thank you for csi as for joining us morning. [applause] sound sound back -- [inaudible conversations]

thank you, csis and ambassador mccarthy, for inviting me. i came from south sudan, i was there for three years. from there, i was born there, but i'm also american. so i -- [inaudible] also i'm not going to sit for the government or for the -- or from from anybody that is fighting, including my own community. i would love to be independent. once you live outside like me, i grew up with it -- [inaudible] i was raised by the u.n., united nations. i was in northern kenya before i came here. i came here as one of the lost boys from sudan, now south sudan with the issue of south sudan as mentioned on the introduction, south sudan is very complicate 3. it's a very complicated country like another country in the world, say the u.s. but sometimes one doesn't know until one -- [inaudible] i did not even know that south sudan was such a complicated country when i was here until i went there and spent three years. i would take on two things. the country -- [inaudible] and the ngo role as mentioned. south sudan like other african countries not get indep

desimone of csis to help orchestrate our gathering this morning as well. what administrative note, we will be taking questions from you guys on note cards. if you would like to have a card you can raise your hand now. you have another opportunity before the q&a starts to get those cards to ask your questions. and so, without further ado we'll get to the heart of the matter. though we have entitled today's discussion south sudan when war and family collide, we are clearly aware that these are only two strands of a much more complicated situation in south sudan. a much longer and convoluted history of conflict, oppression and attempts to resolve these issues. one of the things i wanted to start by pointing out is that even though in the west we have a tendency to mark the struggle in south sudan based on when we began to engage. so you hear about july 9, 2011, you hear about july 9 2005, he heard about interventions such as operation sudan in the early 80s and 90s. if you have sat down with then southerners, you would hear a different take on the ark of the

. >> yes, all part of the csi camp at stockton university.he teens and our very onagawa pat gallen learn to you to be investigators just like the hit show csi. we will be right back. did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's up to 16 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to faster downloads with internet speeds up to 250 megabits per second. get fast internet and add phone and tv now for only $24.90 more per month. our lowest price ever on this offer. but only for a limited time. call today. comcast business. built for business. >> roo look ahead to our upcoming weekend, expecting some showers, thunderstorms, specially saturday, should be more sun by sunday. meantime cooler conditions for the weekends days as well, guys? >> all right, katie, thank you now for look at newspaper headlines from across our region. >> from the trentonian, resident participating in the ham

as deborah mentioned, i'm beverly kirk, a volunteer at csis in the international security program and i manage the smart women, smart power initiative. full disclosure, i spent more than two decades as a journalist. most of that time was here in washington, and i've worked with three of the four people sitting on this stage. let me introduce them to you. jeff ballou is the president of the national press club and the first african american man and the first representative of an international media organization to hold that post. jeff is the news editor at al-jazeera news network and part of its global editorial leadership team. he helped to establish the english channel in 2006. he is a peabody, murrow, and emmy award winning journalist who's worked at c-span, npr and local d.c. stations. next to him is diana marrero. the director of the hill latino. it is a new media platform she helped to launch that is focused on latino affairs. before shifting to the business side of the media, she was an award winning journalist beginning her career at the miami herald where she was part of the t

we'll continue to rely on csis as our partner. we are also trying very hard to reach out to other u.s. think tanks and we also want to reach out to other universities in china to bring them together to cooperate with you. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> on behalf of the american participants, i want to thing professor wong and ambassador fu ying who brought this idea to us. everyone was interested, a dozen think tanks or universities at least heard her idea. we weren't sure how it worked and i think it worked quite well. one, the good will and the candor of all the participants. number two, we structured it in a way where each side had to think hard about how they thought about the other's relationship. third, because of maria sinclair and sun ying. an example of an american university graduate going to work for you, professor wang. the two of them herded these cats and we owe them special thanks and thank you for joining us. >>> house republicans unveiled the 2018 budget plan today that includes $622 billion in pentagon spen

bonnie glaser, my colleague at csis and director by china project will talk about the asia-pacific papers. we're going to ask that panelists not to summarize the papers but identify between the american and chinese papers the issues of convergence, divergence and some recommendations. my friend zhu feng were present on the asia-pacific strategy issue after bonnie. then will ship to the military relationship. david finkelstein and zhang tuosheng from the chinese foundation for international security studies will address the areas of convergence divergence and implications of what we identified and analyzed in military spheres. as doctor hanley said, we endeavor to make these papers that would be based on the u.s. national interest and u.s. strategy, on our side, and on the chinese national interest and change strategy on the chinese side. we did these in consultation with each other, meaning that for example, on the asia-pacific paper bonnie and i and with zhu feng and his colleagues talked about how to structure the papers of what themes we would try to address that we were clear about se

