is latching onto this as an example of ways of inefficiency and i think they want to sort of signal that the days of the open checkbook are over. >> tell us how we ended up with so many uniforms. this really started in 2002, didn't it? >> yeah. as you said in the opener, everybody used to have the same uniform and then in 2002 the marine corps pushed out their new digital marpat pattern and it made a lot of sense, it was wash and wear so the mari

and that is your taxpayer money being spent wisely the pentagon wants millions of dollars back from boeing for excessive charges on numerous parts will dive into the nuts and bolts of this story later today. it's thursday june twentieth four pm in washington d.c. i'm back in lopez and you are watching r.t. well more information is coming out from the guardian today detailing the types of information the n.s.a. can and has collected in the past when it comes to american citizens here's what we found out while the prism nucleon and main way programs are mostly used to collect information on foreign entities and on american citizens u.s. communications can still be collected retained and used for five years here's why if it contains a usable intelligence information on criminal activity threat of harm to people or property if they're encrypted or are believed to contain any information relevant to cyber security whatsoever they can be retained but as for a matter of transparency both present and past and say officials argue that the process is as transparent as possible. we wanted to keep the

but the pentagon has grown concerned over chinese imports. during a diplomatic clash between china and japan over a disputed island chain, china stopped exports of rare minerals that japan needed for manufacturing. cbs news national security analyst juan zarate: >> we have already seen glimmers of countries like china deciding to use the supply chain and its economic muscle for diplomatic and geopolitical purposes. >> reporter: pentagon officials says they have already addressed two of the areas identified in that report. officials have ordered the pentagon to purchase more domestically produced minerals for use in night goggles, and they have invested in a new supplier to make propellant for the hellfire missile. jim? >> axelrod: wyatt andrews in washington, thank you. two u.s. service members and an american civilian are dead in afghanistan, killed by afghan soldier they were training. this latest insider attack took place at an afghan national army base in southeastern afghanistan. the gunman was killed. the commander of u.s. army forces i

the pentagon made the announcement today. it did not identify the men. david martin is at the pentagon with more. >> reporter: an ugly secret hung over last december's army-navy game. three members of the navy team had been accused of gang raping a drunken female midshipman eight months earlier during an off-campus party in a house used by football players. >> she woke up the next morning still at the football house with her back all bruised. >> reporter: attorney susan burke tells how her client find out what happened. >> she then went home, very hung over, went back to the dorms, and learned from friends and the social media buzz that was already occurring that apparently three football players were claiming that they had had sexual intercourse with her as she was intoxicated.

budget refers to a portion of pentagon funding that's allocated entirely to activities that we're not allowed to know about the concept started in the one nine hundred forty s. with something called the manhattan project a program designated to build the atomic bomb at that time the u.s. government spent two billion dollars constructing the ultimate weapon in total secrecy since then the budget has grown larger and larger every year in one thousand nine hundred six the budget included an eight million dollar price tag for a mysterious project code named aurora the following year the amount for the same allusive project rose twenty two point three billion dollars right before vanishing completely from the books and although there is no certainty as to what a roar actually was an enthusiasm speculated that it was the predecessor to the s r seventy one blackbird a supersonic plane that spied on america's cold war and it means money being thrown into a black hole in total secrecy. sounds par for the course unfortunately although we'll never know what these classified programs do and tail

ultra secret black budget the black budget refers to a portion of pentagon funding that's allocated entirely to activities that we're not allowed to know about the concept started in the one nine hundred forty s. with something called the manhattan project a program designated to build the atomic bomb at that time the u.s. government spent two billion dollars constructing the ultimate weapon in total secrecy since then the budget has grown larger and larger every year in one thousand nine hundred six the budget included an eight million dollar price tag for a mysterious project code named aurora the following year the amount for the same allusive project rose twenty two point three billion dollars right before vanishing completely from the books and although there is no certainty as to what a roar actually was aviation enthusiasts have speculated that it was the predecessor to the s r seventy one blackbird a supersonic plane that spied on america's cold war and it means money being thrown into a black hole in total secrecy. sounds par for the course unfortunately although we'll neve

