is that a supposition? he replied. no one ever told me no. and they did what they could with what they they had. asets were not in position to launch a timely response. for example, there were no u.s. marines in libya despite leon panetta after the september 2011 visit. they were unarmed. and no mention made in the transcripts of gun ships being available that night. and perhaps most vexing was the decision to make the fast team of marines sent as a quick reaction from spain to deplane
is far from public. it s here somewhere in this sprawling complex here in washington, d.c. it s a court so secret, we don t even know exactly where it convenes inside the building. and how does it work? it was designed to allow government surveillance on individuals who pose national security concerns before bad things happen. and so the need for secrecy is to make sure that the spy isn t alerted to the fact that you are now watching whatever he or she is doing. reporter: the question now is whether this court post-9/11 is protecting the privacy of americans. it s the fact that there s a secret law and a secret body of law that makes it the most vexing and the most unusual. reporter: only the justice department goes before the court for permission to conduct surveillance. third parties don t get heard directly unless they go through, you guessed it, the justice department. it s a very strange process where an individual or an organization that wants to
thanks. iran says it s planning to speed up the effort to enrich uranium that could be used for nuclear bomb. they informeed the-up atom olympic agency it will install high-tech centrifuges at the main nuclear site. it s believed they are five times faster than the current models. let s pull back a big and look at th big picture of the middle east. tonight correspondent jim rosen walks through the challenges that america faces in the dangerous neighborhood. with the russians now predicting the imminent downfall of assad regime in syria and the egyptian military warning of the collapse of the morsi islamic government in cairo, never has the middle east been volatile or vexing for the policy rangers. range of challenges on the administration. do you think we should make
decisions being made in washington and it really shouldn t come down to this last minute nonsense a day or two where there is this deadline. that s ridiculous. arthel: you re right that. is ridiculous. so that s, to me, more vexing for the public than them coming up with any kind of deal if it s going to be temporary or not. get over yourselves, do something, congress. michael, what do you say? i agree with you. the congress created this artificial deadline. no one else in the word said it had to be solved by today except they punts add problem from a year and a half ago. but an election happened. president obama has the first democrat in 75 years to win and said $250,000 was his bar. the elections have consequences. so that s a legitimate place to be. everybody that got elected to the house of representatives just got elected, too. and they have a no new tax pledge. you are at logger heads here. i think there is a sweet spot where nobody wants to be the person to raise the taxes t
men, have committed suicide. it s a tragic problem. leon panetta has said it s the most vexing problem he has as secretary of defense. it s a problem for all americans because it affects communities, it affects families, and we need to get to the bottom of it. it s not clear how to do so. the statistics show it happens to men and women, not all of whom have been in combat, that s the first instinctive reaction we have, these men who risked their lives for us in iraq and afghanistan, but when you look at all the numbers together, more than half are people who have not been in combat. well, rick, what is what does your reporting show? what is time s takeaway cause for this terrible epidemic? the causes are harder to figure out than in some ways how to relieve it. the military has a certain culpability itself, it spends