let me say so it's quite normal that any intelligence agency work in defense in order to make are the attribution considering for example the central intelligence agency we all know that at the least the ambridge group that there was a specific created inside the agency in order to get or information from a for rain attacks ok so attacks conducted the world wide and the gather any kind of information about it yacking technique this is done for many reasons first of all because it could be useful to watch a goofy attack this way for a. group of our guests but it has also been a sportsman for example that will do you use the cost of developing us to see if you care cyber weapons for example integrating pacificus to hiking the two second point of use in the by other sock torso worldwide in the course using the tools and the techniques are adopted by other actors who are wired to mix very hard at the attribution i can tell you that the ga is not the unique argentine that he's involved in this kind of what the this let's consider for example was not square we also know that the law does a group that is another group with a pretty group

hoover was unaware that a administration was giving serious thours to the central intelligence agency. eisenhower chose not to give more work to a man approaching his 80th birthday. hoover had worked hard. concerned about such a highly visible visit hoover consulted the white house before he accepted the invitation. he must have been pleased with the attention as he approached the 80th birthday in august of 1954. he received an invitation to go fishing and camping prior to a trip that took and a big homecoming celebration. it was a man who had seen many spectacular summers. hoover devoted much of 1965 to eventual recommendations. there was little communication with the presidents during those months. it does not mean that the president is not aware. there is some evidence that he saw as a man of wisdom and intelligence. a new year meant new challenges for both men. the president had suffered a heart attack and the nation was wondering about his long-term health. hoover had an idea. the establishment of an administrative vice president to help the president as -- and he first proposed

i was three years and the central intelligence agency. always thought that i would try to serve my country. i do not think one serves one's country by asking good men to die bravely in a bad cause. >> how are the nation and the government tolerating the vietnam dissenters compared to the situation in past wars? we we talked to an organization dedicated to defending the rights of dissenters. john of the american civil liberties union. >> i think the climate in the country with respect to the toleration of dissent is better in this war that it has been in any previous war. this does not mean the climate is not showing some increasing hostility. what is unique about this war is that it is very unpopular, perhaps the most unpopular in recent history. the expressions of dissent on the part of government officials themselves have tended create an area in which government has had to tolerate dissent. >> melvyn wolf, legal director of the american civil liberties union. >> if you asked me how the government was behaving itself in the face of diss

central intelligence agency the cia director mike pompey is reaffirming a report that russia did run a campaign to influence the election outcome a cia spokesperson said that the director stands by and has always stood by the january twenty seventh teen intelligence community assessment and that the intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed well bill schneider is a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university he says trump's comments will have little impact on the investigation into russian meddling all the finding so far which point to moscow's involvement. it's accepted by as acar by congress by members of the trumpet ministration by his own chief of staff they said with high confidence that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on behalf of donald trump what president trump is doing here when he says that he believes. he says they had nothing to do with the election what he's saying is there's nothing there that's the message trump wants to communicate it's a way of saying all the inves

but i would reiterate the words of the director of the central intelligence agency, my former home agencythis is a measure of justice. it's not enough. the fact that this individual, ahmed abu khatallah, was not found guilty of specifically murder, and will not face the death penalty, feels like a justice department or at least in this case, it came up short. i know that that stings. for those who are looking for closure, as well as justice, it is simply not enough. on the issue of accountability, the only period in which there was going to be accountability at a political level, very different from the criminal level for benghazi, and the 2012 election. i think the people involved knew that, and they work very hard to make sure that the narrative was suppressed and that the truth was suppressed, and by the time we had enough facts to hold anybody accountable from 2012, in the chain of command of the very top, secretary of state, the president himself, it was too late. >> shannon: khatallah, as we said, will probably spend many decades, if not life in prison. again, not being convicted of

