so i don t understand why this wasn t reported soon after the event itself. ambassador boldon, do you think there was something political in that? absolutely. i don t think there is any other explanation. you know, the original report was leaked by people in the administration, a pattern a disturbing pattern that we have seen for the past several years. and yet the official defense department spokesman, when he went on the record said, well you know, we don t normally talk about these things because they are classified. if it was classified before the election, it s classified after the election. if you don t want to comment on it, the standard formulation is, we don t comment on intelligence-related matters. yet, they department do that. it s a pattern of trying to have it both ways. keep classified what is detrimental to the administration and leak out what benefits it. coming up, we will have more with ambassador bolton and
so i don t understand why this wasn t reported soon after the event itself. ambassador boldon, do you think there was something political in that? absolutely. i don t think there is any other explanation. you know, the original report was leaked by people in the administration, a pattern a disturbing pattern that we have seen for the past several years. and yet the official defense department spokesman, when he went on the record said, well you know, we don t normally talk about these things because they are classified. if it was classified before the election, it s classified after the election. if you don t want to comment on it, the standard formulation is, we don t comment on intelligence-related matters. yet, they department do that. it s a pattern of trying to have it both ways. keep classified what is detrimental to the administration and leak out what benefits it. coming up, we will have more with ambassador bolton and
so i don t understand why this wasn t reported soon after the event itself. ambassador boldon, do you think there was something political in that? absolutely. i don t think there is any other explanation. you know, the original report was leaked by people in the administration, a pattern a disturbing pattern that we have seen for the past several years. and yet the official defense department spokesman, when he went on the record said, well you know, we don t normally talk about these things because they are classified. if it was classified before the election, it s classified after the election. if you don t want to comment on it, the standard formulation is, we don t comment on intelligence-related matters. yet, they department do that. it s a pattern of trying to have it both ways. keep classified what is detrimental to the administration and leak out what benefits it. coming up, we will have more with ambassador bolton and
what do you think about what the president said yesterday. i thought he looked week and a little silly. the iranians are not going to give us the drone back, at least not until they have explored it tot totally if ever. if iran wanted to do something nice they could give it back and their own. i think the administration has mishandled it in many respects starting with, our drone is down. the standard line is we don t comment on intelligence matters. i simply would have held to that, period, close quote. martha: could you get away with that, though? most of us could not tell you whether it is real or fake. there are plenty of people out there that could. is that a line we could have got even away with? try we again, we don t comment on intelligence matters. martha: bob scales said, look