The United States has the second largest stash of nuclear warheads in the world after Russia. Some of them are kept at Minot, Air Force base. One warhead is capable of killing about 100,000 people or more.
But even more worrying, this week 17 airmen guarding the nuclear launch controls at the base scored a "D" for performance, and were stripped of their duties.
Our Kyung Lah went to the heavily guarded facility and is OutFront with an investigation into what the military is doing to fix the problem.
There are at least SIX terror watch lists in america?
It's a statistic that deserves scrutiny after revelations that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was on two of them before his alleged attack on the Boston Marathon.
And guess what - there are many more than the six watch lists we've counted. Other government agencies have their own, quietly maintained ones.
Terror Watch Lists: Vital or unreliable?
Why are there so many?
Is this smart or big government gone bad?
OutFront Tonight: Nada Bakos, a former CIA analyst who spearheaded the CIA's Zarqawi Operations team. She and several other agents were also the basis for the main character in Zero Dark Thirty. Seth Jones - Associate director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation.
Prosecutors building their case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are relying on a critical piece of evidence: surveillance cameras.
While these eyes in the sky provided key intelligence that led to the suspects being identified - they're also part of a larger debate that's pitting public safety against your privacy.
Bombings pit privacy vs. protection
Our Tom Foreman is OutFront with the story.
Documentarian Robert Greenwald's flashy films have been described as "liberal pieces of agit-prop," but in his latest film "War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State," both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations are in his crosshairs for their lack of transparency and their willingness to make examples out of whistleblowers in a post 9/11 world. And there's a big pond to fish from: nearly a million people have top-secret clearance, according to the film.
Greenwald has previously made documentaries about Fox News, Wal-Mart and the Koch Brothers under his advocacy organization Brave New Foundation, but he insists everybody and everything is fair game, so long, he says, as he's exposing weaknesses in the system. I spoke with him earlier this week about the "War on Whistleblowers."
EXCERPTS:
CNN: What was the catalyst for this project?
Greenwald: We became aware of the crackdown on whistleblowers. It was troubling but it didn’t seem at first blush like there was enough for a film. Then through research and reading, we began to realize that the crackdown on the national security whistleblowers was directly related to the power, influence and expansion of the national security state. One of most important elements was every single whistleblower that we interviewed told a version of the same story, which is they’d seen something, they’d heard something, they realized they could not in good conscience remain silent, they tried to reach out, they tried to report, going through channels where they worked and they came up against a stone wall. And what each one of them did was they turned to the press. FULL POST
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's name was entered into U.S. intelligence databases back in 2011, when Russia raised concerns about his activities to the federal government.
But what exactly were the concerns, and what information did Russia actually share with the U.S.? Republican Senator Jim Risch, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, is OutFront tonight.
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