have been a tough neighborhood. that they could turn this program back on again at any time and we also said in that release part we weren't sure we would know if they turned it back on a more about intelligence is the intelligence good enough today to ascertain whether iran actually does one see pretty soon you can a weapon and whether it has started well i've you know i'm outside of the. government and the access to that but. the director of national intelligence must give an annual report to the congress it's called the world wide threat assessment report of the budget process every year and there are both classified unclassified version of the report and the unclassified version of the report continued to reaffirm the judgments in the two thousand and seven estimate. that leads me to judge after all the years of experience since they can not say

something different in public than it would say in a classified version that the. either there is no intelligence to reverse that judgment or not adequate doctors to reverse mn judge or the intelligence is there reaffirming that i don't know which it is but i know it comes out in the same place is the scope for this intelligence to be manipulated in any way for example using the case of iraq it was claimed that it was trying to produce weapons of mass destruction that proved not to be true. is there a fear that teacher intelligence could be he sed i mean it for a case against iran. no i really don't because the iraq there are a lot of things wrong with that iraq estimate and my name is one of the ones on and i was part representing the bureau of intelligence research we were the dissenters on the nuclear portion of it there was not evidence of reconstituted nuclear

program which was the only one that really mattered but there were there were many many flaws and problems in that estimate in the process has changed in the years sensed two to fix that kind of problem there was not pressure there that led to any skewing there was interpretation of what the intelligence said. by politicians that went beyond what the intelligence community judgments were example of the vice president. referring to the relationship between saddam and al qaeda. and the intelligence community he kept asking the cia which was the piece asked. for to

look into this and they kept saying there's no evidence. no conclusive evidence no persuasive evidence and they asked many times he didn't say the intelligence community says there's a link he says the incentives community has given me thirteen reports on saddam's connection with al qaeda and when he says that how did he feel you angry frustrated it's not a prudent thing for politicians to do because the intelligence community. is presenting the same judgments to members of congress members of congress can ask do you agree with what. the answer would be i don't know specifically with no that's not the judgment of the intelligence community. so that back to your original question am i worried

overly about politicisation about deliberate distortion i'm not i think that. the number of instances of political distortion of intelligence intelligence community caving into political pressure from people who have done this work recent books by paul pl or and by. joshua roven or both look at this in summers there's not very many examples in their decade sweep they've got basically the same examples if my memory of both books is correct all of the examples are of the director of central intelligence not lower level it's at that level a position that straddles the boundary of the divide between analysts intelligence

and policy makers the members of the national security they're supposed to be policy guides as well one of the last fourteen years we have seen to a large extent becoming an agent for us tonight that interventions from yugoslavia three to iraq and then mali do you feel that this sort of intervention is aiding the fight against terrorism mali though it's a lot of it is depicted in. counterterrorist terms and part of you know the u.s. and other support of the or mali an army i think that the. if there's any upsurge in terrorist activity directed at. the west in general because french now u.s. supported with the air airlift capacity it be pretty small well given what you said in the west's reaction is we're going to come and get the do you think that we're not going to see war interventions in the future i would doubt it

i would doubt it that and i if i understand what president obama. is the tempting to do. to. scale back u.s. involvement scale back the assumption that the u.s. is you know nine one one if you've got any problem. in the world. that we'll be less assertive in doing it. other developed countries. we. don't have the military capacity and it's a very much harder calculation in a totally interconnected world transparent world communications that

changes are going to come they're going to come internally and most of it to six i think the prevailing mood is if you try to help insiders. conduct a revolution against a knock yourself or a terry and incompetent regime you take them. you taint them and you taint yourself . so you. hope for the best sometimes you provide to miss just inch you come in the after they've got. some motive come of success so that's my sense of the way the wind is blowing your trajectory of the world so i was thinking thank you very much fewer folks in your time thank you for the questions and the time.

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of those north korean scamps added again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in two thousand and two the north koreans according to the b.b.c. ruled that they have a secret weapons program and turned their young beyond nuclear reactor back on since then every once in a while a missile flies and people see the war's coming and silence then another test of some sort shock horror and then silence again north korea just uses this is a bargaining tool to get what they want and rather how wacky the north korean state may seem they understand that launching one or two missiles against united states means they probably won't even hit their target and in return their entire country

will be turned into ash instantly this situation really isn't cause for concern until something big changes like the us not being in a position to support south korea japan or some other dramatic event that changes the game like china giving up their support for the north korean side but for now the cycle just keep going on and on and about two years the same headlines will be back with the same fear will be back a lather rinse repeat but that's just my opinion. we are facing a lot of problems you know. because no one thought to drink no good school. mates when you feel part. of a local what's not going up up is a law in the local needs you might want to community l.n.g. motion will be used. give general dunford for my prop artist i

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