counterparts, individuals and institutions specially csis. we are very much indebted to their advice and support. the research team on the chinese side was composed 20 to 30 researchers and scholars and policy analysts from numerous leading think tanks in china. beijing and elsewhere. they include academy of social science, china foundation chief studies and national defense university, the pla academy of community of science, my university peking university and shanghai, shanghai academy of social science, and many others. we held dozens of closed-door debates and discussions. some were small group meetings and we also held many meetings with our american counterparts in beijing, washington, d.c. or new york city. the end result is the chinese report publicized in both chinese and english and we also want to thank csis for publicizing for chinese report and the chinese report in both english are already edited in the volume which will be published by the chinese academy of social sciences published in-house and i hope it will come out pretty

secretary fallon, thankfully, is a frequent visitor to csis. he was here two years ago in march and the topic of the discussion was in defense of a rules-based order and how that transatlantic relationship can be used. and i think now, in today's discussion, we will look at the defense of the rules-based order and see where we go from here. secretary fallon assumed secretary of state for defense, his position, on july 15, 2014. two days later, a russian missile shot down mh-17. that was his first few days on the job. three years later, two elections later, one referendum later, secretary fallon, you have had an extraordinary tenure already in your three years. we are delighted that you are here with us. we have so much to discuss and we look forward to your comments. colleagues, please join me and -- in thanking secretary fallon for joining us here at csis. [applause] sec. fallon: heather, thank you. and good afternoon. it's great to be back in the united states and to be speaking at this world-renowned center. whose ideas have influenced gener

secretary fallon, thankfully, is a frequent visitor to csis. he was here two years ago in march and the topic of discussion was in defense of a rules-based order and how that transatlantic relationship can be used. and i think now, in today's discussion, we will look at the defense of the rules-based order and see where we go from here. secretary fallon assumed secretary of state for defense, his position, on july 15, 2014. two days later, a russian missile shot down mh-17. that was his first few days on the job. three years later, two elections later,one referendum later, secretary fallon, you have had an extraordinary tenure already in your three years. we are delighted you are here with us. we have so much to discuss and we look forward to your comments. colleagues, please join me and thanking secretary fallon for joining us here at csis. [applause] sec. fallon: heather, thank you. and good afternoon. it's great to be back in the united states and to be speaking at this world-renowned center. whose ideas have influenced generations of defens

s we take -- at csi , our security very seriously.e have exits to the back and to the front, if there are problems. ladies and gentlemen, if you could all rise for the president of the republic of korea, moon jae-in. [applause] victor: to begin the evening and to introduce our guest of honor, i'm going to turn the stage over to john hamre, president and c.e.o. of csis. john: good afternoon, everybody. i am so delighted to see you here. i was meeting with president moon and i said, i don't think anybody could bring out a crowd like this on a friday before a long holiday weekend. [laughter] it's a miracle. i think it actually is a testament to how important your leadership has become. korea has gone through a tremendous constitutional crisis. it was the biggest challenge that korea's had in its constitutional history. and they came through it with flying colors. we should all be very grateful for the calm leadership that the political leadership of korea gave, and to you president moon. you were very good in making sure that the place w

and i am andrew hunter, director of the defense industrial initiatives group here at csi s. and as tom mentioned this mornings event is a clab bags. and for those of you wondering what the definition of collaboration is, we're just trying to give you a demonstration this morning. it's my pleasure to sbrulgs senator tom cotton who is going to join us this morning and give us some great, looking forward speech. senator cotton is a senator from arkansas. he serves on a number of important committees in the senate including near and dear to my heart, the armed services committee. he also serves on the intelligence and banking committees, and he chairs the economic policy sub committee on the banking committee. he grew up in arkansas, and attended both harvard and harvard law school. we'll try hard not to hold that against you. he served a chloricship in the court of appeals. after the attacks of september 11st, he decided to change his career path and join the united states army. served five years as an infantry officer in the united states army and earned a really in such a sho