money is because the pentagon provides a lot of information and does assessments. so think about david petraeus and congress was deeply skeptical that the surge was working. what did the military do? they identified what they thought the right to metrics were to hold themselves accountable, no. of intelligence tips they were getting, and collected data over a course of a whole year and made a public so scholars could second-guess the they had better ideas and on that basis they change congressional attitude. the power of ideas to prove your case is how to win policy debates and the state department does not have that bureaucratic machinery to build a budget that is defense ball like the defense department and i am a very strong and deep in my heart i am the insurance actuary and i think we need budgeteers will make the state department budget as bulletproof as the defense department. >> host: ms. schake working at the national security council and the state of bremen and now our research fellow and teaching at west point, a johns hopkins, how did you get interested

we asked the pentagon how to you accommodate something like the league of the pentagon papers with this kind of policy, i.e., the league that showed governments to misled and lied to the american people about the conduct of the war in indochina, and we receive no direct answer from the pentagon. >> you spoke to a senior pentagon official who is critical of insider threat and said that it is about people's profile, how they interact at work, are they cheery, what are they looking at on the internet? what do you hear about the kind of work environment this is creating in government? >> the work environment is already one where people who used to talk to me and a suspect other reporters are no longer willing to talk to us simply by fear that they will encounter retaliation for talking to a , not simply disclosing classified information, but try to give us context. in my experience, getting context about stories that we report normally, try to get an idea of how the u.s. government used a particular issue. knowof the people that i are no longer willing to even do that. the environment, as a

it is an extension of the pentagon. i think you get paid more with the pr firm. so you can am i want to go with that. c-span: how concerned are you when you want to do a profile that the door would not be open to you. >> guest: defined way to get the story. that's what you have to do i was back in ferment and 10 vermont. i know that they had told the press advisor that this would in my cruder end of his career. c-span: didn't end his career? he was a civilian? >> guest: yes, it did. he was a civilian. i have said that i think that duncan sort of took a lot of the blame when in fact, i think that, you know, people want to blame or take responsibility for it and there was plenty to share the. c-span: who also started this? >> guest: this is a big-time public affairs guy. at the end of the day, general mcchrystal to his credit knows this -- it was general mcchrystal's command. he was the guy, setting the tone for the entire bunch of guys. general mcchrystal is the ultimate operator and i hope he realizes that he set the tone. c-span: was there any fact checking that

>> guest: i went to work in the pentagon is my first real job. one of the things i was really struck by, i did not grow up in a military family and did not know the culture. i was distraught that the american military has brew teachers because they live in an environment where you cannot be good at your job unless you can make everyone else but their job i was the person that everyone had to make another job. and when i went to the state department 20 years later i was struck that the people who are successful in the state department are people who can get thrown into the deep end of the pool and not drown, but no one ever teaches them to swim. the best of them don't even values swimming lessons because, after all, they didn't drown. and so it's a culture that makes very little of the enormous human has and risks of a bit of attention and basic management you could realign the incentive structure and make it as well functioning as the military as. the military is great at making a lot of very little. the state department could be as well. we

>> i went to work in the pentagon as my first real job. one of the things i was struck by is since i didn't grow up in a military family and it didn't know the culture that most of the military is brilliant teachers because they lead in an environment you cannot be good your job unless you make your bet feels good that there's an air was the person everyone had to make good at there job. i was struck at the people who are successful in the state department are people you can throw into the deep end and will not drown but nobody ever teaches them to swim. the best of them don't even values swimming lessons because they did not drown. so did is a culture that makes very little of the enormous human capital it has and with a little bit of attention and basic management, you could realign the structure to make as well functioning as the of military. it is great at making a lot out of little and the state department could be but we don't want them to the same standard so my argument is to try to show we should not let inherently civilian respon

>> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon for us tonight. jim, thanks. >>> we have seen in the past couple months, a lot of pictures from foreign countries where people have flooded into the streets in protest, often fed by social media, often suppressed by the government. and now, tonight, it's brazil. big protests have developed out of nowhere, driven by economic injustice mostly. the biggest of them just last night, and again this evening. our report from nbc's mark potter. >> reporter: an estimated quarter million brazilians took to the streets in more than a dozen cities. most were peaceful, though there was violence. demonstrators in rio de janeiro attacked the state legislature building, throwing firebombs and confronting police. at least 20 officers and 10 protesters were reportedly injured. many in the crowds complained about rampant corruption, crime, low wages, and a lack of social services. we lack investments, he says. mainly in health and education. as brazil spends billions to build stadiums for next year's world cup and the 2

jennifer griffin at the pentagon, thank you. jenna: now to another big story, some new developments in the controversy swirling around nsa leaker edward snowden and our government's efforts to capture him. the state department now warning of serious consequences for any foreign country that helps him avoid extradition. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with this side of the story. >> reporter: well, thank you, jenna, and good morning. more evidence today that china is one of the greatest beneficiaries of the snowden leaks with the defense ministry in beijing at a news conference this morning publicly labeling the u.s. government a bunch of hypocrites. with the defense ministry spokesman telling reporters that the nsa's prison program which collects foreign internet communications is being used against china in the same way china is blamed for stealing u.s. research and development. with edward snowden apparently stuck in the transit zone of the moscow airport still, the state department is

in 1971, he released the pentagon papers that showed the u.s. government was lying to the american people about vietnam. he told me tonight he believes snowden accomplished even more than he did. >> what words would you use to describe him? >> patriot, courageous, conscientious, and dedicated to the principles of our constitution and the bill i'm very impressed by him. he's a new hero of mine. there's never been a more valuable or significant revelation or disclosure, leak, unauthorized disclosure than this one by edward snowden. >> there might be some who say the pentagon papers are very significant. ure exaggerating? >> you can't say that what i did was more significant. this gives us the chance to actually change what amounted to an executive coup after 911 that the people is not willing to believe. >> polls show that 58% of americans disapprove of the government snooping into these phone records. but when they are asked in a different way if they thought the government was only going to use the records against suspected terrorists, 75% said

directly supported hostilities in aid of such enemy armed forces now this is important because the pentagon and department of justice have justified everything from drone strikes to indefinite detention under this expanded a definition in fact the d.o.j. white paper released earlier this year on targeted killings specifically says quote the president has authority to respond to the imminent threat posed posed by al qaeda and its associated forces arising from his constitutional responsibility to protect the country the inherent right of the united states national self-defense under international law. but what exactly is an associated force of al qaeda that we are at war with but we have some idea this is a two thousand and four list of associated forces identified by the department of defense this information was found in the kuantan m o files made public by wiki leaks as you can see it's a rather large list and includes organizations you probably didn't know we were at war with over the last decade including the iranian intelligence agency pakistani intelligence the muslim brotherhood has

the pentagon is looking forward to implementing this decision. the department of defense will move very swiftly, quote, it will be a decision implemented in every way as it should be. they put it in writing. the defense department intends to make the same benefits available to every military spouse, regardless of sexual orientation, as soon as possible. quote, that is now the law and it is the right thing to do. when the supreme court was hearing this case, the pentagon could not weigh in on its own behalf in the case because the justice department plays that role for the government, but a group of high-ranking military officers including former secretaries of defense wrote the court to say that their experience as military leaders after don't ask, don't tell, their experience as military leaders in a military that has openly gay people serving in it, that experience gave them strong feelings about what the court should do. "the military and civilian leadership long have recognized the physical and emotional wellbeing of service members' families

cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr has more on this part of the story. what's going on here, barbara? >> wolf, just as boston is trying to heal, one of the most ruthless branches of al qaeda is launching a new propaganda effort. this is the latest version of "inspire" the magazine published by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and much of it, including this article, titled the inevitable is cruelly devoted to the boston marathon bombing. >> what it tells you is this group al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is opportunistically trying to take advantage of the attack. >> it says they're brilliant carrying out the attacks which al qaeda says were an absolute success. the magazine mentions copley square, fenway park, boston university. it says these heroic bombings exposed many hidden shortcomings of the american security and intelligence system. the tsarnaev brothers are believed to have read a 2010 inspire article entitled make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom, which detailed how to make the type of pressure cooker bombs used to carry out the attack in bo

nbc news has learned the former number two man in the joint chiefs at the pentagon, a now retired marine corps four-star general with a close working relationship with president obama is under investigation for leaking a top secret government project according to legal sources. it was called the stuxnet virus. it wormed its way into computers that helped control iran's nuclear program. it did a lot of damage, but the then officials say the leak of its existence to "the new york times" did its own damage to u.s. efforts against iran. at the time of the leak, the president vowed to find the person responsible. now comes our report tonight. his name is james cartwright, known as hos, his call sign as a fighter pilot. tonight he is a target of a criminal investigation by the justice department into a leak of intelligence. we begin tonight with our national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. >> reporter: general cartwright was a key member of president obama's inner circle of national security advisers. but legal sources tell nbc that cartwright has been notified he is the target of

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now there comes were that someone at the very highest levels at the pentagon may have been responsible for the leak. in 2012, the new york times ran a story about a computer worm called stuxnet and how it was the obama administration's key weapon in a prolonged cyber attack on iran's nuclear weapons program. it affected computers worldwide in 2010. cybersecurity experts assumed at that time some government had developed it. .he suspicion was confirmed it said the u.s. was behind it and the israelis helped. in named this man, retired general james cartwright as the father of stuxnet. president barack obama was angry my attitude has been zero- tolerance for these kinds of leaks. these are criminal acts when they release information like this. >> according to nbc, a year-long federal investigation into the leak has come to focus on cartwright, once the number two military leader at the pentagon. while cartwright has yet to be formally charged, the question is this -- why would someone who reached the highest levels of the u.s. government do this? >> there are many reasons why people leak

>> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon to start us off tonight. thanks. >>> now to the continuing scandal stemming from the targeting of certain conservative groups by the irs. today some of them got a chance to tell their stories to congress, describing what they say has been years of abuse. our capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell covering for us, tonight. kelly, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this is the first time those conservative groups were able to tell their stories directly, and it come from local grassroots organizations that have small budgets, but they described oversized paperwork and hoop jumping they were required to complete. many spoke of fear and mistrust taking on the irs. on capitol hill, voices of the targeted. >> the questions were chilling. i was shocked that i was being asked those questions. >> reporter: from iowa, alabama and california. >> i had anxiety and i felt betrayed, absolutely betrayed. >> reporter: singled out by the irs for extra scrutiny when their groups had applied for tax exempt stat

a series of documents that later became known as the pentagon papers. he became the first person prosecuted under the 1917 espionage act for releasing classified information to the public. the case was later thrown out after the judge learned that the government had engaged in the illegal wiretapping of ellsber. daniel ellsberg joins me live from california. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for the opportunity. i'm very impressed by what i've heard in the last couple hours including snowden's own video here. i think he's done an enormous service, incalculable service. can't be overestimated to this democracy. it gives us a chance, i think, from drawing back from the total surveillance state that we could say we're in process of becoming, i'm afraid we have become. that's what he's revealed. i didn't expect there was any chance of reversing that course, what was called earlier, total surveillance. i think if the public now is given authentic documents or official documents that congress simply can't plausibly deny or plausibly claim ignorance of, m

david martin is at the pentagon, and elizabeth palmer talks with the rebels. and on the road-- the whirlybird catches steve hartman's attention. >> i mean, they told us it was impossible. who doesn't want to prove everyone wrong when they're told that something's impossible? imposs captioning sponsored by cbs

