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the national security agency has those technical capabilities that our nation needs to defend and operate in cyberspace and we need to make that technical capability available to the department of homeland security. of course that raises some issues. what about a civil liberties and privacy? here is my perspective, from having been the director for almost six years. no one protect civil liberties and privacy better than the folks at the national security agency. we get tremendous oversight from the courts, congress, and the administration. we cannot publicly say everything that we do in this area, but from my perspective it has been a huge step forward. more importantly, we can and must do both together, protect civil liberties and privacy and cybersecurity. how does that impact the states? as both governor stated, the states have a tremendous amount of citizen data available. securing that data is a state responsibility. it will be dhs and the team that can provide that help, but there are couple of areas that we need to put on the table. add to the educational program a program that tak
the national security agency has those technical capabilities that our nation needs to defend and operate in cyberspace and we need to make that technical capability available to the department of homeland security. of course that raises some issues. what about a civil liberties and privacy? here is my perspective, from having been the director for almost six years. no one protect civil liberties and privacy better than the folks at the national security agency. we get tremendous oversight from...
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numbers and monitoring e-mail addresses in ball instead of needing a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other pieces of correspondence snooped on a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed supporters of the act say it's needed because of the terrorist threats that we've had thirty six stored in terrorist attacks since nine eleven well do you know for a fact that it was thanks to the patriot act that the attacks were prevented it's difficult to say that for sure because when you look at.
numbers and monitoring e-mail addresses in ball instead of needing a warrant each time the national security agency has even intercepted bill clinton's private e-mails later said to be an inadvertent mistake among millions of other pieces of correspondence snooped on a privacy watchdog suggest that since two thousand and one the f.b.i. has intelligence investigations have compromised the civil liberties of american citizens far more frequently and to a greater extent than was previously assumed...
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probably not. >> narrator: four-star general michael hayden ran the national security agency, and then the cia. but even he didn't know the scope and size of secret programs inside top secret america. >> i was in government service for 40 years; most of that was in intelligence. i would never claim to you that i knew all the compartments. >> narrator: and no one seems to know what it all really costs. >> you have a congress that's not doing its job on oversight, and recognizes it's not doing it, calls it dysfunctional. so, who's making the decisions? and where are they being made? well, they're being made in the 17 different intelligence agencies. and nobody's in overall charge. so, naturally, you're going to get bloated budgets, naturally you're going to get duplication. >> narrator: it's a story only just beginning to be understood, a story about the price of security, and whether all those tens of billions of dollars are actually making us safer. >> you can look, if you're objective, at all of this money and all of this effort and say, "what would have happened if we hadn't done tha
probably not. >> narrator: four-star general michael hayden ran the national security agency, and then the cia. but even he didn't know the scope and size of secret programs inside top secret america. >> i was in government service for 40 years; most of that was in intelligence. i would never claim to you that i knew all the compartments. >> narrator: and no one seems to know what it all really costs. >> you have a congress that's not doing its job on oversight, and...
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the national security agency has those technical capabilities that our nation needs to defend and operate in cyberspace and we need to make that technical capability available to the department of homeland security. of course that raises some issues. what about a civil liberties and privacy? here is my perspective, from having been the director for almost six years. no one protect civil liberties and privacy better than the folks at the national security agency. we get tremendous oversight from the courts, congress, and the administration. we cannot publicly say everything that we do in this area, but from my perspective it has been a huge step forward. more importantly, we can and must do both together, protect civil liberties and privacy and cybersecurity. how does that impact the states? as both governor stated, the states have a tremendous amount of citizen data available. securing that data is a state responsibility. it will be dhs and the team that can provide that help, but there are couple of areas that we need to put on the table. add to the educational program a program that tak
the national security agency has those technical capabilities that our nation needs to defend and operate in cyberspace and we need to make that technical capability available to the department of homeland security. of course that raises some issues. what about a civil liberties and privacy? here is my perspective, from having been the director for almost six years. no one protect civil liberties and privacy better than the folks at the national security agency. we get tremendous oversight from...
