i believe the most critical thing that we have to continue to do at the national security agency is to ensure our people understand and are able to work this very important mission. defend the nation, secure the future. this is what i think is essential for us and is our advantage as we look to the future. mr. chairman, i would also say, as we look to the future we have to continue broad abilities to recruit from a very, very diverse population. academia, industry, with inside our government. i think this is critical to attract our best and brightest people. >> general, are you familiar with nsa 21? >> yes, mr. chairman, i am. >> would you just briefly comment on your views on that initiative, which is to more -- to prepare for the 21st century a more efficient, effective nsa. >> mr. chairman, nsa 21, as i understand it, the largest reorganization of the agency since 2000, and that's significant if you consider the fact that 70% of the agency has been hired since 9/11. it was designed to improve obviously and focus on people, integration and innovation. it was designed to address a num

certainly if: confirmed as director of the national security agency security agency, the authorities for the national security system falls within the purview of the director of nsa, and i believe has the authorities with which you would be able to execute that defense. -- ou need more >> do you need more, more authority to work with state and local election officials? for the federal government and the military, your defensive role is clearly understood. certainly, on the nsa site national security systems it is understood, and on the cyber con side for defensive dod networks it is certainly understood. senatorieve this was warner buster gets question, worded a little differently. how do we develop a more well-understood response, and offensive guideline, if you would? to be sureneed to do our adversaries know there is a price to be paid beyond just as trying to subvert their efforts to get into our networks? do we have a defensive strategy, and do we need one? bothnakasone: vice-chairman warner and yourself speak to this idea of a strategy. what is a strategy for the nation, in term

national security agency has reportedly been tracking uses a virtual currency bitcoin since at least two thousand and thirteen intelligence officials have also made efforts to unmask identities and transactions elaborate trenchard picks up the story. question what's in it for bitcoin buyers besides the price boom last year when its rate kept go and up people got themselves to was to get rich but bitcoins have been luring enthusiastic with something else since long before the twenty seven thing boo no central bank control privacy and transaction anonymity i'm sorry this could have all been an illusion you haven't followed at snowden or have you. the n.s.a. worked urgently to target coin users around the world according to classified documents provided by snowden so let's look into the national security agency files

is it best for the nation that the national security agency and u.s. cyber command stay together under one leader. or is it a time now we think about a separate national security agency and separate combat and command. the congress has laid out a series of conditions upon which the secretary of defense and the chairman must attest to. if confirmed among the early things i would do is make that assessment and in the first 90 days provide that to the secretary of defense for his consideration and the director of national intelligence. >> thank you, sir. >> let's talk about with regard to the first 90 days. at some point in the classified environment, i would personally like to see the committee have you come back and talk about the menu of options you'll provide to the president once you get to the point. the potential menu of options for deterrence in for measured response. one of the questions we have right now before admiral rogers was here earlier and that is the definition of an active war. and cyberspace i'm not comfortable that we have today a clea

nominated to be the connect director of the national security agency. then a house hearing looking at operations in the congressional budget office. after that, a discussion on the future of the obama administration's school discipline directive. and now the senate intelligence committee confirm igs hearing for paul nakasone. and commander of u.s. cyber command. this is an hour and ten minutes.

complete corruption of the national security process whereby the senior people in the national security agencies have been politicized and essentially are are instead of being interested in the security of the country are basically looking to support their political bosses you know steve you know the in the mainstream media likes to say that there is a war against the f.b.i. it seems like there's a civil war within the f.b.i. because the mainstream media doesn't like to talk about how mccabe was exited from the f.b.i. he was it was the f.b.i. that got rid of him ok but you wouldn't get that i think it was like a new york to a new york times article is like the forty first out of forty four paragraphs that they actually said that i mean they really put it down deep you know like a footnote here because i think there is something going on in the f.b.i. go ahead steve. well first of all the office of personal responsibility recommended that mckay go according to all reports or if you if you could find it in a report and who is the head of the office of personal responsibility someone who is a poor

we had notified all the national security agencies the white house, everybody in my organization knew about it. this was not a surprise trip. it had been on the books for close to two years, in fact, that's how often these five allies meet together. there was never anybody that raised a single concern about this. as i said, everything was pre-approved. >> you said it was appointees

national security agency has reportedly been tracking users of the virtual currency bitcoin since at least two thousand and thirteen intelligence officials have also reportedly made efforts to unmask identities and transactions. ok i can't bring you that report on because not quite ready but we are going to bring it to you in a few moments time if we can to that though new arms deals have become the main topic for the talks between the saudi crown prince and the u.s. president on tuesday donald trump found rather creative way as well to present his potential customer with more military hardware. very very. five hundred thirty three million dollars five hundred twenty five million dollars that's been a preview. so here is a very wealthy nation and we're going to give the united states some of them well hopefully. but the meeting was met with protesters activists called on washington to stop backing the saudi led bombing of yemen. crown prince it's here in the u.s. it is inside the white house right now meeting with president. here to secure the cure for us to be used again and to the

