with his cia briefer. traveling with the president on 9/11, there in the classroom, with president bush when he received the phone call that the tower has been hit, on air force one for the next 13 hours until the president came back to andrews, was the cia briefer. in 2004 we had the intelligence reform and terrorism prevention act. that piece of legislation is the first sweeping changes to the intelligence community. as a result of that, the position of director national intelligence is created and the pdb staff is now moved up to the dni level. they still contribute over 90% of the briefing, but now other members of the intelligence community also contribute to the riefing. today president obama receives his briefing on a tablet. as you can imagine, our current operations are still highly classified. so those objects that we might collect into the collection would be highly classified as ell. so in our world, tangible objects are not considered to be official u.s. government records. there are therefore

and the next generation cia. one of zeros and 1s digits, very different security running against -- the bureaucracy of managing in tent in the world of spying. i am wondering, i read your acknowledgements and in it you talk about being in germany and set up with young hackers. you are totally cool guy and i know you hang out in georgetown and stuff like that you are also known as someone who understands the cold war, state crafted it used to be. how did david ignatius become cool enough to understand what was going on with packers and the new terrain, the new surf of national security. >> hetrick question. there is an answer to this question. this book is about an institution in transition. i began with the idea that every scene of the traditional spy novel, penetration, deception, manipulation, was going to go into additional space. today you didn't want to recruit the chief of a service, you wanted to recruit the systems administrator. we open up every secret, all kinds of opportunities for covert action. that

these were cia computers and cia facility.elligence committee staffers broke an agreement with the cia on how these documents would be handled. yes he said is the cia played fast and loose with the rules. but the senate intelligence committee staffers broke the rules and stole the documents. they did something they didn't agree to. they have to be held accountable. >> well, it seems as if the scope of reason is narrower than bret imagines. it's rather amusing to see the two sides accusing each other. it's reminiscent of the old magazine cartoon of spy versus spy. because, in fact, the defense of the cia is they broke into the senate part of that computer, supposed to be fallible. they suspected that the senate staffers had come up with a secret cia report so they were looking for a breach on the part of the senate staffers. look, i think what this tells you is that you have got two agencies, one a democratically led cia. a democratically led committee at loggerheads with each other. i think an apology isopriate. i find it inte

accessed only by the senate committee staff by agreement of the cia. the cia will dispute the way a lot of people are interpreting the finding here as well as the

response -- the response by john brennan that you just played, the question is whether or not the cia had hacked into this computer in an effort to thwart the committee's investigation and john brennan said absolutely not. the definition of the word hack may be what's at play here because at least as far as the cia is concerned they can't hack into their own computer system. this was a system that the cia provided to the senate staff, but i suspect that a lot of people are going to say that's splitting hairs and indeed, the cia did hack into this system to determine whether or not the cia had an internal review of the interrogation program, that according to senator feinstein and others, actually confirmed the findings of the senate's own report. >> let me ask you, there are some very angry senators on capitol hill today. senator udall issued a statement that says i have lost confidence

when a cia asset gets caught and confesses that means the cia got caught.government and our government are supposed to be the best of friends, that's going to upset germany. germany is going to be upset we're in their country turning their agent and stealing their stuff when we're supposed to be the best of friends. first the station chief in kabul, that's terrible for the cia. now this in germany. also terrible for the cia. then it gets worse because the day after that guy got arrested in germany, president obama placed a call to chancellor angela merkel of germany. they had all sorts of stuff to talk about. the delicate situation in russia and ukraine. germany's role of keeping europe and the u.s. on the same page and vladimir putin, all that stuff. during that call the two leaders did not talk about the fact a cia asset had just been arrested in germany the day before and did not talk about that matter because nobody told president obama that it had happened. the cia obviously knew that their guy had been arrested the day before, but nobody told the whit

