of the cia. arespector general's thee integral to community, and we believe it you will ensure your officers operate lawfully, ethically, and morally. i can assure you this committee will continue to faithfully follow its charter and conduct vigorous and real-time oversight over the intelligence community, its operations, and activities. ask difficult questions of view, your staff, and we will expect honest, complete, and timely responses. i look forward to supporting your nomination and ensuring its consideration without delay. i want to thank you for your years of service to your country both in law enforcement and in our military, and i look forward to your testimony, and i now recognize the vice-chairman. senator warner: thank you, mr. chairman, and welcome, mr. sharpley. congratulations to your nourishing to serve as inspector general of the cia. i believe the job of inspector general is critical to the effect of operation of any agency. this committee relies on inspector general of the inte

works with hollywood the cia. director and screenwriter a lot of access to the agency they bounced a lot of ideas back and forth and they wanted to really kind of tightly control the narrative that this was putting out it backfired because very quickly after the movie came out it was criticized for suggesting that torture somehow played a role in the information gathering that led to the capture assassination of. torture and the cia's use of it especially after nine eleven were already under investigation but zero dark thirty was released the senate intelligence committee wrote a letter to the production studio sony pictures they said we believe the film is grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location of osama bin laden zero dark thirty as director kathryn bigelow eventually had to respond to the allegation that her film was making the cia's case for torture in an editorial for the los angeles times she wrote that critics were quote confusing dep

the fbi and the cia. these were not strangers here, and there's no question we were surprised at the final report. how and why that happened is beyond me. i don't know. but in hindsight, we probably -- when that came out, yes, we should have done that ahead of time. on the off chance because we didn't know what the official final paper was going to look like. we should have written our own. these are our beliefs, rick, blah, blah, blah, and this is the reason, but we didn't. caused lots of problems. >> this is about the tv program. i watched the two episodes that ere aired. is there any way to see the other episodes? i would like to see them as ell. sandra: i will say this, there is hope. and there is -- the reason there is hope is because the president of abc announced to the press that the assets will be shown in some format, whether it's cable, whether it's netflix, whether it's back on abc proper. now, he said that one week after he cancelled us. but -- no, i have hope. i have hope. it's sort of one o

that is when my experience at cia began. i was asked by then cia inspector general david buckley to compete for his deputy inspector general position. he informed me that he hoped i would bring the best practices i gleaned from other roles to be applied at the cia office of inspector general. i answered that call and entered back into federal service in 2012, where i served as mr. buckley's deputy until his retirement in january of 2015, and where i have served as deputy and acting inspector general until now. mr. chairman, i strongly believe in cia's mission, to preempt threats to our nation. i stand firmly behind the outstanding work of the cia office of team of auditors, inspectors, investigators, and support staff. as acting inspector general, i have issued over 100 classified reports and have made nearly 250 recommendations to cia leadership to strengthen key programs and operations. and promote economy and efficiency across the cia mission. i have further strengthened the processes and procedures within the office of i

he has served as deputy and acting ig of the cia. the inspector general is critical to the intelligence community and i trust you will lead with integrity ethically and morally. as i mentioned with the nominees this committee will faithfully followed the charter with real-time oversight over the intelligence committee and its activities. to wrasse difficult and probing questions of you and your staff with the complete and timely response. and to have that consideration. and for your years of service with the military and a look forward to your testimony i now recognize the vice-chairman for an opening statement. >> good to see you again mr. sharpley vision and your family congratulations to your nomination. i believe the job of the inspector general of the caa is critical from any agency. this committee will rely on the inspector general to ensure those organizations are using taxpayer dollars wisely. were in the spirit of the law to protect whistle-blowers to report fraud and waste and abuse those functions with the organization lik

a senate report on the cia's interrogation techniques, and allegations of retaliation against cia whistleblowers. mr. sharply served as acting cia inspector general since 2015. this hearing is an hour and 20 minutes. >> i call this hearing to order. i would like to welcome our witness, christopher sharply, president trump's nominee to be the next inspector general of the central intelligence agency. chris, congratulations on your nomination. i would like to recognize the family that you have brought with you here today. i understand your wife, kimberly. >> yes, sir. >> is here, as well as your son, steffen, and aden. >> yes. >> steffen, aden, give me a wave. okay, good. and your daughter, gillian, and her husband, james. >> yes. >> good. of course, your mother joyce. welcome. our goal in conduct thing hearing is to enable the committee to consider mr. sharply's qualifications and to allow for thoughtful deliberation by our members. chris already has provided substantive, written responses to 85 questions presented by the committee and its members. today, of course, members will be able to ask ad

