the cia began building its base in 1955 with the u-2 spy plane because the cia wanted to spy on russia and see what they were doing. and one of the other men i interviewed in my book was herby stockman and he past two months ago which was also a really interesting side note that the men on a interviewed in the last chapter of their lives but he explained to me what it was like to be the first man to fly over the soviet union in a you to, and yes he agitated mickey the crush of greatly, and yes there was a lot of fallout between the eisenhower administration and the soviets over this spying that was going on but at the same time would hurt the stock then brought back from the u-2 was over 400,000 square feet of supply footage of what was going on in the soviet union and as her she said to me, the cia was able to learn and understand the soviets were not lining up for world war iii as many members of the air force wanted to believe certainly the general has a character in my book as well you might call him and antagonized. when you consider that the cia's job is to prevent intelligence t

cia? how does that come about? >> and they are fishing with a fish and that is where most of kriet people are captured. and then make sure and the harry tested photo he woke up sleeping on of floor of the spare bedroom of the house. that is a joint operation but the intelligence originated with the cia. partly through a walk-in. anyone who was that the spy museum knows that they are not trusted by a cia our embassy personnel. there are all kinds of reasons. sometimes it is a foreign service to test the agency procedures to discover who is the intelligence officer in that delegation? sometimes it is offering false information for money but they announced they would see ksm later for dinner that night which is very unusual. watkins almost never say they have the information that they will have been a few hours they tried to stretch it out and get a few payments. he was given a secure cellphone number and at the restaurant he sent a text that i think it's hilarious i am with ksm. it sounds like a message between two h

government and of the cia.that the fact that we supposedly gave them some information about a bomb making factory that was making ieds being moved into afgh afghanist afghanistan. when the pakistanis moved on this of course the facilities were supposedly empty. somebody had been tipped off. the problem here is that we're both in this fight. pakistan, the government in islamabad is as much in the crosshairs of the extremists and terrorists as the united states is. if things go bad in afghanistan, it hurts pakistan. pakistan is riding this extremist tiger. when they get off, that tiger may look at theoid rider and they may have a problem. >> peter brookes, thanks. >>> coming up, edie hill looks at another undeclared war. >> a tweet went out tonight that said tango down cia.gov. a group of hackers have brought down cia web site. leon panetta, cia director talked about the threat from cyber warfare and the security threat being our next pearl harbor. we'll take a look at how serious the problem is. >> fascinating s

there was the turnaround in iraq and came leading the war in afghanistan and now the path to lead the cia but will america's favorite top brass. as america's top spy. it's thursday june twenty third i'm christine for now in washington d.c. you're watching r.t. well starting off today just down the street from here on capitol hill an implosion after a tense talks on how to raise the debt ceiling reached a head over the issue of taxes congressman eric cantor and senator jon kyl both republicans actually walked out of the meeting apparently over talk of proposed tax hikes or as republicans have said since day one are off the table vice president biden has been meeting with lawmakers in hopes of reaching a deal by next week to raise the fourteen point three trillion dollars debt ceiling before it from the treasury department runs out of money if congress does not act by august second default could occur which would in turn have bruising the facts on the economy and the markets around the world so what does this mean for u.s. debt. for more i want to go now to our new york studio to talk with

. >> it's been the case that most cia officers sought what was called official covers and the cia representativesher official international organizations, that was acceptable when the target you were chasing was soviet diplomats, meet them at cocktail parties, spot them, try to develop them but the targets are so different now. can be taught. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities... committed to delivering the most advanced mobile broadband experience to help move business... forward. ♪ ♪ at great clips, quality and value have never looked more atractive. relax. you're at great clips. >>> hello, i'm deborah feyerick in atlanta with a check of our top stories. the first photos of congresswoman gabrielle giffords taken since her shooting in january were released this morning. there are two of them and they appear on giffords facebook page. the pictures were taken may 17th, the day after the launch of "endeavour" and a day before she had surgery on her skull. we learned today that giffords will leave her rehabilitation facility by

officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate they are. you're lucky you know the worst they don't have to ask anybody's permission to go through the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after months of violent popular revolt against him and his government for many years had been supported by the us in exchange for letting americans to work there all crying yemen as we could leaks cables often taking credit for the u.s. drone strikes we have to remember that scores of civilians were killed in those strikes or the support of the yemeni authorities was much needed to carry on with iraq war on the other hand the government the alley abu. salim who's been in power for some thirty years was so unpopular in recent years among the people of yemen that many analysts say it was only due to the u.s. support that sally had stayed in power for so long so for years sally needed the u.s. and the u.s. needed solly but now with the political turmoil there the u.s.

