scandal surrounding general petraeus has overshadowed his testimony on what happened in benghazi on september 11th, and this is what senator john mccain had to say over the weekend. take a listen. they said they wanted to not give classified assessment of what happened, because they didn t want to betray sources. well, if classified assessment changed the unclassified assessment, then why in the world would you keep that information from the american people? well, as we look back hindsight being 20/20, is this the modern espionage, classified and unclassified documents being released and going public to fit a political thenarrative? well, i don t know about the fitting a political narrative precisely, but analysis is a lot different from assumption. and these days, when there are so much coordination that has to occur among the different elements of the intelligence community, what happens is that a caution sometimes overcomes
account for them right now potentially and right now the negotiations are going on in cairo and so how important is egypt in the relationship between the gaza strip and israel? well, not just to the region, with but the reason is that they have a treaty between the two nations, and this treaty for all intents and purposes deals with water. so if the treaty were to fall, that would be a very bad thing, and that would cut off a huge resource for the israeli nation. that would probably lead to a step-up on both sides of the state of israel of war. msnbc contributor jimmy williams and great to see you. thank you, sir. thank you. how socialite one person involved in the scandal promps s the review of a military policy change at a air force base. and a heart felt thank you from new jersey governor chris christie and some no thank yous to the public. into their work,
surrounding john allen in afghanistan, there are lots of new questions being asked about how the scandal could affect the future of the cia and the covert community. joining me with insight is former cia operative who is also the author of a new spy novel. let s talk about this, michael, because someone who has close tabs to the espionage community and this is playing out basically better than fiction, as we watch the details come out about this, what are people inside of the intelligence community saying and reacting to what we were watching with the general petraeus and also general allen? well, i think that there s a general feeling of disappointment of course, because what he did represented a breach of trust not only with his wife, but with everyone in the agency as well inso far the way it embodies everybody who is working at the cia and he