(27 Jul 2010)
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Washington, DC, US
1. Side view of United States President Barack Obama walking to podium in Rose Garden, UPSOUND: (English) "Good afternoon everybody. I've just concluded a productive discussion with the leaders of both parties in Congress"
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"I know much has been written about this in recent days as a result of the substantial leak of documents from Afghanistan, covering a period from 2004 to 2009. While I'm concerned about the disclosure of sensitive information from the battlefield, that could potentially jeopardise individuals or operations, the fact is these documents don't reveal any issues that haven't already informed our public debate on Afghanistan. Indeed, they point to the same challenges that led me to conduct an extensive review of our policy last fall."
3. Side view of Obama speaking
4. Pan from reporters to Obama reentering Oval Office
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Washington, DC, US
5. Wide, side view of United States Senator, John Kerry, speaking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman:
"I think it's important not to over-hype or get excessively excited about the meaning of those documents. Certainly, to those of us who lived through the Pentagon papers and a different period, there is no relationship whatsoever to that event or to those documents. In fact, these documents in many cases reflect a very different pattern of involvement by the US government from that period of time."
7. Mid of witnesses listening
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Senator John Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman:
"In many cases, many of us have raised the issues in those documents, with the Pakistanis, with the Afghans, and I'll say a word more about that in a moment. All of us, however, are concerned that after nearly 9 years of war, more than a thousand American casualties and billions of US taxpayer dollars, the Taliban appear to be as strong as they have been and to successfully reverse that trend it is going to be very important for us to be able to depend on our partners in Afghanistan and in Pakistan."
9. Pull out of witnesses at table
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Rawalpindi, Pakistan
10. Mid of General Hamid Gul, former Director General of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), entering room
11. SOUNDBITE (English) General Hamid Gul, former Director General of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI):
"All this is fictional, there is no truth in it, all the allegations that have been levelled against me. It only depicts the intelligence failure on part of America and whoever else, but much of it, I think, has been contributed by the Afghan intelligence."
12. Cutaways of hands
13. SOUNDBITE (English) General Hamid Gul, former Director General of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI):
"There is much bashing of the ISI, and of the army indirectly in this case, and they feel that I am probably a convenient whipping boy, a convenient bogie, so that they can put the blame squarely on the failure of the ISI to support them in winning the war in Afghanistan."
14. Wide of Gul seated
15. SOUNDBITE (English) General Hamid Gul, former Director General of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI):
"Now we can't turn around and I can't say that Haqqani (Militant Siraj Haqqani) is a villain because he is not. He is fighting for the vacation of aggression of his country, against his country."
16. Cutaway of hands
17. SOUNDBITE (English) General Hamid Gul, former Director General of the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI):
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