i would like to hear your comments on that from the perspective of the cia. my own view is are you in during war that coming out of the white house policy has a lack of urgency, cohesiveness and mosul, and i wonder from your perspective a more muscular focus urgent policy how you see the cia and tactics and plans i know it's a complicated question in a public forum. >> actually -- i would be happy to because in particular come as a commander of the u.s. central command, i was one of the more vocal proponents of the establishment of the u.s. cyber command, and happens to be by the way west point classmate of mine and longtime friend in my personal pantheon of heroes for the extraordinary expertise that he has developed in this area and in his leadership of the community and that carries out a very substantial portion of activities in this arena. clearly the agency has to focus very intently on the defense's against cyber threats, intrusions and so forth. there is -- this is where you have this tension between the need to share and to protect and that is someth

, the evolution of the cia. it is interesting to me -- he made the statement, "i will get out of the car all by myself." you not have a uniform on and you will be, in a sense, a new person to them. i say that because i care tremendously about the morale at the cia, the personnel, and i think it is in pretty good shape right now because i think leon panetta really work at it. he brought two people with him, but no more. other cia directors, since i have been in this committee, have been less effective, some have demoralized the cia, some have developed a very close band of advisers to whom they turn, but they have not been good at reaching down to an unexpected analyst to get a phone call, reaching at said of the usual chain of command. it is my impression, first of all, that you want to be a champion for the cia. that is very important to you. it is also my impression that you want to focus on your duties there and used the phrase that you understand will be commanding a very large agency and you'll be involved

you've got a cia operation.e these guys often on their own, often in businesses as fronts. you know, i always thought cia officers were at the u.s. embassy. while you didn't know who they were, you could make guesses about pem this is it true that there are lots of cia officers around who have covers in private business and trading companies and things like that all over the world in >> it's increasingly true. when you and i were getting started as journalists and for the past decades, it's been the case that most cia officers sought what was called official covers, embassy representatives, other official international organizations. that was acceptable when the target you were chasing was soviet diplomats, you'd meet them at cocktail parties, spot them, try to develop them. but the targets are so different now. and so there's a feeling that you need genuinely clandestine platforms. so there's been a lot of experimentation in the areas that i'm imagining in my book, in the book i invent this goofy entertainment

officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have quote greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate fear greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to bomb the country. right there now of the czech republic has reportedly pulled out of the us defense missile plan for europe defense minister told reporters the decision was made out of frustration with the country's minor role in the project of the bush administration first proposed stationing shield elements in poland and the czech republic to protect europe from any potential attack from iran russia angrily objected saying the plan threaten its own security and warned that it would station its own missiles in the baltic region if the project went ahead later the obama administration it shelved that plan and offered a new reconfigured program for a smaller role with the czechs now proud he says it wants to take part but not in this way. well you can always catch up to the stories we're covering online and artsy dot com pl

obviously what the cia did is core of this problem. having heard this, having read the stories that have emerged over the last few days, what do you believe should happen and what should be done to pursue and investigate this? >> well, it's clearly extremely improper and illegal even for the paragraphs that may have been sent over which were unobjectionable about an american citizen, cia shouldn't be telling the white house about an american citizen and it's just impossible for me to believe that the white house asked the cia to google me and they were just passing along publicly available information. there must have been an implication that they should actively dig up some kind of dirt. and that is illegal and it's extremely troubling, and i believe that the senate intel je find out what's going on and who the request came from at the white house and what's the background of this. i think eric holder should look into it at the department of justice and i think that unless we get to the bottom of this story, we can't be sure that ther