one energy, and the one at cia. i'm proud of the practices we put in place they give officers and contractors access to systems the ability to make a confidential, anonymous, or open complaint at any given time. the processes i put in play and ensure that every complaint received is given a review by the senior staff of the office of inspector general so that skill sets such as audits, expections are able to look at an issue differently with a different perspective as if they think that particular complaint or concern should be handled. >> what you see is the biggest challenge? >> the biggest challenge is one of recruitment and retention. we use systems in place by the cia, the recruiting and on boarding processes to also recruit our folks. in my opinion there's an efficient process of on boarding people at cia. that's what i feel strongly about and i initiated a review to extent examine. for every person i want to bring on, if i identify an individual who meets a certain requirement i have to give three conditional

works with hollywood the cia. director and screenwriter a lot of access to the agency they bounced a lot of ideas back and forth and they wanted to really kind of tightly control the narrative that this was putting out it backfired because very quickly after the movie came out it was criticized for suggesting that torture somehow played a role in the information gathering that led to the capture assassination of. torture and the cia's use of it especially after nine eleven were already under investigation when zero dark thirty was released the senate intelligence committee wrote a letter to the production studio sony pictures they said we believe the film is grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location of osama bin laden zero dark thirty as director kathryn bigelow eventually had to respond to the allegation that her film was making the cia's case for torture in an editorial for the los angeles times she wrote that critics were quote confusing de

president trump's picked to serve as the cia and dr. general talked about interrogation techniques at his confirmation hearing yesterday. ciasharply served as acting inspector general sense 2015 cured the senate intelligence committee hearing is one hour and 20 minutes. all this sharpley next nominee to the inspector general of the cfo of congratulations find your sen. burr: i would like to welcome our witness today, the nominee to be the next inspector general of the central intelligence agency. chris, congratulations on your nomination. i would like to recognize the family you have brought with you today. i understand your wife, kimberly, is here, as well as your sons. give me a wave, ok? and your daughter and her husband. good. now, of course, your mother, joyce. welcome. our goal to conduct this hearing is to enable the qualifications chris already provided responses to 85 questions prevent -- presented by the committee to dave members can ask additional questions and hear from mr. sharpley in open session. and receiving his master'

, i can't play someone in the cia.hink that us having these sort of zero sum game theories about everything is sort of what's wrong with our political life and so much of what troubles us in america as general. >> i take your point, but you're a thespian, so to my mind, at least, you're allowed to play any character that you decide to play that works for you, so i'm okay with that part. i guess i'm still toying with, still noodling with this notion of whether or not our patriarchy, our sexism, would even allow us to consider a woman running the cia, and i wonder whether or not that if it were something that were even on the docket, whether or not that would mirror the kind of conversation america had when we started thinking about allowing women in the military, and certainly, women to fight in the military. i'm just wondering where that conversation would go if there were some woman about to be nominated to run the cia. >> you make such good points, and i actually am really delighted. speaking engagements have become

was lee harvey oswald acting as an agent of the cia? the white house did release over 2800 records, roughly three hundred others kept classified. >> first highlights like the cia director suddenly cut short just before answering a critical question. in records from a 1975 deposition, richard helms, who was the deputy cia direct ler was ask z whether there was any information that shows that lee harvey oswald was in some way a cia agent or an agent. the document ends suddenly there without the rest of his response. >> so intriguing. also, 1975 record on the cia's role in foreign assassination. attorney general robert kennedy telling he hired the cia to approach a mobster. one option, poisoning fidel castro. >> there's more mere. an fbi memo from the new orleans field office three months before the jfk assassination. it describes monitoring the fair play and says the group's activities dropped off considerably after the departure of lee harvey oswald. >> also the fbi received a threat on his life. a man talking in a calm voice, saying he

i was there looking for a spy. >> did you have a cia badge or -- >> cia badge. >> so they didn't know you were from the fbi? >> within the first week everybody in that building knew i was from the fbi. they didn't particularly care for me being there but they definitely knew who i was. >> inside the cia headquarters building people were whining and bitching about all kinds of things, the fbi this and that. they have a job to do, just like we do. we clearly had a serious problem. >> now i get all my briefings and i learned i had over 300 cases in the cia where cia employees had failed its counterintelligence polygraph. that means you had 300 potential spies in the cia that had never been resolved. at the time if you fail a cia polygraph, nothing ever happens to you. alstrj aims failed the pallograph several times and nothing was ever done. when i came in, i put a stop to that. i had my own polygraph examiner. we ordered our own tests and we basically said you're going to resolve this or you're not going anywhere. we had to resolve it one by one. >> you must have been quite unpopular. >

