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

lot of pressure as a result of the snowden leaks so let's bring out the director of national intelligence james clapper who's going to testify tomorrow let's bring out. military intelligence belief land let's bring out all these people to let them remind us just how much they're needed moving forward. i mean they're so are is about this is the third time we've had this year and we had a hearing last week and the house intelligence committee on a worldwide threats and in the week before that we had the senate intelligence committee weigh in on worldwide threats now we're getting the senate armed services committee weighing in and got out in which they say i don't have them all you know so are any of these threats actually legitimate because you attended the theory there that they're in a hurry in the last week and you've got some clips of that i mean is there anything to justify this fairmont right well this hearing last week it was quite a show let's play this clip here of just some of the threats that were rattled off by the director of national intelligence james clapper. scrooge and diversification

congress this 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

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

excuse me an 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

who 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

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 they had gas city of c. sec to get this type of response should be just as concerning to every canadian citizen is the revelation of the program itself terry was privacy minutes.

america is still 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

intel document on wednesday director of national intelligence james clapper released the agency's worldwide threat assessment of the u.s. intelligence community it says quote virtual currencies most notably but cohen are fast becoming a medium for criminal financial transfers through online payment companies james clapper testified in front of the senate intelligence committee on wednesday and declined was not mentioned once during the hearing i was joined us earlier by jared khanna the coin entrepreneur and founder of a new multimedia company money attack dot com i asked him if he thinks that going to really poses a threat to u.s. intelligence i think is a bit of an overstatement i prefer to use the word concern and i think we should also apply it to all digital currency in general. in sorry in general. when you look at digital currency as you have things like liberty reserve riffle and bitcoin as well and a lot of people just lump them together liberty reserve is essentially anonymous pay-pal and it's centralized and it's one company behind it it's actually actively working to launder mon

should employ that tactic and their response is if director of national intelligence james clapper would have just use air when he told congress that. n.s.a. does not wittingly collect data on americans they want to put those all call unconstitutional global surveillance and arrest 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 you have just said that we found the weapons of mass destruction the point is that they are gas city of c. sec to get this type of response should be just as concerning to every canadian citizen is the revelation of the illegal program itself and terry was privacy minister on a convoke in even one as far as saying this resembles the activities of a taliban hereon state not a free and open society. 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

their home countries that's all according to information provided by the director of national intelligence james clapper take a look. we estimate at this point excess of seven thousand. foreign fighters have been attracted some fifty countries many of them in europe in the middle east and this is of great concern not only to us but to those countries. but it's not only the u.s. casting fears british intelligence are now expressing concern that some citizens who joined the opposition in syria have returned home and now pose a serious threat of terrorism sara first has more that's causing huge concern here amongst the security services the police have said that they've made a number of arrests and they're monitoring the situation closely and even genuine thought that sixteen arrests have been made of people having returned back the irony here of course is that the british government. the assad regime it's a good day to be pushing the transition and they've been supplying we slaves to the rebels i think technically they are on the same side as the chinese artists who are fighting the assad regime and the b

the director of national intelligence james clapper said last week while testifying for congress, that this area is a hot house, pretty much a breeding ground. you have terrorist organizations, insurgent and militant groups popping up. many looking to fly the black flag to become popular in the eyes of the disaffected. when you look at the population, you look at the amount of people that are cut off from the economy that they'd have to engage in the black market to feed their families. al qaeda represents to them, many of them, a good alternative. al qaeda recognises as well - they can find a lot of good candidates for their plan, for their operations in refugee camps, many of which are popping up as well in west africa, north africa. 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. a

trove, and yet he pulled off what the director of national intelligence james clapper recently called the most massive and most damaging theft of intelligence in our history. now, i have continually asked the leaders of our intelligence committee what are you doing to stop this from happening again? i have learned that the n.s.a. devotes its substantial resources to fixing the fault to allow this to happen. they have taken some steps to address it. they have identified a range of other actions that need to be taken. but one has to ask why especially in the wake of the private manning leaks, how could the n.s.a. have allowed this to happen in the first place? i say this not to beat up on the n.s.a. i know we have some highly dedicated, patriotic men and women working there, and i applaud them for their service to their country. we ask them to trust us to keep the information safe and we should have faith in the internal policies and procedures you have to ask is this accurate? this is the same n.s.a. that first told us the section 215 program was essential to national security. they ta

