mike pompeo the cia director was attending several briefings. i don't know if it was daily but often so we need to be careful. not like he walks in and tells the president here are all the cia secrets. i think your overall point is sound, rachel, which is that if he and the career professionals at the cia's counter intelligence center in congestion with the conversations with the fbi had concerns about the trustworthiness of mike flynn, somebody in the room, they would have talked to the president about it and the ordinary course the cia director or somebody else would have gone to the president and said we got this issue about mike flynn. it turns out that as of january 26th, we know the president was informed by the white house counsel because sally yates had gone to him. it was in my view a duty of the president to allow mike flynn not just to be in the intelligence briefings but be involved in any national security conversation if we thought if the united states government thought he could be blackmailed during the 18 days. >> on the point o

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it concerns cia director mike pompao. he was well liked in the house and definitely seen as a bombastic trump enthusiasts. trump loyal. profile in the trump russia investigation and the obstruction of justice investigation into the president. despite the fact that mike pompao turns up in the center of the scandals. now one of them relates to one of the key allegations against the president concerning his possible obstruction of justice. this is an allegation resulted in hours of closed-door classified session testimony before the senate intelligence committee. we're also told that this allegation has caused bob mu d mueller to schedule closed-door interviews. "the washington post"s report on march 22 he asked two top intelligence officials who he appointed to their jobs. the director of national intelligence dan coats and the cia director mike. the president then asked the director of national intelligence dan coats if he could intervene with the fbi. if he could get the fbi to stop its russia-related investigation into m

right it's not always assumed it just went away or i would assume that you know i mean you saw the cia spying on congress all in efforts to avoid keep the congressional report on torture it had not been sent but now for course you know some years later one seems to forget that what they're supposed to trust the intelligence communities with everything now what's interesting about this is this isn't like you know us sponsored torture like we saw when tom the mole in the black sites this is basically the u.a.e. . you know the yemeni government forces just torturing people they think are involved with al qaeda these secret prisons are apparently allegedly all over southern yemen they're inside military bases the reports there at an airport private billows. you know they're even the night clubs. there are even a nightclub apparently and some detainees that we've been flown to a member of the brace across the red sea in your trip to the main one of the main detention complexes or at the ryanair rearm airport in the southern city you will call a former inmates described they heard described

was -- cia was there.hrlichman directed the cia to tell the fbi to hold off a bit on the investigation of watergate because it might compromise cia secrets. that messageered on behalf of the cia but when he went back to langley he checked to see whether it was in fact true, and discovered the cia had no participation as an organization in the watergate break-in and that it had no secrets to worry about being disclosed. this sets up a very big obstruction of justice problem for richard nixon that when it was ultimately resolved over a year ago -- padilla year later, chris -- a year later, precipitated his resignation. richard next tape recorded his oval office conversations because alexander butterfield testifies to that before the senate watergate committee. it will be possible to tell objectively whether richard nixon obstructed justice, whether he gave the order to have the cia shut off the fbi investigation. the watergate committee and archibald cox immediately requested takes because they are what is e

steve, i want to start with you, as someone who was in the cia, do you assume the cia director wouldhat point? you know, he had just been confirmed, but would he have known whether or not there were concerns in the intelligence community about michael flynn? >> well, to set aside one issue right off the top, it's been asked whether or not it's possible that the cia as an organization knew that perhaps the director did not know, that he wasn't told by his own people, i don't find that very convincing at all. it's difficult to imagine a situation where pompeo would not have known that situation had the cia had it. but the problem is, what are we talking about in terms of what we know? there's a spectrum of possibilities of factual information information and a lot of loose language in terms of red flags and compromise. on the one side, the lighter side of it, you know, the meetings with the russian kislyak, how many were there? that's on the lighter side. on the darker side of what might have happened, you know, was flynn -- this troubling pattern with mike flynn, going to russia, taki

