import, the strategic import of that at the time they collected it, right? you ve got all these different sources of intelligence that have to be quickly integrated and understood. in order to make that effort, just yesterday josh rogan reported that the administration refused to proguide gas masks to the rebels, to the free syrian army. these are questions that the administration is going to have to grapple with. but right now we re focused on the intelligence. and i must say to you, when you look at the intelligence report as a whole, it lays out a pretty compelling case about why the president feels he s got to act. you work both at the cia and the defense department, even if there were just indications that this was about to happen, wasn t there a moral responsibility to try to prevent it from happening? and we may have done some things, wolf, that we re not aware of or privy too, but i think fran s last point is the important one. i ve sat through hundreds of intelligence brie
london. what do we expect to happen in court today, fred? hi, good morning, christine. yeah, essentially, this is an arraignment that s going to be happening here. it s not going to take very long. what usually happens is the suspect, in this case michael adebolajo will be asked for his name and place of residence. it will not be much more than that. one of the things authorities are doing here, though, is they want to get everything in this case right. it took a long time for them to file these charges. if you recall the murder of that british soldier, lee rigby, is a week ago, and the charges have just been filed now. one of the reasons, of course, was that after all this happened, there was a standoff with the police and michael adebolajo was shot and was recently released from hospital, but the police is still gathering evidence, which may seem quite strange because there was so much out there, so many videos out there, but they are still asking people to phone in, to give them n
his undersecretary of state, that the president, president bush, was wrong, he said, in going to war without substantial intelligence here. do you think president obama is right in this case to be prudent, to be cautious, to simply wait? well, he s certainly right to be prudent and cautious. because i think we ve learned through bitter experience that you have to have a compelling ai air-tight, convincing and credible reason to go to war. it s one of the most important, if not the most important, responsibility. when do you intervene, when do you use force. and you ve got to have your facts straight. on this question of whether or not the syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people, that s an incredibly serious charge. but we have to be right about the facts. as you know, now there are conflicting stories as of today as to who might have used chemical weapons. i think the president s cauctio here is the right course.
white house press corps not asking specific questions like when i was the white house press secretary. in that issue, no one died. no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don t think it s unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. you would imagine they could
asking specific questions like when i was the white house press secretary. in that issue, no one died. no u.s. agents were killed because of guns allowed to walk into mexico that we lost track of. i don t think it s unreasonable for the american people and the congress to be asking for those answers. greta: if you dig into it, you get way into the weeds and do the hair-splitting and why this is different. but the bottom line is that congress has asked for documents and subpoenaed them and the justice department is saying no. and the president says executive privilege. so, you know, it does nothing but raise suspicion. it is completely rational to be suspicious. even if they have an air-tight, legitimate reason, especially when you have the justice department recalling the letter for having false information, republicans say it was deceitful, they say it was a mistake. there is enough smoke for people to be suspicious. you would imagine they could reach an accommodation where