s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't filed charges against the wikileaks founda. so the cia was going to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. the perfect master black deed lou could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there? first of dumps a sound and then flies him to moscow. that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. the sand gets into the car with the russian operatives. the cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything and anybody else's way. the plane takes off with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over is still manages to leave th

that question implicates cia director's knowledge and expertise. here, the cia director explained compelled disclosure would harm national security because there is a difference between speculation and formal confirmation by people with firsthand knowledge. even the ninth circuit appeared to recognize the voice of that point. this is the court's second error -- it found two former contractors could be held to confirm or deny the existence of the facility under oath because there were not agents of the united states. it is how the compelled testimony would affect national security and the ninth circuit should have deferred the cia director' judgment that allies and adversaries would view compelled testimony by these contractors as a series breach of trust. i welcome questions. >> the two contractors testified about treatment of detainees before? >> that is right. >> why couldn't they also testify here? >> it would make a difference because -- because of the critical context of the testimony and what they would be conveying. in prior hearings, testim

i exactly will the cia be doing differently?— exactly will the cia be doing differently?on't think the cia would do anything _ differently? i don't think the cia would do anything differently. . differently? i don't think the cia would do anything differently. itj differently? i don't think the cia l would do anything differently. it is a priority and as we said earlier, it was said to the chris of the cia, joint to get ahead, this is the direct disfavour project and you should work here. that will allow the caa to produce better products and it'll encourage them to fund this programme better.- and it'll encourage them to fund this programme better. thank you so much forjoining _ this programme better. thank you so much forjoining us _ this programme better. thank you so much forjoining us on _ this programme better. thank you so much forjoining us on tuesday. - much forjoining us on tuesday. india's supreme court hearing evidence about the deaths of eight people at a protest by farmers. four of the dead were farmers were killed when a car ploughed into them and the son o

the cia director said we cannot have it attributed officially to the cia that these things happen in poland, whether they are true or false. we cannot acknowledge or tonight -- we cannot acknowledge or deny it. that was the import thing. in that paragraph, he uses the phrase, official acknowledgment or official confirmation and his -- and it's converse eight times. he says with really crucial is not that the cia exposes a secret but officially acknowledges this non-secret. he was responding to the fact that poland's president had already acknowledged it, but said we are not. that's important because what he's saying sub rosa is this is not a secret. it's important that the cia not be heard officially to acknowledge it. >> is that what you want? you want them officially to acknowledge it? >> no, we don't need that. >> why doesn't abu zubaydah testify? he was there. why doesn't he say this is what happened? then they will not deny it, if he is telling the truth. i'm saying the person who was there -- he is your client? >> abu zubaydah cannot testify because he's being held incommunicad

that is a question this greatly implicates the cia directors special knowledge and expertise in the cia director asked lane that compelled disclosure would harm the national security because there is a critical difference between widespread speculation and formal confirmation by people with first-hand knowledge. even tonight circuit did -- failed to recognize that point. instead, the two former contractors could become formed -- could be compelled to confirm or deny since they are not agents of the united states. the question is not their status under domestic law, it is how they are -- their testimony would affect national security and the expert direction of the cia director. it would be a serious breach of trust and i welcome the first questions. >> the two contractors have testified about the treatment of this before? >> that's correct. >> why couldn't they also testify here, what difference would it make? >> it's a critical difference between the context of the testimony and what they would convey. the prior context, their testimony has focused on the nature of the treatment of det

the paranoid cia offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. the sand gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else in the way the plane takes off with a flat tire? the c, i a hovers a helicopter over, it still manages to leave the ground. they demand the european countries close their raspberries. we are still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american government's path, cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not look like you. but for now, gillian, a sounds remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge ruling against his extradition to the united states ove

mike compared wanted the cia to be create. the instructor, subordinates not to self sense of themselves when it comes to dealing wiki links. sometimes oh tricks work best they might have thought and came up with a good old assassination plot. detailed sketches options on how to murder sounds reportedly discussed in the whiteness on the highest possible level. why would a cia achieve plots of the killing of an independent journalist? well, it was an act of personal vendetta. back in march 2017, the newly appointed cia chief found himself in a very difficult position. when wikileaks released top secret ca papers, they were completely detached from reality because they were so embarrassed about vault 7. they were seen blood chapter to kidnapping. but somebody in the white house might have thought paid, no killings where a civilized nation that's kidnapped this journalist and sentenced him to death by american law. the plan was simply break into the embassy drag assange out and bring him to where we want one small issue. the u. s.