it set off alarm bells at the cia. cia operations officer sam faddis, who ran a kill/capture team, was assigned the case. >> headquarters is extremely, extremely interested. i mean, the number one time-sensitive priority, as of june '02, when i left headquarters, was go collect on this islamic extremist enclave along the iran/iraq border. >> narrator: it didn't take long for faddis to find zarqawi and learn what was going on in the camp. >> we literally had guys that were working for us that were inside the camp. they're working on chemical and biological weapons. they were doing a lot of work with cyanide-based things. >> narrator: at cia headquarters, it was a threat they could not ignore if american troops were to invade iraq. >> if we took saddam out, zarqawi was going to cause a lot of problems. he was someone who we would have wanted dead if we had the opportunity and the wherewithal to do it. >> narrator: and sam faddis had a plan to do just that. >> i mean, a handful of aircraft tomorrow, with the specificity t

but he was also receiving money under different assume range from the cia. and even interpol girl was very stressed but the one person one people who was karl was working for was no it's very intelligence at the pentagon and that's who was controlling the whole regarding the intelligence gathering and. i know all the time it. didn't give you know steve there were a lot and i was just afraid that i was introduced later that i was working for the houston plan at the white house and. he was an organization it was being. organized by the presidents of and manned i think it was tom used and it was somewhat thinned out the intelligence agencies with the see. just like in john kennedy's murder john kennedy's. he. shot where was involved with the water and he was the guy that called the burglars and water right so that's what's so interesting about the story was that software actually people always question he was he was actually working extra hours putting over time and it was like saturday night when. all the people that were involved with software in the car thin

the cia holds that information. if they're being cavalier about somebody who has been compromised by a foreign power still getting access to tons of top level intelligence, that's a different level of worry than if it's some, you know, novice group of branding people in the white house. the times reported that at the start of this week. right after that report on wednesday, democratic congressman elijah cummings, top democrat on the oversight committee, he wrote to white house chief of staff reince priebus demanding to know how the white house had handled the issue of mike flynn's security clearance. after they had been formally notified by the justice department that flynn was a security risk. we have posted cummings' letter at nadoblock.com. detailed, granular. times, dates, people, places. it's going to be one of the things that ends up being an important reference document if nothing else. if mike flynn and the white house handling him of national security advisor stays at the center of these inquiries into the

it is all self-motivated. >> reporter: he was hired at the cia in 1976. a kept theme throughout his creek -- consistent theme throughout his career, north korea. 4th testane month. >> reporter: should we be more worried than we are? >> they are making progress. north korea is a hard target for the intelligence community. it is hard to try to recruit agents inside north korea. far more than iran. >> i am a smart person. i don't have to be told the same thing every single day for the next 8 years. >> reporter: president donald trump made it clear he doesn't trust the cia. >> do you remember when he linked the intelligence community, cia to the nazis? that was hugely, hugely damaging to the people -- the morale -- career people at cia. >> reporter: is there fear that between the administration and the cia this could effect our national security? >> well, it could. it is corros prevent morale. -- corrosive for morale. what does he really think of us and is he going to ignore us. >> this thing is a made up story. >> reporter: president trump denounced intellig

the cia holds that information. if they're being cavalier about somebody who has been compromised by a foreign power still getting access to tons of top level intelligence, that is a different level of worry than if it is some november is group of brand-new people in the white house. so the times reported that at the start of the week. right after that report on wednesday, elijah cummings wrote to the white house and wrote to white house chief of staff reince priebus demanding to know how the white house had handled the issue of mike flynn's security clearance. after they've been formally notified by the justice department that flynn was a security risk. we have posted cummings letter tonight at nano blog.com in case you want to see it, detailed and gr grabular and detailed times an places and it will be an important reference document if nothing else. if mike flynn and the white house handling him as national security adviser stays at the center of the inquiries into the russian attack. >>> in addition to cummings

despite concern that flynn could be black mailed he was privy to cia secrets. that tells you a big part of what they're reporting tonight. quote, mr. pompeo was sworn in three days before sally yates went to the white house. he testified last month that he can dp didn't know what was said at that sally yates meeting. by that time c rks airks officials had attended meetings with fbi agents about mr. flynn and reviewed the transcripts of flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador, according to several current and former american suttecurity officials. they knew that they were looking at a quote compromised situation. a situation where the national security adviser could be black mailed from the russians. continuing from the times report tonight, quote, mr. trump waited 18 days from that warning from sally yates before he fired mike flynn. during that period mime pompeo, director of the cia continued to brief mike flynn and the president. he continued to deliver the president's daily brief, that highly classified intelligence briefing every day for every on