. >> because this is the head of the central intelligence agency whose agency along with others who lookedo russian interference in the election concluded with confidence that it was russia who engineered and orchestrated this interference in the election. so you have that. but he took the time to sit down at the urging more significantly you might say of the president with someone who many in the intelligence community view as a conspiracy theorist on this who proffers this idea the dnc hack was an inside job. i'm told a lot of people inside the agency were very uncomfortable with had meeting. i'm also told frankly director pompeo doesn't take his theory very seriously. this binney's theory this was an inside job. he doesn't take it seriously and yet he took the meeting after i'm told weeks of pressure from the president specifically. raises questions as to why he did and also what that says to other members of the intelligence community who took part in this assessment that russia was behind it. >> you wrote a very important article and broke the story in the intercept, james. let me rem

thought to expanding the former president's portfolio to include an investigation of the central intelligence agency. after a more serious consideration however, eisenhower chose to give not guilty to give more work to man approaching his 80th birthday. it may have been best because hoover became distracted by an invitation he received from conrad. than the chancellor of the federal republic of germany to visit country. hoover worked hard to feed that war torn nation in the after math of world war ii. concerned about a highly visible visit, hoover consulted the white house before he accepted the invitation. the former president must have been pleased with the attention he received by the way as he approached that 80th birthday. in august of 1954. in fact he received an invitation to go fishing and camping with president eisenhower. just prior to a trip the two of them took to the iowa state fair. and a homecoming celebration. it was quite a summer for a man who had seen many spectacular summers. he devoted 1955 to his work on the commission and recommendations. there was little communication with th

central intelligence agency, national security council, federal bureau of investigation, white house,nd state department. this is the museum director javier estevez. these documents speak of everything that was the cia operation and its moment in 1970 the knowledge of nixon and henry kissinger to keep allende from assuming the presidency of the republic. this is a drama. it touched the whole world. you cannot understand how a country like the united states participated so openly in a military coup like the one that happened in chile. amy: we're joined by isabel allende in our studio. it is great to have you back with us. looks always great to be here, amy. amy: we're a lot to talk about. you have a new book out that actually is based in new york, in brookn, to be exact. the we also wanted to talk since we have not spoken on the show since president trump came to power, actually wanted to start not in the u.s., but in chile. you are in chile in 1973. describe what happened and how you saw your country change. -- in the continent. president a socialist represented a coalition of parties

central intelligence agency the cia director of holds a report that russia did run a campaign to influence the election outcome a spokesperson said the director stands by and has always stood by the january twenty seven hundred intelligence community assessment they went on to say the intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed ok bill schneider is a political analyst and a professor of public policy at george mason university and he's with us now live from washington d.c. bill this is putting the the security and intelligence services in the u.s. in a difficult position because once again they're actually having to defend a document an assessment that had already effectively been accepted by as as accurate. that's right it's accepted by as acted by congress by members of the trumpet ministration by his own chief of staff they said with high confidence that russia meddled in the ninety in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election on behalf of donald trump what president trump is doing here when he says that he believes lattimer putin who s

. >> narrator: at the central intelligence agency, there was growing concern about the implications ofeaks. >> it was quite clear to me that we were seeing a campaign on the part of the russians, that it was a much more aggressive, much more intense, and much more worrisome effort. >> narrator: the intelligence community's analysis had already linked the dnc intrusion to russian hackers-- the very ones used in ukraine. but now at c.i.a. headquarters, they said they had something more: direct evidence that vladimir putin himself was personally involved. >> to get the intelligence that corroborates that was the coup for the c.i.a. >> the agency has obtained intelligence that shows that putin is behind this operation. putin is setting its goals. putin is not only aware of this, but aware that they're planning to weaponize this information. >> he rarely communicates by phone or email or anything electronic. so for them to get this kind of intelligence was pretty significant. >> narrator: exactly what the c.i.a. found is classified, but to brennan it was a game-changer. >> it was something

. >> and it is bad for morale when you join the central intelligence agency and other elements of ourational security establishment. you are instructed and learn very quickly that you serve all americans and you serve both parties no matter who is in power and take pride in that and you do that. and that's the way i and other intelligence officers are and were raised. continue to be raised. so, yes, it's demoralizing but there's something deeper here about what president trump is doing by attacking these leaders of our intelligence organizations and calling them political hacks. what he's doing is suggesting that no one has an honor. no one has value. there are no patriots. everyone is just serving themselves. and that's the world he lives in, i believe. that's his world view. he wants to create a country like that so that no accusations against him can be legitimate. none of them will stick. no right. no wrong. no up, no down, no truth, no falsehood. in that environment, leaders can't be held accountable. that's what he's trying to create. other authoritarians and dictators do it aro