the seals turned him over to the cia the cia took him into a shower room and they had the guards tires hands behind his back and they hoisted to mop. when you hang somebody backwards by their wrists it prevents the lungs from expanding and when you add to that broken ribs and a sandbag over his head that makes breathing even more difficult the final cause of death was a strict ca. then they called the guards back in and the guards at the cia guy told the guards look. he's faking it he won't talk and he keeps slumping down the guards tried to lift him up he was dead weight in fact he was dead. the cia freaked out the sky being dead they called intelligence commander epis who came in and said i'm not going down for this what do you do for this guy. so they sent one of their lieutenants off to grab some ice and packed them in the body bag and then the guards had their photo shoot. the next thing that happened was in the morning they had to get him out of the shower room and they had to take them to the prison cell blocks. so they called in a medic who put an i.v. in his arm and they wheel

when a cia asset gets caught and confesses, that means the cia gets caught. sense the german government and our government are supposed to be the best of friend, obviously, that will upset germany. germany will be upset we are in their country turning our agents and stealing their stuff when we are supposed to be the special friends. now this in germany, also terrible for the cia. then it gets worse. the day after that guy got arrested in germany, president obama placed a call to chancellor angela murk el of germany, german's role in dealing with putin. during that call the two lead, did not talk about a cia asset had been arrested in germany the day before. they did not talk about that matter because nobody told president obama that it had happened. the cia obviously knew their guy had been arrested the day before but nobody told the white house and so the president of the united states called the chancellor of germany having no idea this had happened. the cia didn't tell the president. terrible, right? but, oh, wait, there's more. bought the germans really

i guess the interesting news today is that this cia inspector general's report has come out that says the cia improperly basically broke into senate computers to see what they were -- what information they had as they were working on the torture report. and the cia director brennan has gone up to the hill and has apologized for this and a apparently had this tense meet with dianne feinstein earlier this week. it's interesting how this report comes out, it's clear the cia was doing all this other stuff to find out what was going to be in it and what information was there. apparently it's improper according to their inspector general. >> the inspector general has, we were reporting on this ourselves, i guess, about two months ago. the inspector general has done

to talk to every cia director do they have the sense the enemy is us?> a great question and honestly the answer is no. if there is one through my novels this bureaucracy and secrecy are combined to produce a real mess with that organizational desire that in this secret world just look at the nsa. starting from supposedly the narrow mission. i thought for years the cia operations would do better if it was smaller. said desire to be all things to all customers to know as much about copper mines as fiber-optic says in shanghai to peru you get a huge organization stealing more secrets they and what matters. and stealing secrets that don't make a difference do you really need to listen to angelou virgos phone calls? so the simple answer is yes something that bothered me as a journalist there is a way to plant the idea hit enough in these bureaucracies of the forces to bring down the very people my first novel my real life he wrote begins and ends with his death with aspects of the operation he was not aware of. a lot of people die in office. [laughter] >> i

the cia seal is a piece that everyone sees as a first come into the lobby. some people do not like to walk across it. some people walk around it. but you have seen movies filmed here in the lobby of people crossing the seal. the seal is an interesting piece, designed by the same army group echo -- heraldic that designed the tomb of the unknown soldier. it has the symbol of vigilance, the eagle. everyone here works for the president of the united states, an executive agency. we carry on our badge is the great seal of the united states. you see a different eagle, with its wings spread, an eagle rampant. in its right talent, it holds the olive branch of peace. in the other, the arrows of war for the original 13 colonies. during world war ii, our country displayed a war eagle, which looked to the west. after the war, president truman decided we would no longer project a bellicose image, and had the eagle flipped. our eagle looks to the right, it in an advancing position, with the olive branch of peace. thee is a defense branch on seal. intelligence is our first

his wife knew he was the cia officer. 21 was told but the rest of the children learn to on the day he died when to see a officers told them their father had died that day. they were devastated the youngest was 12. i believe there is still the trauma it was very hard for the moms to make the decision to testify in 2003 she was a very private person but thought it was time. for her children to bring out the story and achieve justice. the lead plaintiff in the case lives here. she was almost killed. she had 90 broken bones and spent one year in hospitals after words and later several years at georgetown university writing her master's about the trauma of the posttraumatic stress that she went through and those other survivors had gone through. it is also a troubling to the survivors and their relatives of the embassy bombing but everyone remembers the marine barracks the larger number of casualties but everyone has forgotten the cia officers and 17 americans killed on april 18. >> you mentioned ames had a sort a over lots of

