the cia, lyndon b. johnson presidential library, and the university of texas at austin cohosted this event as part of a symposium entitled "the president's daily brief, delivering intelligence to the first customer." is about two hours and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. growth, director of the lbj president delivery. on behalf of the cia, the national record archives and records administration, and university of texas, it is my great privilege to welcome you to the president's daily brief, delivering intelligence to the first customer. 50 years ago president johnson in an address to the american business leaders said "a long axiom in my political thinking has been a man's judgment is no better than this information on any given subject." since its creation, the president's daily brief excerpt provide our commanders in chief with the intelligence that informs vital decisions related to all foreign and national security policy. in short these classified documents after presidents the tools they need to re

they are classified by the cia. they are just about his last day in office, leon panetta held a press conference announcing the release of these six documents. all formulas for secret inc. most recently, the national declassification center coordinated a multiagency activity across government to answer a white house request for declassified records responsive to the brazilian national truth commission. the desire for records relating to human rights abuses during 1964. vice president joe biden provided the first of several cd collections to the brazilian government last summer in the national declassification center is concluding this review in 2015 with a web release that also describes the impacts on americans abroad. the motto of the national declassification center is releasing all we can, protecting what we must. in that spirit, let me tell you that the work of the national declassification center goes on so that we avoid those backlogs that they were originally saddled with. finally, i'd like to say that the r

consulate and cia annex in benghazi.stated, "the security situation did not happen overnight because of a decision made by someone at the state department." he went on to criticize u.s. policy in libya. >> we owe to the diplomatic corps who serves our nation to start at the beginning, and that is what i shall do. the security threats in libya, including the unchecked extremist groups are armed to the teeth, exist because our nation's bird on a civil war, destroying the security and stability of libya. , libyadefends gaddafi was not in a meltdown before the war. in 2003, gaddafi reconciled with committed the of nations by giving up his nation's pursuit of nuclear weapons. at the time president bush said gaddafi's actions in our country and world safer. during uprisings across the middle east in the arm spring, gaddafi made threats against benghazi. based on those verbal threats, we intervened. authority,itutional might add. we bombed libya and destroyed their army and obliterated the police stations. al qaeda expanded its

but that's what the cia had in mind. that this motley crew of cuban exiles they put together to invade the island wasn't sufficient to unseat castro. but what they hoped and what they planned was that a young president kennedy, as this invasion was bogged down on the beaches of the bay of pigs, would be forced then to send in the marines and the u.s. air force to topple castro. amy: and then, of course, the cuban missile crisis, the closest we ever came to a nuclear war. >> well, but kennedy stood his ground and he didn't do that. and that was the beginning of his break, at the bay of pigs, between the cia and cuba -- and president kennedy. and then, yes, that became even more severe with the cuban missile crisis the following year. again, the military in this country and the cia thought that we could take, you know, castro out. during the cuban missile crisis, they were prepared to go to a nuclear war to do that. president kennedy thought people like curtis lemay, who was head of the air force, general curtis lemay, was

he's defending the actions of the cia. idea that it is necessary -- nefarious to engage in overthrowing governments is false. it is for the birds. now there are times -- there are times when the united states government feels that the development and another government such as in the vietnam situation is of a nature to imperil the safety and security, the peace of the world , and as the central intelligence agency to be its agent in that particular situation at no time has the cia engaged in any political activity or any intelligence activity. that was not approved at the highest level. amy: that is allen dulles in 1965. so talk about the history that is so intimately connected to us today, often countries -- their leaders have been overthrown, no this history in a way that americans don't know. >> allen dulles was a consummate liar and very adept at manipulating the american media. that particular interview was one of the ones that he got post some of the tougher questions by john chancellor nbc news. he went on to say, i

