there is this attempt on the part of the director of national intelligence james clapper to imply the journalists who are reporting on the snowden documents are a compasses to a crime -- my understanding from a confidential source in the intelligence community is that james clapper two weeks before he publicly used that term of accomplice, that he also said in a top-secret classified briefing within the intelligence community sort of floating it. mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists

daniel ellsberg, who everybody now regards as a hero, but 40 years ago you had the mike rogers and james clappers of that era calling him a russian spy and a traitor and engaging in treason and endangering the united states. it's really just a very similar pattern. i knew a long time ago when i went into journalism it wasn't the profession to go into if you want to be universally loved. if you do it the right way you're going to make a lot of powerful people and their loyalists unhappy and i'm perfectly okay with that. >> i hope to see you here in new

. >> that is the ukraine, now back to james clapper, director of national intelligence, made these candid remarks about the phone data collection by the government. this is what he said in this interview here. he said, "had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldn't have had the problem we had with the explosive public reaction." it is worth pointing out, phone data collection proceeds the obama administration, so clapper wasn't there to make those early decisions. do you think he's shoving blame for the heat east takhe's taken the bush administration here? >> obviously there's some of that, because he's talking about this needing to have been done ten years ago. but i think more theoretically, obviously, president obama could have come in and clapper, when he was appointed director of national intelligence, could have come in and announced that this program section 215, the collection of metadata, the surveillance on americans, they

revelations and a moment what does because i have in common with terrorist and edward snowden james clapper things they are all national security threats either as testimony to the senate of the national intelligence director is only for this guy's big enough for preferred currency of criminals that really the case find out coming up. and in colorado food producers are being denied the option of a way willing their food as g.m.o. free and we'll talk about this and other food fights around the country what elizabeth can senator jocelyn talk about her new documentary g m o m g later in the show. it's friday january thirty first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm perry and boring you are watching r t america. and we begin today with a new revelation that has travelers passing their canadian airports considering going offline and documents leaked by edward snowden was just released by c.b.c. news and canada showing that came about the electronic spy agency used information from the free internet service at a major canadian airport to track of the wireless devices of thousands of ordinary online pa

here of just some of the threats that were rattled off by the director of national intelligence james clapper. scrooge and diversification of terrorism the implications of the drawdown in afghanistan the deteriorating internal security posture in iraq the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction a competitive china a dangerous unpredictable north korea the challenging iran the specter of mass atrocity increasing sophistication of transnational crime the insidious rot of invented synthetic drugs potential for pandemic diseases. diseases so look there are threats around the world no one's going to say that but a list that long there was also not mentioned the chinese shooting down satellites there was the on resit in ukraine these aren't eat threats to u.s. national security there's stuff that happens around the world but it really shows a lot. about what our military officials and defense officials think if every single thing that's happening around the world is a threat to u.s. national security at good point and considering how clapper is going to testify again tomorrow they're going to

profile targets of the new america foundation so according to director of national intelligence james clapper a collection of metadata is knock us some plus of course you live below a drone. i i so this week is the first official week of the olympics in sochi russia but something has been off in the coverage leading up to the games here in america unlike previous years when the games were held in britain canada and even china the mainstream media largely focused on the players themselves however this year the corporate press seems obsessed with fear mongering and how dangerous so she is for the people who dare to go i'm not even talking about the nefarious islamic terrorist wives or black widows i'm talking about toothpaste. there is new concern over flights headed to the olympic games the u.s. government is warning airlines that flights to russia and on them to be on the lookout for efforts to smuggle explosives in toothpaste tubes the explosives hidden inside a toothpaste tube can be powerful and potentially deadly. this bomb in a toothpaste container blew off a car goure homeland security