the cia blocks, it's on the runway by shooting its tires. as well as anything and anybody else is the way the plane takes off with a flat tire. the c i a hovers, a helicopter over is still manages to leave the ground. they demand the european countries close their aspects. we are still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross, the american governments passed the cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not surprise me while june, the sand remains in a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite a british judge there ruling against his extradition to the united states over fears about his mental health. he does face a 175 years in prison in america, where he's wanted on charges of hacking and espionage when in 2019 assange was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london. after the country terminated his 7 year salem, they're following the recent developments we heard from former c. i a analyst em whistleblower

the cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks is on the runway by shooting it's tiresome, as well as anything. and anybody else, wait? the plane take self with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over. it still manages to leave the ground. they demand that the european countries close their aspects. we are still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american governments pass the cia, it's pretty much the same thing. rule of law may not advise you, but for now, chile, the sounds remains at a maximum security prison in the u. k. despite the british judge ruling against his expedition to the united states of, of fears about his mental health, he faces a 175. he is imprisonment, america or he's wanted on charges of hacking and espionage. in 2019 assange was forcibly removed by police from the ecuadorian embassy in london

it could be a super sophisticated cia dis, information campaign. does you know, like the movie are ago by ben affleck? look, i saw jelly. so that's at least one muslim affleck has tortured, but our government is even better at torturing muslims. america loves torturing muslims. i don't know why we use apple pie as a symbol for america. when was the last time our government beg you an apple pie instead we should be saying stuff like baseball. 1 well, that's as american as torturing muslim. now i know what you're thinking, you're thinking and you please stop saying, torturing muslims. he can't have a tv segment where you keep saying the phrase torturing muslims. it's just too much to bear. you know, it's actually easier to talk about killing muslims than torturing them. they did, at least with killing. we can try to paint some picture of us waging a noble war against evil doers, but torture. there's just no way to justify intentionally torturing innocent people because of their religion. so many victims of our torture program are seeking just in vain

the cia director said, we can't have it attributed officially to the cia that these things happened inpoland, whether it's true or false. we can't acknowledge or deny it. that was the important thing, all right? in that paragraph 134 and 135, in that one paragraph he uses the phrase official acknowledgment or official confirmation and its converse eight times, and he says what's really crucial is not that the cia exposes a secret but officially acknowledges this non-secret because he was responding to the fact that colons resident had already acknowledged it -- colons president had already acknowledged it that we are not. that's important because what he think i'm witty saying is this is not a secret. that it's important that the cia not be heard officially to acknowledge it. >> so is that what you want? you want them to officially -- >> no. we don't need that. we want the testimony -- >> why don't you ask mr. zubaydah? why doesn't he testify? he wasn't there. why doesn't he say this is what happened? they won't deny it, i mean, i don't think it is telling the truth. >> are talking abo

i asked and is also a former cia analyst. iasked him just and is also a former cia analyst. isa it is a significant initiative, but in some senses it is also symbolic. the us intelligence committee already has a massive effort against china, but this allows bcaa and the biden administration to communicate but it is serious about china. —— the but it is serious about china. -- the cia. but it is serious about china. —— the cia. when a cia director does this, it attracts the best intelligence, talent, more funding, and china reports will make it to the top of the stack that the cia director has to deal with. that the cia director has to deal with-— that the cia director has to deal with. ~ ,., , .,, dealwith. well, some people wondered _ dealwith. well, some people wondered if _ dealwith. well, some people wondered if the _ dealwith. well, some people wondered if the relationship l wondered if the relationship between the us and china would improve after president trump. this seems to show that they definitely won't and china can't be pleased with that. so what exactly has cha

the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires. as well as anything and anybody else's way the plane takes off with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over is still manages to leave the ground. they demand the european countries close their aspects. we are still talking about catching julian assange, not the number one terrorist. oh, well, if you are an independent journalist who happens to cross the american government's path, the cia, it's pretty much the same thing. the rule of law may not advise you. geopolitical analyst, patrick headington, suspects the democrats are using the probe to pursue their own partisan interest. i really doubt, i really doubt that this has anything to do with defending the free press or human rights from the democratic parties. perspective. i think there are partisan. there's definitely partisan motives here. the democrats still regard julius sanchez, the major scape goat for giving the trump upset against hillary clinton, 2016 with the put as the emails and so forth. so mike pump pale features