andad people from csis other think tanks from the united states.story, theply my chinese side of the story. equally important or even more important, after a few rounds of consultations, csis made the decision to help out and to coordinate american think tanks to write a report. -- the first idea is to write something called a joint report. publicity of teamwork collaborated by both sides. but because of the lack of communication, we are separated so widely and we cannot reach consensus on everything -- every single issue, we decided to do something like they shanghai communique. we express our views and they express their views. notes. can compare we compared notes in the first place. two separatelt is and parallel reports reflecting our views of several dimensions, like trade and economics, asia-pacific, global governors, the impact on the bilateral relationship, and military-to-military relations, and also an overview. we have frequent exchanges of views between the u.s. and chinese teams. we compared notes. we improved the quality of the papers

like to first express my deepest appreciation to csis and especially to dr. michael green for co-hosting this event. with the think tank, asia-pacific initiative. i was here exactly at csi six months ago, and events like this, exactly like this. the theme was always the same. the u.s.-japan alliance in at the year of the economic competition. it was a preview of one year-long product with dozens of japanese policy experts at the think tank, and our objective of that project was to identify the geopolitical and geoeconomic risks to u.s.-japan alliance, and the possible ways to deal with it. today, we are here to share some of observations and take away from four days of conference which we just have in washington. between retired military leaders and active duty officers, top active duty officers, and the government, high, ranking official, from the u.s. and japan, this is a retreat type discussion and this -- we have had state forum, for a year and dr. michael green has been extremely supportive from day one. we are very much now in era of radical instant cer

this is why the report being released by csis today is so important. and why i encourage everyone to read it carefully. of course we also have to remember that we're in strategic kpet wiggs countries besides russia. the imf treaty was a landmark agreement 30 years ago. but the world we now inhabit is very different from that world. for one thing, it's not a two-power world any more. when reagan and gorbachev shook hands over the imf treaty, china was beginning its free market reforms. iran was locked in a war of attrition. iraq neither india or pakistan, as a nuclear power and just two years before, hard as it may be to believe, north korea had signed the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. thus, the time is coming to consider whether the united states should stay in the inf treaty, even if russia came back into compliance. as i've noted new york city other country is a party to the treaty. as a result, our troops and allies in the asia-pacific face an increasingly aggressive china with more than 90% of its missile forces falling into the intermediate ran

as she mentioned i'm a fellow here at csis and i manage the smart women smart power initiative. i spent more than two decades as a journalist. in fact most of that time was here in washington and i worked with three of the four people who are sitting here on this stage. let me introduce them to you. to my immediate left is jeff blue. jeff blue is the 110th president of the press club, the first african american man to hold that post. jeff is the news editor at wa--e helped establish the english channel in 2006. she an emmy award winning journalist who previously worked at cspan and fox 5 d.c., which is where i met him. next to him is diana. it is a new media platform she helped to launch. before shifting to the business size of the media she was an award winning journalist where she was part of a team that covered the international custody battle. she also served as the acting washington bureau chief for milwaukee journal. she is the founder and past president of the washington d.c. chapter of the national association of hispanic journalists. thank you. >> noeks her is united na

i like to begin by thinking csi my chinese colleagues. when we embarked originally on this project we're not sure exactly how it was going to go. have worked on collaborative projects between american and chinese scholars many times and it is a challenge for the obvious reasons. as a result they gave me the hot hardest topic of them all, politics. it was the hardest because it's so sensitive. it's sensitive in america but more sensitive in china. yet, the two teams work together, persevere, and were able to generate very credible products. what i would like to do is make three points about how i think politics impact the u.s. china relationship and weave into those comments some thoughts about differences where views can diverge and hopefully make it policy prevalent. my first point is that when one looks at the u.s. china relationship, and i look at it from a practical perspective. i was fortunate to serve in the obama administration at the white house for six years. i had six years where i got to sit at the control panel of the u.s. chi

please join me in welcoming -- [applause] >> more from the csis event looking at a new report on army modernization and the need for the u.s. to adapt to new global security threats. this is one hour. >> all right. thank you everyone for sticky mat while we made our transitioned as a major we're going to roll into the second half of the event where we're going to focus on army modernization. and csis is today rolling out a report on army modernization called the army modernization imperative. a new big five for army modernization. i want to begin by thanking the sponsors of the study because without sponsors we don't get to do studies. this study was sponsored by a combination of support from general dynamics, drs technologies, part of leonardo and l3 as well become want to thank them for their support. i'm going to briefly walk through the chief findings and recommendations of the report. it's about 8 80 pages but it's a pretty quickly. there's a lot of pictures so i urge you to go read the whole thing. i'm going to hit the highlights and then will bring up our distinguished panel to