morning the house intelligence committee heard testimony from director of national intelligence james clapper on his annual worldwide threat report this follows a senate hearing on the same topic that took place last week also on the hill the house judiciary committee examined recommendations to reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act artie's sam sachs is on capitol hill and has more. the house intelligence committee took on the issue of worldwide threats to u.s. national security and a hearing today and there was quite a long list of threats covered cluny al qaeda militants in syria iran's nuclear capabilities and even threats of china shooting down space satellites but with the director of national intelligence james clapper on hand to testify it was the so-called threat of edward snowden's n.s.a. disclosures that stole the show and led to some hair raising comments by members of congress its chairman mike rogers that has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians but at today's hearing the witnesses on hand refused to confirm that ac

my feeling personally is that probably he and james clappers should share a cell together. i say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek. you cannot be for the letter of the law and throwing the book at snowden without been saying james clapper committed perjury and we will let him get off scott free and do nothing. we had to consider applying the law equally. >> last year you made a big splash and he said congress should do something. they are hard on this a very hopeful that something getting done. you ended up voting against the senate bill last year. i am curious about two things. first, what changed for you in that? we saw the house republicans balking about going that far? what changed? republicans need to pass something before the lection? >> i never really change my position. i propose an amendment that would have allowed for that. each year there would be a report in congress would get to vote on the report on whether or not the border is becoming more secure. that allows congress to still have input not just one time but repetitively over whether the borders becoming more s

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threats of china shooting down space satellites but with the director of national intelligence james clapper on hand to testify it was the so-called threat of edward snowden's n.s.a. disclosures that stole the show and led to some hair raising comments by members of congress its chairman mike rogers that has repeatedly made claims without evidence that snowden is secretly working with the russians but at today's hearing the witnesses on hand refused to confirm that accusation do you believe that. there's any indication that the n.s.a. contractor who is now in moscow might be under the influence of russian intelligence services chairman i don't have any information to that effect excuse me later in the hearing congresswoman jan schakowsky asked for evidence of a snowed in russia connection she was told that was best discussed in a classified hearing also during the hearing chairman rogers suggested that journalists who are handling the snowden documents are breaking the law though he was unable to get the director of the f.b.i. james komi to agree with that assertion so if i'm a newspaper rep

it's absolutely outrageous as if this were to come print james clapper who last freeing lied to congress which is of felony and nobody's talking about bringing him to justice which he should i mean he committed perjury was is can be mean up to five years in prison and you had mentioned that this is a way to go after journalists this language that we're hearing from people like clapper and journalists glenn greenwald shares the same sentiment as you want to bring up this tweet related to this he says quote the main value in bandying about the areas of prosecuting journalists is the hope that it will bolster the climate of fear for journalism now chris and we saw the same attacks against julian a songe for publishing leaked documents on his website wiki leaks i covered the bradley manning trial extensively there and this was one of the big issues that came into play what similarities do you see kristen between the two cases. well as you remember i mean there was an attempt to to bring weeklies into the this. case against manning. in effect and there was an attempt to basically. create a ca

the area is a hot house said james clapper when they testified last week. you have terrorist organization and insurgent and military groups popping up, looking to fly the black flag of al qaeda to become popular in the eyes of the disaeffected. you look at the amount of people cut off from the economy this engage in the back market to need their families. al qaeda represents a good alternati alternative. al qaeda finds good candidates in refugee camps, many popping up in west africa. >> it's scary to hear you say that. james clapper's full quote was: >> how do the refugee situations vary between regions, the middle east, the western sub-sahara. are any particular areas more prone to the extremist movements? >> absolutely. anywhere you have a permissive or ungoverned space you'll have the organizations going there. you'll go and look for any place you can operate out of site. whether people know it or not. refugee camps are a prime target. they can hide in the camps amongst people. just what happened once the french came in and ran the fighters. many of them

talking about james clapper. africa is a hot house for the emergence of extremist and rebel groups which launched deadly asymmetrical attacks in which government forces cannot counter. how do the refugee situations vary between the middle east, the western sub-sahara and other parts of the world. are any particular others more movements? >> absolutely. anywhere that you have what is a permissive environment, or what they call in the intelligence world ungoverned space, you'll have these organizations going there. they'll go and look for a place where they can operate out of site. whether people know it or not, refugee camps are prime targets. they can slip into the camps. they can hide themselves in the camps amongst people. what happened in marley once the french came and ran the fighters out. they disappeared to the desert. many are thought to have gone to refugee camps. that's what they do in this ungoverned space, sit there, plan, communicate as best they can and in some cases they are able to collect arms an