never. >> reporter: was he ever in the cia or attached to the cia? >> oh, he said he was. >> reporter: chris told barbara, jenelle's mom, he was watching their every move and was monitoring all that venom the victims were allegedly spreading on social media. >> he was watching these people on the computer. and calling her. >> reporter: in mountain city, tennessee, there is 2,500 people there. there's a guardian angel cia agent? no. >> reporter: police are rolling their eyes, too, and when they take a closer look at the computer they've seized from the house, a eureka moment. those e-mails from mr. cia man chris were all coming from an ip address that belonged to her daughter jenelle. >> every one of them pointed straight back at hospital road, mountain city, which was barbara and janelle's home address. >> reporter: that leaves the police to deduce only one thing -- there is no "chris" from the cia. he was a creation concocted by jenelle potter to convince her parents she was in danger. >> social media allowed jenelle potter to be someone that she wa

i'm the chief historian of the cia. and i've been currently working on an internal history of all of the presidential products. and i found it very interesting over the years to track how they have changed, how they have evolved, how they have responded to various policymakers' concerns, the presidents' concerns and such. and we need to take ourselves back to a period that is very different from the present. so much of what the agency does day to day is really focused around providing that daily product for the president. much of the agency constantly spends 24/7 and 365 practically dealing with feeding that president's eyes only product, the pdb. and we need to understand that back at the founding of the modern u.s. intelligence community in 1946-'47, it was a very different environment. the whole process was very almost laid back there was a sort of almost lackadaisical element to it in which briefs may or may not appear. the document may or may not get read. there simply was not the anxiety and the pace and the drive

the cia stayed in libya. the cia had a much bigger presence than the state department. despite the overall decline in stability. some might argue actually because of the overall decline in stability, it was thought to be even more important for the cia to stay there, and they also did not believe that their facility would be the subject of a deadly attack either. because i think sometimes -- >> ma'am, we -- >> -- sometimes the discussion gets pulled together, when really we had chris and sean dying at the state department compound, which we are discussing, and we had our other two deaths of tyrone woods and glen doherty, at the cia annex -- >> reclaiming my time for just a moment, and i do appreciate that, but if you talk to the cia contractors that were at the annex and you ask them how they were armed and equipped, and then if you would, or could, talk to the diplomat security agents that were at the facility, i think you will see that there was a big, big difference in the equipment that they had to protect theirself. but you knew of the two what you called major inc

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the cia stayed in libya. the cia had a much bigger presence than the state department. despite the overall decline in stability. some might argue actually because of the overall in stability it was thought to be thought to be even more important for the cia to stay there. they also did not believe their facility would the subject after deadly attack either because i think sometimes -- >> ma'am -- >> sometimes the discussion discussion gets pulled together when we had chris an sean dying at state department compound which we're discussing and we had our other two deaths of tyrone woods and glen doherty at the cia annex. >> reclaiming my time for just a minute. i do appreciate that, if you talked to the cia contractors that were at the annex and you asked them how they were armed and equipped. and then if you would, or could, talk to the diplomatic security agents at the facility, i think you will see there was a big, big difference in the equipment that they had to protect their self. but, you knew of the two, what you call, major incidents but you don't recollect the ot

. >> you were briefed and i think the cia between january and september of 2012 had over 4500 pages of intelligence. were you aware of how many pages of intelligence and i know you had a specific division, i guess, of the state department under you that was called intelligence and research. did they keep you up to speed on all these 400 cables or different things that they were getting? did they keep you up to speed on that that you were aware of them? >> congressman, i can't speak to specific reports but i can certainly agree with you that i was briefed and aware of the increasingly dangerous upsurge in militant activity in libya. >> so what did you do to make sure that our men and women over there were protected, knowing how much the threat had grown, especially in benghazi, because a lot of people say that really, in the summer of 2012, the security in benghazi was worse than it was during the revolution. >> well, congressman, with respect to not only the specific incidents that you referenced earlier, but the overall concerns about benghazi, i think i have stated previously there w

in it, she asks why former cia officer jeffrey sterling faced two decades in prison, while former ciadirector general david petraeus got two years probation for similar charges. radack writes -- "petraeus, who gave a far greater volume of classified and potentially harmful information to his mistress, was given a sweetheart plea deal and was never charged with anything. conveniently, his sweetheart plea deal was to a misdemeanor not under the espionage act. similarly, former cia directors leon e. panetta and john o. brennan, both of whom disclosed the identities of undercover operatives, were never charged." norman solomon, can you talk about this difference and how people are treated? >> this entire episode, which continues with jeffrey sterling, is part of a huge pattern of and then prosecution in the case of leon panetta, selective sentencing in terms of general david petraeus. and it shows how the entire judicial and executive branch process in terms of assessing a prosecuting classified leaks is just riddled with pollution and poisoned by political power. this administration, wor

