mr. nunes: thank you for yielding. mr. speaker, although the obama administration has pitched the iran nuclear accord to prevent the ayatollahs from making nuclear weapons, it lifts their activities after 10 to 15 years. many of my fellow members wonder how the administration can be so naive as to pave the way for an iranian bomb in the course of trying to prevent an iranian bomb. well, the answer is clear to me. the president is gambling. he's betting on the very act of engaging with iran will moderate the regime's behavior. so that in a decade or so from now we won't have to worry about it anymore. he has called his engagement with iran a cat -- calculated risk. indeed it is a risk. as i said, the president is placing a bet, but why would anyone bet on the moderation of the iranian regime? it has not changed one iota since the ayatollah seized power since 1979. iran is the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism. it is also responsible for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in iraq. obama has spoken of the ayato

. >> a question directly to you, mr. nunes, you mentioned that human intel is the most important and difficult to gather. as far as the isil aq threat goes, what is the intelligence community doing to increase the ability to gather this intel? this is a very difficult issue. frequently, what he with have had to do is rely on partner agencies to do this and so you always run into the potential curveball problem. >> i think the bigger challenge, though, is digital desks. back in the old days, you kind of just from the movies, somebody can throw on a mask and sneak into a country and maybe they speak a foreign language. nowadays, in between your cell phone device, that pretty much anybody can track with enough money and technology, whether you are on facebook or twitter or whatever, everybody has digital desks. so just whole kind of big picture problem with how do you even identify and meet and develop new human intelligence sources, it is becoming more and more difficult. i think you actually hit it, david, where we are going to

mr. nunes: thank you for yielding. mr. speaker, although the obama administration has pitched the iran nuclear accord to prevent the ayatollahs from making nuclear weapons, it lifts their activities after 10 to 15 years. many of my fellow members wonder how the administration can be so naive as to pave the way for an iranian bomb in the course of trying to prevent an iranian bomb. well, the answer is clear to me. the president is gambling. he's betting on the very act of engaging with iran will moderate the regime's behavior. so that in a decade or so from now we won't have to worry about it anymore. he has called his engagement with iran a cat -- calculated risk. indeed it is a risk. as i said, the president is placing a bet, but why would anyone bet on the moderation of the iranian regime? it has not changed one iota since the ayatollah seized power since 1979. iran is the world's biggest state sponsor of terrorism. it is also responsible for the deaths of thousands of u.s. soldiers in iraq. obama has spoken of the ayato

this week, and we're joined by congressman devin nunes, chair of the house intelligent committee. good morning, mr. chairman. you listened to ambassador power's interview. she seemed to think that training of syrian rebels is not working but the anti-isis campaign is working, do you agree? >> the congress has been very skeptical of the administration's plans and policies that they have been laying out for several years. training operation last year. and we have been trying to have updates upon updates. and every time the news is bad. and what's happening here, it's a lot like a vietnam containment strategy. they have had a containment strategy for isis within iraq and syria, and it's destined for failure. it's failing on every single measurement you look at. >> so, do you trust the intelligence you're getting there? right now, an investigation into intelligence that central command is putting out, some of the analysts there apparently complaining that central command is painting a rosier picture. this is the military, this isn't a political body, are you trusting that intelligence? >> well, when y

mr. obama early last year referred to isis as the j.v. team and al qaeda as quote decimated nunes's suspicions were confirmed by an incident at the command where bin laden bin laden documents were ant lialyzed. he went to florida for a briefing on the documents which was blocked and was told the experts are not available. >> not only were they there they were prepared to brief. somebody's got to answer that question as to why they did not let us have access to those analysts. >> reporter: the same group of analysts who handled the bin laden documents are now lodging complaints about the isis intelligence assessments, that allegedly hyped battlefield damage by the u.s. air campaign and minimized the group's resilience. the white house insisted today no one in the administration pressured anyone. >> the inspector general i believe it's a department of defense inspector general that that is considering actions that may or may not have been taken by a range of officials inside the department of defense. i don't think there's any accusations that have been made against the white house of