the cia holds that information. if they're being cavalier about somebody who has been compromised by a foreign power still getting access to tons of top level intelligence, that's a different level of worry than if it's some, you know, novice group of brand new people in the white house. so "the times" reported that at the start of this week. right after that report on wednesday, congressman elijah cummings wrote to the white house chief of staff, writes priebus, demanding to know how the white house handled the issue of mike flynn's security clearance after they had been formally notified by the justice department that flynn was a security risk. we have post the cummings' letter tonight at maddow.com. i think it will become a sort of reference document, if nothing else. if mike flynn and the white house handling him as national security adviser stay informed about the russian attack. it raises questions about flynn and why he was able to listen in on the most sensitive intelligence our government has. in addition t

move the fbi director over to the cia. interesting for the cia. but now a big hole to fill at the fbi. and they are being an opening at the top of the fbi, that was a very, very rare thing at the time. i mean, there haven't been that many people who have run the fbi. for almost the first half century of its existence, the fbi had exactly one director, its founding director jay edgar hoover. hoover died in office in 1972 after being fbi director for more than 40 years. so when hoover died, nixon got to appoint his replacement who was then the only -- only the second person to ever hold the job. his name was clarence kelley, the second director of the fbi. he served for about five years. then the third director was william webster. he was appointed by president carter in 1978. that, william webster, that's the guy who reagan moved over from the fbi to run the cia after his campaign manager there got a brain tumor and died. and that meant in 1987, at the end of ronald reagan's time in office, the fbi needed a new director for only the fourth time in

this is the guy who would run the cia, if approved by the senate, nominated by mr. trump. he has called for edward snowden to be executed. so, what do you make of the guy who may run the cia who at least heretofore has called for edward snowden the traitor to be executed. >> you're jumping way ahead of me. the movie was based on the idea that this congressman might see it but they haven't given any thought. they have an ideological stance and you're saying he's preset, should be executed. trump said the same thing at one point a few years ago. you know, life is much more complicated than that and you should be able to change your views as you go through life. >> sure. >> this fellow who presumably will get appointed to the cia is also advocating guantanamo opening again, more prisoners, and also torture. he seems to be fine with torture. so, it's all going in one direction, which is pretty rigid. it's another america that's going back to the dark side of mr. cheney, dick cheney. >> president obama was asked just on friday about edward snowden, as you probably already know.

the cia becoming more operationally potent in the field? >> i hope so. it is fervently my expectation that the tradition, right, we came out of the oss and wild bill donovan. it is fervently my hope that i can spur this organization, and frankly, don't even have to spur it. the warriors are here, release the bridle and allow this agency to do the things that will serve and protect america in ways that frankly the last administration just didn't let them do. we're going to do it. we're going to get out there. you can't win if you don't take risk. the president has directed the cia to win and we're going to do it. >> on that note, director mike pompeo, thank you for the time today. >> thank you very much, hugh. >> for more of the conversation, visit msnbc.com. send me your comments via twitter. my account there is the same as the name of this show, hugh hewitt. we'll be right back. for mom" per roll more "doing chores for dad" per roll more "earning something you love" per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer... ...than the leadin

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and the other is i had worked at cia, and what's the worst thing -- what's your worst nightmare at cia? anybody? >> [inaudible] >> finding your friend's a spy. that's the worst thing x. if you look at some of the recent spy literature, a couple of those books about aldrich james who spied for the soviets in the '80s and early '90s, they're written by people who worked at the, worked with him. they shared cubicles and what not. so i felt kind of like them. i felt like, well, you know, this guy who had been my companion of a sort for all these years, now he's working for the bad guys. he's kind of the rick ames. .. >> now should i look at ernest hemming way now? the fact he signed up with the nkvd in 1940 and '4 and i couldn't find anybody. there's one book which has a thin chapter that says this is a anomaly in hemingway's life. get looking and i didn't find any secondary sources, so you go back to primary sources, and i started looking for primary sources that would help to tell the story, and i evenly got to a point -- eventually got to a point where i could satisfy myself about the s