remember back in 1971, he released the pentagon papers, 7 thousand psych let documents that showed the u.s. government was lying to the american people about vietnam but listen to this, he told me tonight he believes snowden actually accomplished even more than he did. >> what words would you use to describe him. >> patriot, courageous, conscientious and dedicated to the principles of our constitution and the bill of rights. i'm very impressed by him. he's a new hero of mine. there's never been a more valuable or significant disclosure, leak, unauthorized disclosure that you know this one by edward snowden. >> when you say this was the most significant there might be some who say, wait a minute, the pentagon papers are very significant. are you xauj rating here. >> it's hard to say. i didn't say. you can't say what what i did was more significant, and this gives us the chance to actually change what amounted to an executive coup after 9/11 here that the public is simply not willing to believe. >> tonight cbs news polls show that 58% of americans, a majority, disapprove of the governmen

a recent pentagon report found as many as 26,000 last year, up from 19,000 the year before. among the accused perpetrators several military leaders tasked with running prevention programs. >> how can we possibly stop the amount of sexual assault and rape in the military if the person in charge of enforcing these policies commits the same crime? >> reporter: victims of military sexual assault add mraud the change. >> the system is rigged against the victims. >> reporter: now, pentagon officials are open to some of the proposed changes but they say limiting commanders' power to punish or pardon subordinates could undermine their authority and ultimately the effectiveness of the military. diana. >> devin dwyer in washington for us this morning. thank you. >>> all right, well, lying about military honors could lapd you in prison. president obama signed the stolen valor act into law. it makes it a crime to do so. scammers have lied to military officials to get medals and receive set van benefits, government contracts and jobs. violators could face a year in prison. >>> heated rea

what about help from the pentagon? 10:45 p.m. >> i asked the defense attache, is anything coming? >> reporter: the short answer, no. >> i said thank you very much. and we went on with our work. >> reporter: 10:54 benghazi. attackers are drove out of the compound. by that time, sean smith is confirmed dead. but nobody can find ambassador stevens. now 5:00 p.m. in washington. defense secretary leon panetta attends his weekly meeting with the president. >> we ordered all available dod assets to respond. >> reporter: but none outside libya will. >> the quickest response option available was a security team that was located at the embassy in tripoli. >> reporter: the americans have no plane in tripoli. >> we agreed we would move forward with chartering a plane to fly a response team to benghazi to provide additional reinforcement. >> reporter: 11:10 p.m., benghazi. a u.s. drone armed with cameras begins circling with a come pound. five minutes later, a second wave of attackers arrives. >> the annex team withdrew from the facility, and the second wave of attackers took it over. >> did a

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what the pentagon is doing is making official what is really happening in practice. women are 14% of the armed forces. women are already flying in combat missions in the army, the navy, the air force. and, you know, we already have a woman combat veteran serving in congress, congresswoman debbie -- tammy duckworth of illinois. she lost both her legs and seriously injured her arm in iraq in 2004. and i should also point out we have seen 150 women killed in combat in iraq and afghanistan. but i say again, it's about time. especially if women -- if women want to serve in those roles, then why shouldn't they? >> i totally agree. i think all americans who raise their hand and say i want to sacrifice, i want to risk my life, i want to be part of the cause, should be able to do it given they can meet the physical standards which are not changing for women so that's an important point. americans agree overwhelmingly that we should allow women into combat and these numbers cross the country, men and women agree, democrats and republicans agree, which is kind of a weird thing

clearly, there's a lot of discussion in the pentagon about cyber enterprise in general. one thing to consider about it is as we have and we engage in all these discussions about what is the current active component, reserve component mix across the air domain, the land domain, the sea domain, all the rest of that stuff, i'd like to make the point that as we begin to build a cyber domain, really we have been engaged in cyber activities for quite some time, but we're just really getting serious about putting together a force model from all the services, and we have an opportunity to build it kind of from the ground up and think think where the best places are to put the cyber piece and the reserve component. you know, i think one thing that has kind of been touched on across several speakers has been the unique attributes and civilian skill sets that are resident in the reserves and the capabilities where people with unique cyber skill sets are able to bring sometimes the newest, leading-edge capabilities in the cyber domain too. they're well trained, their already in it,

