coming up cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling joins us to discuss his brand new book on the wanted spy you do not want to miss this interview to watch in the. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know hold a shot kill me and i see how it destroyed. any screamed at me in. my own arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military rape is a very very traumatizing happen but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma rape is more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of violence male sexual predators for the large part of whoever is there to prey upon whether that's a man or woman. whistleblower

coming up cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling's joins us to discuss his brand new book underwater spy you do not want to miss this sort of fate to the watching the. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every. be instructed told you. coldish kill me i would destroy. any screamed at me in. my arm and he write me. if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us. it's a very very traumatizing. but i've never seen trauma like. women who are veterans who suffered military sexual trauma. victims punished. and. who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of. male sexual predators for the large part whoever is there whether that's when. whistleblowers are a vital part of our democracy they can serve as a check to power uncover wrongdoing and bring to light some of the dark behaviors a powerful people as much as we're taught about protecting these brave souls and th

officer in the cia's near east and south asia division focusing his efforts on iraq he later recruited iranian nationals as agents for the cia as part of a secret operation involving iran's weapons capacity being a civil servant committed to his job of protecting democracy sterling did what we are all expected when we see wrongdoing he raised concerns in march 2003 he communicated with the senate intelligence committee about a poorly executed and dangerous operation merlin a cia led covert operation that was supposed to slow down iran's nuclear program he blew the whistle sterling had been in contact with journalist james rising and was thought to be a key source for his book the state of war detailing america's botched covert operation to disarm iran's nuclear capacity. through a series of trace phone calls and intercepted communications sterling was pegged as the inside source for risings book in december of 22 in the us government filed an indictment against sterling with charges ranging from obstruction of justice to an authorized disclosure of national defense of her mation withou

coming up cia whistleblower jeffrey sterling's joins us to discuss his brand new book on the wanted spy you do not want to miss this interview faith to the watching what. a. good number to the police want you to that you did. don't get a. good that you did down the episode that are both use in the boardroom is it has a. significant effect like our younger. people. it. was a pretty all they were driving this one that i wanted to buy these are. some of the. girls were given. these are these are their gold is the answer. for the supreme. whistle blowers are a vital part of our democracy they can serve as a check to power uncover wrongdoing and bring to light some of the dark behaviors a powerful people as much as we're taught about protecting these brave souls and the integrity of the information they bring forward whistleblowers are warily seen as heroes in fact they are suffering from great losses just for telling the truth and making our democracy live up to its creed case in point former cia agent jeffrey sterling sterling joined the cia in 1903 and just 2 years later was promoted to o

just want to take a moment to recognize that dd cannot join us tonight to talk's leadership in the cia and the careers at the agency and one was even recruited out of high school we will hear about that. >> and please make sure you are listening to beverly kurt. also if you are tweeting tonight please use the #. the fire alarm goes off i will be here to escort you were to go. now i will handed over to the executive vice president for global government and then to help to amplify the voices with the international business and development. [applause] >> thank you kathleen for joining us tonight for the smart women in smart power series. we are so excited we've had some really great panels. but i think this will be one of the best ones we have tonight. we are proud to call ourselves a and with the distinctive lines of business that gives us a unique vantage point of political climates around the world. so as we confront those challenges we do so in a way that enables us to provide financial services and those are confronting with those challenging issues that the world has to offer and i'

stu met coming up side of cspan2 a discussion on women in leadership at the cia. then the senate over and sit and chat over insecurity looks at cooperation against federal state local agencies in dealing with the coronavirus. house transportation subcommittee hearing on experience in air travel. ♪ ♪ >> in recognition of international women's day, the center for strategic international studies hosted a discussion with women in leadership at the cia. this is an hour. >> i just want to take a moment to recognize that dd cannot join us tonight to talk's leadership in the cia and the careers at the agency and one was even recruited out of high school we will hear about that. >> and please make sure you are listening to beverly kurt. also if you are tweeting tonight please use the #. the fire alarm goes off i will be here to escort you were to go. now i will handed over to the executive vice president for global government and then to help to amplify the voices with the international business and development. [applause] >> thank you kathleen for joining us tonight for t

in a small town through college through law school and certainly in absolutely while i was with the cia so the book is about a journey and i think there are some things about it i think there's a lot of things about it that maybe americans don't know about their country and things that go on and particularly with regard to whistleblowers as i've said before whistleblowers are people and citizens just like everybody else and they love and have concern for their country and decide to stand up for their country and take a step that tremendous risk to disclose and uncover wrongdoing by our government officials you know you took huge risks and i think you're going were tragically really punished harshly harshly when anyone looking at your case at least a mile per year would feel like you know this is this is some place where you know the government and the powers that be really kind of sudden oh we want to punish this man and i think it would not. only for blowing the whistle but i think also if you mention you're also with a few people to bring up some of the issues of race that were taken