the author of this piece is a former cia analyst with us tonight.thank you so much for being with us. the first question for those who have yet to read your piece, what are we americans not seeing that could be damaging or revealing, and what are people in your line of work reading those tweets looking for? >> so more than anything, an intelligence analyst looks for information on world leaders that adds to the information that they are collecting through classified means. so what is so different about trump's tweets and the advantage that it gives to foreign intelligence agencies is that he is doing this in an unfiltered way and openly in a public forum. now typically, intelligence agencies collect information and they do it covertally a covertl sometimes they're risking their lives to give this information. but this is very unusual as far as a world leader. >> so your problem is not that he is tweeting about being in florida, or new jersey, or at the white house. most days -- lately he has been relitigating the russia case. he has gone after his p

it would be shocking if cia officials hadn't told them. so to get to the second question of whether those briefings were appropriate, i got a simple answer. the question is not whether he gives briefings. general flynn at that point, presume he has a top-secret security clearance. what's the cia director supposed to say? he's got a security clearance, mr. president, but i've chosen not to brief him? the question is more broadly, was it appropriate for general flynn to maintain his clearance at that point. i think as long as he's good the clearance, you got to talk to him because otherwise the onus is on the cia director to say i don't care if he has a clearance or not, i decided personally not to give him information. that doesn't make sense. >> the president made a political decision to put him in the room, that the president has made a decision, it is not for the cia director to weigh in one way or another. we have these russia briefings today on capitol hill. special counsel, bob mueller, meeting with the senate. we're about to hear fro

claims, and it response in great detail to the cia's defense of the program.n top of that, we know from feinstein's cover letter to the executive summary that there are details -- detailed chapters on the 190 detainees. this might be useful in individual cases, might be useful in the sentencing proceeding of our client majid khan who cooperated and cut a deal in the habeas corpus arguing for his freedom for guled hassan duran, our other client. described asis distractible and overly critical of the cia and the bush -- george w. bush administration. at one point, he called the report nothing more than "a footnote." in history could you explain why he thinks republicans are so averse to releasing this report and what we can speculate is in the report that might be particularly critical of them? >> that is the million-dollar question. this is the -- 6000 plus footnote. the product of intensive labor by senate staffers. unanimously. it is mysterious why they want to bury it. i think the only clue we have is what feinstein has said about what is in there which is p

two o'clock in the morning we ended up capturing we weren't allowed to say in the book the cia would allow us to say exactly how many people were captured but it was many dozens of people so that was highly unusual what was even more unusual though is you know we were very specific with our pakistani friends that we had to take him alive and as soon. he climbed to the roof of his safe house to try to jump to the roof of the neighboring house to escape the pakistanis just opened fire on him and shot him three times with an a k forty seven they shot him in the fi the growing in the stomach and the doctor that night who saved his life told me that he had never seen wounds so severe where the patient lived but he was a strong young man and he pulled through while this incredible joe said while while stationed at the guantanamo bay prison you saw firsthand the imprisonment abs that bedo with his. what is his treatment there typical for prisoners at guantanamo bay at and at the time as a former marine as an army and army sergeant did did the treatment of the beta bother you at all well the

cia concessions from prosecuting wikileaks to hiding torture" your response?> i don't think truck needed to make concessions. his statements about torture seem sort of crazy when we think back to the bipartisan consensus against it at earlier times. he may be crazy like a fox. the polling data since the middle of the bush administration shows consistently the public is unfamiliar with the idea that torture does not work and that goals does evangelicals supported not because a big it works, but because they think it is justifiable punishment. there you understand evil genius of trump's campaign statement that, sure, it works, and even if it doesn't, they deserved it anyway. amy: before we go, you have been talking about the origins of isis. >> with everything in the news lately, it is important to remember something that got buried when it was first reported on right when the torture report summary came out 25 of the14, which is 27 top leaders of isis were all held together by the u.s. in a camp, the guantanamo-like detention facility where we held both religio

