or is this something that the marines should be handling? i think this is something that the marines and the military should be he handling and sending in the fbi actually dehe grades the thought process that this is an act of terrorism versus a criminal act and what we should be doing is putting forth a military effort versus putting together a criminal investigation. i mean it has been 20 days since this has happened. we put in the sti fbi and thiss not degrading the fbi but we put them in for an hour on to the crime scene. whatever evidence they gathered is irdevelop rant. we needed a military response about 20 days and go and we needed it strong to send a message to those individuals that if you hit us we are going to hit you harder and it is going to hurt harder and you do not want to do that to us.
decision to put the fbi in charge to go in three weeks later to a crime scene that has been looted, burned and pretty much destroyed, is that a decision that you see as one that will bring any resolution to the problem here? and i will start with you mike barrett. we clearly lost any initiative that you will have in terms of collecting the right kind of evidence and using the intelligence networks to find the right number of people to go after these guys. you would obviously want to be on the ground and building the relationships. the administration is not taking the threat seriously. their narrative is that the war on terrorism is over and eceptionly there will be peace throughout the middle east and that s what they want to believe and all evidence to the contrary. judge jeanine: and rich brewer in a situation like this and you have been a marine who has protected some of our embassies. is this the kind of scenario where we should send in the fbi or is this something that the
the coin of the realm so that is what you have to be doing. if they give you the option of being a decent human being and, of course, you would prefer to do that but it is often not given. judge jeanine: general, thanks so much for being with us this evening. thank you, judge. judge jeanine: all right. always a pleasure. judge jeanine: and the white house says it is investigating a possible al-qaeda threat in north africa but the fbi in libya for just a few hours questions have to be asked about american intelligence operations and the security that we have in place for our american officials at our embassies. former intelligence officer for secretary of defense rumsfeld and former member of the homeland security council mike barrett and a security guard who received a purple heart after being injured in a suicide bomb blast at the beirut embassy in 1984 join us. gentlemen, you just heard me he with the general. the issue of our headaching a decision to put the making a
decision to put the fbi in charge to go in three weeks later to a crime scene that has been looted, burned and pretty much destroyed, is that a decision that you see as one that will bring any resolution to the problem here? and i will start with you mike barrett. we clearly lost any initiative that you will have in terms of collecting the right kind of evidence and using the intelligence networks to find the right number of people to go after these guys. you would obviously want to be on the ground and building the relationships. the administration is not taking the threat seriously. their narrative is that the war on terrorism is over and eceptionly there will be peace throughout the middle east and that s what they want to believe and all evidence to the contrary. judge jeanine: and rich brewer in a situation like this and you have been a marine who has protected some of our embassies. is this the kind of scenario where we should send in the fbi
all right, mike barrett, now the fact that we appear week in the middle east right now. they are killing americans and we are sending in the fbi because and with all due respect to the fbi they were too scared to go in or we couldn t provide them with the military security to get in there. we got reporters who get the ambassador s diary, what is the policy of the administration besides being disengaged but how do they protect americans in the middle east now? i it is exactly as your last guest said. part of the region that unfortunately enforces what speaks loudest. in an effort to appear open to negotiation andy plo and s. di, we decided to declare that we are getting out of conflicts and present an open hand if you as opposed to being strong and so the weakness pervades throughout the policy across the entire region and i think one of the big phiallings of