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oh, cia.usly, cia, if i had to name a funnier agency that conducted mind control experiments with lsd, i would be at a total loss. the cia tweeted out, no, we don't know your password so we can't send it to you, hash tag sorry/not sorry. we would have to talk to the nsa for that. proving that just because you spend all day gathering intelligence on individuals you suspect to be terrorists bent on killing us, you don't have to be so serious about. follow @cia right now before the jokester crosses that line and gets fired or reassigned or just disappears. make sure to follow me on twitter @jaketapper. check out our show page at cnn.com/the lead for videos and blogs and textras. subscribe to our magazine. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> happening now, breaking news. brink of war. rockets intercepted near tel aviv and jerusalem. deadly air strikes in gaza and a bloody shootout on an israeli beach. israel is ready to mobilize tens of thousands of military reserves as an all-out fight loom

the cia denied it ever happened only for it to turn out that it did. think about what that says about what the u.s. intelligence committee is willing to do with their surveillance opportunities, how cavalier about breaking the law. if they are willing to invade the communication of the senate which is investigating them. this is not just some sort of ablation. this is why secret surveillance is so dangerous because inevitably it gets abused in the most extreme ways possible. >> let's talk about america's

germany has now told the cia contact at the u.s. embassy in berlin to get his things and leave for the first time after a series of spy scandals this is a strong message from the germans that they've had enough of washington's behavior you know experience of a cheaper foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to this stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell phone was bugged by the n.s.a. washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal lynn still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a. file was turned down even then and was content to stand side by side with the u.s. pre

the cia seal is a piece everyone sees as a first come into the lobby. some people do not like to walk across it. some people will walk around it. you see museums filmed in the -- movies filmed in the lobby, people crossing the seal. it was an interesting piece, in designed by the same group that designed the tomb of the unknown soldier. it has the eagle. our nations symbol of vigilance, the eagle. everybody here works for the president of the united states. we carry on our badge is the great seal of the united states. if you look at the great seal, you see an eagle with its wings spread. it is called an eagle rampant in heraldic terms. the eagle holds the all in branch of peace. and the 13 arrows for war for the original 13 colonies. during world war ii, a war eagle looked to the left, to those arrows. after the war, president truman decided we would no longer project a bellicose image. truman had the eagle flipped. postwar, our eagle looked to the right, in an advancing position, to the olive branch of peace. there is a defense shield. intelligence is

according to mcclatchy, an internal agency review finds cia employees did, in fact, improperly access computers used by the committee while its staff was researching a report on the cia's highly controversial detention and interrogation program. so those claims by senator feinstein, the ones john brennan called beyond the scope of reason, it turns out they were dead on. so dead on that brennan himself actually apologized yesterday to feinstein and the committee's vice chair, saxby cham bliss. hours ago, a member of the senate intelligence committee tweeted, the cia broke into senate computer files and tried to have senate staff prosecuted and unacceptable in a democracy.