this is our say on the way form a cia boss. my competitor is implicated in reports of the agency plans to murder julian sonjee. just one of our stories, when the week he returns after the break. ah, for is your media a reflection of reality in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? isolation for community. are you going the right way or are you being that somewhere? direct? what is true? what is great? in the world corrupted, you need to descend a join us in the depths or remain in the shallows. join me every thursday on the alex, simon, sure. but i'll be speaking to guess on the world of politics, sport, business. i'm show business, i'll see you then. ah ah, hello again. it's been revealed the c i plotted to kidnap or assassinate the wiki leaks found a julian a sound when he was in the ecuadorian embassy in london a while back. a report and the u. s. media was based on statements from 30 former u. s. officials and sent it on my pompei when he was director of the agency during donald trump presidency. a pompei of

how the cia penetrated computer networks around the world. how it penetrated i phones how it track the communications and activities of perceived adversaries. this was a huge, sensitive matter for the cia might pump. pale had been somewhat dismissive of wiki leaks, role in the 2016 election when he comes into langley in early 2017 and the vault 7 leak happens on his watch. now it is agency, he's the one responsible and from pale, was embarrassed by he didn't want to go see president donald trump and face him and have a discussion about what went wrong with the cia. and in fact, the ca had laughed at the pentagon as they saw that those files from the pentagon exposing the iraq and afghanistan wars were published by wiki leaks. and they laughed at the state department because $250000.00 plus diplomatic cables were published from chelsea manning by wiki lease. and so this was an embarrassment and he decided that he was going to be out for blood and seek vengeance against where he leaks. i can say we never, we never conducted planning to violate

s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't file charges against the wikileaks found him. so the cia was going to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. a perfect master plan, deed you could possibly spoil the fun russians. of course, chapter 3 fighting russians. what is vladimir putin's intelligence gets there? first of dumps a sound and then flies him to moscow. that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself. the plan to counts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance bisons gets into the car with the russian operatives. the cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything and anybody else's way. the plane takes off with a flat tire. the cia hub is a helicopter over is still manages to leave the

did the cia under president trump planning kick? now assassinate what he means that actually during a lloyd lane time, he was a journalist and that the united states is trying to criminalize journal. lillian died with all the freedom of brands in the united states. laura richard ginsberg and you're at the las me post where we don't cover the news . we cover the way the news is covered. here are some of the media angles we're examining this week. it's the kind of news story that wiki leaks has been known to break only. it was about wikileaks, julian, a satch, and how far the cia was willing to go to put the organization out of commission. some senior trump administration officials and c i executives even discussed fascinating this on facebook is under scrutiny yet again as a new p r initiative. backfires translation is transformation how literature changes as it moves from one language to another. and after 16 years of leading the country as its chancellor allies reading, germany is saying good bye to anglo merkel. it was like someth

i've interviewed both the cia, the head of the cia operation and fbi operation at the time and zubaydah taken, the first to be rendered to a secret site. he was taken to thailand. soon after he got there was when james mitchell and bruce jessen showed up and began the interrogation. as joe pointed out, it was interesting yesterday in the argument to hear justice barrett talking about torture, what happened to zubaydah was torture. none of these euphemisms like enhanced interrogation techniques. he was the guinea pig in a way. this is where mitchell designed the program and tested the program of torture. it always struck me that a lot is made of the 83 times he was waterboarded. if you read what was done to him, in the government cables that were sent at the time, to me, the waterboarding was almost benign. they kept him sleet look -- sleepless. they put him in a small coffin sized box for hours, overnight. he couldn't move. they hung him by the cell bars with his feet dangling off the ground. it got to the point it was so bad that mitchell would just snap his fingers and zubaydah would

that is your top priority as the cia director is defined and get bin laden.people in that room described it to me, when the president lights a fire under the cia director the cia director goes back to langley and light a fire under the agency. >> did you develop any opinion on whether it had not been a priority after 2000? or was that a substantial heir to have missed him in bora bora? >> that was a huge error. there is an argument inside the pentagon about how many troops to send their. rumsfeld wanted to go in relatively lighter. and who knows if that's why he escaped. but he did slip the noose. when i talk to some people who were there, remember obviously the obama team comes in in 2009. when i would talk about he really lit a fire under the cia, i had some people push back like morel who is deputy director had been there all during this period of time. he kind of took offense at the idea that they had forgotten about bin laden. you know, obviously like anything in history it's not either one or the other. but there is no question, whatever the priority wa