wasn t a good strategy. this is a ground-breaking technique. i found that to be just disturbing. martha: when it became clear one of these guns was linked to the murder of border patrol agent brian terry, where did it go from there in your understanding did you understand at that time that this musten one of the guns that came knack this program? no, again. it s interesting when the numbers of purchases were around 1,200, this was long before agent terry was killed. myself and a number of people voiced concern that this a. guns is a dangerous amount of guns to let go unvet into the streets. and some cop or some kid was going to get killed. unfortunately our prediction turned out to be true. martha: what was your understanding of how high up the chain of command the directive for fast and furious came from?
i don t think the courts will get to the merits of the case. martha: the war powers acts says you have 60 days to get congress approval which was not done. the constitution requires that our federal courts only hear cases in controversy. they don t give advisory opinions. if somebody comes into court they can t just disagree with the president. they have to be concretely affected in some capacity. in their legislative capacity they have lots of other things they can do. they can try to defund the operation in labia. the court should not get involved between the two elected branches. this is the struggle the constitution sets up. it s not for judicial decisions. martha: clearly it s a way to halt our activity in libya. do you think we should be there? should we continue to fund operations through nato? i think the president has
the feeling about oil companies, pharmaceutical companies. they are the bad guys. but if you are in the right kind of industry and you give a lot of money, you are a special interest of a different sort. it s the same thing with paulson from goldman sacks and geithner. it s hard what i think the president has had a hard time doing is break out of the insider of the beltway. even though he fought it more than any other president. it s still clear how they are getting drawn into it. it s tough. martha: i think you are right. i think tehran on a platform that he was different. a new game had come to washington. this issue of the stimulus money, though. level 3 communications got $13 million in stimulus money.
between the united states and pakistan. how did they know who our informants are? that s bad news. right now. it will affect our ability to get other sources in pakistan. this is bad news for the war effort in afghanistan as well. martha: there always seems to be in these issues with pakistan the front that they have to put on to certain groups within pakistan to prove they are not cozy or allies of ours. is that the way you receive this playing out? it seems obviously unfortunate it s too easy a word for these people who helped to take one of the most awful, evil criminals out of existence. absolutely. it s part of what s frustrating about america s relationship with pakistan. they are standing up to this supposed american invaichtion their sovereignty.
term president obama making a sort of surprising statement that has many of his critics questioning whether he is as invested in his job as some of his predecessors. take a listen for yourself. we re going to talk about it. have you ever thought to yourself that maybe one term was enough. [laughter] well i m sure there are days where i say that one term is enough. what keeps me going is a belief that the work that we ve started in 2009 is not yet complete. martha: monica crowley joins me now, radio talk show host and fox news contributor. monica you wrote about this in a column that is entitled, he s just not that into it. you know, so that s your take on it. his comment is not that surprising. i mean this is a very it s a very difficult job, a very challenging job, and it felt to me like an honest answer that he gave there. then he went onto say there is a lot of work to be done and we