platoon serving in the most dangerous parts of afghanistan. we will talk with the directors of the stunning documentary. it won at sun dance. tonight on cable. and first from fox at 3:00 in new york, a quarter million classified u.s. documents leaked to the world. and now the white house is in the midst of damage control. secretary of state hick vowing to take action. as you probably know the whistle blowing organization released the biggest document dump yet, hundreds of thousands of state department communications outlining everything from diplomatic impressions of world leaders to potential conflicts across the globe. here are a few highlights. "new york times" say it shows the arab world is very concerned about the nuclear stand off with iran. and we are told some middle east leaders favor military action. and, at the same time, we are told documents contain claims that iran has been smuggling weapons into war zones using ambulances and medical supplies as cover. and as far as north korea is concerned, the released documents suggest that the united states has planned for the communist nation's collapse and possible reunification with south korea. why not? on a lighter know, one diplomat in italy told state department bosses the italian prime minister parts too -- parties to much. secretary of state hillary clinton is not happy. >> this disclosure is not just an attack on america's foreign policy interests. it is an attack on 9 international community. the alliances and partnership, conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security and advance economic prosperity. >>shepard: the attorney general says he will prosecute anyone found to have violated u.s. law in leaking the documents. and wikileaks is not finished. they have to release another 15,000 secret afghan war documents. and now, over to the pentagon. what senior the most explosive revelations? >>reporter: perhaps the most explosive is that the secretary of state ordered u.s. diplomats to spy on other foreign diplomats ordering them to find out their credit card and frequent flyer numbers and a pentagon program, at least, has been compromised, a secret drone program in yemen. from the cables, i am reading "yemen president told general petraeus we will continue saying the bombs are ours, not yours," and another cable reveals that russian prime minister future in and italian prime minister exchanged "lavish gifts and energy contracts," calling him the mouth piece of future in in new york. and another says when the head is rotten it affects the whole body. and the d.e.a. spotted an afghan vice president with $52 million in cash on a trip to the arab emirates and no idea where the machine came from or where it was going and no one stopped him. in 2007, the u.s. secretly attempted to remove highly enriched uranium from pakistan fearing use in a nuclear device. that program on hold in light of the cables. >>shepard: what about the man behind the website, julian assange? >>reporter: essentially julian assange has been charged with rape in sweden and they are seeking an international warrant for his arrest because two women say he raped them in july. the leader of this wikileaks website has become increasingly paranoid and likely to become more so in light of attorney general holder saying that some international players could be charged in the latest leak and publication of the documents. >>shepard: thank you, from the pentagon. how was somebody able to get access to so many classified documents? ultimate ultimately posting the information online. what is the word? >>reporter: the white house briefing, a spokesman made what is increasing a dilemma for the intelligence community. how do you share this information without compromising national security. >> there is always the balance of need to know and need to share. if you look at one of the main critiques in the pre9/11 intelligence world, was the difficulty in information sharing about threats. >>reporter: this system we are talking about has anywhere from 500,000 to 2.5 million users. >>shepard: and a 9/11 connection here? >>reporter: after 9/11 there was a major push to share information and critics of the system, the d.o.d. system, pointed to the primary suspect, one of the unintended consequences of the post 9/11 posture was giving access to low level analysts like him whose job in iraq did not require access to the cables. >> it was a mistake to create a honey pot of information. military data, state department data, all of this stuff into one place going over years ... it became a magnet for people to start looking at and to start stealing information from. i would not be surprised if this, i would not be surprised if this is the only leak. >>reporter: a question among the confession officials -- among the intelligence officials is if this have a chilling leak on information to prevent further attacks. >>shepard: and and our senior judicial analyst will explain to us his belief this is a very good thing for america that the document dump is very good for all of us, it gives us information. his story and the rest of it just ahead. but first president obama suggesting a major pay freeze for two million federal workers, a two year freeze for 2011 and 2012 applying only to civilian employees and it will save the government $2 billion and more than $600 billion over 10 years but some lawmakers say the bug deaths do not go far enough. what