obviously what the cia did is core of this problem. having heard this, having read the stories that have emerged over the last few days, what do you believe should happen and what should be done to pursue and investigate this? >> well, it's clearly extremely improper and illegal even for the paragraphs that may have been sent over which were unobjectionable about an american citizen, cia shouldn't be telling the white house about an american citizen and it's just impossible for me to believe that the white house asked the cia to google me and they were just passing along publicly available information. there must have been an implication that they should actively dig up some kind of dirt. and that is illegal and it's extremely troubling, and i believe that the senate find out what's going on and who the request came from at the white house and what's the background of this. i think eric holder should look into it at the department of justice and i think that unless we get to the bottom of this story, we can't be sure that there weren't

the cia and the u.s. government supported seven different afghan factions who were fighting the soviets. the arab factions, bin laden, was one of the leaders -- one of the smaller factions -- the arab factions were never funded by the u.s. government. they were never funded by the cia. they were, in fact, funded mostly out of saudi arabia and a collection of other donations from gulf arab states. they had a different goal. the afghans just wanted their country back. the saudi-backed mujahedeen wanted to create an islamic state in afghanistan. so these two groups didn't work together. they had a common goal that they like to kill soviets, although, the arabs didn't like to kill them very much. there are very few reliable accounts of arab fighting soviets. they spent a lot of time fighting each other. one of the things i realized is the car bomb before it existed, there was something called the camel bomb, where they load camels with explosives and allowed them to detonate against rival arab factions in afg

the deputy director of the cia told a closed door hearing on capitol hill it's a three on a scale of ten. according to republican senator lindsey graham, relations are close to the breaking point. >> we're at a crossroads with pakistan. we're on a collision course with pakistan. >> reporter: while the u.s. wants pakistan to go after the support network which allowed bin laden to hide in plain sa sight, pakistan has arrested and interrogated five people suspected of helping the cia pull off the raid. it's all part of a spy versus spy game the u.s. plays with one of its most important applies, and defense secretary gates told democratic senator patrick leahy, get used to it. >> how long do we support governments that lie to us? when do we say enough is enough? >> based on 27 years in cia and four and a half years in this job, most governments lie to each other. that's the way business gets done. >> reporter: although cia drone strikes against terrorist safe havens in pakistan's border area continue without letup, pakistani intelligence at the same time actually protect some of the terr

there was the turnaround in iraq then came leading the war in afghanistan and now the path to lead the cia america's favorite top brass past as america's top spy. and remember the good old american dream looks like it's still alive and well just not in this country coming up we'll take you to india where despite generations of cultural barriers a rags to riches story is not only possible it's happening. it's thursday june twenty third four pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for now and watching our team i want to start today looking at what lies ahead in afghanistan we heard president obama last night lay out his plan for the u.s. involvement in what is now become this country's longest war in history starting next month we will be able to remove ten thousand of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of thirty three thousand troops by next summer fully we're covering the surge i announced at west point. all right a lot of focus here on the numbers is it too small is it too large but i'd like to broaden this discussion and talk about what this ac

it could be the fbi or the cia. everyone's in a while, the cia asks questions. >> is there anything keeping the cia from conducting interrogations? >> if intelligence is the primary objective, the cia individual becomes central to the questions being asked. that is the way it works now. if there is an emphasis on that, that is one case. if it is a military case or an individual that could involve follow on the military, they would take the lead. they work as a team and they do it on a case by case basis. >> nothing prohibits the cia from being the lead in conducting investigations? to your knowledge, does it happen now? i understand it is a team. >> it is not the direct interrogation that used to take place early on in this decade. it is much more of a team approach. that is the way it works. >> i wanted to follow up with respect to the detainee treatment act. do you agree with all of the provisions of the detainee treatment act, including the provisions to provide legal authority for interrogations'? -- interrogati

the news broke last night, "new york times" recording that pakistani authorities rounded up five ciapeople who reportedly helped the cia by writing down the license plates of cars coming and going from bin laden's compound which by the way was just down the road from pakistan's military academy. we've since learned there are low-level sources -- the informants are very low-level sources and there's little the u.s. government can do to help them. but their arrest is telling. instead of hunting down anyone who might have helped him live there comfortably, helped the people who helped bin laden for years, pakistan seems to be hunting down the people who helped america find him. as far as taking a hard look at whether bin laden had a pakistani support network, the pakistani government was denying it from day one. >> in your investigation have you found any evidence that bin laden had a support network here in pakistan? >> there is no such thing as all. not an i yo that of doubt. >> you categorically deny. >> no support network. >> well again, bin laden may have been living in the heart o