fallon here to csis, and i was explaining, the new cycle has been quiet and slow the last few days, and we were so glad he could come here and help elevate our discussion, but he comes as an incredibly important time, certainly on the heels of several days of incredible news, not only security related issues, whether that was the north korean launch of a intercontinental ballistic missile, but also as we see the meeting unfolding between president trump and putin today. secretary fallon was here two years ago in march and the topic of the discussion was in defense of a rules-based order, how that trance atlantic relationship can be used, and now in today's discussion, we will again look at the defense of the rules-based order and see where we go from here. secretary fallon assumed secretary of state of defense, his position on july 15th, 2014. two days later a russian missile shot down mh-17. that was his first few days on the job, and two elections later and one referendum later, secretary fallon you have had an extraordinary tenure already in your three years. we are delighted you are

i am thomas karako, senior fellow at the missile defense program at csi us. today's event is entitled the russia challenge in europe, implications for the imf treaty and army mobilization. this is a joint event between the defense industrial initiatives group directed by andrew hunt who you will see in a minute and the missile defense project which i run. before we get started at bigger events like this we ask folks to familiarize themselves with the surroundings in case you have access or something like that, take the stairs or take some exits to the back. you can look to me or andrew for that sort of thing. to kick things off i will hand things over to andrew hunter to introduce the first speaker. >> thank you for joining us. i'm andrew hunter, the defense industrial initiatives group, as tom mentions, collaboration between two programs, those wondering what the collaboration is trying to give you a demonstration this morning. it is my pleasure to introduce senator tom cotton who will join us and give us great remarks and the preview. senator cotton, senato

the maritime security dialogue represents a co-host and series between csis and the u.s. naval institute or usni, and it seeks to highlight both current-thinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the coast guard. today represents our second dialogue for 2017, and we look forward to wrel come you all back for additional events throughout the year. we would also like to thank in a special way lockheed martin and huntington ingles industries for their support in making this event and this series possible. before we get under way for big, vents like this we also like to make just a brief announcement, safety announcement. we don't expect any difficulties, but should there be anything as a convener and we want to make sure that we have exits right here on the back on both sides and stairs down the front and both myself and anthony bell in the back will be your responsible officers to kind of direct you in the right way just in case anything should come up. just look for one of us. and so, for our formal introduction to get things started i'll turn to

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you went after wikileaks, and you did it at csis. there is anything more we can good must do? because i think really we're putting the country at risk, putting sources and messages which we help create years ago, do you have any further comments on this culture of leakage that has to stop at some point. [applause] >> charlie, there's always more you can do. one of the first things i did is he head of counterintelligence now reports detectively to me. it was intended to make sure that i was personally part of making sure we were doing cia well but i wanted to make sure everyone in the organization understood that it was an enormous priority. we have to get that right. think we can. there are things we can do inside our open buildings and in our screening process that will decrease the likelihood we have threat from inside. and then, too, things we can do to make sure that others aren't stealing stealing our secrets from outside and we have an obligation to do that. it's enormously frustrating to read things in the press you now ought not be there and i hope it's the case this g

the csi 300 gaining .7%.icipated, although happening earlier than expected. rising slightly, unlimited reaction to that news. we will check on the boj commitment to yield curve control when the minutes come out tuesday. that is ahead of cpi data on friday affected to show sluggish inflation despite a tighter labor market and rising household spending. we have the yen rising for a fifth straight day, getting a boost from shinzo abe's dwindling popularity. the weaker again has been a part of abenomics, but ubs says in the sharp drop in dollar-yen would be short-lived if there is a leadership change. ll would be difficult to ro back that strong commitment. bond traders have made up their to thaten it comes tightening path for the fed being eased by janet yellen. continue to yields fall after losing nine basis points last week, the biggest drop since april. it broke through the 50 and 200 day moving averages this chart shows you we could see a retracement of the 61 point 8% fibonacci line at 2.21%, how we are com