else does the president say about the pay freeze? >>reporter: aides say this is a pretty significant chunk of change. there is more from the president on the impact on government workers. >> in the challenge willing times we want the best and brightest to join and make a difference. but these are also times where all of us are called on to make sacrifices. i am asking civil servant dozen do what they have always done, play their part. >> as you mention there are republicans saying that this needs to go much further than just a temporary freeze of government wages for civilian employees but they are complementing saying it is a start and they hope the president will agree with them to go much further in time. >>shepard: this is ahead of a long awaited meeting tomorrow with bipartisan leaders from congress. what do we expect from that? >>reporter: it was described as a "start of a conversation with the new congressional leadership," and he laid out the priorities being, number one, the bush tax cuts which are due to expire by the end the year and president obama has said for a long time that he wants to make them permanent for people making less than $250,000 a year; republicans are pushing for at least an extension for higher income earners. we will see where the new yorks go. and second priority is the start nuclear treaty giving the u.s. an opportunity to keep tabs on russia's nuclear stockpile. so he was careful not to lay, or set the bar too high in terms of what will come out of tomorrow's meeting but said it is the first in a series of conversations. how clearly they will address the important issues, that is yet to be seen. >>shepard: thank you. first the plot. a teenager accused of planning a terrorist attack that could kill or wound thousands of people. and investigators say they were on to the suspect before he ever posed a threat. and now the community is dealing with a fallout from the arrest. details ahead. 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high alert to protect the muslim community after somebody set fire to the islamic fire where this would be bomber occasionally worshiped and the f.b.i. is offering $10,000 reward for information leading to arrest. and now the news live from portland. what else do we know of the teenage suspect? >>reporter: mohamed osman mohamud moved to portland from somalia and was a normal kid, went to high school at west view high school in a suburb of portland and grew up there and went on to corvalis, and we have accounts from many, many people where he went to high school and colleague saying he was normal. he would have occasionally a beer and went to mosque to pray, only occasionally, once or twice a month. people who know him are stunned by this. >> he never mentioned anything about not liking anyone, never threatening anyone. >> he was a regular oregon state student and he had friends, and frat buddies and he lived an ordinary life. >>reporter: but there was a falling out with his parents, and he made a tape before being arrested and in that tape he criticized his parents for bridge him here saying living in the success a sin and they kept him from jihad. >>shepard: there is concern that somebody lured him into this alleged plot, right? >>reporter: well, that's right. some say this was entranment. and he was basically caught by the f.b.i. and lured into the path he chose. but the f.b.i. had a sting and they have been in contact with him for several months. the first meeting face-to-face back in june. but sea say he took an active role and he was buying some of the parts for the fake bomb. and he made the cell phone call that he thought would lead to the explosion. but undercover agents told mohamed osman mohamud he had other options and he could back out without any shame. >> i am confident that there is no entrapment here and no entrapment claim will be successful. there were a number of opportunities that the subject in this matter, the defendant if this matter, was given to retreat, and take a different path. he chose at every step to continue. >>reporter: and now that path has him in serious trouble charged with attempting to use a weapons of mass destruction, a federal crime, and will be arraigned in a couple of hours and that crime carry as maximum penalty of life in prison. >>shepard: thank you, from portland, organize, this afternoon. and now, former c.i.a. operative is with us, president of the global intelligence and security firm "dilligence." he wanted to do some bad things and had no problem with there being children at this place and he had no problems that a lot of people would die including children. and he thought he was working with people who could help him blow things up. >>reporter: the problem is when we have one of these incidents and this is not the first sting operation the bureau has run but when we have these and they are that either whatted and nothing happens the public wanders and thinks it is not that serious or he was lured into it. so it is damned if you do and damned if you don't from the authority's point of view, but the kids, or the people that are lured into terrorism, whether we are talking about al qaeda or others, they follow a certain mold: young, unemployed or underemployed, and have feelings of alienation and looking to fit into a group of some sort. now, he has been over here since he was a youth and went to school in portland. i went to