and at the time people in the white house and the cia were denied. this is dicey because john brennan, the cia director, former nse deputy for terrorism working very closely with the president. very popular. very close to the president. and the white house initially was siding with him and going up against the senate on this. >> it will be interesting to see

the cia improperly

jake, the cia issued a statement a short time ago. what are they admitting to? >> to having told false statements before, specifically this question about the investigation by the senate into interrogation practices that the larger community, and according to the geneva conventions are torture. the question, of course s what the senate intelligence committee staffers were doing and whether or not the cia was snooping on them in any way. it turns out that despite protests by the cia that they had not been snooping on what the senate intelligence committee staffers were doing. they were. the statement comes forward and says cia director brennan was briefed on the office of inspector general findings which include a judgment that some cia employees acted in matter inconsistent with what was reached by the senate intelligence committee and cia regarding access to the specific computer. the director of the cia subsequently informed the senate intelligence committee chairman and apologized to them for such actions by cia officers as described in the inspector general

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germany has now told the cia contact at the us embassy in berlin to get his things and leave. for the first time after a series of spy scandals this is a strong message from the germans that they've had enough of washington's behavior . or foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to the stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell phone was bugged by the n.s.a. washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal bilin still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a. file was turned down and even then it was content to stand side by side with the u.s. president as he again spoke of a close friendship but the discovery of two

this is a mistake by the cia. when you're putting the president in jeopardy like this, you have to keep him informed. >> how does the u.s. fix this now? >> first of all, wolf, this has never happened. at the worst times in our relations with germany, never has a cia station chief been expelled. so i can't begin to describe what a crisis this is in relations. i think the president's got to get a hold of merkel and they have to sit down and work an agreement out. you could add germany to the same agreement we have with britain. no more spying. that would be the strongest remedy. >> the cia director, would you say he's in trouble? i assume he knew about this. >> well, he's not in trouble, because he didn't initiate this. this has been going on, spying in germany, since, you know, the beginning of the cold war, 1945, 46. so none of this is new. it's not like the cia is acting in any sort of rogue manner. he's close to brennan. i think he and brennan should sit down and say what do we really need to do in germany, what

on the cia's own web site, it says domestic spying by the cia is a crime.e only way it is not a crime and this is where i get a bit suspicious, is if the attorney general of the united states authorizes domestic spying. that, of course, would be eric holder. so, did the attorney general authorize domestic spying? if he did, he needs to tell us why. he owes the american people those answers. and if eric holder didn't authorize the spying, he needs to do his job and prosecute, convene a grand jury immediately. i don't buy for one second the department of justice previous statement that there is not enough evidence for a a criminal investigation. that statement is a lie. testimony t. smells like a coverup to me. there could not be more evidence the cia director just admitted it happened. that's called a confession. how much more evidence does the attorney general need? smell a rat? that's my off-the-record comment tonight. thank you for being with us. we will see you all again tomorrow. right now go to gretawire.com and answer this question. should cia directo

the officers who developed and conducted the enhanced techniques program remain well protected the cia has provided doctors james mitchell and bruce jessen with a five million dollar legal defense fund in case they are charged with torturing detainees. there or we got professionals who are trained in this kind of work to get information that will protect the american people and by the way we have gotten information from these high value detainees that have no protection in two thousand and six president bush announced that the enhanced techniques provided invaluable intelligence but by then the program was so widely condemned that a high army official could publicly refute him without getting punished. you know good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices i think history tells us i think the empirical evidence the last five years hard years tell us that so and moreover any piece of intelligence which is obtained under duress under through the use of the abusive techniques would be of questionable credibility. and additionally it would do more harm than good when it inevita

and germany reached a new low as for lane kicks out the top cia official and with how the ancients of the latest spy scandal plus. the. esky have says it's ready for a cease fire in ukraine's east aren't seen means the families who've been devastated by army air raids. live with you twenty four hours a day this is artsy ensor national thank you very much for joining us. medics and gaza say five more people have been killed in pre-dawn that's by israel so far almost one hundred palestinians mostly civilians have died and nearly seven hundred have been injured and the offensive. was. at least one sea of those so also wives are children on thursday israel says it has more than one hundred targets in gaza many of the missiles have a lot of that in residential areas cause and panic so ripples through the population journalist heresy are met those caught up in the violence as they priced themselves for yet more air raids. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shaman mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike but i have yet. to go