>> they were independent contractors to the cia. so they weren't -- they worked with the cia.conspired with the cia, but they were independent contractors. >> so you think the agency is just going to hang them out to dry? >> what the government has done in past lawsuits that we have been involved in is assert what is called the state secrets privilege, and they basically said that any litigation of this case -- torture cases is harmful to u.s. national security interests, and will reveal means and methods of intelligence gathering, harm u.s. relations with foreign powers. there was a 6,000 page report that sets out the basis of our claims. it sets out who designed the torture program, and that our clients were tortured, it actually names them. so for the government in this case to step in and assert state secrets privilege, that would be absurd. the senate report has got extensive details of their involvement in designing the program and implementing it, and experimenting on 119 individuals. that's -- you know, it's unprecedented, that's a land mark report about the cia and th

you know, the deputy director of the cia who later became the acting director of the cia has written about this and testified about it and his account of this is somewhat interesting to recall right now, his account is for those, that first night we really didn't think it was the video but hearing a lot of different things and just didn't know. and that the next day we were hearing that this really probably was an orchestrated terrorist attack. what he does is leave a lot of room for confusion and the fact that they went to the video description, the video narrative first and there were these other inputs along the way. >> so how do you explain the former secretary of state clinton at the time like the very night telling her family we know it was al-qaeda, this was not 48 hours later even. >> i would not distinguish and we sort of had this debate today i would not distinguish between protesters and terrorists. the overlap between these two groups the real issue here is the intentionality of it and the american and other effort in libya to make this a more stable society terrorist fre

the cia had a much bigger presence than the state department. despite the overall decline in stability, some might argue actually because of the overall decline in stability, it was thought to be even more important for the cia to stay there. and they also did not believe that their facility would be the subject of a deadly attack either, because i think sometimes -- >> ma'am -- >> sometimes the discussion gets pulled together, when really we had chris and sean dying at the state department compound which we are discussing, and we had our other two deaths of tyrone woods and glenn dougherty at the cia annex. >> reclaiming my time for just a minute. i do appreciate that. if you talk to the cia contractors that were at the annex, and you ask them how they were armed and equipped, and then if you would or could talk to the diplomatic security agents that were at the facility, i think you will see that there was a big, big difference in the equipment that they had to protect themselves. but you knew of the two what you called major incidents but you

the cia, lyndon b. johnson presidential library, and the university of texas at austin cohosted this event as part of a symposium titled "the president's daily brief. it is just under one hour. >> our next speaker is a umnist of the al university of texas. hook 'em horns. graduate withn a degree in journalism. he went on to serve 37 years in the u.s. navy, where he became a navy seal and ultimately advanced to the rank of four srta -- four star admiral. admiral mcraven led a force of 69,000 men and women. he advised presidents, secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, and other top u.s. officials in the areas of u.s. foreign-policy and defense. in addition to many other operations, admiral mcraven headed up a special ops rate in 2001 that led to the killing of osama bin laden. briefing president obama in real-time as the operation was executed. the same year, he was named "time's" runner-up for person of the year. theral mcraven became chancellor of the university of texas system earlier this year.