. >> the pentagon plans to announce how it's ecranding combat roles for women. >> we expect to learn when women may be able to start training for those com-ft roles. good morning, briann. >> we expect that later today the pentagon will release more details and how they plan to expand these roles. plagoing t for the military has given the go ahead to begin training. women can train to be army rangers by gre15. women could train to become navy seals in 2016. women have to meet the same physical and mental standarspr o qualify for these positions. at 2:30 this afternoon, we expect there will be military ofligersoals and special operats officials meeting together. they are ecrected to hold a brieligng at about ini30 this afternoon to layout more details of this change. >> thank you. another turning point in the nearly 12-year war in afghanistan. the president says his country's armed forces are taking over the lead for security from the u.s. lead for security from the u.s. forces will move entirely into a supporting role. it opegoing t the way for a ful withdraw in 18 months. >> several

a pentagon spokesman says the defense department has no comment on this. he later served as defense secretary and now he is retired. >> a father of five struggling to support his family with overnight cab fares shot down for the few bucks in his pocket. dc is trying to find a way to keep cabbies like him safe. bruce has the story. >> this is really shocking. i need to see his wife. >> reporter: outside solomon's home, neighbors are trying to support his suddenly widowed wife and his five children. >> this was my friend, my neighbor, family friend. oh, my god. >> reporter: he drove his cab overnight so he could drive his kids to school in the morning. early tuesday morning, police say a pair of armed robbers shot him to death after he gave them a ride to adams morgan. >> if somebody passed a customer on the street, he would pick them up. he never said no to anyone. >> reporter: now the neighbors are pushing for the kind of discrimination that is in the society. >> i am serious on the discretion they used to use when picking people up. >> even if that comes

daniel ellsberg, who exposed the pentagon papers, talks to us. >> i learned what was being done here from edward snowden. >> coming up next. >>> good evening. i'm dana king. welcome to this week in northern california. joining me is david baker and lauren sommer and dan walters. joining us from the state capital. they say the third time is the charm. it comes with a billion dollar surplus for a rainy day. before passing out the champagne, that budget is based on revenue which is hard to predict. is this budget really balanced? >> that's -- it depends on what your definition of balanced it. two years ago, they did it jerry brown vetoed it and it was late. it's balanced in the sense the appropriations in the budget can be paid for, but the budget ignores some big picture items, some very big things they weren't doing. the teachers retirement system needs 4. $5 billion more a year to remain solvent. if you did that, the budget would be unbalanced. it's all in the eye of the beholder. >> to get to this point though, how did it happen? was it just jerry brown's leadership? was this put to

is barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon. a lot going on overnight. >> reporter: exactly, john. was he a leaker, an idealist? i want you to meet the man who turned the intelligence community upside down. >> when you're in positions of privileged access. >> reporter: this is 29-year-old edward snowden, the high school dropout who worked his way into the most secretive computers of the u.s. intelligence community as a defense contractor and then blew open those secrets by leaking unprecedented details of top secret government surveillance programs. he now risks never living in america again as a free man. >> i had access to the full rosters of everyone working at the nsa, the entire intelligence community and undercover assets all around the world. the locations of every station we have. >> reporter: snowden didn't leak that, but in an interview with the british newspaper, the guardian, snowden reveals himself as the source of several documents leaked to journalist glenn greenwald, outlining a massive effort by the national sec

