launch a probe of its own cell. discuss this with form of pens, can see any security policy unless michael maloof and michael, lovely to see you as always. so let me get your take on these latest western media report with the russian spine ships are i and interest structure targets in northern europe. what are your thoughts? well, i think that both sides are canvas seen that entire area because it is very active . it is, it is main strategic route. not only for the purpose of, of access is that for, for rushes, entry into that area, but also for artic activities because of the melting activity that's going on, which makes that entire region up there. highly strategic from a military standpoint. in addition to commercials. so you're going to see a lot more close, a lot closer coordination in the future between civilian commercial and military efforts to know precisely what's going on in those areas, whether it's the russian side or the american british side. and certainly the reason that they're, they're critical in that region. so if it's both sides, when you're, when you're preparing for commerc

you spoke with michael maloof, a former pentagon senior security policy analyst, who says the decision is beijing's attempt to send a political message. this is a turn in to be a that the use of sanctions, economic sanctions now as set by the united states is becoming a new world standard, i guess. and the chinese felt that these, these 2 different contractors warranted that because of their technical assistance to the taiwanese, these 2 companies probably have some interest in china already in some, in some form of manufacturing. so that's something that they're gonna have to look at. and i presume the chinese weighed that before they launched their own sanctions . and sometimes as the united states, the will go ahead and sanction the company, even though there is no viable business. and if anything, it's to send a message, a political message, and united states, as i said, has done that many times before, even with chinese companies that don't have investments in the united states. trying to say the u. s. is long engaged in secret surveillance itself. and what is happening now is pol

earlier we spoke with former pentagon official, michael maloof, who suggested it's possible that this is a disinformation campaign. purposely released by washing somebody within the bowels of the pentagon, were leaking information out and putting it on social media. which is strange. because if it was, if the documents were real and they, they were, they would have been handled. and it was meant to get to the, the get to russia as the audience. it would have been handled a lot differently, not through social media. secondly, it's a number of the documents seem to be altered. i think that this was a very feeble effort at different this information, not misinformation, but dis, information effort by somebody within the pentagon to expose . but they would say what they would think would be considered sensitive documents by people who they probably didn't think would go and, and to test the veracity of the out of the content. some of the things in there just didn't make any sense. the pentagon is really upset because those documents are even though they were altered we're, we're actually

continuing to escalate to go further ends up on this cross live now to your former pentagon official, michael maloof. mike, it's good to see you. great to have you on the show today. now we know that a previous attempt to force greater oversight of the military aid heading to crime was defeated before. do you think that this is more likely to prove successful? well, it increasingly is that the whole effort in ukraine than us participation is, is causing great angst and increasing angst. and it's also calling into question the need for accountability and, and the desire for that accountability and the administration doesn't appear to be forthcoming. and consequently, the congress, at least the house is going to do something about it with this resolution. as you pointed out it as asked initial favor and it could go to the full house and that will force the administration to make information available. how quickly that comes is going to be another matter. this administration has been very reluctant to respond to the republican dominated house on anything and, and i think that they will try to drag thei

let's get some more inside opinion now from michael maloof, a for my senior security policy analyst at the pentagon. michael, many thanks for joining us on the program this evening. so this, this suspect is 21 year old junk here here, right? even low ranking member of the national guard, do you think you could have possibly had access to such classified documents? while it's now been revealed that he actually was a systems operator, an it guy who worked on the equipment which services the, which provides the intelligence. he had the clearances, but the question is did he have a need to know and that was not implemented. so he will use his clearances to gain access to game the system, which is obviously very good at and, and acquired that information. as to his motives, nobody knows what we gather. he wanted to show off in front of his peers. these are only 21. he wanted to from what we're hearing, he wanted to show how smart he was and what access easy access to see had. and apparently he, according to a watch them post report interview, he was revered because of who he was and, and hi