submitted by the cia, the says submitted by the pentagon. it was a way to get people into the country under different coven de rk t cia. this is coming at a time when the cia increasingly had been doing work unilaterally. in the years after 9/11, we did a lot of work with pakistani spies. at the end of the bush administration, the administration decided they will stop notifying drone strike some of the more unilateral and intelligence gathering operations became unilateral as well. it has to be done under the noses of pakistan's government. >> lighting changes in policy happen at that point? >> it was a build up of a number of years. is pretty good relations and teamwork in the years after 9/11. over time there was increasing frustration, lack of trust on both sides. the bush administration came to think pakistan is playing what they call a double game. they were al qaeda operatives. they drove straight that have been done with the consent of pakistan's government that didn't seem -- the people seem to flee at the las intelligence seem to be bad. they were tipped off scum this

afghanistan but in the pentagon. that first brigade of troops was comprised of a u.s. marines and i know i'm in an obelisk. i love the marine corps but the marines insist on bringing their own helicopters and logistics units and they wanted their own corner of the sandbox and so we wound up squandering the first year of the surge because we sent a great marine brigade to the wrong part of the country. instead of getting out into the field to work side-by-side with our military commanders we poured way too much money into that country. afghanistan is richly deserving. they needed help. we turned the fire hose on them and tried to spend $4 billion on reconstruction and 2010 far more than the country recently observed and the last point before i turn it over, the subtitle of my book is the war within the war for afghanistan. i discovered in my reporting back and forth that there was a second of war going on and it was within the beltway, and one of the nastiest fights was between the state department and the white house over the topic of the potential reconciliation with the taliban no

pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor ed. on top of my name zack was only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die otto hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and followed and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. bring in your in-depth coverage of the developing crisis agung tanabe as you can always have told website home for a full timeline of the vote step and in the meantime coming out here on all scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that trade in the global media after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. watching r.t. live from moscow great to have you with us millions of russians are waiting to see their leader of faith some tough questions posed by the public in his annual

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really not clear what can change the status quo at this point an advisor for the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really are is in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. underscore so we're bringing you our in-depth coverage of the developing crisis gone tunnel going head to our web site for a full timeline of events. meantime coming up here on the scene just a couple of minutes we'll look at the brothers believed to be behind the boston bombings and the way that portrayed in the global media do stay with us for the back after the break. the international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is also you coming to life for mo

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pentagon visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted gun going strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the. detainees called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered cameras and of court and the best of many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to check them. still to come rising violence in iraq the country suffering one of its bloodiest chapters in the u.s. troops left with ethnic clashes and bombings even more than one hundred dead one this after a short break. the international in the very heart of moscow. mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamra one was still alive after being detained but instead the eldest brother was run over by his younger sibling who was making his getaway artie's barton has more. in this press conference the mother and fat

the pentagon who visited guantanamo last week came back and said that he predicted the ongoing strike would lead to death so a long time muslim advisor at guantanamo who goes by the name zack who goes only by his first name for security reasons he said quote there will be more than one death and then he added that the detainee called wanted to die out of hunger and thirst behind covered camors end of quote and the question many now ask is what if someone really dies in this hunger strike will it change something in washington i'm going to. still to come rising violence in iraq the country's suffering of its bloodiest chapters since u.s. troops pulled out with ethnic clashes in bombings leaving more than one hundred dead more on that after this short break stay with us. the international in the very heart of moscow. nineteen minutes past the hour now the mother of the two boston marathon bombing suspects claims she's seen video proving her son tamar line was still alive after being detained police had earlier said that the oldest brother was run over by his younger sibling who w

doing it. well i think that they're trying to the wire the white house and the pentagon are trying very hard to retain their strategic domination in afghanistan they see afghanistan as strategically key they want to bring down the number of troops but they want to find a way to have afghans do the fighting against the forces that have resisted the occupation there and so they've poured this money and they have tried to buy military commanders local governors and military commanders of all different kinds and you can see that this is this is not succeeding this isn't and this is the way of occupation all hours of the general afghan public think about this the general left afghan public that aren't on the receiving end of some of this money well i think that there's great anger about this and the fact that as i mentioned before even some were telling the statistics in the country virtually every other indices of power is among the worst in the entire world despite the fact that really what will end up to be over a trillion dollars will be spent by the united states on the war and the

within the pentagon budget. i was wanting to know if we have any idea how big this budget is, and how many companies ethics inside the united states? thank you very much. >> guest: so first of all, gary webb, i'm familiar whis work and h stories, and i don't know too much about the details of what he uncovered beyond what you describe. i did get a little bit in my book into the sea a latin american operation of the '80s, counter-narcotics operations. there's a way to talk about how some of the operations officers who are doing cia work in latin america, end up in the counterterrorism wars of post 9/11. it was sort of interesting, a lot of people in the latin american world for some reason there's a confluence of reasons, into doing counterterrorism missions. regards to the black budget, we could have -- the pentagon now is required, i mean, did the total budget, but what part of it is black, how much of these what they call special aspect programs, what are the budgets for those can what do they do, they are all highly classified. how many companies are getting these black contracts,