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Monday morning. glad you are with us on this july 19th. welcome to american morning. i m kiran chetry. i m john roberts. a possible setback on the sea floor in the gulf mexico. the government is ordering bp to investigate a leak near its damaged well. this is not a leak in a pipe, this is a leak in the seafloor. we re live in new orleans with new details on what this could all mean for the containment cap which remains in place this morning. also what appears to be a major rift in the ranks of the tea party movement. the national leadership expelling the tea party express and its conservative founder mark williams. this comes after his inflammatory comments about race. we re live in washington with new developments just ahead. you ve heard of too big to fail, right? how about too big to succeed? a new two-year-long investigation by the washington post out just a few hours ago says the post-9/11 intelligence ....
Security and targeting of these facilities has been averted. the bottom line, the government says, you know, that they have worked very hard to avert potential terrorist attacks. they know the intelligence community is growing. they re looking at it. john? the washington post actually acceded to wishes by the intelligence community to take some of the information off of that website. didn t it? absolutely, john. what we now know is that the washington post had planned to publish those very specific addresses which the u.s. government thought would be an intelligence risk, could have posed problems because it would have given actual street addresses for potential terrorist attacks. we know there have been at least two letters, two levels of very high communication between the u.s. government and the post. u.s. government officials tell us they believe they succeeded in convincing the post not to publish that specific information. some of the larger facilities ....
Nearly 2,000 private companies, 2,000 contractors involved. 850,000 people with top-secret clearances. the article, however, had gotten a lot of people jittery in washington in the last couple of days in fact because there was concern the washington post was going to reveal some very specific information. the director of national intelligence had put out a statement saying, foreign intelligence services and terrorist organizations and criminal elements will have potential interest in this kind of information. they had been very concerned the post was going to publish on their website specific addresses of the hundreds, if not thousands of locations around the country that house top-secret contractor and intelligence community facilities. that website is now up and running. you can logon and see it, but the specific addresses are not there. so some of the concern about ....
reynolds wolf in new orleans this morning, thanks so much. stay with us, in less than 20 minutes we ll break down the oil spill s long-term impact on the environment when we talk to a naturalist with the natural wildlife federation. an a.m. security watch for you now. a hidden world growing beyond control. that s how a new washington post investigation out this morning is describing the world that the government created to try terrorists post-9/11. it describes a system drowning in paperwork, red tape, redundancies and layers and layers of government, too big for any person to manage. close to 1,300 government organizations and almost 2,000 private companies working on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence and an estimated 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances. so is too much counterterrorism actually putting us in danger? we ll talk about it with a former homeland security advisor, fran townsend. she s coming up in about 35 ....