tell you so it was a security council decision and the security council is the present that they will have the will of state. of the united nation as an entity but also the collective security thinking of the states including the major states at this point. therefore don't ask people who work for the u.n. about their thoughts sometimes are not to be was what the security council produces or doesn't produce well the reason i'm asking it about this is because i know that you've been very disappointed by general haftar you're already alluded to that essentially uprooting the result of your own work of trying to bring the parties together but wasn't his offensive on triple it on a in a way the replay of events back in the spring of 2011 when calls for pilot a call dollop were ultimately used as a prelude for you know actual military action no i think the situation is very different. in this sense. you have you had the regime established for 4 decades and you had some protests against this regime and then you had an external intervention military intervention by the it will accept or not accept the but q. was was a un resolution used to legitimize this intervention now

people not only important but so it of brag about it and the security council does nothing what would be left of the multilateral collective security council it will die but don't you think that this multilateral security council has already effectively rearranged itself because you've been very critical of advances on tripolitania but not of the un security council members including russia made very strong condemnations of his move in fact carol have to. receive almost a presidential treatment last month in in paris which i would say suggests perhaps all the major parties to the conflict may have to if you are exceptions are more or less ok with what he has been doing i haven't criticize most that have harshly i have just been faithful to the fact. i put them before the security council members some of them i accepted them some of them said yeah me have a behavior that is different that's why when you started this conversation i told you i was counting on a minimal unity within the council what i'm discovering more and more is that on the one hand this minimal unity is more or less preserved but on the other hand many cou

can tell you so it was a security council decision and security council is a present that they will have the will of state. of the united nation as an entity but also the collective security thinking of the states including the major states at this point. therefore don't ask people who work for the u.n. about their thoughts sometimes are not too happy with what the security council produces or doesn't produce well the reason i'm asking it about this is because i know that you've been very disappointed by general haftar you over to allude to that essentially uprooting the result of your own work of trying to bring the libyan parties together but wasn't his offensive on tripolitania in a way the replay of events back in the spring of 2011 when calls for pilot a call dollop were ultimately used as a prelude for you know actual military action no i think the situation is very different in the sense that. you have you had the regime established for 4 decades and you had some protests against this regime and then you had an external intervention military intervention by the middle. i accept or not accept the but this was a un resolution used to legitimize this interven

collective security and it is impossible to have collective security once washington's partners in the region are squabbling amongst themselves. so you could know about that an analyst on the gulf cooperation council thanks your insights on al-jazeera well after 52 years of israel's occupation of the west bank and the gaza strip the land remains at the heart of the conflict between palestinians and israelis palestinians say they're being denied permission to build homes by israeli authorities and with a lack of land for development their way of life is under threat it even had reports from the occupied west bank. low rise buildings were once common in villages in the occupied west bank but not anymore even in older areas that are now how the buildings that many say are destroying the traditional nature of these villages life in palestinian villages once revolved around farming in single story stone houses in the village of cut on the north east of jerusalem this is how much things have changed over the last decade. an hour's drive from village it's mayor says efforts to maintain its heritage are often hampered due to lack of land in most part of the villages really permission is needed to carry ou

council for intelligence for the security division where he advised the leaders on matters including operation, litigation and oversight. experiencextensive with programs, and particularly intelligence collection related to the intelligence surveillance as fisa.rwise known we will have a conversation up here for about 40 minutes and that we will open up to questions so a few you have some, start thinking now of about what they may be. please make sure they are in the form of a question so i don't have to cut you off. welcome. let's start with the basics. what is your job? first, thank you all for coming. thank you for having me here. and certainly thank you to brookings. almost 20 years ago, i spent a lot of time in this building. in a program for young people. at that point, i was young, coming into public service. then and now, this has been an amazing place for pragmatic scholarship and good debate. it is actually an honor to be back here. thank you all. what is this job? privacy and civil liberties at cia, half the people would say, why do you have this job at the cia? and the other half might say of course you should have this job at the cia. these officers were created in a number of dif