turnaround in iraq let me then king winning the war in afghanistan and now the pounds to leave the cia but will america's favorite top brass pass as america's top spy. remember the good old american dream looks like it's still alive and well just not necessarily in this country coming up we'll take you to india for despite generations of cultural barriers the rags to riches story is not only possible it's happening. and it's a grand old walkout republican lawmakers storm out of talks with democrats so as the debt ceiling standoff seems to be tumbling down what does this mean for the u.s. economy. it's thursday june twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine friends out here watching our team starting off this evening what lies ahead in afghanistan we heard president obama last night lay out his plan for u.s. involvement in what has now become this country's longest war in history. starting next month we will be able to remove ten thousand of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and we will bring home a total of thirty three thousand troops by next summer full

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forces in afghanistan general david petraeus is set to become the new cia chief the u.s. looks to be moving away from is having approach to war as washington stands firm on a mass troop pullout from afghanistan but the general's a son to his new role behind the wheel of global covert operations rose's doubts that he can be impartial couldn't ford has more. and he's been called the rock star four star he is without question one of the finest officers and military minds of his generation the architect of modern counterinsurgency i'm asked quite often those are all of those what do you think should happen in a. first response is well whatever general petraeus direction which we are that's going to respect. general david petraeus. who trains was on capitol hill to be confirmed as the next director of the central intelligence agency in truth my goal in uniform has always been to convey the most forthright and accurate picture possible. i have to be sure offered more positive assessments than the intelligence community did but although he's been lauded as the man responsible fo

joint special operations people and on top of that you've got cia mercenary troops running around as well we talked about the view of the cost of it just now you mentioned the cost effective and how cost effective are they if i was in the pad together and i was told to get up how much you would call the summer of these as opposed to sending in somebody a manned weapon. there they're very cheap to run their little gasoline powered lawyer planes really with one hellfire missile or two on them and they're cheap but there's a much more important cost than that is i know the afghans very well there's an old saying in india beware the revenge of the afghan and you kill an afghan family is never going to forget and they are going to come after the people who did it. the americans are going to have to deal with this all right eric because of your insight on the program thanks for being with us neither go to showing us some of them from new york there. my pleasure. the mode of reckoning is approaching for the greek government its confidence vote in parliament is imminent has it proposed to in

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the general asides over the cia nature of war seems to be shifting with him u.s. president says the troop pullout from afghanistan was possible because the taliban's momentum has waned that's despite calls from the top military brass for a more gradual drawdown a former cia officer jack rice says that washington has confused its enemies in the country. i think the department of defense and the white house are probably mischaracterizing how this is successful if you will one of the problems is that somehow the u.s. has broken the taliban or separated the taliban from al qaeda but the fact is is that the taliban and al qaeda were separate organizations from the beginning and to simply characterize them as bad guys as all the same guy was one of the biggest mistakes that the united states ever met i think you are going to see more instability and when i talk to people in other parts of the country they look at president karzai as a crook they see him as somebody who's doing nothing but protecting himself and his own democracy is the fear that you know what at the sam

certainly if the cia had believed that these people were at risk, they may very well have exfiltratedem out of pakistan either in advance or at the time of the operation. but remember we had the problem with the helicopter. there were a lot -- there was a lot going on. so it's unclear to me whether or not the cia had the time to get these people out. >> and mark, these arrests were made awhile ago. they were made right immediately after the -- after the raid, is that correct? >> yeah. these were several weeks ago. and then there's -- i believe there's been this sort of hidden negotiation about getting these people out. for several weeks. my guess is that there will be some, as there always is, some resolution to this. and the relationship will muddle through. but it's hard to see how it gets any worse than this. >> yeah, reza, i'm fascinated to know in pakistan are these informants -- i don't know how big the story has played in the last 24 hours in pakistan -- but are these informants seen as enemies of pakistan for helping to bring down bin laden? are they seen as traitors for colla