central intelligence agency the cia director might pompei it was reaffirming a report that russia did run a campaign to influence the election outcome cia spokesperson said the director stands by and has always stood by the january twenty seven intelligence community assessment. that the intelligence assessment with regard to russian election meddling has not changed well bill schneider is a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university he says tom's comments will have little impact on the investigation into russian meddling all of the findings so far which point to moscow's involvement. it's accepted by as acar by congress by members of the trumpet ministration by his own chief of staff they said with high confidence that russia meddled in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on behalf of donald trump what president trump is doing here when he says that he believes. he says they had nothing to do with the election what he's saying is there's nothing there that's the message trump wants to communicate it's a way of saying all the investigations g

institute for strategic studies and was a member of the external advisory board to the central intelligence agency from 2011 to 2012. mike is the author of many books including the future of land warfare pushed published in 2013. healing the wounded giant maintaining military preeminence while cutting the defense budget 2013. and "toughing it out in afghanistan," published in twts. he's also written three marshall papers. a new monograph series from brookings foreign policy program. i'd like to put in a special plug for "beyond nato: a new security architecture for eastern europe" which was published earlier this year. dr. o'hanlon has published several hundred op edds in all the major newspapers and since september 11th, 2001 has appeared on television or radio more than 3,000 times. so if he looks familiar to you, he should. mike earned a ph.d. in public international affairs from princeton. our second speaker today is stephen biddle, professor of political science and international affairs at my alma mater, george washington university. he's published widely, writing mostly about how modern soc

us media had suggested that he could be replaced with mike pompeo, the director of the central intelligence agency. there have been claims secretary tillerson has had disagreements with president trump over foreign policy recently , and reports earlier this year that mr tillerson called the president a moron. the white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is giving a briefing to the media at the moment. she is due to be speaking shortly. when she says something of particular interest, we will dip in and listen. net migration in the uk, the difference between the numbers of people arriving and leaving, has fallen sharply in the year after the brexit referendum. new figures from the office of national statistics show it was 230,000 in the 12 months to the end ofjune. that's a drop of around a third compared to the previous year. and most of that drop is down to fewer people coming from the eu. our home affairs correspondent tom symonds looks at why the numbers are going down and what it could mean for the economy. is this the start not of an exodus but of a brexodus? we are now getting some

who many of you know was captured and executed with the cakes that key assistance of the central intelligence agency only two weeks earlier. the next thing i remember is finding myself at the top of the stairs in a crowd of people. out withg troops come rifles and bayonets. in that afternoon i lost track of my friend, he lost track of me. i didn't know how to go about finding him. and sometime after troops came out with their bayoneted rifles. i had to get the car back. backually did drive several times in a self convincing effort to see if i could reconnect with my friend whom i didn't see for some time after that. and then i drove back to delaware. two things. add the summer of 1967, i was with authorization of lbj, the cia wrapped -- cia ramped up their program. i also happen to be wearing a cap from kent state university, accompanying the people who were there three years later. i want everybody here to know there are plans being prepared, already underway for the 50th anniversary of what happened at kansas state that would never have happened had that wore been ended much sooner. so thank you.

of the international institute for strategic studies and external advisory board to the central intelligence agency from 2011 to 2012. mike is the author of many books including "the future of land warfare" published in 2015, "healing the wounded giant, maintaining military preimminence while cutting the defense budget" and "toughing it out in afghanistan" published in 2010. he's written three martial papers from brookings foreign policy program. i'd like to put in a special plug for "beyond nato, i new security architecture for eastern europe" published earl quer this year. he's published several hundred op-eds in the major newspapers and appeared on television or radio more than 3,000 times since 2001 if he looks familiar to you, he should. mike earned a ph.d. in public international affairs from princeton. our second speaker today is steven bidle, professor of political science international affairs at george washington university. he's published widely writing mostly about how modern social science can inform defense policy. his book "military power, explaining victory and defeat in mod he were