again, the dni, james clapper, used the term aspirationally.esn't mean that they are plotting anything. as we know from recent history, jihadists who were fighting each other or fighting their enemies in the middle east often pivot and then turn on america and its friends. >> jeffrey goldberg, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> i will get a chance to ask secretary of state john kerry and plus the latest on the negotiations over the program and more. don't miss my one-on-one with the secretary this wednesday on "the lead". >>> coming up next, does no ever really mean no in politics? why some are saying that the third time is a charm. >>> and later, if you weren't happy at the ending of harry potter, you're not alone. the mistake that j.k. rowling made. , in 2009. orbiting the moon in 1971. [ male announcer ] once it's earned, usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection. and because usaa's commitment to serve current and former military members and their

that was james clapper one day, and now the interview with the daily beast he says this, quote, i probably shouldn't say this, but i will. had we been transparent about this from the outset right after 9/11, we wouldn't have had the problem we had. does that sound like a total 180 to you, bob baer? >> it does. they don't want to admit it, but frankly, getting into this metadata and running algorithms through it and data analytics, it's done on a private basis and it doesn't surprise me that the nsa did it, and they should have come out at the beginning say welcome h ing, hey, guys, we've done this in the past, and we will be looking at your metadata. clapper's absolutely right, this guy has done more damage to u.s. intelligence than i've seen anybody do. and he's gone way beyond this brief of protecting privacy of americans. so he's right on both accounts. what do you do about it now? >> what do you do about it now? >> we're going to have to redo all our software. it will cost billions upon billions of dollars to fix this. >> bob baer, thank you. >>> now i want you to take a look at what's

>> it's an enormous threat, and james clapper said last week while testing before congress this area is a hot house, pretty much a breeding ground. you have insurgent and militant groups popping up almost monthly. many of them looking to fly the black flag of al-qaeda simply to become more popular in the eyes of the disaffected to recruit people. when you look at the population of some of these places you look at the amount of people that are cut off from the economy that have to engage in the black market just to feed their families. al-qaeda represents to them many of them a good alternative. and alqaida recognizes as well they can find a lot of good candidates for their plan for their operations in refugee camps. many which are popping up in west africa and north africa. >> talking about james clapper, his full quote was africa is a hot house for the emergence nor extremist rebel groups which launch deadly attacks, in which government forces cannot often cannot effectively counter. how do the refugee situations vary between regions between the middle east, the western sahara and o

. >> that was an exchange last march between senator ron wyden and james clapper, the director of nationalree months later, edward snowden leaked documents directly contradicting clapper. this week a bipartisan group of congressman wrote president obama demanding clapper's resignation. more now with the president. >> when your director of national intelligence general james clapper testified before congress and said before the snowden leaks that there was no mass surveillance going on, a lot of democrats in the senate think that he was not honest. he said later that it was the least untruthful answer he could give. i know that you have faith in clapper. i know that you believe that these programs protect the american people. but i can't believe that you weren't disappointed by his answer, because least untruthful is not a phrase i remember hearing on the campaign trail. >> i think jim clapper himself would acknowledge, and has acknowledged, that he should have been more careful about how he responded. his concern was that he had a classified program that he couldn't talk about and he was a

there is this attempt on the part of the director of national intelligence james clapper to imply thernalists who are reporting on the snowden documents are a compasses to a crime -- my understanding from a confidential source in the intelligence community is that james clapper two weeks before he publicly used that term of accomplice, that he also said in a top-secret classified briefing within the intelligence community sort of floating it. mike rogers also has just been on a rampage against journalists , also against snowden, making totally unfounded allegations somehow aden thing russian agent or cooperating with russian agents. so the timing of this site and why we felt it was so urgent to start reporting on these stories right now is to push back against this climate of fear and to say we as independent journalist are not going to back down in the face of government threats. that in fact, this is when it is most important to stand up for a truly free and independent press is when those in power start to try to push their fist down upon you. >> i went to play a recent exchange be

