but warning them that could change. the justice department is appealing a judge s ruling striking down the don t ask don t tell law. that same judge is expected to decide soon on a request to stay her earlier ruling. a cia report on last december s bombing blames systematic problems for failing to fully vet a double agent who detonated a suicide device. it says there was no single point of failure that led to the incident which left 7 agency officers dead. among the recommendations a a newuing bash new unit to unit to assess high risk operations. nor a long time, u.s. officials have said iran is responsible for some of the deaths of american troops. now, national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports the u.s. is working with iran on afghanistan. reporter: until recently,
but warning them that could change. the justice department is appealing a judge s ruling striking down the don t ask don t tell law. that same judge is expected to decide soon on a request to stay her earlier ruling. a cia report on last december s bombing blames systematic problems for failing to fully vet a double agent who detonated a suicide device. it says there was no single point of failure that led to the incident which left 7 agency officers dead. among the recommendations a a newuing bash new unit to unit to assess high risk operations. nor a long time, u.s. officials have said iran is responsible for some of the deaths of american troops. now, national security correspondent jennifer griffin reports the u.s. is working with iran on afghanistan.
men endure 17 days of no contact. a federal judge ordered the u.s. military to stop enforcing the don t ask don t tell law that bars openly gay men and women from serving in the armed forces. in his injunction of the 17-year-old policy, the judge said it, quote, infor instance the fundamental rights of service members and violates their rights of due process and freedom of speech. u.s. department of justice attorneys have 60 days now to repeal the ruling. the white house lifted its ban on deep water drilling for oil and gas saying it s confident new rules will prevent another disaster like the bp rig explosion. companies will have to show they re prepared for catastrophic oil spills and also have to have their rigs inspected. up next, mr. donny deutsch is in the building, and chuck todd will join us as well. don t forget to sign up for the new morning minutes news letter. niz tease. it includes a daily recap of
increasingly hostile atmosphere against the military or on the campus. didn t they express that to you? senator sessions, as i said to senator lay he, i tried in every way i could throughout this process to make clear to all of you are students, not just to the veterans, all of our students, how much i valued their service and what an incredible contribution i thought they made to the school. i don t deny that you value the military, i really don t, but i do believe that the actions you took helped create a climate that was not healthy toward the military on campus. but let me ask you this. you keep referring in your e-mails and all to the military policy. isn t it a fact that the policy was not the military policy but a law passed by the congress of the united states. those soldiers may have come back from iraq or afghanistan. they were appearing to recruit on your campus were simply
following the policy of the united states congress effectuated by law, not their idea, and that you were taking steps to treat them in a second class way, not give them the same equal access because you deeply opposed that policy? why wouldn t you complain to congress and not to the dutiful men and women who put their lives on the line for america every day? senator sessions, you are, of course, right, that the solomon is law passed by congress. we never suggested that any members of the military should be criticized in any way for this. quite to the contrary. i tried to make clear in everything i did how much i honored everybody who was associated with the military on the harvard law school campus. all that i was trying to do was to ensure that harvard law