>> i think the cia annex i had no responsibility for. so i cannot speak to what the decisions were with respect to the cia annex. that is something that i know other committees have -- >> but but acknowledge you were responsible for the temporary mission compound. >> yes, of course. but you put them together. i just wanted to clarify that i had no responsibility for the cia annex obviously. the compound in benghazi was neither an embassy nor a consulate. those are the only two facilities for which we would obtain a formal diplomatic notification, and those were the only kinds of facilities that we would have sought waivers for at the time because we were trying to, as has been testified to earlier, understand whether we were going to have a permanent mission or not. that means you have to survey available facilities, try to find a secure facility, and the standards that are set by the inner agency overseas policy board are the goals we try to drive for. but it is very difficult, if not impossible, to do that in the immediate aftermath of

the problem with the cia right now is when you apply for the cia, you do it on the internet. think is inherently unsafe. i mean, you get into the list. you hack into that particular site. and you've got everybody who has applied to the cia. or for that matter, most of the secret military services. >> all right, bob baer, thank you. >>> next, bernie sanders rejecting a big donation from a ceo, the ceo who jacked up prices on a life-saving drug by 5,000%. and that ceo is fighting back hard. that's next. and jeanne moos with cecil the lion's revenge, coming this halloween. welcome to today's working world. companies everywhere are working harder and investing more. but achieving the right outcomes has never been more difficult. xerox engineers a better way for people, process and technology to work together. improving how the world shops, travels, pleases customers, learns, banks, and stays healthy, so... life works better. work can work better. with xerox. it's more than tit's security - and flexibility. it's where great ideas and vital data are stored. with centurylink you get

the second attack happened on the cia, and where he went? >> no, i do not. i don't know where he was when i reached and spoke with him. >> he was home, operating out of a skiff. and after the attack, he continued to operate out of that skiff, which is why it would be a far more productive investigation if we actually had the cia director and dod, and instead of trying to pick apart every single solitary thing that you did, sometimes going even before and after that. if we were actually trying to get to the truth of this, we would have a broader array of people to talk to to get there. instead of picking you apart in every conceivable turn. we have gone back and forth. and i just want to make one other point, i like you and i respect you, but this whole going back twice now to the sum, having implied that this was because of a video, somehow you substitute the word sum for i, and think that there's no distance, and that's mind-boggling. why did you say that it was because of the video? well, i didn't. why did you say it was because of the vid

the cia and where he went? >> no, i do not. i don't know where he was when i reached him and spoke with him. >> he was home operating out of a skiff. and after the attack he continued to operate out of that skiff. which again is why this would be a far more productive investigation if we actually had the cia director and dod instead of trying to pick apart every single solitary thing you've said or did during the course of this -- sometimes even going before and after that. if we actually were trying to get to the truth of this, we would have a broader array of people to talk to so that we could get there instead of picking you apart and every, every conceivable turn. we've gone back and forth. i just want to make one other point. congressman jordan, i like you, i have a great deal of respect for you, but this whole going back twice now to the "some" have implied that this was, because of a video, somehow you just substitute the word "some" for "i" and think there's no difference whatsoever in that sentence and

the details come from this once-classified cia technical report.t explains that in 1984, four years before lockerbie, the cia uncovered briefcase bombs in the hands of libyan operatives in north africa. semtex explosive inside the suitcase was detonated with a custom-made firing device using motorola pagers. and these pagers were ultimately traced back to mebo and edwin bollier. there's a whole cia report on these devices. >> mm-hmm. >> dornstein: they find a briefcase, and semtex. >> mm-hmm. >> dornstein: and so they're analyzing this whole thing. >> this was in '84. >> dornstein: right, i mean, if you had known this guy seems to be supplying the libyans with devices to do bad things, would that have colored your dealings with him at all? >> yeah, it would have certainly given me a little bit different look at who this guy is and what he might be up to. >> dornstein: well, actually, so this report makes clear that the cia, i think, through the swiss police, told him "knock it off" about the pagers back in 1984. >> yeah, it says that he was contact

libya time a six person cia rescue squad assembles at the cia annex one mile from the consulate.ading to the consulate. the cia rescue squad conducts local militias and libyan intelligence service. they see they needs vehicles with 50 caliber machine guns. no one responds. at the same time the alert goes out at the state department announcing an attack, the cia security team taking heavy fire heads to the consulate. 10:30 p.m. libya time, ambassador stevens and diplomat sean smith take refuge in the consulate compound. the militants set fire to the consulate. the smoke killing ambassador smith in minutes. meanwhile back in washington, d.c. at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. defense secretary leon panetta, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey attending a previously scheduled meeting with president obama. at 5:11 washington time. 11:11 p.m. in libya. american surveillance drone arrives overhead. on the ground in benghazi, the cia team at the consulate puts a group of state department officers into a vehicle and seconds it back to the cia annex. now the fight shifts to the c