we know the cia had those concerns.there were 21 days between when he was confirmed to when flynn was fired. as you also know from what we've been told, he did not tell trump. neither one of those are great options if you're the cia, if you're this administration. there is nothing illegal there, obviously, but there is an issue over, you know, what exactly is going on there. what were the politics around this, and that's something that's really still outstand sglg it is a very serious question. and it also raises the question about how this is getting wider in some ways and not narrower when you hear about more names and more questions. >> and you have multiple committees right now in congress looking into this. >> plus mueller, yeah. >> and you have director mueller in and he's staffing up and putting senator people on it. look, the best thing for president trump to do, i mean, i think the best thing for him to do is to really open up the books and say, listen, get this over as quick as possible, instead of going on tw

congressman will heard, a former undercover cia officer. he's the representative for the 23rd congressional district of texas which includes 800 miles of the u.s./mexico border in washington. on the committee for homemade land security and as a chairman of the information technology subcommittee on the oversight and government reform committee. and nicholas rasmussen, prior to becoming nctc director he served with the national security counsel staff as special assistant to the president and senior director for counter terrorism where he was responsible for providing staff support to the president, the national homeland security advisor on counter terrorism policy and strategy. he also previous served as director for original affairs in the office for combatting terrorism. flint, michigan. was this an individual who was on any of our watch lists? >> first, it's probably too early to say. i would just say that any law enforcement investigation you know more on day two than you knew on day one. and you'll know more on day ten than you knew on

what the church committee found is the stuff, the cia, special unit of cia collected information on 7,000 americans and 6,000 groups engaged in political activism. the nsa copied an andsed as many as 150 telegram going in and out of the u.s. each month which actually seems totally quaint compared to what the nsa collects in terms of scale. back then that was pretty shocking, perhaps most infamously the fbi bugged martin luther king, jr.'s hotel room in order to get evidence of extra marital affairs and get to commit suicide. that rule was that intelligence and law enforcement agencies could not collect information about americans unless they had individualized fact-base suspicion of illegal activity. depending on how intrusive the surveillance were, they had to get a washington or a subpoena but at the minimum there had to be reasonable suspicion of wrong doing. the foreign intelligence surveillance act was one of these laws. if there was an american on one end of the communication, the government had to apply to a special court. by the way, if it was foreign to foreign, they didn't. this

has been hacking into home wife iraq since two thousand and seven that's not all the cia reportedly used that hack as a listening device and for more on this developing story we're joined by cyber security expert and c.e.o. capital john mcafee welcome john. thank you very much and so first i want to go back to alexia's report i mean we just heard about a mass of information being put out there roughly terror twenty five terabytes worth of information being access without a password i mean just to be clear this information was not stolen by hackers it was actually there and without a password and i mean with so many of us having passwords on our phone how is this even possible. well hacking happens all the time the thing that concerns me is not so much the fact that the information is available all of this information you can buy from google what concerns me is how did they get this information my phone number my address my age my marital status my preferences whether or not i believe in obamacare what do i feel about immigration what do i feel about our national policy every single

he didn't just run with what brennan presented him, the former cia director. he instructed the other intelligence chiefs to go out there and confirm what the cia had shown him in early august. so the same information that was presented to obama was then presented in early january to trump. initially, he sounded like he was receptive, that maybe he was convinced based on what he was told in that early january meeting. but since then, you can see through his social media commentary and public statements that this skepticism is back, seems to be back. >> but you can't read your reporting on this and not be alarmed at the extent of russia's intervention, the high level support of it within russia itself, and seemingly the lack of interest by the current president in that russian intervention. obviously, there's a lot of issues, he's arguing there was no collusion. he feels that he's being unfairly tarred with that. but just the very fact of the intervention, you have both jeff sessions and former director comey testifying that they haven't had any conversations wi