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security department and the f.b.i. so you've got a whole range of agencies and spy satellites for the national security agency outsourcing of cia activities so it's more than just a twenty nine billion for the pentagon it seems that a lot of the technologies that go into surveillance and these other areas they they did be you if you well off broadway in these foreign countries and then they end up in the u.s. you know for example predator drones we heard about the first in pakistan and then we saw them in texas you know looking at the border between texas and mexico is this part of the strategy of a way to kind of beta test a lot of these technologies in foreign countries before they bring them into the u.s. i think it's sort of inevitable just in the sense that in a conflict like afghanistan. it has to have been. viewed as a way to quote unquote limit civilian casualties to go directly after the leaders of the taliban and al qaeda so they saw an implication there and of course these were armed with hellfire missiles which are another lockheed martin product but then the surveillance aspects as you said have been applied
security department and the f.b.i. so you've got a whole range of agencies and spy satellites for the national security agency outsourcing of cia activities so it's more than just a twenty nine billion for the pentagon it seems that a lot of the technologies that go into surveillance and these other areas they they did be you if you well off broadway in these foreign countries and then they end up in the u.s. you know for example predator drones we heard about the first in pakistan and then we...
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national security agency. one important thing. it is possible for social and political situation, has that ability to compare the foxes director. and competed with military intelligence. in this competition, the possibility to compare information provided by the security services. and the impression of control over this system of intelligence services. what was done by vladimir putin, the federal security service of russia, and it was part of the kgb. the significant part of the old dialogue and communication agency for the troops and even when the agency had some secret services, vladimir putin to get more power and create the department responsible for intelligence abroad. 7 now the fsb is comparable to the kgb but at the same time more powerful because there's no mechanism to control this big service because another problem with the fsb is they cannot compare -- it is not just personal based in moscow but the original structure and every russian agent to pursue a very important department to arrange and not enough to control th
national security agency. one important thing. it is possible for social and political situation, has that ability to compare the foxes director. and competed with military intelligence. in this competition, the possibility to compare information provided by the security services. and the impression of control over this system of intelligence services. what was done by vladimir putin, the federal security service of russia, and it was part of the kgb. the significant part of the old dialogue...
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it needs to involve the national security agency, for sure. it needs to involve dhs, which has a much broader capability because it protects both physical and cyber infrastructure, and then, without making it a regulation, it needs to then hear from the customers about what those standards are, as well, so as we try to define that, we are not coming up with a made in washington, for example, solution that may not fit annapolis or phoenix, so that is an absolutely critical part the we have learned from other efforts in standards. unfortunately, that takes time. fortunately, we have a method for doing that, but we need to move much more quickly in that regard and we have been. >> ok. governor brewer, any final thoughts? >> no, i think you have covered it pretty much, governor. i just want to thank the panel. >> we have a number of new governors this year. who do recall? i mean, if a governor wants to increase cybersecurity of their networks in their states, are you the best opt for us? >> we act as a team, so absolutely, they can call us. we wou
it needs to involve the national security agency, for sure. it needs to involve dhs, which has a much broader capability because it protects both physical and cyber infrastructure, and then, without making it a regulation, it needs to then hear from the customers about what those standards are, as well, so as we try to define that, we are not coming up with a made in washington, for example, solution that may not fit annapolis or phoenix, so that is an absolutely critical part the we have...
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i told him we really, you know, we're not the national security agency. and so he kind of cautious way outlined the state of affairs which was that wikileaks had come to him with half a million military dispatches that were dispatches from the field in iraq and afghanistan. there was a sussion that there might be more to come specifically. and he asked if i was interested. and of course i was interested. and we almost immediately sent derrick schmidt, a long time military correspondent over to take a look at the information and give us his views on whether it was genuine and whether it was newsworthy. he quickly called back and said he had no doubt in his mind that these were the genuine article and yes they were fascinating. and that was also our first, the times first encounter where he appeared on the scene. >> charlie: the whole story here about how you came to some differences. >> we did, over the ensuing months. after we published the first batch of articles based on the cables or the military dispatches from afghanistan, he called to say that he wa
i told him we really, you know, we're not the national security agency. and so he kind of cautious way outlined the state of affairs which was that wikileaks had come to him with half a million military dispatches that were dispatches from the field in iraq and afghanistan. there was a sussion that there might be more to come specifically. and he asked if i was interested. and of course i was interested. and we almost immediately sent derrick schmidt, a long time military correspondent over to...