and the director of national intelligence james clapper said just last week, while testifying beforethis area is a hot house, pretty much a breeding ground. you have terrorist organizations or insurgent and militant groups popping up almost monthly, many of them looking to fly the black flag of al qaeda, a simply to just become more popular in the eyeeyes of the disa affected dio recruit people. when you line at the populations you look at the amount of people cut off from the economy that have to engage in the black market just to feed their families. al qaeda represent to them, many of them a good alternative. and al qaeda recognizes as well, that they can find a lot of good candidates for their plan for their operations in refugees camps. many of which are popping up again as well in west africa and north africa. >> that's scary to hear you say that. talking about james clapper his full quote was that africa is a hot house for the emergence of extremists and rebel cruise: how do the refugees situations vary between regions, middle east, western sahara, east africa and other parts

as the director of the national intelligence, james clapper, testifies before a senate committee. also today, the head of the defense intelligence agency, lieutenant general michael flynn, will take part, explaining their worries for the coming year. >>> that as intense discussions are under way today in the obama administration about possibly staging an operation to kill an american citizen overseas who's suspected of plotting attacks against the u.s. cnn has learned that military commanders and national security officials are all involved in the talks, but ultimately, the president himself would have to sign off on any operation. the white house is not talking about the discussions but pointed to a speech the president made last year. >> the u.s. does not believe it would be constitutional for the government to target and kill any u.s. citizen without due process, nor should any president deploy armed drones over u.s. soil, but he also said that when a u.s. citizen goes abroad to wage war against the united states and is actively plotting to kill u.s. citizens and when neither t

james clapper, the director of national intelligence in this country just released a statement saying that there are 7,000 foreign fighters in syria, 50 different countries and explicitly stated that syria is in national security crisis for this country. the secretary of online security police statement on friday. the people who argue that syria is a conflict, you know, over there that does not affect us, the syrian conflict has ripple effects. there was a report just on -- and the new york times on january 301st. a similar processes leading to a huge security concerns which is a lesson that we should have learned as a result of 9/11, sort of ignore countries far away thinking that they do not affect us in this clause to world and we can just turn away, referring to afghanistan back then. well, that is wishful thinking. syria is the new afghanistan. if you are not persuaded by the human rights, the moral and human catastrophe that syria has become, massive state sanctioned war crimes against humanity, if that is not enough to persuade you then there are very strong and compelling nati

if they want to throw the book of snowden they have to equally look at james clapper. the since the sp in as -- espionage act of 1917 we have gone overboard. if you want to look at the aftermath and during world war i to the labor activists, socialist, people who disagreed with the war, the draft -- we put people in jail for 10 and 20 years. we had something called the sedition act of 1917 and a minister was put in jail for 15 years. we have to be careful in times of war and in times of threat to our country that we do not go crazy on penalties. the current penalties on the book, particularly if you said bewden committed -- it could the death penalty. i think that his motives were good and saying that this is something that is unconstitutional and the government should not be doing it. in a federal judge has agreed with him. on the other side of the coin i don't think that we can completely have no secrets. if you're a sergeant in the military or a captain, i don't think you can just download all the government secrets and put them out on the internet. there do have to

if they want to throw the book at snowden they have to equally look at james clapper. ever since the espionage act of 1917 we have gone overboard. if you want to look at the aftermath and during world war i to the labor activists, socialists, people who disagreed with the war, the draft -- we put people in jail for 10 and 20 years. we had something called the sedition act of 1917 and a minister was put in jail for 15 years. eugene debs was the socialist candidate back in the teens. he was put in jail for 20 years. we have to be careful in times of war and in times of threat to our country that we do not go crazy on penalties. the current penalties on the book, particularly if you said snowden committed -- it could be it could be the death penalty. i think that his motives were good and saying that this is something that is unconstitutional and the government should not be doing it. in a federal judge has agreed with him. on the other side of the coin i don't think that we can completely have no secrets. if you're a sergeant in the military or a captain, i don't think y