did turn him away -- >> it was the cia, right? >> the reason i understood that they turned him away, the officer at the time -- and i know who it was, i won't name him -- thought that this was just historical,ling you know, this was trash. this was -- >> oh, my -- >> and probably not of interest. [laughter] >> he didn't have much of a career, did he? >> it wasn't that they disbelieved him. and i -- >> he's director now. >> took his story to the british, and i understand there was a woman who received him, and he told her his story, and she said, oh, sit down, wouldn't you like some tea. [laughter] they realized the importance of that trove of information. let me ask you one question. i was struck by the fact that when you first came, i think it was when you first came to the west, you commented that you were struck by all the colors. >> yep. >> but what really was the impact of the western way of life, the quality of life? it must have had an extraordinary impact. i always felt that people who came from the east to the west, it wo

the cia has fired some of its work is off today hijacks a vending machine with the last story and this break. the recent spat between the gulf states has highlighted yet another middle eastern conflict while turkey is siding with qatar on iran again saudi arabia the long running tensions between the sunni's into the open wanted and cry jump into the fray instead of trying to pull the strings from a distance. combat now your love of junk food could cost you your job well at least if you push it to fall that's the lesson to be learned from a recent scandal that's rocked the cia officer my girlfriend says santiago explains . big new cia contractors gooden still snacks without getting caught the contractors were working for the cia developed a special payment not that they steal thirty thousand more for vending machine junk and we're doing it for about six months until they got busted all in the scheme was quite elaborate going to eat the classified office of the inspector general report they unplug the machines from the net and use special blank prepaid cards to retrieve the snacks for fr

he knows by saying the cia could be involved. the people that support him from other countries, they know when they hear that that it is believable to them. that is their mind set. jeremy, i want to turn to james comey's testimony or set to testify this coming thursday before the senate intel committee. this time he is there as a former fbi director. how much do you think he is actually going to say? >> it is worth noting also that he is testifying for the first time since we learned jared kushner withheld and did not disclose his contact with russian officials during the transition. it will be interesting to see the senators probe him on that subject. i don't know how much he will be willing to give up on that. i'm actually interested less in what comey has to say than in what donald trump's response to comey is. a president who has shown very little ability to restrain himself when it comes to responding to comey. comey seems to push certain buttons with trump like few others do. i don't know he will be able to help himself fro

i was briefed on the men of the general counsel of the cia.ersonally briefed with one staffer in the room. we all thought we would be attacked again. we were all extremely worried about the safety of the country. response to that was to write a letter then classified and has now been declassified to the general counsel saying i wanted to know what policy guidance he was given about those techniques. the intelligence community does not make policy they present intelligence to policymakers to make policy. i wrote that letter because bynkly i was quite shocked what was on the list that i was briefed about. i never received a response. the bush administration and the first term chose basically to operate under that commander-in-chief authority greater his article to authority. he does have those and they are important. they did not go through congress and we had to struggle. getwill remember this to the memos. we never got them from the office of legal counsel and the justice department. not on my watch, we never got them. the information we neede

i am not saying the entire cia programme was justifiable.h a handgun, a power drill. they did things that were completely not authorised, like keeping people's elbows together and taking them to their head and taping them up. in my view, that violates the law because it does not go along with thejustice department. and then the detainees, iraqi detainees, being leashed up in guantanamo bay and people being detained without legal process and so on. obviously you are not part of that. but nevertheless you could be seen as part of this whole programme which, in some people's minds, really does denote... i can understand people thinking that way. and i accept there are people that think that way. you know? i don't know how to respond to it beyond that. i believe there are people who think that way. a lot of it comes from ignorance. some of it is based on the mistaken notion that we can somehow make the islamists who are attacking us like us. that if we just spent more time with the islamists, trying to convince them that... i mean, i spent years

congresswoman talking about completely convinced that the cia introduced crack into l.a. and then right across america. well i think that was the funding you know that was the whole all of a no thing which was funding the contra war and massive amounts of cocaine was shipped out of nicaragua and mainly dispersed in the ghetto areas south central being the first stopping off point to destroy communism in central america but then you're talking about whitney's brother taking that was heroin but it was crack with whitney houston it was crying of course it went right up america wasn't just sound central conscious decision not the dilv into the cointelpro cia bad thing is there are great with me he is a great different film. which will cause very careful coverage i mean i think it's a hard pill for american public to swallow you want frightened off it because it was a very low ebb i was lee doug and i was not up to all frightened off from it i mean i've sort of slightly touched on it on the south central film i remember when i was doing the film about death row records and beg

