it's my great pleasure to introduce to you general michael hayden.is our honor to have you serve, thank you for serving so valiantly for all of us. thank you sir. it's great to see you. >> thank you. this is only a minute. i am delighted to be back. it's been a long time, and i still have lots of problems doing things. but everything's going all right. thank you very much. and thank you for everything you do. thank you again. >> let me also recognize and thank janine has wonderful wife, thank you for being here. and it's a great honor to have user. that concludes our summit and i want to thank each of you for being here for this conference. i want to thank all of our sponsors who made this event possible. and i recognize them. it's really their support that has allowed this to happen. and we thpeakers who have come from across the world to be with us and if you want some continuing education credit, you can go back to the registration desk or the registrar. with that being said , i want to thank everyone for coming and give a shout out to one of my o

it's my great pleasure to introduce to you general michael hayden.is our honor to have you serve, thank you for serving so valiantly for all of us. thank you sir. it's great to see you. >> thank you. this is only a minute. i am delighted to be back. it's been a long time, and i still have lots of problems doing things. but everything's going all right. thank you very much. and thank you for everything you do. thank you again. >> let me also recognize and thank janine has wonderful wife, thank you for being here. and it's a great honor to have user. that concludes our summit and i want to thank each of you for being here for this conference. i want to thank all of our sponsors who made this event possible. and i recognize them. it's really their support that has allowed this to happen. and we think them very much. we think all of our speakers who have come from across the world to be with us and if you want some continuing education credit, you can go back to the registration desk or the registrar. with that being said , i want to thank everyone for c

questions continued and got more intense directors transitioned one going back through 2006 was michael hayden a legendary director with cia officials. former director of nsa with intelligence in the military experience highly respected for his discipline he came in 2006 for years after the first detainee and said put this on solid ground he said let me read everything and he was a voracious reader to master the detail let me read everything and i'll figure out the right path. i think in talking to my colleagues that led to a few more interrogations but even by that point the writing was on the wall just five years after 9/11 just four years after the capture of the program was already declining the appetite was not there. hayden asked questions waterboarding was dropped the interrogator said despite the conversations we don't think this is the most thing significant thing we have like sleep deprivation again and again comes up is a technique that was successful people don't like to be tired they start to lose their well. so he scale back the program there were more conversations with the depa

directors transitions, one director transitions going back to 2006, michael hayden, a legendary director among cia officials, former director of the national security agency, steeped in experience, intelligence in the military, highly respected for his discipline and his mind, he came into the cia after the detainee and said we have to put this on more solid grounds. let me read everything and he was a voracious reader of information about the programs to master the detail. let me read everything and figure out the right past. in talking to my colleagues i think his efforts led to a few more interrogations but by that point even in 2006 the writing was on the wall, just 5 years after 9/11, just four years after the 2002 capture of zubaydah, the program is already declining. the appetite wasn't there. hayden asked questions about what worked, what didn't, waterboarding was dropped, the interrogators, we don't think despite the national conversation about this, that this is the most significant technique we have and we don't think we need to use it anymore, sleep deprivation again and agai

joining me now is former chief of staff to cia director michael hayden.anaged calls with heads of state in the situation room under president obama. larry, thank you for being with us today. what does that mean to you? when you hear that records of these phone calls were moved to a different server. what does that tell you? >> when i was running the situation room in the national security council, there was a separate server that was used for the absolutely most sensitive activities of the government. these would be covert action plans. that woun information surrounding things such as bringing down bin laden. the conversations to begin the conversations with iran on the nuclear agreement. it would not have been a place to, perhaps, hide activities by the president that they were concerned would be uncovered. >> where were the records or how were the records of conversations with world leaders stored? >> normally, the raw transcripts that are developmented by the situation room, those were all transcripts probably the most verbatim transcripts you would fi

general michael hayden on this program, he and i often talk about what he calls the thin veneer of civilizationn is sort of deeply rooted and sort of the life that we know is deeply rooted in america and not able to be changed. he points to sarajevo, which you did extraordinary work in and have written about as a multi-cultural city which, you know, there were, you know, the olympics in 1984 and on those same hills, serbs were lobbing shells and mortars and snipers were shooting civilians years later. so it is -- things can change very quickly. the lights go out. the electricity goes, and people get very different very fast. do you worry about that in the united states, or do you believe this too shall pass regardless of how long this administration is in, that the institutions are strong enough? >> well, i think right now we've seen our institutions bent, contorted, but they haven't broken. and we had a midterm election that allowed one form of accountability in terms of house accountability to be put back in place that didn't exist for the first two years. and that at least puts the brakes on

and, you know, people like michael hayden have called the russian attack on our democracy a political1. so i want to ask you not a question whether the democrats are too weak. but is the congress not designed to do this with one party? i mean, are the republicans the ones really failing the nation? >> well, i would certainly say the republicans -- i mean, knowing my republican colleagues as well as i do, i served with most of them for more than a decade. they have to be disgusted at this behavior. so where are they? where is richard burr, rob portman? >> where's lamar alexander? he's not even running again. where are the senators' senators that should stand up and say, you know, if it were only mitt romney in a state where frankly trump's not very popular, that's the only senator who is ever standing up and calling this guy out. and it's disgusting. >> mitt romney tweeted this. if the president asked or pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival either directly or through his personal attorney, would be troubling in the extreme. critical for the facts to come out

larry pfeiffer has had decades-long career, chief of staff of the director of cia michael hayden. also the guy that managed calls like these hayden. he managed calls like these with heads of state in the situation room under president obama. larry, thank you so much for carving out a few minutes. forgive my ignorance here. if it's a 30-minute phone call how can the memo be just five pages? >> there's a very good chance they were using translators on both sides of the call, that's going to slow things down quite a bit. that would be my best guess as to the brevity of the text. >> also, larry, there are some ellipses in the memo as well. what do we take away from that? >> some people are questioning will that is removing some of the language of the conversation. it's customary by the situation room staff that if they don't quite hear something correctly, they would actually indicate "inaudible" or "three words unknown" or something along those lines. to have an ellipses there suggests to me it was a pause in the consideration. probably not a removal of text. if they were going to re

general michael hayden, the former director of the cia and nsa as all of you know, who has served ourion. so general hayden, we're going to be offering -- honoring you with our first lifetime achievement award. and it's my great pleasure to introduce to you general hayden, whom all of you know and all of us respect. general hayden, our honor to have you, sir and thank you for serving so valiantly and wonderfully for all of us. thank you, sir. it's great to see you. [ applause ] >> this is the award. and -- >>> thank you. this will only be a minute. i'm -- it's delightful for me to be back. it's a long time and i still have lots of problems to do things. but it's going all right. so thank you very much. thank you, thank you for everything you do. and thank you, again. thank you. >> thank you. thank you, sir. [ applause ] . >> and let me also recognize and thank jeanine, his wonderful wife thank you so much for being here with us. and great -- again, great honor to have you, sir. that concludes our summit. and i want to thank each much you for staying and being here for this conference

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