based on oversight by the senate select committee on intelligence and its report on the central intelligence agency's use of torture and abuse. in mr. bradbury's time as acting head of the o.l.; he demonstrate and you waiving insince tense to defer to the president's wishes and his team instead of providing objective and independent counsel. during congressional testimony in 2007, mr. bradbury responded to questions about the the president's interpretation of the law by declaring the president is always right. a statement that is as outrageous as it is inaccurate. the objectivity and reasonableness of mr. bradbury's analysis, the d.o.j. office of professional responsibility reviewed the memos and determined that they raised questions about the objectivity and reasonableness of mr. bradbury's analysis, that he relied on executive branch assertions understand that in some cases mr. bradbury's legal conclusions were inconsistent with the plain meaning and commonly held understanding of the law. senior government officials from the bush administration who worked with mr. bradbury have said that they had

. >> do you see an equivalency between the central intelligence agency and the russian intelligence services? >> we're not offering our service for surveillance to any government. >> so you will apply the same policy to our intelligence community that you apply to an adversary's intelligence service. >> as a global company, we have to apply our policies consistently. >> which reminds me of the line from the cold war that of one who did not see a distinguishment between the cia and the kgb on the other hand because the kgb officer pushed an old lady in front of an oncoming bus, but the cia officer pushed the old lady out from the path of the oncoming bus, because they both go around pushing old ladies. i hope twitter will reconsider its policies when it's dealing with friendly intelligence services in countries like the united states and the uk as opposed to adversarial countries like russia and china. do you -- would twitter entertain the possibility of once again allowing the intelligence community to use data miner? >> we do today, for purposes of news alerts and first response technology,

agencies. the fbi is not one of them. how do you reconcile your claim, which you're entitled to believe. >> the fbi has a counter intelligence position. you have to believe the fbi isn't centralinformation to a variety of agencies with a counter intelligence mission. counter intelligence is central to what the fbi does. and again, it was the department of justice with rod rosenstein's nail on the signature block that filed the pleading sthat stopped this russian informant from exposing the trans action and the hillary clinton foundation involved in that scandal. >> so you think that because you wish the fbi was involved, that creates a conflict. but if they were involved, you have to concede that's not -- that may be an opinion but not a legal conflict under the code. >> you cite 28 -- that states you have to have the standard of people substantially involved. and you cite the personal political conflicts. and i'm giving you a chance to provide the evidence, you don't actually have evidence of how the fbi under the law was linked to any of this stuff. whether it was bad or not clfl we haven't really fully adjudicated. so is there anything else that you think provides a muelle

surrounding the assassination and one of its central figures lee harvey oswald in late october president donald trump after bowing to pressure from u.s. intelligence agencies continue the veil of secrecy after releasing some but not all of the remaining redacted files on the assassination author in journalistic russell has spent more than half his life investigating the death of john kennedy and he spoke with us earlier today about what he and fellow researchers at who what why dot com have and have not uncovered in the recent release. oh yeah i would say there definitely is i mean there's no smoking guns quote unquote that have been found yet and you know what's what's really unfortunate about it is that still a lot of these files from the cia and the f.b.i. are being redacted that president trump has has allowed the intelligence agencies to continue their review and decide what now i'd still be a matter of national security after fifty four years so that seems pretty ludicrous to me but at any rate what's come out so far has some very interesting material especially to those of us who've been studying what probably really happened for a long long time on

surrounding the assassination and one of its central figures lee harvey oswald in late october president donald trump after bowing to pressure from the u.s. intelligence agencies continued the veil of secrecy after releasing some but not all of the remaining redacted files on the assassination author in journalistic russell has spent more than half his life investigating the death of john kennedy and he spoke with us earlier today about what he and fellow researchers at who what why dot com have and have not uncovered in the recent release. oh yeah i would say there definitely is i mean there's no smoking guns quote unquote that have been found yet and you know what's what's really unfortunate about it is that still a lot of these files from the cia and the f.b.i. are being redacted that president trump has has allowed the intelligence agencies to continue their review and decide what now i'd still be a matter of national security after fifty four years so that seems pretty ludicrous to me but any rate what's come out so far as some very interesting material especially to those of us who've been studying what probably really happened for a long long time. one