day s breaking stories. president obama s deputy national security adviser ben rhodes is stranding by at the white house to take questions. first, let s go to cnn justice reporter evan perez with the breaking news on the white house hack. evan what have you learned? wolf, these russian hackers got access to the sensitive parts of the white house e-mail system, they could see the president s schedule the non-public parts of it in realtime. they got access to all of this in a clever way, through the state department. once they got in there, they used that access to trick someone to get them into the executive office of the president. investigators say it s one of the most serious cyber breaches of u.s. government agencies. hackers are believed to be working for the u.s. government wolf. was this information classified, the information presumably they hacked? the white house says this was an unclassified system but, even an unclassified system has a lot of sensitive information very
answer the question holding her in contempt of tcongress. i think that would be appropriate. the new fox news poll finds 59 percent of americans believe the irs scandal is serious. about half as many say it s a phony scandal. peter doocy live in washington, thanks. a dramatic step to keep people from leaking classified documents. the agency ace director announced it will rely on machines rather than people to keep that information classified. listen. what we are in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing system administrators about 90 percent. it is to make our networks more defensible and more secure. the plan was reportedly already in place before the leaks happened. now they say that s being sped
329 targeted strikes have taken place in pakistan since 2004, but the vast majority have taken place since 2009. although opposition to the president s use of drones has remained largely silent, that seems to be changing. two days ago in hawaii protesters paraded signs close to where the first family was vacationing, which read drones kill kids and is it really okay if obama does it? last week a federal judge ruled the administration did not need to disclose internal communications about the drone program. the new york times and the aclu had filed requests in 2011 for the legal justification of these targeted killings, including the drone strike that killed anwar al alaki, an american citizen living in yemen. the white house denied that request for purposes of national security. the judge approved the administration s right to keep that information classified, but still questioned the drone program, writing, i can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectivel
with the specifics, you can understand the logic of indefinite detention when you hear this story. shepard: without question and you can understand the logic when people get out and committing crimes against us again, who couldn t understand that? there is the matter you have discussed many times. we have rules about this sort of thing and you have to be tried and convicted. that s a problem. what gives? guest: the only way to handle this and we inched our way to it but it took us the better part of a decade, is to have an independent review in the executive branch of the government. it will not make everyone outside the united states happy but it ensures due process. we have to change our standard of proof in some of the cases so we do not release people we are suspicious would return to the battlefield even if we cannot establish it. we need to keep some of the information classified. it took a long-term in the bush administration to convey the sense there would be independent
on this for fox of course went to ask her follow-up questions on this. she didn t show up at either one of those things. it sounds like someone is asking her to be quiet. it sounds like speculation. its not speculation. was this information classified, including the fact that we have a mole apparently in al-qaida, was that information leaked by sources at the white house? that is not speculation. that s not spec lace, wha speculation, whether the white house got to her or she was corey book erred, that s speculation. senator fine taoeupb will be 8feinstein is 80 years old, she is one of the richest members. why in the world would she walk back comments that were true if she wasn t under enormous political pressure by the white house? martha: is this an important issue right now? i think the leak is an important issue but trying to attack dianne feinstein for