features of american government in this lifetime. america s spending what the rest of the world spends on defense combined and not debating it at home. that s what it s been like my whole life. could the defense part of that equation finally be beginning to change? joining us now is josh rogin, staff writer for foreign policy magazine and author of the blog the cable. thanks for your time. thank you, welcome back. thank you. the piece says it all. lev vin and mccain, we have no idea how much debt deal cuts defense. they don t know what the defense cuts here are. is the vagueness of the numbers here intentional, do you think? it s totally intentional and it s intentional on all sides, republicans, democrats, administration have a vested
suggest a theory that casey anthony used drugs to subdue her daughter so she could party and turning to chloroform and then, all of the sudden, in the defense part of the case this week, cindy anthony is called by the defense, and she said no, no, no. i am the one that did the searches. take a listen. do you recall in march 2008, you doing any type of searches for any items that might include chloroform? yes. and can you explain to the ladies and gentlemen of the jury why you did that. i started looking at chlorophyll and i was concerned aboutum, my smallest
statement by jose baez that he will have to give some proof for during the defense part of the case. but the question raised could she have drowned in a pool? the autopsy findings are just as consistent with drowning in a pool as being suffocated. i have a problem, a real problem with the way the medical examiner refused to give a cause of death. said she couldn t do cause of death. yet, the prosecutor has the anthropologist, who never is able to give a cause of death, to give the cause of death in this case of suffocation by duct tape. to show that very painful picture of casey smiling at the skull of her baby with the duct tape on it. i think that is junk science kind of thing that is very powerful to a jury.
ball care. in a piece karl rove wrote today, it goes to the question of iraq and afghanistan. and the defense part of this budget as it s drawn out counts on surge levels for the next 10 years then talks about cuts that will be made. he says there is some fuzzy math there, too. i think there is fuzzy math everywhere in this budget. in fairness every administration does fuzzy math. they are always overoptimistic on growth predictions. they are always optimistic on spending cuts. in that way they are not different. but what s different here is the president lost own opportunity. he could have taken control, adopted the simpson-bowle proposal that was coshared by a major democrat, erskine bowles.
security. this is operation flicker began as early as 2006. primary focus was to identify people who were not only purchasing child pornography online but downloading and and buying it using a system called pay pal. they are shedding light on who was picked up in this dragnet. we know a number of divisions in the defense part were implicated. among them the national security agency, the pentagon, the national reconnaissance office. and what was startling in the documents in the reporting is these individuals are sea kiewlsd of not only trying to buy this material but also using their government computers to do so in a limited number of cases megyn: when you see that list of the number of agencies involved. you have maybe one bad apple. but look at the number of