they were probably the biggest number was from cia. i had deputy national intelligence officers who, all of the agencies. i had a cyber analyst from secret service. i did not even know the secret service did cyber even had a wonderful young analyst from nypd a great set of people and a wonderful set of people to work with. scott has already mentioned global trends we can talk about that later. a wonderful kind of brand for the and i see. i ended up doing two things. my last two things, my last two tasks before i left were overseeing that global trends which was an unclassified publication done every four years done by the end i see looking ahead 20 years. the other was the opposite, that was the report on russian meddling in our elections in 2016. it went to both the obama administration and the incoming trump administration. i also, i was a little late we could not get global trends done quite quickly enough so we did not release it until january. i thought at that point i had to take it to the new administration. i was worried there

former cia director for example john brennan was supportive of bringing him back home had been knifed to power so the all of these factors contributed to mohammad bizarre man decision to charge him with reason which means that some of these people at least would be executed. the uncle i believe he has nothing to do with this is just a precautionary. because his son might may have been involved in the since you mention prince albert and his son i mean a plot perhaps as you suggest nascent or otherwise. but perhaps enough to provoke fear and paranoia. he's going substantially further than he's gone before david talked about the incidents of 2017 when hundreds of top level figures in the kingdom were gathered together in the ritz carlton hotel including senior royals money was taken from them they were required to pledge their loyalty in the b.d. institute n.b.s. book but at that time prince knight and his son were spared they were thought to have cover because of king solomon what does it say that essentially no one now has any cover. the that's part of the plan in fact that to create a

the cia once we live it like this. she's nearly my so you imagine a kid. i worry that people tempted by intelligence might do it if they thought their work was valued. but if you're worried if your work is going to be ignored or dismissed. that's what i've seen while recruiting overtime. i've not seen big signs of that yet but i do worry a lot about it. >> what is the relationship between state department and the dni and the secretary of state and the dni? >> the easy answer. the rest of the answer is hard. the easy answer is one of the key members, particularly from the and i see is the state department. the inr, intelligence and research. it is small, 250 analysts. but it really typically punches above its way in intelligence community collaboration's. it's kind of the opposite of the cia. it's much bigger, 3000 or 4000 analysts. but in the cia, the presumption is if you are a good analyst, you can analyze anything. so people move around. particularly you want to go up, you have to move around from account to account pretty quickly. by contrast, inr, the

and cia but other than that the u.s. has never had a war with these terrorist groups because they create a it's a known terror and the terrorist groups have really never had a war with the u.s. i mean the taliban claim to be. to fighting the u.s. forces all the time that and you can see the casualties i mean there are so many innocent civilians dying every day and they're not part of the. u.s. military the only victims in this scenario are the people and especially the women of afghanistan. of course we don't know the numbers of afghan women or men who have died or been displaced or wounded thousands of british soldiers have been . killed or wounded in this conflict the vice president of afghanistan the national assembly if i was a coup feel welcome the international criminal court's announcements there will be it will investigate u.k. u.s. war crimes in afghanistan do you think that the women of afghanistan will get some kind of just as if war crimes are investigated the i.c.c. war crimes defacto by u.k. and u.s. soldie

and cia but other than that the us never had a war with. troops because they create it. and the terrorist groups have you know how do you read and alabama claim to be. citing the us forces on the time that and you can see the casualties and there are so many innocent civilians dying every day in them and they are not part of the. us military the only terms in this scenario are to people and especially women can stop of course we don't know the numbers of afghan women or men who have died or been displaced or wounded thousands of british soldiers have been. killed or wounded in this conflict the vice president afghanistan's national assembly a 1000 koofi welcome the international criminal court announcement it will it will investigate u.k. u.s. war crimes in afghanistan do you think the women of afghanistan will get some kind of justice if war crimes are investigated the i.c.c. war crimes the factor by u.k. and u.s. soldiers did you have committed cancer. one cancer that. have been involved in mass killings ready and had abused and tortured people in that same. i mean any

so the actual connection is pretty catastrophic the sources of the cia is unclear but some officialsre definitely drawing a link between the two. >> and what you're seeing coming out of the us government do you have any thoughts on the 2010. but is this because we see an uptick of actions by the chinese we have cases of lowery and hansen that are now being prosecuted. or do we now just know more and paying more attention to the activities of chinese intelligence? >> there seems to be an uptick in the number of cases and there seems to be some concern it is driven in part by china's specific effort to get a lot of information about american government employees and combine that with credit card information. they know who to target all the people that they mentioned has financial problems and were specifically targeted with offers of cash. there has been a concern china has gotten better with the pressure points in the system and who might be vulnerable but i don't think they can draw a very clear distinction between the two. >> i would put it down to more russian more money and more s