we'll see what he thinks about the cia, the fbi. the cia, the fbi.♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well i'm gone . lou: the trump administration turning up the heat on north korea. the treasury department placing new sanctions against the north korean government and military for human rights abuses. also the "u.s.s. nimitz" is now in the western pacific, joining the roosevelt and the reagan, three carriers on station. it is the first time in a decade that the navy has had three aircraft carriers in the region. joining me now, fred fleitz, former cia analyst, chief of staff to ambassador john bolton, now a senior vice president at center the for security policy, and it is great to have you here, fred. >> welcome to the swamp, lou. lou: thank you very much. i have the pleasure of saying it's merely a visit. [ laughter ] >> let me turn to one of the reasons why it's easy for me to say that. this is the swamp at work. tonight, making a liar out of the president of the united states. refusing t

lou: one thing if we're talking about john brennan at the cia. go down in history as a liar, as the man -- >> a failed operative. lou: a failed operative. he's also the man who ordered surveillance by the cia of the senate intelligence committee and got away with it, or we can talk about james comey who lied to congress, the american people. >> and then leaked so he could get a special prosecutor against the sitting president. lou: but those two people are now gone, and in their place we have christopher wray, the new head of the fbi and mike pompeo. >> great guy. lou: head of the cia. what in hell are they doing? >> look, let's not narrow it down to two people. lou: no, let's doing are let's do. >> okay. lou: i want to talk about the two people appointed by president trump and putting him in as we quoted from julian assange making him look weak because his administration, his leaders that he put in place aren't in control of their agencies. >> this is a test. this is a test of leadership. the president is a steam locomotive. lou: absolutely. >>

you used to work at the fbi and cia. why after all of these years they seek this last-minute effort to prevent these documents from being released what potentially -- what kind of information could be contained there? >> wolf, i'm going to bet this is about protecting people. it's not about whether there's a plot that the american people don't understand. it's people. back after this assassination, you can guarantee that the fbi and cia were talking to everybody they knew overseas in countries like russia, cuba, mexico, about what happened and whether they had information in these foreign governments about the assassin. those conversations might have been with government officials and might have been with paid informants. some of those informants are alive today and the concern that the cia would have would be releasing identities of the informants. it's not that simple, though. what do you tell a child, we're going to reveal that your day was a spy for the cia? and finally, information. what if there is information rele

the interesting thing, so i was talking to cia, i was doing a book years ago about have cia funded andi said who would generate the counterparty finds? he said that would've been to the food for peace programs because of the big agriculture products at the time. the food for peace officer in taiwan at the time was my father. so a little aside. i realize this is your book, and it goes right up to the korean war. obviously, it's almost 60, seven years later for this is coming back around. walk us through how mao's role in working to give the go-ahead, or if mao, how that all kind of played out. >> so i mean, the korean war was basically a civil war. after world war ii, the united states occupied south korea. soviet union occupied north korea. i think soviet troops withdrew in 1948 from north korea. u.s. troops withdrew from 1949 from south korea. the civil war was on again. both the north and south were at least in rhetoric, as by the way kim jong-un regime is today, paying lip service to reunification and the fact that they wanted to resolve this civil conflict and unified. so the drive

richard helms, deputy cia director under kennedy was asked if lee harvey on oswald was a cia agent where the document suddenly ends without an answer. even linden b. johnson is said to have explained another theory. according to helms, johnson claimed he was killed as payback for the assassination of vietnam's president and this was just justice. even though helms said there was no evidence of this claim in agency records. but a memo from fbi direct j. edgar hoover to the white house three years after kennedy was killed details reaction inside the soviet union, including conspiracy theories of their own. namely, that johnson himself was behind kennedy's death. the source saying ussr believed there was well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ultra right in the united states to affect a cou approximate. they received a direct warning before oswald's own murder before a jail transfer. a day before oswald was killed, hoover says the fbi office in dallas received a phone call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald and shared