. >> the director of national intelligence james clapper said in an interview published on monday thathe intelligence community should have told the american public about secret phone data collection and that program first began years ago. he told the daily beast -- let me get your response, michael ratner, and then i would like to hear from jesselyn raddack, and ask you, as an attorney representing edward snowden, if you have any confidential way of communicating with him. >> i don't see how you could say there would have been a dramatic negative response to broad skill government spying on all our phone calls. i mean, what happened is it came out without the government saying it, and there was a huge response. it changed the perceptions in this country about what the nsa is doing. i don't think it would mean -- it any different if they would've put that forward in a different way. one case where they finally admitted it, the war less wiretapping, there was a huge outcry -- warrantless wiretapping, there's a huge outcry. he should not be doing it. they should not be surveilling americ

direct contradiction today from the nation's top intelligence chief, to what president obama has said about al qaeda. director of national intelligence james clapper told a senate committee today previous assessments from the president are not accurate. >> is al qaeda on the run and on the path to defeat? >> no, it is morphing and franchising itself, not only here but other areas of the world. >> a coalition of leading technology firms across the nation is urging changes in the government surveillance programs. top executives from google, microsoft, yahoo, and others have sent a letter to the president and members of congress. they want the government to stop the collection of bulk data from internet communications. meantime, washington and tel aviv have been in spin cycle the past several days over comments from america's top diplomat and a harsh reaction from israel. chief washington correspondent james rosen reports on allies going to battle over the peace process. >> in a satirical youtube video produced by ultra nationalist israelis of fiction secretary of state john kerry proposed to divide jerusalem. >> we must realize that to all religions

director of national intelligence james clapper doesn't think president karzai will sign a security agreementith the united states, becoming the first high ranking administration official to say that. it is not the first time we heard it. former ambassador to united nations, fox news contributor john bolton is here and has never been hopeful of the outcome. good to see you. karzai himself has made it i thought whatever is deficiencies, consistent in this statement there will be no bilateral security agreement he will sign, if ever. >> right. i think now they're in position where clapper's statement is simply expressing reality and that the best bet is to hope they can sign something with karzai's successor. that may be today's best option but a bad option. things may get worse after karzai, reflects failure over a couple years for the administration to grasp the reality. >> some would argue the failure has run some ten years, the initial deployment, particularly covert forces in afghanistan, resulted in success. we actually controlled afghanistan as you know for a period. we have managed to s

the director of national intelligence, james clapper, said bashar al assad has been strengthenedince the chemical weapons deal. the united nations says that assad ice regime was torturing children. assad seems to be slow-walking the chemical weapons process. those are only the weapons he's acknowledged he has, not other ones that he might be stockpiling according to other reports. has the policy in syria failed? >> no. the policy in syria is just very challenging and very difficult. >> reporter: how has it succeeded? >> well, let me lead you into that, jake, because an important question, an important policy. first of all, the chemical weapons agreement is in and of itself a significant milestone. and it is progressive. yes, it's been slowed down a little bit in the last month, but we have been raising that profile with questions about it, and i think it's now speeding up again. but more importantly, what jim clapper is saying and what everybody would acknowledge is that a lot has happened since the time of the potential strikes. the president of the united states made his decision to

shockingly, gretchen, none of the senators on the armed services committee asked director of national intelligence james clapper or mike flynn about the leaked report concerning new plans revealed yesterday to target and kill a u.s. citizen with ties to al qaeda. u.s. officials confirms the white house has been mulling the past six months the legal justification to kill this american. military sources tell us they believe yesterday's leak has likely tipped the suspected american terrorist and the opportunity to kill him may have been lost. separately on the hill today, senator kelly ayotte asked a related question. >> if we capture the current head of al qaeda, al zawahiri, tonight, where does he get detained? would it not be important to interrogate him? and could you identify a length on how long you would need to interrogate the head of al qaeda? >> again, a hypothetical question. >> i see that as a huge problem on a very important issue unlesser of you are able to -- unless either of you are able to tell me what the plan will be. >> the legal debates continue. >> was anything said at the hearing about u.s.

. >>> the director of national intelligence james clapper has made the rounds on capitol hill deliveringis assessment on threats of the united states. behind these briefings is this document, "the worldwide threat assessment of the united states intelligence community." the first threat it lays out, the cyber threat. from russia, china, iran, north korea, terrorists and cyber criminals. threats to government and critical infrastructure, business and health care and threats to your pocketbook and privacy. how to defend against it all? we will ask a man who has been sounding this alarm in books and speeches for at least a decade. peter singer is the director of the center for 21st century security and intelligence at the brookings institution. he's the author of the new book "cyber security and cyber war what everyone needs to know." so if you look at the national nuclear administration, the outfit that oversees our civilian nuclear energy program, our civilian nuclear power plants, they say that they have received in 2012, i think it was the year, 10 million cyber attacks a day, 3.6 billi