linked to several terror attempts including the failed christmas day detroit bomber. we are told he s hiding out about 60 miles away from the action. and yemen government officials tell me that he is not a target of this action, but they also say they d love to get him. jenna: greg palkot for us in london thank you. jon: the fight between al-qaida forces and yemen army troops is intensifying. what will it take to get the rebels out of this strategically important country for good. joining us bob bare. the christmas day attempted bombing of the jetliner, umar farouk abdulmutallab he was alleged to be part of al-qaida in yemen, right. reporter: i think he was certainly trained up and he probably picked up explosives in yemen. he learned how to work the desraoeuts that device that with us supposed to blow up the northwest airlines flight. we have to look at yemen as an
more than panetta. he is calling the shots. he would rather have firepower and ordnance and weaponry than have this more power to the cia? he s got to go along with the generals. and the generals want as many people as possible. that s military mentality. they re saying if we have 350,000 soldiers in afghanistan, the cia s got to have a thousand. but that s way beyond the cia s manpower. but isn t that the reason we won initially in afghanistan was the agency guys? yeah, but it was few guys. it was few guys using technical sourks run remotely from washington. where is bin laden? if he is alive, he is in the tribal areas. northwest territories? northwest. we can t get to him, though. why not? it s too tough up there. you would have to fight a major war to get into those areas. who is between him and us? tribal people, protecting him. okay, thank you, bob bare. why aren t you still in this thing? you re a smart guy. about this deem and pass tactics the house i
slam dunk. that s one reason that lynn of california was sticking with this bill. a big push to be solid on this thing. shows some solidarity and to be with your constituents. anyway, ron brownstein, thank you. up or down parliament vote. i think it s a no-confidence vote. absolutely right. if you vote against it. attorney general eric holder says no way that we ll ever get osama bin laden alive. why is he making these assumptions, these declarations? they re so provocative. how does he know we will not catch this guy? we ll talk to bob baer about that. a very provocative statement by the attorney general.
contributor bob bare. you wrote a fascinating article. in an op-ed, panetta defended what happened. we have no found no console lags, like saying marines who die in a fire site brought it upon themselves because they have poor war fighting skills. in your article, you say it was poor trade craft. it was inexperience. the cia puts people through a course that s a power point presentation on suicide deaths. the people died when this mole and came into the base and blew himself up. it was clear the people standing around didn t understand the threat that was posed to them. they didn t he should have been searched before he got inside the base in afghanistan. he should have been run through a metal detector and one on one meeting. that s the protocol for the cia. all of these prot to kols were
the military that the cia has actually become in these country an add junk to the military. we need to reduce the size of our stations in kabul and baghdad to as few as ten people, 15 people. that way you can deploy people for a year, give them the language, do what the cia does best and does it very well. i add that we need the cia, we need competition to the military. only way to keep the military intelligence honest and keep the president informed. if we lose the cia and this continues on like this, it will be a loss of a great institution. it s a chilling article. thanks for being with us. great to have you. thanks, bob. you can read bob bear s full article in the april issue of gq. i ve been an ameriprise financial advisor for 24 years.