university there at one of the colleges, oregon state university, and it's a very liberal college town but you can see how a young somali man could feel disconnected from the community around him. as far as the question of him being lured or entrapment by the bureau, one of the aspects is he was reaching out to al qaeda sympathizers by e-mail to try to find out how he could travel overseas to get jihad training. >>shepard: there is no suggestion he left this country to be radicalized. >>reporter, no, no, and this is where we talked about the now famous yemen american who is overseas and working to recruit people just like this young man. this has been an ongoing problem and overriding all of this, whether we are talking about the portland plot or others that have been thwarted, the problem is the issue of home grob -- homegrown terrorism. we know this is an issue and we have tried to deal with it, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. >>shepard: in this case, obviously the good guys got to him first and nothing went badly. he thought he would public the button and everything would explode and until that minute according to the prosecutors, he thought he was about to murder a lot of people and he seemed quite excited about it from every communication we have been able to read. >>reporter: the christmas lighting ceremony in portland is a huge family event. it would be been a devastating attack if the individual was planning this by himself and it was an explosive device. but when you look at how we deal with the issue again going forward, in all honest city, the communications with the muslim american communities around the country, since 9/11, have been quite good. the cooperation they have given to the local and state authorities, and even to the federal authorities but mostly the local and state authorities has been very important to providing insight into looking for leads, and that, really; a critical part of this. we have to be careful how we deal with this. the muslim american community, rightly so, is sensitive to how investigations like this are carried out. but, at the same time, they understand they are under a spotlight. now, from our perspective in homeland defense, where it all starts is the local policing effort like so many other issues and if building the relationships with the muslim american communities, allows for us to gain, again, insight and communication and contact and sourcing that help prevent these things, then, that's where it has to start. >>shepard: let's hope. thank you, mike baker. three kids mincing since thanksgiving, capturing the hearts of the country. three boys, their father gave police a story about their disappearance saying he tried to kill himself and did not want the kids at the house when he killed himself so he handed the kids over to a chick he met online. and now the search for what really happened to the kids and really happened to the kids and where they may be now. and a healthy level of sodium. it's amazing what soup can do. whoa! that achy cold needs alka-seltzer plus! it rushes multiple cold fighters, plus a powerful pain reliever, wherever you need it! 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"well, let's grow some algae." and that's what started it. exxonmobil and synthetic genomi have built a new facility to identify the most productive strains of algae. algae a amazing little critters. they secrete oil, which we could turn into biofuels. they also absorb co2. we're hoping to supplement the fuels that we use in our vehicles, and to do this at a large enough scale to someday help meet the wor's energy demands. >>shepard: the bottom of the hour and time for the top of the news. a growing group of politicians and obama administration officials are slamming the whistle blower website wick hes over the release of state department documents. and the new york republican congressman is calling for the united states to designate wikileaks as a "terrorist" organization. in connecticut independent senator lieberman said the individuals responsible are going to have blood on their hands. but did wikileaks and the founder, this man, jazz js, -- this man, julian assange, break any laws? >>judge napolitano: well, two sides to this. one side, when you reveal things the government wants to keep secret you suppose the government's ways and harm the government's means and they harm individuals. in this case, it was more embarrassment than harm. this is the catalog of blunders and catalog of diplomats speaking candidly and differently than in public. >>shepard: because they were sending cables to the home base. >>judge napolitano: precisely. the king of saudi arabia was here to have back surgery, we learned that he wants to attack iran and the wealthy friends in saudi arabia are financing al qaeda, this is embarrassing and criminal and no one is going after them. as far as congressman king designating wikileaks a terrorist organization, congressman king voted for the terrorist protection act which defines terrorism as a group of two or more who commit two or more acts of violence, and this is a news media outlet that drops documents. now, here is the law: if somebody steals a secret document, that person is a thief who has committed a crime but if they give that document to a media organization, whether wikileaks or "new york times" or fox news, that media organization is free to publish it, to