one is for reelection to congress when president trump asked him if he would serve as director of the cia. which was a huge honor. for sure. and he loved that work but a year later, the president said america and i need you to move over and mike moved to the state department and is now serving as your 70th secretary ofstate . [applause] okay, so that's the resume here's the insider stop . my and his dad made a really mean ball. a family recipe .mike is a crazy fast reader and that's a good thing these days. he loves operating a power hose and he doesn't get very often anymore i feel bad about. i don't know how you will feel about me sharing this with you but our whole family and my catholic family, our whole family is about being a and i think it's because they see him more as the dod guy, as a tank commander he always says to them that he is delivering the diplomacy with a limitless so let's party banter, more straightforward thought. . here's a really good one, and i school, he worked at baskin-robbins. the receive employee of the month award but there's a huge family feud over this bec

she has worked for the cia. was able to find the spy within her organization and fire them. >> congress -- the democrats in congress have a list they share because they all know they are being targeted by project veritas. able tocase, there were catch the person who had come in as an intern to work in the office. inin michigan, the expose that project veritas did in a video they put out resulted in a lawsuit. the federation -- the teachers federation has been suing suingt veritas project veritas for a variety of crimes under the notion that this had been a spying operation and not some disgruntled whistleblower. that is often what veritas presents itself as an organization that gets whistleblowers from the inside. in fact, what they're often doing is feeding people inin f'n doing is feeding people in under false pretenses and the next full trading data and information. amy: they also succeeded in getting an abc reporter suspended, david wright. hook ice to work for abc. the abc case is a fantastic example of wha

has evidence of a cia operative on the flight all this evidence wasn't at the time before a verdict on mcgrath he's guilty as may well one of the crucial pieces of evidence that the man and i'm just quite wide range would be impossible for me to explain you know we had 451 pages delivered to my office last week by the scottish criminal kuwait cases review commission so that found the basis of it we have pieces we have evidence that would fill 2 floors of a building but if you look at one crucial piece of evidence which was not disclosed to the defense of the time and as the evidence of mr gates a man who owned a shop who fingered pointed the finger of blame mama. and said that he was the person who brought the clothing in his shop some 10 years later 12 years later he pointed them in. and subsequently what we find out once a clase is closed once guilt is pronounced is that this man was offered in the region of $2000000.00 money offered also to his brother to identify mr. mr mr mehlman groggy and that he got this wrong on a number of occasions he was shown photographs he was shown magaz

we have the cia or other international intelligence services -- we have to pick these people.they have a certain strength and power. you have to pick someone a little on the odd side, as rowe was, to live a double life. some people, those who are drawn to the world of international intelligence, would love that excitement of pretending to be something they are not. i wish i have the records to answer the question -- had the court -- i wish i had the records to answer that question adequately. >> yes. >> rowe said that if they had kept track of 12 people within the klan they would not have had informants. but i'm trying to think how they would have known who those 12 people were without the informants. where i'm going with this, with terrorism, people are saying we don't need informants, some people are saying we do need informants and they say if we can just track down x number of people that would give us insight. could you answer the question and take it to be terrorist -- mr. may: yes, yes. in one of the reviews of my book, it was opposed to all informants. it seemed to me

gathering information from those parts of the world, and has been time here actually questioning the cia, tells me that he is on the right track, and that he is doing his job. so yes i do have faith, that william barr and john durham, will do their job, i have to, but if they don't we have to hold them accountable. and we can't be afraid to speak out. >> exactly agree. what sergeant said is so important, look at my background, i'm from north georgia, i thought the law every day, six to 235 pounds on the 3:57 on his hip. i don't have a chance, i was a kid. that is the same dad who taught me how to operate a firearm, and gun control. those have things. i see that there are some folks in the house to understand that. what we have happening here, and something you just brought up, is that we are the ones who believe in the system. we believe that the founders when they said we the people. we are the ones who actually believe in the government that has been set up, we don't hold that encounter will, we don't have that face if we don't have that face, you can't give up because this is the best

just on tuesday after the deal was signed in doha qatar the new york times though is talking about cia militias there's something called the cost protection force out of camp chapman are you aware of american cia militias that also are rude working in your country no i'm not and do you think the taliban were having a tragic joke here why sign a deal in any case if there were plans on ordering mass bombardment of afghan security service installations within hours of the agreement being signed the status quo the taliban try to do most straight days after the deal and before that the except the one week of our uvas they wanted to demonstrate that they are powerful that they are strong that they can destroy that they can care that they are in control of security team we are in a trust building stage on the one hand there is a peace agreement to a taliban between the us and taliban on the other hand upon into other negotiation is due to happen very soon and people are on that sense people are excited but on the other hand when they see killing when they see uncertainty when they see that th

with the national intelligence council to help found the sherman can school he had a career at the cia lasting three decades focusing on eurasian issues. and what i value trying to figure out a way to recategorize things nobody knows more than john mclaughlin. to your right is the director of national security defense center she was the under secretary of defense at the us department of defense serving for strategy and special assistant to the president and senior director at the security council before entering the obama administration she was my colleague here. >> and she has the advantage of being very smart so there are two terrific people to help us think conceptually what are we trying to do? what should we be trying to do and then we'll have a discussion over the policy >> >> a cold if i sound a little raspy. i largely agree with john's assessment of the region and how we got here and where we are. so i will just try to add a few observations on top of first i think u.s. influences markedly diminished to where we were five years ago, many things got us to this point but among th

