what about gun ship, air to ground missiles. they could be effective if you have appropriate targets. albeit the terrorists have sort of gone into heavily populated areas. as you know from your experience, this is one of the key tactics of groups like this. when you start talking about a group like isis, it wants to be in population centers wihere thy are surrounded by civilians and sensitive targets, mosques, hospital hospital hospitals, schools. that s where they re living. and again all that of that makes it hard to bring in big power and hit them. and there are still several thousand americans in the country. so you have to watch thout for them, as well. if isis is so powerful, don t they have certain staging points, supply headquarters, other facilities that could potentially be targeted without fear of innocent civilians
facing ukrainian gunship. they fire at it. it hits a target then comes back. [ gunfire ] reporter: rural suburban worlds ruptured. his family say they support the separatists who protect them. you can see over there on that roof, one of the stray rounds has landed into a house where, fortunately, there was nobody there at that time. police stopped traffic, but not the separatist bus loads flooding in. both sides later claim they held the airport, but the fire burning here just as kiev s new leader calls for peace, hence at how ukraine may be rushing headlong toward collapse.
hitting d.c. monuments. a 58-year-old woman now charged with defacing the national cathedral with splashes of green paint. she was carrying a can of paint when she was arrested. splotches of paint have also been found at the lincoln memorial and on a statue at the smithsonian castle. is private first class bradley manning a whistle blower or traitor to his country? we could know today when a judge reveals the verdict in manning s court marshal. he s accused of the largest leak in u.s. history, handing over 750,000 pages of documents and videos to wikileaks, including this video, a u.s. helicopter gun ship attack in 2007. two reuters photo journalists were killed in the attack. an investigation determined the crew of the gunship believed they were firing on insurgents, mistaking the cameras for
suppress that force that was attacking them. this is disgraceful. steve: you know what, gary? the back story is, or the most important aspect of this story is that this attack happened just about two months before a big presidential election. and the president and his men and women have been pushing what many of us feel is a big lie, that al-qaeda is on its heels. we saw al-qaeda is not on its heels and so for many, politically, it looks like this was a political calculation, you were in the spy business at the cia. what s it look like to you? well, what it does, what happened in benghazi runs against their narrative and their narrative as you stated was al-qaeda was pushed back on its heels. the truth is that those that look at the literal interpretation of the the koran and committed to violent jihad had claimed themselves to be an affiliate of al-qaeda and running rampant across north africa. the loss of control of 15,000
benghazi or tripoli that this attack on september 11th wouldn t have happened? the fabric would have been completely different. i m not trying to brag about this. the number of individuals on the ground could have taken on 150, had you had those additional resources, we re talking about essentially an eight-hour fire fight that could have been mitigated greatly from the beginning if you had better force. these guys, the two over there, talked about the the fact the cia device had to scramble to go over they were doing on their own. violating orders. the number you talk about would have made a huge difference in the fire fight. clayton: the question, what did they know and when did they know it. three different times they were told to stand down. the individuals to go in. right. clayton: steve mentioned on the show there was a guy with laser guarded targeting where the mortar attacks was, and they were told not to fire on the mortars. a the lot of mystery to the whole t