the cia captures putin's instructions to hurt hillary clinton and try

the cia obtained precise instruction from putin. this, again, came from a very sensitive source of information. we are withholding some details of that per request of the cia and other government agencies that want to, of course, protect their ability to continue to get that kind of information. and so whatthis was, was as close to a smoking gun evidence as you can get. and yet it really wasn't enough for obama and his top aides. they instructed the cia to work with the nsa and work with the fbi to come up with what's known as a high-confidence assessment which does not actually come together until late september. >> and that, of course, is another big part of what is so fascinating about the article today. what the obama administration did and did not do, and in cases now there's deep regret over what they did not do amongst some democrats and some people in the white house. one source quoting to your article, the hardest thing about my entire time in government to defend. i feel like we sort of choked. that's from a former senior

cia developed a special payment method to steal thirty thousand more for a vending machine junk food and were doing it for about six months until they got busted all in the scheme was quite elaborate going to eat the classified office of the inspector general report they unplug the machines from the net and use special blank prepaid cards to retrieve the snacks for free wow so a cia contractor with annual salary ranges from about sixty thousand to one hundred sixty thousand dollars had the desire to go to such lengths putting their careers on the line all to eat read junk food at the office social media couldn't resist. and the funny thing here is once the perpetrators were caught gave their badges in and were taken to jail the department of justice was not hungry enough for justice and did not press charges perhaps feeling sympathy for starving staff middle class until go r.t. . all the construction of one of the two take a shit story stream pipeline leg says and it is deep sea states with the pipes now being installed on the seabed the project aims to connect russia and turkey with

white house chief of staff, cia director and then some. leon panetta with us when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> welcome back to the monday new band-aid® brand skin-flex™, bandages. our best bandage yet! it dries almost instantly. better? yeah. good thing because stopping never crosses your mind. band-aid® brand. stick with it™ ♪ pressure... i feel it every day. but at night, it's the last thing on my mind. for 10 years, my tempur-pedic has adapted to my weight and shape, so i sleep deeply... and wake up ready to perform. ♪ nothing performs like a tempur-pedic, and our july 4th event is the perfect time to buy one. save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic mattress sets. find your exclusive retailer at tempurpedic.com >>> welcome back to the monday night edition of our broadcast. earlier tonight i spoke with leon panetta. long-term member of congress, the democratic party in california, formerly white house chief of staff to bill clinton, formerly secretary of defense and formerly director of the cia. i started by asking him about something p

so cia, dirty bomb, things like that. a measurable drop in people being willing to type those things into google, not other sensitive words like abortion or something like that but just those kinds of things. so right there that's across the population. then muslim americans, i don't think their response to the 702 has been measured specifically, but the response to the nypd surveillance there's been some studies on that. really dramatic. really dramatic stuff in terms of declines in membership in muslim student associations, declines in mosque attendance. things that should hit us just as deeply, things we should be just as afraid of as we are of you know security incidents. because this is who we are as a people. can we talk to each other? can we air our political differences without being afraid that it might be heard the wrong way by the nsa? thank you for raising that. [ applause ] >> tonight live conversation of this year's kong aggressional -- and are expected to take part after yesterday's shooting during a republ

last year cia learned vladimir putin himself was involved in the cyber campaign to influence inelection. it calls russia's efforts politically the crime of the century. but keeping them honest, neither today's dramatic story, nor the ongoing threat to future u.s. elections seems to be raising much concern within the white house or even much curiosity. as the warningsing were met with silence. not only does it reveal intelligence that outline vladimir putin's involvement but it goes on to reveal a level of concern that he approved planting the digital equivalent inside sensitive computer systems to be set off in the future if the cyber battle escalated and it ultimately did far less than many believe was warranted, ultimately out of fear of the election's outcome and perhaps because they were going to win it despite hacking and what the american public has not already known, namely that russia medaled in the election. it continues to medal in other country's elections. and according to recent testimony from past and current intelligence officials, analysts and law makers, plenty of smart