18 years and the international criminal court in its investigation is looking into the activities of cia members the international criminal court is looking into the possibility of torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity rape and other forms of sexual violence as part of policy by members of the cia now it's important to note that there have been other allegations against the u.s. in afghanistan u.s. service members have been accused of bombing and attacking healthcare facilities disappearing people and killing civilians according to the latest un report over 100000 civilians have died or been injured in the past decade of fighting in afghanistan however the united states has withdrawn from the international criminal court the top administration withdrew from the court in september of 2018 and it appears that my pompei was doubling down on that this is a truly breathtaking action by an unaccountable political institution masquerading as a legal body the i.c.c. today. stumble into a sorry affirmation of every denunciation made by its harsh critics over the last 3 decades no

agent who killed a british team in the high ranking cia agent has been charged with striking and killing a british teen while she was driving on the wrong side of the road in the u.k. near a u.s. air force listening post however now that she's back here our government is refusing to extradite her so apparently publishing information our government doesn't want people to see not only actually diable but they believe punishable by over a 100 years in prison however kendall killing british teenagers not a crime i mean it does make a little sense from does that kind of thing all the time i mean the park air force one on one of those british preschools last time i was there that killed 32 children yes but boris johnson was willing to overlook it because that's what friends are for we have a special relationship with the brits we murder people and they don't do anything about it. because that's our special i don't know what is. kind of like bill cosby you know everyone's. thinking of getting away with murder this past week was the 55th anniversary of malcolm x.'s assassination one of the most

military and the cia the prosecutor i'll tourists to comments in this to get in relation to elect crimes committed on the gulf gonna stand the 1st mate 2000 treat . the u.s. invaded afghanistan less than one month after $911.00 with the promise of defeating the taliban and while the taliban is now stronger than any point since the war began members of the i.c.c. have attempted to call attention to the atrocities people in the country have faced throughout the war back in 2017 the office of the prosecutor claimed it had evidence proving that from 2003 to 2004 members of the us armed forces and members of the cia committed acts of torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity rape and sexual violence against conflict related detainees last year the i.c.c. tried to move forward with an investigation but the travel ministration responded by revoking the visa of the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor after repeated threats from secretary of state claiming washington would do anything possible to stop the court from vesta getting the u.s. and the threats appeared to work briefly as judges fro

, some joined the general army, and 1975, vying pow and some military leaders were airlifted by the cia out of laos. but most people were less fortunate. of the 10,000 that fled the headquarters, only a small fraction were evacuated by the united states. thousands of people embarked on the treacherous westward exodus to thailand. carrying their positions on their back, families traveled by foot. through the jungle and journey

claimed it had evidence proving that from 2003 to 2004 members of the us armed forces and members of the cia committed acts of torture cruel treatment outrages upon personal dignity rape and sexual violence against conflict related detainees last year the i.c.c. tried to move forward with an investigation but the travel ministration responded by revoking the visa of the i.c.c. as chief prosecutor after repeated threats from secretary of state claiming washington would do anything possible to stop the court from vesta getting the u.s. and the threat appeared to work briefly as judges from the i.c.c. ruled last april there was no point in moving forward with an investigation if they couldn't guarantee that there would be any cooperation however that decision has now been overruled there are also likely major concerns about what an investigation by the i.c.c. would uncover especially when looking at nearly 2 decades of war where countless civilians have been killed injured and displaced at the hands of the u.s. and its allies the bombings have also drastically increased in recent years the unit

that faces all of us. >> and i can't think of a better person to have over the years dealing with the ciatary of defense, chief of staff for president clinton, your perspective and of history and politics. just off the top now, what are we doing right before we get into any criticism, what are we doing right, right now as a state and as a country? >> well, i think what we're doing right is to recognize how serious a threat the coronavirus represents not only to the lives of our people but a threat to our economy and to our country. i think there is now a universal recognition of how big a threat this is and i think that there certainly are efforts particularly at the state level here in california, new york, other states around the country to try to take the steps that we have to take in order to ultimately contain this virus. >> you were former chief of staff for president clinton. what happens right now in the situation room since you've been intimately and have this knowledge, what is happening in president trump's situation room with his advisers. is there any pushback and conversatio