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designing nuclear weapons, combat ships, fighter planes but it also works with the cia, the national security agency, the fbi, the department of homeland security, the irs, the census bureau, pretty much any agency of government that we interact with probably lockheed martin is involved either in doing surveillance or information processing or another essential aspect of that agency's operations. i wrote a piece recently on the web that described this as lockheed martin's shadow government, and i think it remains to be seen whether they will serve that or not there is certainly that danger given their involvement in so many aspects of the government and our lives. so, that's what i'd really have to say to get the conversation started. and, you know, david, if you have any of your thoughts you want to share. >> i was struck by that passage early in your book where you describe how senator mccain wanted to insert a congressional military industrial congressional complex that was something that is in one of the drafts of the eisenhower military-industrial complex speech they were going to include congr
designing nuclear weapons, combat ships, fighter planes but it also works with the cia, the national security agency, the fbi, the department of homeland security, the irs, the census bureau, pretty much any agency of government that we interact with probably lockheed martin is involved either in doing surveillance or information processing or another essential aspect of that agency's operations. i wrote a piece recently on the web that described this as lockheed martin's shadow government, and...
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there were charges that "the times" was a treason organization for publishing scoops on the national security agency electronic surveillance of terrorists and terrorism suspects both at home and abroad. there were demonstrations outside "the times" that called the times the al jazerra times. then in 2011, we have wikileaks and the dump of state department diplomatic cables. again, their accusations of treason, denouncements, proclamations of possible prosecutions from officials, probably blowing smoke for public consumption. let me say right here, i don't advocate going timesless" i don't think it's treasonless, although i don't think it's sense of postnational patriotism is the same. i think we'll get into that later. i certainly don't think it should be bombed, as ann culture said. i read the times since i was a kid. i was crowd early to be published prominently in it. i consider "the times" an important national resource, albite a dangerous one, and one the new yorkers that prefer to it simply as the paper. i'd wonder down to get the next day's edition. if i was out of town and couldn't find it,
there were charges that "the times" was a treason organization for publishing scoops on the national security agency electronic surveillance of terrorists and terrorism suspects both at home and abroad. there were demonstrations outside "the times" that called the times the al jazerra times. then in 2011, we have wikileaks and the dump of state department diplomatic cables. again, their accusations of treason, denouncements, proclamations of possible prosecutions from...
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when he got out of college he applied for the job of the national security agency out at fort beat maryland. he didn't get the job he was happy when he learned that, too said he didn't want to go to vietnam. it was 66 and instead, she applied to the dental school of northwestern university. there were 3,000 applicants that year and 64 people accepted. he was one of those accepted. robert hanssen is a very brilliant man, able to grasp a lot which is why he stayed and detected by the fbi for decades. he knew how to cover his tracks. so he went to dental school and one of the people we interviewed, i interviewed about a dozen people in that hall at northwestern. they saw him as much as the people of the fbi saw him. it is strange dhaka, his roommate told me. you have to do cadavers' just like a medical school. bob hansen although they would go to college dressed like you are casually, bob hanssen would wear the black suit, white skirt and the type and he stood out because he was the only one wearing the suit to school. when he did those cadavers he kept his jacket on, the black jacket, and dis
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. >> henry: national security agency. wow. the lesson is broadway.inese new year a treasure hunt you can participate. 1800 people. for information go to treasure hunts for 15, this man is fiendish. we will take a break, come back another ingenious. a man who is the most amazing future you can imagine. [ son ] my parents always lived in the states, until my dad transferred to istanbul. they settled in quickly, found their local deli, a few shortcuts and a neighborhood hangout. but there's one thing they miss... the seventh-inning stretch. so citi helped me use my thankyou points to give them something special. their old seats: 5 and 6, row c. [ male announcer ] use citi thankyou points for almost anything. and earn them fast with the new citi thankyou preferred card. what's your story? citi can help you write it. >> reporter: tomorrow one of the busiest days of the year. because is valentine's day. henrik and forgot. they expect to sell over 40 million roses for discovery delivery. >> we have six ballantine roses , >> mass of is the word that comes to
. >> henry: national security agency. wow. the lesson is broadway.inese new year a treasure hunt you can participate. 1800 people. for information go to treasure hunts for 15, this man is fiendish. we will take a break, come back another ingenious. a man who is the most amazing future you can imagine. [ son ] my parents always lived in the states, until my dad transferred to istanbul. they settled in quickly, found their local deli, a few shortcuts and a neighborhood hangout. but there's...
