mr. stimson: thank you very much. i think we have time for some questions if you would be so kind to raise your hand. name andyourself by affiliation and wait for the microphone. ahead, mr. johnson in the front. mr. johnson: thank you. could you speak about the tension between open source information, your press shop is getting called because there are tweets about something happening in the ukraine versus what you can get from the intelligence and official channels. how that informs our presidents decision-making decisions. how does that impact the senior leaders? mr. hadley: the good news is that there has been a huge explosion of information from a lot of sources and the agency i and isnderstands that using open source is. i have seen wonderful programs of people, the data collecting from social media in real time. and in election situations being able to detect weekly where electoral violence is starting to happen and deploying some forces or deploying a counter twitter or text message campaign to calm down the vio

mr. stimson: and who was in the room? mr. hadley: the president, vice president, chief of staff, national security advisor, the director for national intelligence, that was the core. then it would be supplemented on wednesday, tuesday, and thursday as i described, with other actors. that was the core group of people. david, have i missed anybody? mr. stimson: negative response. mr. hadley: david addington is back there. he's going to correct me as i go. mr. stimson: did you know personally governor bush? when did you first meet president george w. bush? mr. hadley: it was in the campaign period, probably late 1998, early 1999. i was asked by condi rice and paul wolf would to come down to sit in on a meeting and brief then governor bush, and that is how i got to know him. i made a big mistake we were talking about a speech he was going to give on defense and we were talking about how we were going to revise it. i told him you better not get into the details governor because there are a lot of experts that will show you you don