this is why the report being released by csi today is so important and why i encourage everyone to read it carefully . of course, we also have to remember that we are in strategic competition with countries besides russia. the inf treaty was a landmark agreement 30 years ago. the world we now have is very different from that world. for one thing, it's not a to power world anymore. when reagan and gorbachev shook hands over the treaty, china was beginning its free-market reforms, iran was locked in a war of attrition, iraqi , indie india or pakistan was a nuclear power, just years before, hard as it may be to believe, north korea had signed a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. thus, the time is coming to consider whether the united states should stay in the inf treaty even if russia came back into compliance. as i've noted, no other country is a party to the treaty. as a result, our troops and allies in the asian-pacific face and increasingly aggressive china with more than 90 percent of itsmissile forces pulling into the intermediate range . yet pacific command and our allies like a singl

csi has recently published what i thought was really instructive and thoughtful analysis of the merger of the united states information agency and the state department in 1999 and why that went awry. and i'd like to just read some excerpts from that. the origins of that merger, i became aware were vice president al gore's reinventing government blueprint. the plan was to fold usaid and usia and the arms control and disarmament agency into state. the arms control agency washappy to merge because they are primarily diplomatic in whatthey do. but usaid and usia resisted that. a deal was cut as so often -- so oftenar, happens up here. and so here's what happened. by the way, the heritage foundation, which is currently advocating to are a consolidation of start and usaid, has called this usia merger misguided and some of their scholars wrote about how poorly it went. one reason for the failed integration of the agency stem from the vastly different missions and cultures of two organizations. i would argue this is something we should consider here. state and usia's budget functions were merg

that you were talking about, was that csis new york or csis miami or -- >> no, stop that >> it's differente you went to m.i.t. >> people don't know people don't know that i'm kidding a lot of the time. >> by the way, you're smart too. >> thank you. >> i have to give you a lot of credit. >> thank you. >> so we're going to slowly -- it looks like there's no reason to go to break, we just have to break out of break and it looks like it's going to have -- there's -- you know, i've seen it characterized that he got a warm welcome in poland it's a hero's welcome that they wanted to give him there, ken. >> they should. >> but they have a lot of similar concerns they think that germany is obviously -- that the eu is too german centric. >> understand something. >> yep. >> when you respect him, you respect our process and you respect our way of governing he won an election fair and square. >> that's what gets me is when people just say it's illegitimate or that he doesn't represent the united states or he's embarrassing the united states, and they say it to me very loudly in my face but people -- th

i'm a senior fellow here in the international security program at csis. i'm delighted to kick off this morning's maritime security dialogue with vice admiral moore. the dialogue represents a cohosted series and it seeks to highlight both current thinking and future challenges facing the navy, the marine corps and the coast guard. today represents our second dialogue for 2017 and we look forward to welcome you all back for additional events throughout the year. we would also like to thank in a special way lockheed martin and huntington ingalls industries for their support in making this series possible. before we get underway, we'd also like to make just a brief announcement. we don't expect any difficulties, but should there be anything, we just want to make sure you know we've got some exits right here in the back on both sides and stairs down the front. the chief executive officer of the naval lockheed hard tmartin. he holds degrees from george washington university and a naval nuclear engineering degree from mit. there a -- major program manager for ai

the csi 200 falling a third of a percent after the shanghai composite hit a three month high on the backnce we saw on thursday. today, on the back foot, the hang seng falling .4%. the bojw following stepping into the beat of its own drum moving to contain yields and will buy an unlimited amount of debt and a fixed rate operation, so japanese stocks paring its earlier drop, now down .2% compared to .7% earlier. the yen deepening its decline, down .3% at 113.51. this action by the doj has sent the 10 year yield back below that .1% after climbing above that level for the first time since february given that backdrop of global bond yields rising. i want to check in on some stocks. trade,anke resuming unchanged for now, but take a shares after the group said operations are normal following a drop of 4.5% on thursday. fosun shares continuing thursday's decline, and china vanke now down 2%. rishaad: back to sydney and paul allen for first word news. thanks. japan and the eu have endorsed a preliminary free-trade pact in a rejection of president trump's attraction this leadings. donald tusk and

the csi 300 giving back what it gained yesterday. generallye seeing today is read.kospi declines, the market coming off record highs it had a good run yesterday on the back of samsung's numbers, but down one person at the moment. a lot of these commodities markets getting hit as well. you have got this oil story, above $49 a barrel. the energy producers not buying into that day. singapore banks had a good run yesterday. today, less than what the market was looking for. also weakness out of the tech stocks that had done well. nikkei below that 20,000 point level, the yen up by .2%, holding above 111 handle. let's look at the other stocks in this space. a lot of focus on airlines. singapore airlines up by 1% in a returned to profit. rising after the nikkei reported first quarter results, the biggest jump in five months. nikkei reporting that the airline will report ¥18 billion operating profit. ana falling after that weakness. news thedrop on the westernge is allowing to pursue its suit. david: i would not recommend drinking kwiechow moutai and operating heavy machine