or a cia or d.o.d.force nearby, a marine fast team does it have to go through security or have you? >> there is an example out of the benghazi attack. there was a pre-existing understanding between the diplomatic compound and the cia annex. there was no need for anybody at the compound to call washington to alert the cia annex. they immediately contacted the cia annex and they sprang into action to try to come to the assistance of our team at the compound. so we are trying to have more pre-existing arrangements like that and that goes to your question, if there are assets in the region how do we plan for contingencies so that they can be immediately triggered and try to respond. i obviously spoke to the white house. i spoke to general petraeus. i spoke to lots of other people that evening trying to get whatever help we could get. we did get a surveillance plane above the location but it took some time to get there. it had to be diverted. >> an unarmed droen. >> uav. so we asked for everything we could g

the cia and where he went? >> no, i do not. i don't know where he was when i reached him and spoke with him. >> he was home operating out of a skiff. and after the attack he continued to operate out of that skiff. which again is why this would be a far more productive investigation if we actually had the cia director and dod instead of trying to pick apart every single solitary thing you've said or did during the course of this -- sometimes even going before and after that. if we actually were trying to get to the truth of this, we would have a broader array of people to talk to so that we could get there instead of picking you apart and every, every conceivable turn. we've gone back and forth. i just want to make one other point. congressman jordan, i like you, i have a great deal of respect for you, but this whole going back twice now to the "some" have implied that this was, because of a video, somehow you just substitute the word "some" for "i" and think there's no difference whatsoever in that sentence and

there was a preexisting understanding between the diplomatic compound and the cia an ex. and there was no need for anybody at the compound to call washington to alert the cia an n ex. they strang into action to spring to the system for our compound. so we're trying to have more preexisting arrangements like that, and that goes to your question. if there are assets in the region, how do we plan for king contingencies so they can be immediately trying to respond. i spoke to the white house, and i spoke to lots of other people to try to get whatever help we could get. we did get a surveillance plane above the location, but it took some time to get there, it had to be diverted. >> it was an unarmed drone, correct? >> yes, it was an unarmed uav, right. we asked for everything we could get, and everybody immediately tried to provide it. but i think now there's more awareness that maybe we should be doing these scenarios ahead of time to try to figure out what could be done without having to reinvent it every time. >> thank you, i'm out of time, mr. chairman. >> thank you, the c

diplomatic and cia facilities in benghazi, libya. we will show you part of the 8.5 hour benghazi hearing today. the rest, tomorrow at noon on c-span. the first part of the hearing is about 4.5 hours. representative gowdy: good morning. the committee will come to order. the chair notes the presence of a quorum. good morning. welcome, madam secretary. welcome to each of you. this is a public hearing of the benghazi select committee. just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. madam secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but i want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any reason or for no reason. if you or anyone, just simply alert me, then we will take a break and it can be for any reason or for no reason. to our guests, we are happy to have you here. the witness deserves to hear the questions and the members deserve to hear the answers. so proper decorum must be observed at all times -- no reaction to questions or answers, no disruptions. some committees take an incremental approach to decorum. i

the head of the cia? bye.y the way, keep in mind, tom, these are the guys you and your cripto fashists want to be spying on us. you have been fried, man. >> i will stay silent on that one. >> bernie sanders is a college socialist. >> you said both parties do this. they can't do it with sanders because he is authentic. you said the same thing, but you said it was not the party,. sanders is not really -- he doesn't want democratic social limb. he wants a social democracy. he doesn't want to turnover production to the people. he wants -- a social democracy, basically what we have here, he wants it to be more so. >>> i was gonna say, aren't we always a social democracy? >> yes. >> you are saying you agree with the guy and he wants to tax more. >> he wants the bigger part bigger. >> like a socialist. >> except it is not socialist. >> he is to the left of everyone in the party including obama. he is as left as you can get in the united states. >> and still be if a major party. >> and still be in the democratic party