and to germany reach a new low as berlin kicks out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal. plus the jihadist offensive in syria and iraq attracts fresh recruits from western countries as the self-proclaimed islamic state calls an all on all muslims to join the fight they're . broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is shawn thomas glad to have you with us. international calls are mounting on israel to show restraint and stop shelling civilians in gaza but the country apparently isn't ready for peace just yet saying there's more to come in operation protective edge more than ninety palestinians mostly civilians have been killed and hundreds injured in the offensive so far at least twenty of those who lost their lives are children. israel says it hit more than one hundred targets in gaza on thursday many of the missiles have landed in residential areas causing panic to ripple through the population journalist harry fear met those caught up in the violence as they brace themselves for yet more. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame ma

and germany reached a new low as berlin takes out a top cia official in retaliation to the latest spy scandal plus. as kiev says it's ready for a cease fire in the east of ukraine we meet families who've been devastated by the army air raids. noon in moscow good to have you with us here on r.t. international our top story this hour medics in gaza say four more people have been killed in pre-dawn attacks by israel so far more than ninety palestinians mostly civilians have died and hundreds have been injured in the offensive at least twenty of those who lost their lives were children. thursday israel says it hit more than one hundred targets in gaza many of the missiles landed in residential areas causing panic to ripple through the population journalist harry fear met some of those caught up in the violence as they brace themselves for more air raids. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mass for she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents on the road they came o

as berlin kicks out a top cia official and recently a since the latest scandal plus. a skier says it's ready for a cease fire in ukraine our teammates the families who've been devastated by the army air raids. that afternoon you're watching arts international come and see live from the russian capital welcome to the program. medics and say five more people have been killed. by israel this brings the total number of deaths in gaza one hundred nearly seven hundred people have been injured in the offensive. was. more than twenty of those of lost their lives are chilling on thursday israel says it's more than one hundred targets in gaza many of the missiles land that the residential areas causing a panic to ripple through the population journalists heresy or met those caught up in the violence as the price themselves for yet more air raids. on a visit to gaza's main hospital we met four year old shame mastery she was injured in her abdomen she became collateral damage in a drone strike whatever has yet. to go went to visit her sister with her parents in the road they came

in expels the top cia spy working in germany after two government employees are accused of passing secrets to the u.s. . also coming up this hour just how this militant sees nuclear materials in iraq with the government for international help to prevent the uranium from pines being used in terror attacks. you're watching from in the world welcome to moscow onto our to international i mean i know you our top story the u.n. has stated eighty eight people have been killed by israeli strikes on gaza since an offensive was launched on tuesday at least eighteen among the dead are children according to local health officials israel has vowed to step up attacks until hamas stops firing rockets onto its territory. the thing about him and that guy is some of the look i think if you look at the timing from house to neverland emma has the headline and the look and government that's i mentioned a good idea but it was thank god it was over was it. was. it was the act was. that. at least twenty civilians are among the dead reported by the palestinian health ministry many targets destroyed by a stray miss

the cia is as popular as puppies. does the cia really need this twitter image campaign?ad to have it. what are they out to accomplish with their social media strategy? back at the table christina bellantoni, justin snow, reporter and editor with metro weekly and chris gidner from buzz feed. you're a prolific writer of tweets. what's your perception and what do you think they're trying to accomplish? >> they're trying to have fun. they're definitely the obama administration has been on top of social media, and this is another area where they think they can jump in and have fun and they've responded like we've been watching the account respond to people. they're trying to have some fun with it. >> i was so excited about this story, particularly the polling that cia at 52% approval rating that i misstated how many twitter followers the cia actually has. it's not 700. it's 700,000 followers that they have. christina, i'll ask you the same question. >> i went and looked at the twitter feed last night. they've been putting out informational videos. there's one explaining a rob

