Job and arguably they have been able to outmaneuver the dni in a number of cases. Was the National Counterterrorism center of part of this, or was a sort of evolving separately . It evolve separately but the yen with president bushs idea of a terrorist run integration center. The story of 9 11 of how do we fuse information collected abroad collected domestically . How do we make sure we reach this domestic divide. President bush created an entity and the 9 11 commission did him one better and suggested he expand its mission in khalid a National Terrorism Counterterrorism Center. This is an example of an institution which actually i think has accreted to use your term power and influence over time and more than perhaps the dni. You have the successful Coordination Center for terrorism. I think that is everyones view. The analytical function, the Fusion Center the ability to pull together the counterterrorism analyst and the fbi and the nsa and of course the Central Intelligence agency.
Cspan2. Here is our prime time lineup for tonight. Up next on booktv michael allen, majority staff protecter of committee on intelligence provides an insiders account of restructuring of the u. S. Intelligence system after 9 11. This program is just over an hour. Good afternoon. Welcome to the new America Foundation. Im peter bergen. I run the National Security program here. Its with a lot of pleasure that we goat welcome mike allen to talk about his new book. Thank you. And hes had a distinguished career, most recently in the government as chief staff on the house Intelligence Committee. He sent seven years in at the National Security council and the george w. Bush administration. He managed to writ book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business. All in the space and continuing working on the hill at the same time. So very impressive. [inaudible] mike agreed to speak about the stories in his book for about a half an hour and ill engage in him q a and let him an
The send off he deserves an important part of World War Two which pilate funeral took place thinks the help of a civilian. More on that later the show am. Its thursday december twenty six bite him in washington dc on same in your watch. Rta. And we begin today in iraq mission thats experienced a very bloody two thousand thirteen. And now its receiving a fresh shipment of American Drones and missiles. Last week United States should seventy five hellfire missiles to the Iraqi Government to help deal with increasing extremist violence that is cripple the nation this year and whether the deaths of more than a thousand iraqis the coming months the us will also send text and hell work on essence terms terrier up. Unlike the deadly predator drones the us previously flew over the nation this year and to be used to locate targets for the Iraqi Security forces to attack. As of right now U S Government Officials Say theres been no requests from the Iraqi Government for u s operated lethal drone s
It wouldnt have stopped him. We make bad law on this Little Corner of tax law. Rather than making the law and a much bigger way wouldve forced them to side with the dissent chairs. The big picture questions we want. You cant think of a lawsuit that way. You can make it as costly as possible intellectually for a judge to rule against which are not done to rule, but you cant stop them from doing that. One thing a generalist of us are argument. In the lower courts the tax argument was rejected not just by those judges to strike down upon the care or individual mandate, but those judges who upheld other grounds. If you look at the transferred argument, not just justices, but the liberal skepticism about the tax argument and solicitor general arguing the case hes expected to win on this argument. If you look at the brief, its relegated to the last referrer page is for the number page brief. Its sort of a throwaway argument youre actually going to in the quarter. You might as well have some
You belabored the virtues of the president s response becomes to isis, his deliberate strategy that allows him to avoid making for theg decision american forces. Does this not given opportunity to the opponents of the United States interest . I do not think it does. The top priority here is making sure that American National security interest are safeguarded and protected. And if possible, advanced. But as with the president is going to continue to do. Of course, there will be cocky relations and decisions that are made by adversaries of the toted states, trying anticipate or plan for any decision that the president may order down the road. Be president is going to deliberate about making decisions he believes are in the best interest of the United States. He will not be shy about ordering military force if you think it will be impactful. An example would be bringing down osama bin laden. Ordering ait is military strike in somalia to counter a terrorist threat in that country. Evidence