i was going to be a cia liaison officer. rent was working with me and brought a foreign delegation to visit the fbi and to take them to the cia headquarters as well for a briefing on international terrorism. he invited me to join me at the afghani headquarters to join this group. some of whom i knew. and get a two are of the building. i thought since i was good to be a liaison officer it would be a great opportunity. frank and i go with you a lot together ran ct operations, we had other dramatic expenses that we went through. he met me outside and we got a cappuccino. injuring the day. we were just waiting for the delegation. we went up to the fbi headquarters and their operations center. we got there around 9:00 a.m. we cannot find the person we were supposed to meet. soon we were asked to escort them out of the operations center. there had been a incident in new york or a plane hit a building. we assumed it was a small plane and went downstairs. we went to the cafeteria and we did not know what to do. that is what we saw t

you will be able to find it on a public website cia .gov. it is now time to begin the panel discussion. students of espionage and national security, leaders are in for a great treat today. each of the panelists today is an expert in their field who not only have the issues inside out but know how to talk about them and talk about the intelligence nature of what they do and they will do so, i expect, with clarity and sophistication that you will appreciate. i hope that you won't limit our discussions to the bright shiny objects making headlines because we will try to delve in deeper. we will get at the heart of what is driving some of the most complex issues facing, not only the world but our profession, the profession of intelligence. we will also discuss the challenges connecting espionage and transparent and interconnected world and in doing so under the rule of law. then we will have a real treat. we will convene a panel of fascinating former cia members. it should be a memorable day full of informed discussions and lively debate and i wi

great work at the cia. what we want to do today with the audience and those joining us this talk not just about the issues of today the some of the trends and issues you deal with in the intelligence community. you have to not only deal with the media and deal with our dealing with our national security 20 years out from now. there's no question there's a sense of dislocation in the world. assess the map is shifting in some ways that power is shifting including the role of nonstate actors. major issues before us, major policy shift with the fall of raqqa, china's party congress happening as we speak. a lot going on in the world. the president gave his speech on october 13, reshaping u.s. policy on iran. the first question is, why is that speech and shift necessary, and is iran in violation of the jcpoa? >> thank you. let me also say thank you for hosting this and clifford for inviting me here. i look forward to a great conversation on lots of topics in this current threat. i think this right way to answer y

new questions about the cia's role. details about the possible motives of the cubans to kill jfk. the documents also reveal how eager fbi director j. edgar hoover was to convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. but the biggest hope for conspiracy theories and jfk obsessives may be president trump's 11th hour decision to delay the release of the most-sensitive documents by a further six months. trump said he had no choice but to give the cia and the fbi more time to review them. >> if there's a smoking gun in these jfk files, and i don't think there is, they're in the documents that are still being held back. >> reporter: the jigsaw puzzle that has bedeviled this country for decades still has huge holes in it. >> president kennedy has been shot in dallas, texas. >> reporter: an overwhelming amount of evidence still points to the fact that oswald pulled the trigger that day. was he the lone gunman? was he acting alone? or were there others who got away with murder? on the grassy knoll, or lurking somewhere in

director in 1975, who was asked, was lee harvey oswald and agent of the cia.er. that's the end of the document. that is emblematic of what happened last night. a very truncated release that evaded the intent of congress to have full disclosure. given that donald trump's shtick has always been about distrust of the cia and washington, that doesn't play to his base. our people are upset with him because of this? i think a lot of people are. one senator wrote on twitter today that it was ridiculous that the cia was trying to continue the cover—up. it was really disappointing. we had a law in place that was very clear. the president and the agencies evaded the law because the material in the remaining records, the remaining 80% of the records that were to be made public today will be deeply embarrassing to the fbi and the cia, and show malfeasance in the case of the assassination. briefly in a 20% not released, will find something interesting? absolutely. there's no question about it! thank you very much forjoining us tonight. we await that of interest. just time

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and interesting thing so i was talking to cia about world league and how the cia funded and i said wellwho is generated the counterpart fund? so we would have been through the food for peace program because these big agricultural products at the time. anyway, food for peace office officer in dye u won at the time was my father. so a little aside. i realize this is you know, your book kind of goes right up the korean war. but obviously, i know it's almost 60, 70 years later before this is coming back around. walks through what, how the role in -- up in working with kimmel to give go ahead or if how is that all kind of played out? >> so korean war was basically a civil war it was, you know, after world war ii, the united states occupied south korea. and so occupy north korea and i think in trips and u.s. troops through in 1949, from south korea, and you know the civil war was on again and both , you know, north and south were, you know, least had in rhetoric as by the way kim jong-un regime is today. young hanging up service to reunification and fact that you know they wanted to, you know

