. >> next, the director of national intelligence, james clapper, on the state of national security. after that a discussion of congressional oversight. then the white house medal of honor ceremony. on the next washington martin, toby harnden and klingst. and what remains on the legislative agenda for congress adjourns. plus your phone calls and tweets. eastern on0 a.m. c-span. >> michele flournoy is our guest on q&a. >> if you're in government you are dealing with the tyranny of the inbox. responsibility was representing the secretary of defense on the deputies committee, the senior level group that works through the issues, developing options for the principles on the president. a lot of crisis management focus. when you're in a think tank, your utility is not trying to second-guess problems you make around the issues of the day. day, look raise their over the horizon to see what are the issues i'm going to confront a year from now. how do i think more strategically about america's role? cofounder of the center for national american security, michele flournoy. 8:00 p.m. eastern on

chief general keith alexander and president obama's director of national intelligence james clapper were informed that the u.k.'s guardian newspaper was destroying leaked files and email to keith alexander from richard legit now the deputy director of the n.s.a. has the subject line guardian data being destroyed and is dated the day before it happened july nineteenth two thousand and thirteen most of the message is redacted but the part we can see is good news at least on this front well the next day hours after the destruction of the files the white house's director of national intelligence james clapper was given an update and an assessment of the damage the only unredacted line we know that a small number of documents have been leaked to the press now the majority of these e-mails are redacted including the subject lines and some e-mail addresses so it's unclear who from the british side briefed these people or how much power u.s. officials had in pressuring a publication to obstruct journalistic material and of course it flies in the face of the white house's comments about these eve

so remember the now infamous exchange between senator ron wyden and the director of national intelligence james clapper does the n.s.a. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans no sir. it does not stop the tape ron wyden knew the truth so he could have blown this whole thing wide open he could have called clapper a liar liar liar liar he could have said right then that the n.s.a. is collecting data on millions of americans that they're creating massive databases containing all of our phone logs and they're siphoning off our internet communications and he could have submitted documents he obtained on the senate intelligence committee to the public congressional record he could have won the sam adams award given the alternate christmas message and been times person of the year the runner up he could have gotten to be best is with going greenwald all of it well never having to worry about spending the rest of his life in prison and edward snowden who says he was motivated to do what he did after he saw a copper line could have just stated his day job in hawaii makin

life in jail if you did that oh i know i get it and at the same time the director of national intelligence james clapper blatantly lied to congress about domestic surveillance and he gets to walk free i've actually got the perfect ted talk prepared for this you've got a ted talk finally somebody is interested in it in my ted talk i would explain in detail leave the ins and outs of how to sneak into congress and slip liquified silis i've been mushrooms into their coffee cups you want to. you want to get congress to pass because once congress are dripping all their third eyes will open and they'll realize they're committing spiritual suicide by sucking on the teat of the corporations and instead they'll start actually representing the people to create a more humanistic pathetic world. that's a lovely it's also insane i agree i agree insightful noble smart articulate nuanced and lightning in saying what. i'll reveal my legs do you get it just play it cool. turn off the cameras ok so i found a report that the cia lied to the department of justice about how pervasive the use of torture was in their post nine

. >> director of national intelligence james clapper speaking there on this morning of what is the tenthsary of the 9/11 commission report. there is a new threat assessment there calling for improvements in three key areas. congressional oversight of the dhs, transparency for those threats we face, and an improved cyber security strategy focused not only on data collection and analysis but also on protecting our civil ib ler tis. over the past decades, hundreds of billions has been poured into the intelligence community to improve interagency communication. one corporation that's playing a significant role nowadays is the online retail giant amazon. a new article "daring deal" is the cover story in this month's "government executive" magazine. it's part one of a three-part series we're doing this week. you reported here that the cloud in this article, you say the cloud may actually achieve what thousands of bureaucrats have failed to do, to achieve some kind of faster, real-time interagency collaboration. what do you mean there? >> well, i think -- so it does go back ten years. this is a

in fact, director of national intelligence james clapper testified earlier this year that critical infrastructure, particularly the systems used in water management, oil and gas pipelines, electrical power distribution and mass transit provides an enticing target to malicious actors. a cyberattack on u.s. critical infrastructure such as gas pipelines, financial services, transportation and communication networks could result in catastrophic, regional or national effects on public health or safety, economic security and national security. high-profile breaches like the ones at target and nimeson marcus that affect over 10 million american consumers resonates. but as bad as those breaches were, a successful cyberattack on our critical infrastructure could cause much more damage in terms of lives lost and monetary damage. we cannot and will not wait for a catastrophic 9/11-scale cyberattack to occur before moving greatly needed cybersecurity legislation. the national cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection act ensures that d.h.s., and not the military, is responsible for domestic critic

. >> on tuesday, james clapper said the intelligence community faces a perfect storm that is endangering u.s. national security including budget cuts and a loss of intelligence sources caused by the edward snowden links. -- leaks. this is about 15 minutes. a half. [applause] well thank you very much. i apologize for being late. i'm sure you understand. i do want to thank the vice chair and the 9/11 commissione commissioners. the right thing to thank them for is the love of our country. that's been manifested obviously in each case in many ways but particularly the commitments when they were commissioners when that was going on, but even more importantly the sustainment of that commitment which i think at its root is another reflects the level of the country. and also, i feel obliged to support and thank them for the continued support of the intelligence community and our national security structure that. the past few days and weeks have been in tens with world events. so i appreciate the chance this morning to start by briefly and talk about the journey the intelligence community has taken over the pa

today, according to james clapper, the director of national intelligence, there are more than 1500 separatist groups with between 75,000 and 115,000. there are foreign fighters from neighboring countries. the most effective groups are all radical islamist groups, isis. but now washington is going to vet this vast disperse opposition of 1500 groups when it is not on the battlefield and find moderates. good luck. the complexity of washington's tasks can be seen in the american attitude towards isis. when the group battles the malaki government in iraq, it is deadly and must be ruthlessly attacked, but when it crosses the now nonexistent border between iraq and syria, it is a line with america's stated goal of regime change in da mass kick. with this whole goal in mind, it's difficult to believe that three years ago a modest american intervention of arms in training which is all that is being advocated would have changed the trajectory of events in syria. can anyone be willing to have a moderate intervention of arms and training is going to find genuine democrats, have them win against assad and

. >> on tuesday, james clapper said the intelligence community faces a perfect storm that is endangering u.s. national security including budget cuts and a loss of intelligence sources caused by the edward snowden links. -- leaks. this is about 15 minutes. a half. [applause]