Transcript: 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' (2-17-13)

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FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: This is GPS, the Global Public Square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and around the world. I'm Fareed Zakaria.

On today's show, the gun debate and the state of the two biggest economies in the world. First up, on Tuesday, in the State of the Union, President Obama challenged Congress to vote on proposals to get weapons of war off our streets, but will it happen? Can it happen? We'll talk to a world leader who made it happen in his nation.

Then, Larry Summers on how to create jobs in America. The former Treasury Secretary

Transcript: 'Meet the Press' (2-17-13)

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DAVID GREGORY:

And a good Sunday morning, the White House and congressional Republicans are now at odds on two fronts, the battle over the nomination of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary, it's now been delayed for another week that vote. And the $85 billion of automatic spending cuts which are scheduled to take effect in two weeks' time if no agreement is reached.

Rumsfeld's Secret Memos: The Push for War with Iraq

The Bush administration pushed for war with Iraq based on fabricated and distorted evidence. They just used 9/11 as a pretext for war. The case of "weapons of mass destruction" was never made and an excuse. The Bush gang did not care about evidence. They were intent on war no matter what. Even if September 11th had not happened the administration would have sought to overthrow Saddam Hussein. It was all about oil and Israel:

Declassified documents show that Bush administration officials wanted Saddam Hussein out of Iraq and were ready to start a war in order to achieve it.

Just hours after the 9/11 attacks, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld met in the Pentagon with Air Force General Richard Myers, then vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other top aides. Notes taken by Rumsfeld aide Steve Cambone (and referred to pages 334 and 335 of the 9/11 Commission Report) show the secretary asked for the “best info fast..judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [Saddam Hussein] @ same time—not only UBL [Osama bin Laden].” Rumsfeld also tasked Jim Haynes, the Pentagon’s top lawyer, “to talk w/ PW [Paul Wolfowitz] for additional support [for the] connection w/ UBL.” Other comments from the notes: “Need to move swiftly…go massive–sweep it all up things related and not.”

Although the defense secretary had yet to be presented with any evidence linking the Iraqi leader to the World Trade Tower attacks, he was already considering whether the terrorist acts could be used as to justify a war on Iraq.

Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again

Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Congress Is Trying to Kill Internet Privacy Again
House lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that civil liberties groups say would destroy the right to Internet privacy as we know it. An earlier version of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA (pdf), passed the House back in April 2012; it died quickly under threat of presidential veto and widespread protest from Internet activists. But this week, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Michigan) and ranking member Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Maryland) brought it back. What's going on?