discuss it, to analyze it and reveal it without criminal activity at all. so, congressman king's target should not be wikileaks but it should be the people in the defense department who allowed this to be stolen and whoever stole it, him or herself. >>shepard: i am sure they do not want it to be stolen. they did not do enough to protect it because it is out there. think who is alleged, according to the state department and others, to have done this. a young man who calls himself brad ass 87, a private first-class, got all of these cables, hundreds of thousands of things, and changed the course of events and they are mad at the organization, wikileaks, is a terrorist organization? what? come on. jug i understand the view of throws would would like to believe the government always tells the truth, the government is doing the right thing. my view it is better for mature people to know and understand the truth. are we bombing yemen but claiming yemen is bombing its own country? yes. >>shepard: with yemen's help. yemen is pretending, we are pretending, we have known it forever and now it is on the document. this is not new. >>judge napolitano: is it better for the mature public and government? truthfully, yes, it is. >>shepard: one thing that clearly the wikileaks folks, not just julian assange, but he is part of it, they want us to think of the war that we are conducting in afghanistan and look at the facts of the war and consider whether this is the right thing for our country. if that is their goal it appears this could be on some level that is accomplished. >>judge napolitano: the president should welcome a debate on the war. >>shepard: he said he wanted to ratchet this down. >>judge napolitano: he needs to understand what happened to the russians in afghanistan and what happened to the british. >>shepard: who could not understand this? what president of the united states, what congressman, who could not understand that it is the graveyard of empires ... stand by. >>judge napolitano: you can look at the wikileaks stuff, they caught a high ranking person in the afghanistan. >>shepard: brad ass 87. >> and carrying $57 million in cash. where did he get it from? what is the government protecting? what kind of a government are we protecting? are we feeding the drugs over there? the more we know, the better it is for all of us. even the president. >>shepard: listen to what secretary hillary clinton said. listen. every country, including the united states, must be able to have candid conversation about the people and nations with whom they deal. stealing confidential documents and then releasing them without regard for the consequences does not serve the public good and it is not the way to engage in a healthy debate. >>shepard: her point is well-taken with you, but i guess a thing you are trying to say, if you have the communications country to country and you put them in a position where they can be stolen, shale on you. >>judge napolitano: i agree with half of that. stealing is the crime. that should be punished. and the people who failed to preserve the documents should be punished. but if it is news worth any you are crazy to sit on it. >>shepard: there is more to come, i guess. it is not as if this is the end of it. how brad ass 87 got ahold of this is beyond me. >>judge napolitano: he normally would not qualify for the level of security that gives him access so that tells me there are others involved besides the fellow with the unique e-mail name. >>shepard: good to see you, judge. s that the turkey drug warn off? 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their leaders in the military think this is crucial. >>reporter: they do the opponent is john kyl, both on substance and on schedule. in essence there are a tremendous number of very high priority pocketbook economic issues that have to be dealt with in the lame duck session and both republicans and democrats think should, done before the end of the year, and the start treaty, the nuclear arms reduction treaty with russia is a very, very complex piece of legislation and kyl argues to try to jam it in when the block is ticking in a lame duck session is irresponsible. and he wants to see improvements in the american nuclear arsenal, and a variety of improvements in the american military construct but in general, his primary concern and republicans are standing behind him, not enough time for something this important. >> >>shepard: the accusation they do not want the president to look good. >>reporter: some republicans believe this is necessary. and there are a lot of establishment type republicans across the country who believe it should go through but those in office, those controlling the debate on the republican side of the senate, at least, believe it is way too complex to do in a hurry and better to deliberate. >>shepard: not as complex as an impeachment but complex. nice to see you on capitol hill. a unique and powerful new look at the war in afghanistan. from the perspective of the american soldiers fighting the taliban in the most dangerous region. 