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there were charges that times was a treasonous organization for publishing scoops on the national security agency's electronic surveillance terrorism suspects both at home and abroad. there were demonstrations outside the times that called "the new york times" the al jazeera times. and then in 2010, we have the wikileaks come and particularly it is a dump of the state department diplomatic cables. again, the accusations of treason, announcements, proclamations of possible prosecutions from officials, probably blowing smoke for public consumption. let me say right here idled advocating going timeless in the least. i don't think that times is treasonous although i don't think it's sense of post national patriotism is the same as traditional notions of patriotism, and i think we will get into that a little later. i certainly don't think it should be bombed as ann coulter once thundered. i've read the times since i was a kid, and was proud in my career to be published prominently in it. i consider the times and important national resource, albeit in danger and i confess to being one of those new yorker
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>> the national security agency does something. i am not sure what it does. [laughter] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to what is the current state of play with the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial space to provide services that benefit organizations like wikileaks. particularly, do you see any sort of the facto infringement on the first amended rights? >> this was responding to the idea that pressure is brought to bear on commercial players as well as aiding -- this is about paypal, visa. >> i do not know if it was political pressure. i think they were more worried about their business and the government cracking down. >> its seemed to me that was a worrying trend that came out of this. realizing what we thought was the free space of the internet is actual largely privatized. if you think about it, it is obvious. >> the week after that happened, basically, if you are going to tackle assange, take him to court, do not try to de
>> the national security agency does something. i am not sure what it does. [laughter] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to what is the current state of play with the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial space to provide services that benefit organizations like wikileaks. particularly, do you see any sort of the facto infringement on the first amended...
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confront those who would do less harm to read the other tools are partnerships with other national security agenciessiness community, especially airlines and cargo carriers, and of course, the american people. we have seen going back to christmas day, to doesn't mind and the air cargo plot mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in ways that challenge not only our social norms, but detection capabilities. we've expanded the use of explosive trade detection, and hence pat-down procedures and will continue to deploy advanced imaging technology. we are always seeking the proper balance between security and privacy. in that regard, i am pleased to report we have begun the testing of the automatic recognition, atr software for the ati machines currently being tested in las vegas, atlantic and the washington national airports. the software could eventually eliminate the need for tsa to review passenger a message as the generic icon would highlight the areas required just on screening. thereby addressing the privacy issues that have been raised. with the best technology in the e
confront those who would do less harm to read the other tools are partnerships with other national security agenciessiness community, especially airlines and cargo carriers, and of course, the american people. we have seen going back to christmas day, to doesn't mind and the air cargo plot mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in ways that challenge not only our social norms, but detection capabilities. we've expanded the use of explosive trade detection, and hence...
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>> the national security agency does something, i am not sure what it does. [laughter] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to the currently the state of the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial state -- space to provide services that organized the death benefit organizations like wikileaks. do you see ne the facto infringement on first amendment rights because of that? >> i did not actually hear that. >> the political pressure is brought to bear on commercial players. paypal and visa. >> i am not sure if it was political pressure or commercial pressure. >> they are more worried about their business than the government cracking down them. >> it seems to me that that was actually a worrying trend that came out. it is largely privatized. >> if you are going to tackle him, taken to court. -- take him to court. i did not destroy him by cutting off his finances. -- do not destroy him by cutting off his finances. -- i would much rather be at
>> the national security agency does something, i am not sure what it does. [laughter] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to the currently the state of the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial state -- space to provide services that organized the death benefit organizations like wikileaks. do you see ne the facto infringement on first amendment rights...