beating somewhat of a war drama last week we heard america's director of national intelligence james clapper warned that damascus may be producing biological weapons he also said that syria's influx of extremists have turned the war in a war torn country into a terrorist training hob and subsequently that's a threat to u.s. . national security so here we have three years after the civil war in syria started it appears as though the u.s. is back to square one with no coherent progress being made on the crisis in syria and still some experts were say looking for excuses for a potential military strike or to arm the opposition parties wary of an ocean of visited a school in damascus to find out that inside the country may think more guns won't help lesson of arabic in a syrian elementary school these boys and girls may look like ordinary kids but they've already faced a lifetime of adult experiences they must look up their bluffs called a day and cross the road i saw sarah and then a missile fell somewhere nearby me and my cousins ran for cover the next day when i went to school on teacher told

individual success how do you think this concept applies the director of national intelligence james clapper and his feelings towards journalists who have exposed. well i speak as a former war correspondent who spent twenty years covering conflicts around the globe latin america the middle east balkans africa. so i know the military really well and blind obedience. aggressiveness resort to violence. all of these things you know destruction of kind of individual individuality all these things work really well on a battlefield they don't work very well in a peacetime society so when clapper made this comment edward snowden and his quote unquote accomplices and he was clearly referring to journalists such as. glenn greenwald should be prosecuted i understood exactly what he was saying that he comes out he was a former lieutenant general he comes out of this military culture which detests the press and has always made war on an independent press. their version of journalism are all the little sort of lackeys who sit through their press conferences and follow them around and write sort of glowing

james clapper called syria, an apocalyptic disaster and france was the only country willing to go along with america if strikes -- if we decided to take the strike route last fall. at what point does president obama have to revisit his syria policy this year? >> well, i think it's probably likely that they are doing that right now because it's very clear that the geneva process is not yielding much. there are bits and glimpses of possibilities that are so low on the totem pole i manage secretary kerry has been sending signals and his comments that we're revisiting it now. your comment that france was with us with the responsibility of strikes in syria is important to remember. it's one of the things i think that president hollande and obama are doing, while many people look at the so called special relationship as being the british and united states, they are reminding people that the original special relationship of the united states was with france. and france has been with us more often than many other allies. >> even if obama wanted to go in a new direction, steve, how willing are a

might have heard the director of national intelligence james clapper recently testified on capitol hill about the thousands of threats facing america and his wide ranging speech to congress he cited everything from a competitive china to synthetic drugs but there is one and norma's threat to the american public that he forgot to mention homeless people or at least that's what many us cities would like you to think in the past few months cities across the country have tried to deal with the problem of homelessness through an ingenious out of sight out of mind approach instead of addressing the systematic reasons for rampant poverty city lawmakers are trying to eliminate the problem by forcing the homeless out of city centers and the public i take a recent law just an act in columbia south carolina that requires citizens to obtain a permit fifteen days in advance and pay a one hundred twenty dollars fee to feed the homeless in the city parks because according to columbia officials the homeless should be treated like ducks and the city is imposing these absurd measures on the name of reduc

should employ that tactic and their response is if director of national intelligence james clapper want to just use air protests when he told congress that the n.s.a. does not wittingly collect data on americans it would put those old unconstitutional global surveillance in the rest in fact clinton might have been spared an impeachment if only he would have said that i did not have sexual relations with that woman and bush would have gone down as a slightly more popular president if he would have just said that we found the weapons of mass destruction the point is that the gas city of c. sec to get this type of response should be just as concerning to every canadian citizen as the revelation of the program itself terry was privacy minister on a convoke in even one as far as saying this resembles the activities of a talent tarion state not a free and open society but you could have said it better myself and the continuing release of these documents show how the proliferation of these type of spying tactics are not just limited to north american borders in fact as i pointed out in the sho