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[ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com. >>shepard: inside look at the attack on american troops today in afghanistan. a bored policeman opened fire and killed six nato service member from the united states during a training mission in a province on the border with pakistan. the taliban spokesman claiming responsibility saying the gunman joined the border police on a mission to kill foreign soldiers. this is just the latest in a series of such attacks against international troops and we are told it is raising concern over the risk of rushing to expand afghanistan security forces and u.s. and international forces prepare to hand over control. we have a new and inside look at the war, a documentary film producing, provide,er rather, a look at life for the united states troops stationed at the dangerous outposted in afghanistan. what is the real thing, not tv magic, the documentary premiere tonight on the national gee graphic channel which happens to be opened in part by the parent company of this network. directors are here, first time filmmakers set sun dance afire. i have not clean it because i cannot get to it but i set the dvr for tonight. this must have been a life exchanging experience. >> we have been covering conflicts for 10 years so it was not the first time in a war zone but the first time with u.s. soldiers and it was profound experience. >>shepard: 94 minutes the press clippings say will change our lives? >>guest: soldiers cannot ask a general strategic questions, why are we here? so we did not do that. we shot all the footage in the movie, and we wanted to make it feel like you are in combat for 90 minutes. >>shepard: a refreshing change not to be armchair quaterback to be in the middle of reality and sometimes it is extremely graphic and often very disturbing and i wonder if you go blow back. >>guest: we left our politics out, and we did not want that in the view of what you see, what you experience, a lot of people have opinion but we want to report what goes on and that experience of the soldiers needs to be seen, and honored and understood. >>shepard: how do you get the access? >>guest: thousands of journalists have been placed with frontline units. what we did differently, though, we went to the same platoon over and over again, a total of ten, one-month trips covering a whole they policemen and that had not been done before. i am not sure if the military was even prepared for that. >>shepard: or aware. and because of the way it is set up they may not have realized. >>guest: they mean well, it is an amazing program and i am proud the u.s. military is doing that, and the press should have free access to war. if we are going to wage war. but we were out there a long time and the soldiers started to trust us and they opened up to us, and you have a fully emotional open film about combat. >>shepard: we find out one thing, that any soldier, people involved in combat, would tell you already, there is no such thing as surprising this enemy and we have a clip that shows that. take a look. >> there are not quiet helicopters responding, the enemy is awake. the americans flying over us right now. now everyone is on the radio, i am sure, the americans are headed this way so we got on the ground and we were told, be on alert, everyone knows we are here. >>shepard: that is hard to sock up, and process, that our goes be fighting for us and they are for that moment and that instance, sitting ducks. >>guest: that was during an offensive come -- combat operation where they reached out to the insurgents, dealing not with logical taliban but pakistanis, and what we think of the war, and people cooperating with al qaeda. that operation, it was very intense fighting and it was the operation on which the actions were made where he was given a medal of honor. >>shepard: he was at the white house, an astounding man who said "i am not a hero, you should meet the real heroes," and i think we will see some of those heroes tonight on national geographic channel, a single sponsor with limited interrupts, a great thing for dvr. thank you. great to meet you.ed settlement. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. >>shepard: and more than 200 million shoppers hit the stores for black friday weekend according to the national retail federation that is up 8 percent from this time last year. shop, shop, shop. they call today cyber monday and it is the day when everyone goes back to work and shops online. take advantage of web only specials and free shipping. and now, we are live at a target store in new york city. how many do they specific to shop online? >>reporter: they have been shopping online and from black friday on we have seen online shopping rates rise by 24 percent and amazon was the most highly visited website on friday but today on cyber monday we expect to see more than 107348 -- 107 million americans get online. >>shepard: tech stuff is flying? >>guest: sure, and i have the hottest items we will sell for the holiday shopping season. and some of this is on your list, the xbox connect, a highly hot item, and we have the wii, the new donkey kong video game which is just out from target, the hottest sellers here, and the ipad, and for the kids, lots and lots of toys and zhu zhu kids and barbie is trying to be a newborn baby doctor. that is what this is all about. >>shepard: why not? thank you, great to see you. happy cyber monday. next a look at the man who made "don't call me shirley," a household phrase. naturally colorful vegetables are often a good source of vitamins, fiber, or minerals. and who brings you more natural colors than campbell's condensed soups? 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