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gap in authority and law for the fbi and other national securitythe r the fbi and other national security agencies. talk about that understand our strategy for preventing an al qaeda attack. >> committee is aware in 1994 a statutes was passed that required communications carriers to be in a position to provide communications to the intelligence community with a court order. since that time communications have changed dramatically. no longer is it a telephone company that carries the communication. it could be google or facebook. it could be microsoft. any number of ways to communicate now. our challenge is to a short with an appropriate court order issued by a court in a criminal case, with that in hand we go to one of these carriers, expanded group of carriers that they have a solution in place to be responsible. to be working with congress in terms of trying to narrow what we call the going dark gap. were we not to do that we would lose a great deal of insight into the planning, preparation of individuals who were contemplating terrorist acts and individuals involved in organized crime, addition
gap in authority and law for the fbi and other national securitythe r the fbi and other national security agencies. talk about that understand our strategy for preventing an al qaeda attack. >> committee is aware in 1994 a statutes was passed that required communications carriers to be in a position to provide communications to the intelligence community with a court order. since that time communications have changed dramatically. no longer is it a telephone company that carries the...
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the other two are partnerships with other national security agencies and foreign counterparts, state and local law enforcement agencies and business community, especially airlines and air cargo carriers and of course, the american people. we've seen, going back to christmas day, 2009, and the air cargo what i mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in not only social norms that detection capabilities. we've expanded the use the trace detection and enhanced pat-down procedures and will continue to deploy the advanced imaging technology. we are always seeking the proper balance between security and privacy. in that regard i am pleased to report we have begun field testing of the automatic target recognition, atr for the machines being field tested in los vegas, atlanta and washington national airports. the software could eventually eliminate the need for tsa to review passenger images. instead, a generic icon with highlight areas required just on screening, thereby addressing the privacy issues that have been raised. it would be the best technology and engag
the other two are partnerships with other national security agencies and foreign counterparts, state and local law enforcement agencies and business community, especially airlines and air cargo carriers and of course, the american people. we've seen, going back to christmas day, 2009, and the air cargo what i mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in not only social norms that detection capabilities. we've expanded the use the trace detection and enhanced pat-down...
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the other two are partnerships with other national security agencies and foreign counterparts, statelaw enforcement agencies and business community, especially airlines and air cargo carriers and of course, the american people. we've seen, going back to christmas day, 2009, and the air cargo what i mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in not only social norms that detection capabilities. we've expanded the use the trace detection and enhanced pat-down procedures and will continue to deploy the advanced imaging technology. we are always seeking the proper balance between security and privacy. in that regard i am pleased to report we have begun field testing of the automatic target recognition, atr for the machines being field tested in los vegas, atlanta and washington national airports. the software could eventually eliminate the need for tsa to review passenger images. instead, a generic icon with highlight areas required just on screening, thereby addressing the privacy issues that have been raised. it would be the best technology and engaged power fo
the other two are partnerships with other national security agencies and foreign counterparts, statelaw enforcement agencies and business community, especially airlines and air cargo carriers and of course, the american people. we've seen, going back to christmas day, 2009, and the air cargo what i mentioned, that concealment and design of explosives are being done in not only social norms that detection capabilities. we've expanded the use the trace detection and enhanced pat-down procedures...
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>> the national security agency does something, i am not sure what it does.er] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to the currently the state of the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial state -- space to provide services that organized the death benefit organizations like wikileaks. do you see ne the facto infringement on first amendment rights because of that? >> i did not actually hear that. >> the political pressure is brought to bear on commercial players. paypal and visa. >> i am not sure if it was political pressure or commercial pressure. >> they are more worried about their business than the government cracking down them. >> it seems to me that that was actually a worrying trend that came out. it is largely privatized. >> if you are going to tackle him, taken to court. -- take him to court. i did not destroy him by cutting off his finances. -- do not destroy him by cutting off his finances. -- i would much rather be at a court
>> the national security agency does something, i am not sure what it does.er] >> i tried to explain that to you a few years ago. >> i wanted to get the panelists to respond to the currently the state of the government acting through various officials and agencies to intimidate people who act in the commercial state -- space to provide services that organized the death benefit organizations like wikileaks. do you see ne the facto infringement on first amendment rights because...