created it fake academic conferences so this was like the level at which the cia was.academia the most is this all unlike the idea of what we want to recruit or just saw what we want to show by. it's neither these phony conferences were set up so scientists would attend these conferences not even knowing that the cia was behind them and the point of them was to get undercover agents to corner iranian scientists and i their oppress them or trick them to defect definitely compromising them in some kind of way so that if they went back to iran they would like facing execution probably so. yeah so they the conferences were totally fake and they would corner these scientists and and and tell them you have to board this plane with me right now not necessarily in order to work in the united states but just to just to you know cause damage around nuclear campaign but what we've seen is more effective is negotiating so. if you're going to. have almost forgotten you know if you take a look at the clip. the purpose of these phony conferences was for the cia to lure iranian nuclea

by the cia. who are contributing. to a major circulation american journal we do have people who should not be sent to other to do american do you have any people. paid by the cia. who are working for. our mission network. this i think gets into the kind of getting into the details and that i'd like to get into an executive saying yeah let's talk about the behind closed doors are right the first rule of operation mockingbird is. do not talk about operation mockingbird but even though i'm sure stuff like that continues today i'm saying that even without that even without operation mockingbird the corporate state and the military industrial complex own our media. if you're a good reporter and say the things the cia the f.b.i. the military the white house want to year then you get access and you keep moving up the ranks and said media organizations i for example. i have no access to cia agents cross to the other side of the road when they when they see me walking down the sidewalk so as no one mistakes them as haven't tal

stiller since visit comes as the cia increases covert operations against the taliban in the country cia director mike pump aoe is expanding the cia's role in afghanistan to aggressively target taliban forces in addition to the agency's role combat in al qaeda in assisting afghan intelligence for more on all of this we turn tonight to former cia agent jack rice jack nice to have you with us first of all your thoughts on tiller since hope that pakistan is going to get in the fight against the taliban in afghanistan is that a reasonable request or expectation. nope absolutely not and frankly if we look back of the pakistani i.s.i. their intelligence service was frankly the ones who established the taliban in the first place as they sent them north that was part of this issue so the idea that you're assuming the pakistanis are actually going to get involved in this fight they are not so i think that's completely unrealistic. all right tillerson claims that the taliban should have a role in the afghan government which i find pretty interesting tillerson seems to be willing to work with the t

the cia was survey veiling oswald at the time. well aware of those contacts when they happened. the information about oswald's contacts with the soviet and cuban intelligence officers was forwarded to the top of the cia, to james engleton, in fact, who i write about in my book. so the oswald's presence in mexico city was very well known to the top of the cia six weeks before president kennedy was killed. >> what we don't know yet, though, about those contacts, is the content of all of those contacts. because honestly if i called the french embassy today, just call them, that is a contact. is it a meaningful one? i don't know. that's what we still don't know. >> we still have pieces of the puzzle that are missing and we had hoped to fill it all in with this document dump. maybe we'll get those answers eventually. tom foreman and jefferson morley, such a fascinating conversation. >> thank you. >> our goal is not war. that was the direct quote from defense secretary james mattis standing a few feet from north korea this morning. it c

frank is keenly aware of the challenges of these cia. there will be some things you don't hear to day discussing the world of intelligence is tricky but 1,000 times easier with partners like frank so i deeply appreciate the work he has done. the theme is to achieve strategic advantage and could not be more fitting. and then to stun the public. and that soviet planning because those that guide the nation's response. with a declassified article along with hundreds of pages of related documents so historians can tell this story to find it on the public web site of caa did the van national-security students and leaders will have a great retreat today. those that have done only those issues inside out there know how to talk about them. into expect with clarity and sophistication. and to limit those discussions to those bright shiny objects. and to be at the heart of those left issues and then to discuss those challenges of espionage to of the interconnected world to do so under the rule of law. in mid featuring john brennan my immediate prede

richard helms as a deputy cia director under kennedy who later became a cia chief to the rockefeller commission which was. a cia activities and domestic players. one thing that's come out that i think is important is we have as you know committee fired general charles cabel destroyed his reputation destroyed in everything his brother as you know was earl campbell and now the new records have come out showing that he received well good. so i mean can i ask you to chance to do judith do you believe that lee harvey oswald was a member of the cia. are well you know that that is interesting it's not about her belief it's knowledge. do you think this is that it is and yet it takes only those who don't understand he this name harvey when i see lee us of all i want people to think of it was just lee harvey oswald. in new orleans they call him everybody called lee harvey because everybody does it new orleans you know so i'm janie sue or something. together but that was a fighting word for him he hated still even on his you see where he was putting in his application for his mexican tourist vi