and oh, the government, the pentagon the pentagon,, oh my god, the fighting general! what fighting general, what are you talking about? they're here trying to demean michael hastings after he passed away to protect their beloved power establishment. congratulations, geraldo. >> isn't the press that lawful method to whistle blow? isn't the way that everyone is is at very kateisadvocateing, use the reporter as channels, but no, you want do that. >> cenk: the rest of the press just stop it. i know you're embarrassed because you suck at your job. and most the guys on tv the cnn guys, o we bring on a general to enlighten us. oh, thank you general, we appreciate it. nbc, same thing generals generals! i got news for you. the pentagon has been lie to go us for decades. obviously that was a lie. that was a giant lie that got us into a giant war. turns out success wasn't around the corner in iraq or afghanistan, but ignore all of that, and the one guy we're going to attack because we're deeply embarrassed because of how bad we are at our job is michael hastings who did his job.

. >>> historic news from the pentagon. the plan that could turn women into army rangers and navy s.e.a.l.s. >>> plus, a leading doctor takes on alternative medicine. are vitamins a bad thing? >> but we begin this morning with a look at your "eye opener," the world in 90 seconds. >> at no point is any content revealed because there's no content in the database. >> i hear you saying i have no problem with what nsa is doing. >> because i don't. >> president obama defends the nsa surveillance program. >> meanwhile, edward snowden the man who leaked the information defended his actions during an online chat. >> leading him to stop talking. >> i hope, i pray and i ask that you will not release any secrets that could constitute treason. >> and talks of a g-8 summit president obama and president putin both agreed violence on syria has to start but they're far apart on how to do that. >>> the fbi is searching suburban detroit looking for remains of jimmy hoffa. >> the reputed captain. >> buried under a cement slab that's where our

do you think it is unusual to have the pentagon speaking to clearly and so quickly on this matter? >> i think it is good that they spoke clearly. i do think that the efficiency that is within the pentagon will see to it that the rules are carried out as they should be carried out. i also believe that it would be a good idea if the civilian side took a hint from the pentagon in terms of the efficiency of carrying out the many rules and regulations that effect people that shouldn't negatively. i think there are over 1,000 of them within the federal government now. so it would seem to me that it would be very good for the white house to send some orders out to each of the cabinet members with daytime charts on them that say i want to report as to what it is you're doing about such and such. i want it in a few days, not a few weeks, not a few months and i want it changed because it's equitable. >> sorry to interrupt you, sir. i was going to say we have seen some motion in that direction today, initial direction to federal agencies. i think there's going to continue to be a patchwork bo

. >> happening now, the most powerful men in the pentagon are on the hotseat over the rice number of sexual assaults in the military. abc7 news reporter amy hollyfield is in the news room. >> lawmakers have several ideas how to deal with an epidemic of sexual assault considering seven bills one taking away authorities from the commanders, and the top brass say it will not work. >> they agree that sexual assault in the military cannot be tolerated. >> the problem of sexual assault is such scope and magnitude it has become a stain on the military. >> creams of sexual harassment cut to the core of what i care most about, the health and welfare of american sons and daughters. >> the crimes are happening, a pentagon report found there are up to 26,000 sexual assault cases in the military last year up from 19,000 the year before. senators say victims are hesitant to report assaults because they don't trust the commanding officers will do anything or they fear retaliation. >> we are acting swiftly and deliberately to change a climate that has become come placent. >> proposed fix from congre

from latest pentagon report most cases aren't reported. while punishment does matter is the real problem changing the culture and fear of reporting because of retribution within our ranks? >> exactly. in fact, only about 3,000 of the 26,000 cases are reported and of those 3,000 cases only about 500 go to court martial and about 200 get convictions. so it becomes a career ender for most persons who actually file a complaint. >> so some would argue the only way to make victims safer to report these crimes and to take the bias out of prosecution is to remove these case from within the chain of command. but the much heated debate the senate armed services committee decided the military still needs to handle its own classes and senator mccaskill is defending that vote on "morning joe" today. take a look. >> anybody who thinks what we did in the armed services committee is coddling the pentagon does not understand. we've created a crime of retaliation and i firmly believe and this is an honest disagreement about which is stronger for victims, i