same view on the cia's part, of course they're not here. but would you like to comment on what the full recommendation of the tanzania arb was and the very similar process process used in our intel jens agencies. >> thank you congressman schiff. you make an excellent point. i'm aware of department director morell's testimony. it's very similar to what i've said here and similar to what general petraeus would have said. issues about security, whether we're talking state department or cia or any other agency are not made at the level of secretary, director, it is made at the appropriate level of the security officials, and i think what mike morell told you in the intelligence committee investigation you would hear from anyone in the government at a high level who has to deploy americans around the world. we see that with the defense department. you know, we see breaches of security on our military bases and we know that everybody is struggling to get it right and as i have said, the vast majority of cases our security professionals do and the

the cia and where he went? >> no, i do not. i don't know where he was when i reached him and spoke with him. >> he was home operating out of a skiff. and after the attack he continued to operate out of that skiff. which again is why this would be a far more productive investigation if we actually had the cia director and dod instead of trying to pick apart every single solitary thing you've said or did during the course of this -- sometimes even going before and after that. if we actually were trying to get to the truth of this, we would have a broader array of people to talk to so that we could get there instead of picking you apart and every, every conceivable turn. we've gone back and forth. i just want to make one other point. congressman jordan, i like you, i have a great deal of respect for you, but this whole going back twice now to the "some" have implied that this was, because of a video, somehow you just substitute the word "some" for "i" and think there's no difference whatsoever in that sentence and

and it was -- they were forced to take refuge with our cia colleagues at the cia annex and remember, the fest team is not an armed reaction force. that is not what a fest team does. >> ma'am, i know that. >> we had an armed reinforcements coming from tripoli -- >> that was the only tool that you had to get people over there yourself. not the d.o.d. >> what -- i'm sorry, congressman, i mean, look -- >> evidently, it has served its purpose from being put in in a different place it responded to but i want to talk to you just a little bit about your e-mails and that is that i think you said it was october that you received a letter that ask you and former secretary of states to present all their e-mails, is that correct? >> that's my memory, yes. >> okay. now in august, the state department met with your attorneys to talk about the lack of the e-mails that they had. did you know that? >> i didn't at the time, no. >> you didn't know that they were meeting, that the state department was meeting with your attorneys? >> not at that time, and as you also recall the state department was beginn

there is no chris from the cia. he was a creation, concocted by jenelle potter to convince her parents she was in danger. potter to be someone she wasn't. >> reporter: she invented this character. >> exactly. exactly. when she created chris, she could be as hateful as she wanted to be. >> reporter: even though she didn't pull the trigger, jenelle could be the mastermind behind this scheme. that's what authorities call at that when people are used to manipulate people. in this instance, with deadly consequences. so she's catfishing her mom from the same house, from the same computer. >> she bought it hook, line and sinker. >> reporter: how is that possible? >> she was feeding barbara's delusions. so barbara ignores the signs that something is amis here. >> reporter: it's beyond absurd. >> in all catfish cases, the victim of a catfishing is guilty to some degree of being nai ve. >> reporter: her motive? according to the prosecutors who put her on trial for murder, it was jealousy. >> jenelle potter had a crush or some

the cia and where he went? >> i do not. i don't know where he was when i reached him and spoke with him. >> he was home operating out of a skiff and after the attack he continued to operate out of that skiff which again is why this would be a far more productive investigation if we actually had the cia director and d.o.d. instead of trying to pick apart every single solitary thing you said or did during the course of this and sometimes before and after that. if we actually were trying to get to the truth of this we would have a broader array of people to talk to to get there instead of picking you apart at every conceivable turn. you know, we have gone back and forth. i want to make one other point. congressman jordan, i like you, i have a great deal of respect for you but this going back twice now to the some have implied that this was because of a video somehow you just substitute the word some for i and think there is no difference whatsoever in that sentence. that's mind boggling. and then to badger over an