one potential defector said the cia told him i know you had testicular cancer and you lost your left don't you hate crowds what do you prefer to be alone with someone who mysteriously knows the history of your screwed up since a lot of cooperated with the nuclear deal the cia stopped operation brain drain but we're in danger of going back to that thanks to this guy who's helping these guys the hardliners in iran who are against cooperating with the west europe pale the deal as a success which is why. the u.k. don't tutorial that the president can understand with lots of pictures so now let's see what the cards are more than those you'll bring. your own words. this is not the first time that iran scientists were targeted at least five iranian scientists were murdered by car bombs israel was suspected to be responsible and though they never invited to it the u.s. pushed israel to stop assassinating iranian nuclear scientists in two thousand and fourteen you know that's how you know you have a friend when they're not afraid to tell you that you're spinning it in your teeth or your assas

cia director william casey said we didn't wait six months for feasibility. you gambled and it might end you did it. more recently we have seen that agility. that same spirit after the attacks of 9/11. only 15 days after the towers so the cia put the first american boots on the ground in afghanistan acting on orders from president bush. think about that. only 15 days the cia's leadership team didn't prepare list of final proposals. they didn't fit sit with the president presented with a recommendation. it acted present day 15 and agency was stepping out of the helicopter northeastern afghanistan calling a creative weapons and a suitcase full of cash taking the fight to the taliban and alal qaeda. the agency's speed and agility are ingrained into who we are in our dna.d into who we are we look for it in the young people that we recruit. for me it's not a question of creating a culture that isn't fair there. it's a matter of clearing the way things that get in our officers way and restrained them them. it's about enabling that culture to flourish. the challenge

only is applied to the cia and the fbi and everything else. the people who will never leave who see it as their government and everybody else is -- [inaudible] >> next question. >> thank you very much for being here tonight. you had mentioned about senators grassley and feinstein investigating the dossier situation. the thing is that we saw what happened when trey gowdy was investigating benghazi and nothing really came of it. i'm just wondering is that going, are they going to be any more successful, and why has anything else come out about who hired fusion gps to compile this dossier in the first place? >> they refuse to turn over documents. christopher steele is hiding in britain was not an american so we can't subpoena him. we've asked the british courts to do and they're going to get we will have answers on that. we would get answers to that stuff, but i don't know if you saw the benghazi story two days ago on sunday on tucker carlson. i was involved in that. there was a company that has just come forward now that was hired to protect the

bill lair, a texan and world war ii vet, was an influential cia case officer.ht out of princeton, even though he was an art history major. they succeeded, at first, in impeding the flow of communist north vietnamese arms and troops on the ho chi minh trail. but by the end, they were arming children. what happened here, presumably in the cause of freedom of democratic western values, resonates still. an estimated 30% of the bombs dropped on laos failed to detonate. these and other uxo's remain in the ground and continue to take lives, and limbs. >> anthony: when you get off the plane -- >> james: yes. >> anthony: what's the first sort of recognizable smell that registers? >> james: wood smoke and grilling. river, as well. you know, it's just like the mekong. >> anthony: diesel, or whatever the fuel is here? a little bit of -- >> james: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: from the first time i heard of laos, i was hooked, and filled with a desire to see the place. once a storybook kingdom of misty mountains and opium. at one time, a protectorate of france. mysterious landloc

i want the cia to be that way, too. if you're in a team, a section, a mission center, whatever we call it, and if it's not working, break it, tear it down, rebuild, start with mission not with org charts. and we're focused on the mission and we have the culture to worry less about who is sitting in what position on the chart and a whole hell of a lot more about how the bad guys are going to regret that they ever challenged the united states of america. >> a great recruiting message. [laughte [laughter]. that's awesome. that's awesome. >> let's open it up for questions. i think we've got david clark here from afp. let's start with david. >> thanks for organizing this. >> david, could you stand up? that way folks in the back could see you. >> i've heard it suggested in a few places around town in the past few days, particularly in reference to what happened in kirkuk and also the bigger picture. has the united states been concentrating so hard on the battle against isis, apparently going now well and not the rivalries in