>> i guess it was the use of soft power by the cia. >> brown: soft power. yes. was fascinated by and that part of the cia's history and they had massive programs throughout the cold war that were cultural programs, not only books but magazines, subsidizing and the tours of orchestras, art exhibitions, academic conferences. they were involved in a whole range of activities. >> brown: all right, peter finn is coauthor with petra couveeÉef the "the zhivago affair." thank you so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. president obama formally asked congress for $3.7 billion in emergency funds to cope with the surge of children crossing the mexican border. the fighting between israel and hamas was the heaviest since 2012. the israelis blasted gaza with heavy air strikes, with palestinians reporting 25 killed. hamas militants fired 160 rockets into israel. and secretary of state john >> wooduff: on the newshour online right now one pakistani sculptor uses chisels, knives and hammers to break down taboos and start conversations about wom

did the cia just get caught red handed by one of our closest friends in the world? a major ally expels one of america's top spies. >>> caught on camera tonight, our team covering the wave of humanity heading to our southern border captureses something we have rarely ever seen in a very dangerous place. >>> and american beauty. remembering an icon that made so many women super stars and defined the look for a generation. "nightly news" begins now. >>> good evening. while what we are watching in the middle east is not all out war -- the at least not yet, it is so far a rather lopsided conflict. while hundreds of rockets fired by hamas continue to rain down on israel causing a huge number of israelis to take cover every single day their air forces and defenses are far superior from their warning sirens to their jets and bombs and helicopters and drones and the rocket shield they call iron dome paid for, in part, by close to $1 billion u.s. the palestinians are more or less trapped in gaza with no sirens to warn civilians of an incoming strike. as the israelis continue

in number of cases that i looked at the cia wasn't sure who they were hitting. the agency became convinced that it had gotten so good at watching from above that it could distinguish different groups it could distinguish whether a terrorist leader was at a certain location but there is room for a lot of misunderstanding when you're doing something like conduct. signature strikes a drone strike is only as good as the intelligence that is behind the actual strike anyone who's worked in intelligence knows that intelligence doesn't quote unquote prove anything it's not evidence so drones hits what they aim to hit but if they're aimed at the wrong people then civilians are killed former u.s. ambassador cameron munter had said that one man's combatant was another man's chump who went to a meeting when leon panetta was director of the cia somebody memorably said if he if leon sees a few guys doing jumping jacks on the ground he thinks that's a terrorist training camp classified documents suggest u.s. officials don't always know exactly how many or who they're killing t

led invasion of iraq well a former cia. he worked in germany thinks the expulsion of the top intelligence official sends a dramatic signal expelling the cia chief of station is unprecedented i don't know of a single example of any nato country expelling the cia chief of station and so this is quite a significant move by the germans they're saying no more of this there's no question about it i think this one is different because i think it is it is maybe one or two too far it basically is the germans are saying that we have a high tolerance for the united states acting independently in our country but recruiting our government officials and turning them into spies is a step that we can't condone so that's i think it's a serious discussion going on but i as i said before i think the united states and germany have so much in common politically in every other way that eventually will blow over. and i'm glad to be petty and set off on a grand total of latin america this week while and when is aries his latest stop off the russia

having a style guide is funny enough and the document itself contains a lot of for instance the cia wants the phrase american imperialism to have quotes around it like it's a fictional thing that doesn't exist they also don't want anyone to use the word regime when talking about anything american or any of america's allies because they think it has the negative connotation they don't want the w capitalized in vietnam war because it was never officially declared as a small w we'll just make that whole thing go away but where the style guide really gets interesting is in its usage examples every style guide include sentences or phrases to illustrate the rules. the setting and the normally plane sentences like these run but the cia's usage examples are much more telling for instance to illustrate their rules for the word while they use the sentence while he hated to force he recognized the need for order to illustrate the difference between the words of facts with an a and e. fact with a nice the style guide uses the sentences the blow on the head affected john's vision the assailant e