officials say the cia is stepping. the construction of a military base in the persian gulf which will help the unmanned attack drones be used to strike targets in yemen which is officially an american ally in the war on terror but for more now joined live from the u.s. capitol by correspondent. guy no why would washington want to attack one of its own eyes. well bill now they've decided to task the cia with chasing down al qaida yemen and that marks a major escalation of america's pull over war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of in cooperation with the yemeni counter in counter terrorism units but now amid the power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and courting to u.s. officials because the cia operates on a different legal authorities than the military to cia will have great

military and the way the cia has been conducting this war over the past ten years one step forward is of course what president obama has declared but still words we're yet to see really actions on the ground and we have yet to see whether important agencies within the u.s. government like essential intelligence agency the cia would really cooperate as you understand as you might well know that the cia has now a huge presence in afghanistan a large project afghanistan is a large project for the cia to go out and we want to see whether they would really wind down right ok just very very quickly i just want to know because of what you're saying about what could possibly happen in that relationship do you think washington crossed the line this time and the operation over there. i think they have created a our series distrust specially on me too they used their own clem destined network of informants inside pakistan and i'm talking not about just cia contractors or agents i'm talking about pakistanis who were recruited by cia and some of them apparently had some links or connections with d

additionally spends in these so-called war efforts more importantly what is the cia involvement with the use of contractors in the united states shadow foreign policy and you know my romeo do i want to have same question myself every day we already know the cia black budget is probably come around a trillion dollars annually and i probably just the tip of the iceberg we also know the cia is involved in several secret wars across the world from yemen to somalia and in fact it's just now being reported that the cia is built. secret base to launch drone warfare in yemen somewhere else in the middle east so now they wage war spending money hire contractors all out of the purview of the american public so one can only imagine that they exerts a lot more influence on america's foreign policy than will ever next i want to respond to feelin six six six from you two he said alone has a fetish for computer geeks well you got me there i love the hackers and i love the geeks and in fact speaking of hackers just about thirty minutes ago little said took credit for taking down the cia website. rea

what's the story with james arise and what is the cia is is trying to. get out and what makes him so special for them well in my book james bryson is something of a super if you're a journalist he helped reveal the n.s.a. spying program back during the bush administration where all of the americans electronic communications were getting swept up inside of her and more of her keywords and escalated to other levels. most recently he revealed the bush administration was trying to intimidate a critic. now he's he's been kind of a thorn in their side and even by his president dick cheney was rumored to have pressured the justice to try to go after him they got turned on him and what he published in two thousand and six really set in was basically here if you don't. do us so it was held it seems he was using a russian scientists to spoil all that information to the iranian nuclear program but nuclear triggers our new york times best story but he brought it back in two thousand and six with his book state of war and didn't want that and so much so they began in

what's the story with james rise and what is that the cia is was trying to. get out of and what makes him so special for them well in my book james price that is something of a super if you're a journalist he helped reveal the n.s.a. spying program back during that bush administration where all of the americans electronic communications were being swept up and spied upon or for key words and escalated to of the rebels. most recently he revealed the bush administration was trying to intimidate a critic on court now he's he's known kind of a thorn in their side and even vice president dick cheney was rumored to have the current justice to try and go after and dig up dirt on him and but he published in two thousand and six really set in rocks basically here if you know that the u.s. central intelligence agency was using a russian scientists who thought all that information to the iranian nuclear weapons program but nuclear triggers now that new york times bestseller eat what he brought it back in two thousand and six with his book state of war and he didn't want

in the meantime, the cia has taken matters into its own hands. remotely piloted drones have fired more than 200 hellfire missiles and bombs at targets in the tribal areas. officially, the cia does not speak about the drone war, but an agent who once ran the campaign agreed to talk to frontline. >> the calculus is really a very simple one: it's trying to kill people before they kill you. it's as simple as that. now, it may have the knock-on and potentially intended effect- - you hope-- of discouraging further militancy. when people see others, you know, going up in a puff of smoke, you know, one hopes that will induce people to go home and sit out the fight. this is very much a "kill or be killed" situation, and that's very much the dynamic that governs this. >> smith: the drone war was initially conceived to kill only the leadership of al qaeda and the taliban, but president obama has dramatically widened the campaign. under his administration, the cia has launched nearly five times more strikes than it did under president bush. >> there are many

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