hawk s final stand. tria made the industry $40 billion in the last 12 years. the american taxpayer takes all the risk except for 35% and the insurance industry makes the money. also stopped was the nomination of caroline colvin to be social security administrator. republican senators objected after whistle blowers raised concerns about mismanagement of a $300 million computer project. yet on the last day, the senate confirmed 59 nominations including 12 judges. while congress did get some things done at the end of the year much of the 113th will be remembered for fireworks. in june wisconsin republican congressman paul ryan openly questioned the credibility of commissioner commissioner i m sitting here listening to this testimony. i don t believe it.
now, one of the big questions too being faced here and we ve heard you ask it many times this morning, joe, is how could he have gotten a security clearance if he had been discharged from the navy. we re still trying to figure that out. there s no indication that he was dishonorably discharged but it was, apparently, as a result of several instances of misconduct including the shooting incident in fort worth. do we know why he selected that particular building? do we know why or how he was so familiar seemingly with the geography of the building, with the layout of the building? you know, none of that is clear. it s a total mystery because he and a number of others about a half-dozen others work as subcontractors for hewlett-packard on some kind of a computer project there at the navy compound. they had just arrived a few days earlier, they were staying at a
have been killed this year alone in that country. today, the young man accused of leaking nearly a half million government secrets to wikileaks will say it was the army s fault. bradley manning s attorneys about to launch their defense against the u.s. military. it wants manning court-martialed and sent to prison for orchestrating the biggest national security leak in united states history. their argument that manning was emotionally troubled during his time in iraq and afghanistan and the military should have provided better computer security. manning, a former programmer was his unit s go to guy for a computer project. earlier this week, they painted him as a hacker so confident he wouldn t get caught he didn t bother covering his tracks. the pilot of a small plane that crashed in new jersey killing all people on board was warned of possible icing before the plane went down. take a listen to the exchange between the air traffic controller and the pilot. take your hand off and get y