foot,stocks on the back the csi 300 falling .1%.looking steady with a stronger fix. .2%,ang seng gaining climbing for a fifth straight day, set for the best week in a year. fitch on china, the credit agency of firm china's a plus reading with a stable outlook as gdp looks on track to meet the target of 6.5%, although fitch points out the tight monetary conditions could lead to slower growth, but the latest trade data this week marchrcing the economies higher and putting feel behind the rise of the aussie dollar, up .1%, even in the face of iron and the aussie back above $.77. chart, thehow this aussie dollar could retest the fibonacci resistance, the yellow line here on the chart, a 23.6 retracement of the decline of 2011-2016. there is also a signal of bullish momentum for the aussie dollar. newss are falling on the of a report that the head office ided by the prosecutor in south korea for korea aerospace industries. , the only outlier, down .2%. is world's largest chipmaker on the decline following its third-quarter sales miss. we

he talked about it at csi as today after the announcement of the cease-fire. take a listen. >> of the recent of the syrian civil war is littered with cease-fires. it would be nice to have a cease-fire. none of these have turned out to be cease-fires. they've been brokered, persistently, broken by the regime, and indeed broken by russian activity itself. so we welcome any cease-fire, but let's see the results on the ground. >> bret: the white house, mara, does believe the solution is through russia and syria? >> there is no doubt about it. it's really interesting. a lot of trump's foreign policy has to do with working with countries he feels have more leverage than the united states. russia and syria. china with north korea. and so far, i don't think those bets have panned out yet, but this one might. and we are just going to have to wait and see. this would be the one deliverable that trump got out of this meeting, if, in fact, there was a cease-fire and it sticks. >> bret: jonah? >> picking on something more that michael said. secretary's peter navarro came o

csi 300 under pressure, selling out of large-cap stocks, down .8%, also weakness in hong kong's index%. them,kkei holding on to up another .4%, so well clear of that 20,000 point level. we did see weakness coming through from the yen during monday session. thehtly stronger against dollar today, on reports that north korea has fired another missile. we have seen some flow into safety like the yen and the gold price, up like .2%. in terms of what is moving markets, banks, energy players, japanese automaker strong today. toyota one of the best performers in the region. you are seeing selling coming through in these tech stocks. tencent, nintendo, sony all under pressure. that is the state of play across asian markets around lunchtime this tuesday. ♪ caroline: this is bloomberg technology. i am caroline hyde. amazon's decision to acquire whole foods took many by surprise. we continue to question which industry the tech giant will disrupt next. amazon can extend far be on delivery and encroach into the territory of restaurants, and in fact the entire prepared food and delivery market, doub

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you went after wikileaks, and you did it at csis. is there anything more we can and must do? because i think really we're putting the country at risk, putting sources and messages which we help create years ago, do you have any further comments on this culture of leakage that has to stop at some point. [applause] >> charlie, there's always more you can do. one of the first things i did is the head of counterintelligence now reports directly to me. it was intended to make sure that i was personally part of making sure we were doing cia well but i wanted to make sure everyone in the organizationunderstood that it was an enormous priority. we have to get that right. and i think we can. there are things we can do inside our open buildings and in our screening process that will decrease the likelihood we have a threat from inside. and then, too, things we can do to make sure that othersaren't stealing our secrets from outside and we have an obligation to do that. it's enormously frustrating to read things in the press you now ought not be there and i hope it's the case thisgovernm

you went after wikileaks a few minutes ago, and you did it at csis. is there anything more we can and must do? because i think really we're putting the country at risk, putting sources and messages which we helped create years ago. do you have any further comments on this culture of leakage that has to stop at some point. [applause] >> charlie, there's always more you can do. one of the first things i did is the head of counterintelligence now report to me. it was intended to make sure that i was personally part of making sure we were doing cia well but i wanted to make sure everyone in the organization understood that it was an enormous priority. we have to get that right. i think we can. there are things we can do inside our open buildings and in our screening process that will decrease the likelihood we have threat from inside. and then, too, things we can do to make sure that others aren't stealing our secrets, those from outside. we have an obligation to do that. it's enormously frustrating to read things in the press you now -- press that you kn