complete corruption of the national security process whereby the senior people in the national security agencies have been politicized and essentially are are instead of being interested in the security of the country are basically looking to support their political bosses you know steve you know the in the mainstream media likes to say that there is a war against the f.b.i. it seems like there's a civil war within the f.b.i. because the mainstream media doesn't like to talk about how mccabe was exited from the f.b.i. he was it was the f.b.i. that got rid of him ok but you wouldn't get that i think it was like a new york to a new york times article is like the forty first out of forty four paragraphs that they actually said that i mean they really put it down deep you know like a footnote here because i think there is something going on in the f.b.i. go ahead steve. well first of all the office of personal responsibility recommended that mckay go according to all reports or if you if you could find it in a report and who is the head of the office of personal responsibility someone who is a poor

cyber command, director of national security agency, chief central security service. i want to thank president trump, secretary mattis, and general dun ford for their confidence in nominating me for these important positions. let me also thank my wife susan for being here. i owe much of my success. >> raise your hand so we know who you are. >> nearly 25 years of marriage, 19 moves, and numerous deployments. susan and i are also joined today by our children, sara, david, and joseph. our son daniel, our eldest son is in college today taking his midterms. we are exceptionally proud of all of them. i want to thank admiral mike rogers for his 36 years of commissioned service to our nation. admiral rogers lead cyber during a time of incredible transformation and rapid growth. i thank him and his wife dana for all they have done in service to our nation. for the past ten years, i've the privilege to lead, plan, and execute joint and army cyber organizations. i've seen growth in the cyber capacity and capabilities within the department of defense. from the stand up our cyber

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he had been the pentagon's liaison to the cia and the national security agency, and the reason he had been installed very quietly at darpa was because publicly darpa was the first space agency. it one talked about the cia's earth imaging satellites were being swept up. so goodell was to represent the interests of the intelligence community but ended up being this very seminal figure because when the first year things blew up. nasa was created and they lost their civilian satellite programmed. herb york worked to the pentagon and lobbied to take the space a programs so he could be the space czar. you have a space agency that now had no mission and the senior person wag william goodell and he says, this can by kind of good for me. good for him in terms of what he saw. he saw the conflicts in the world that, yes, nuclear apocalypse against the soviet union would be bad but the more likely way would would face off would be through proxy wars, ininsurgencies and he transform darpa into an agency that could fulfill missions he thought were important, which including jungle warfare in vietna

the cybersecurity agency and national security are two agencies with authority mechanisms. i am committed to leading both with vision and drive for the future. cyber space is dynamic. adaptive approaches are always needed to solve new challenges constantly emerging. finally, i sit before you today with the understanding we are at a defining time for our nation and military. threats to our global advantage are growing. nowhere is this challenge more evident than cyberspace. with this in mind if confirmed to lead the u.s. cyber command in the national security agency i will insure our decision-makers can call on an aggressive cyber force to defend us at home and apply pressure on our adversaries abroad. in closing i am deeply honored to be considered for these leadership positions. if confirmed i look forward to working with the committee and entire congress to insure we leverage our opportunities and also address our challenges. senator inhofe, ranking member reed, thank you for the opportunity to be here this morning. i look forward to answering your questions. no thank you

had his confirmation hearing to leave the national security agency, a lieutenant general painting it as a matter of grave concern. >> the entire defense of our electric system is of great concern to me. i'm aware this been reporting with regards to elements within our systems, that is something that should could concern all of us. >> in the oval office with ireland's prime minister, president trump weighed in on personnel changes. shooting down chatter that more cabinet and staff departures are imminent. >> there will always be change but very little. it was a very false story, very exaggerated, very exaggerated and false story. but there will always be change. i think you want to see change. i want to also see different ideas. >> one potential personnel change the white house is watching closely, the attorney general's decision whether to fire fbi deputy director andrew mccabe before he retires on sunday. >> that's a determination that we would leave up to attorney general sessions. we do think it's well-documented that he has had some very troubling behavior. and by most accounts,

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comes from if it's from russia there's much to criticize as if it had originated from the national security agency lawmakers now want to discuss the details in a moving of the parliamentary supervisory body on intelligence. w russia correspondent yuri russia spoke with cyber security expert roman brother tof and asked for his thoughts on russia's alleged hacking everybody understands that this is a part of russian modern foreign policy i think but it's a silly believe that every government behaves like this because he's like a k.g.b. guy indicated like this so he thinks that this is normal. foreign policy and why should we stop ourselves so if we can't why wouldn't we. do this so this is not the message this is just a part of every day behavior of people who are educated as like security agents. they think this is a pretty legitimate is through and the police in slovakia arrested a number of italian businessman named by murder journalist as having links to government corruption twenty seven year old young man who was shot dead as you said last week along with his film say shortly after his murder

agencies involved in the inquiry, the fbi, the cia, the national security agency, the justice departmentthe treasury department's financial crimes enforcement network and representatives of the director of national intelligence, according to sources, the working group is scrutinizing the activities of a few americans affiliated with trump's campaign or his business empire of multiple individuals from russia and other former soviet nations who had similar connections. this is january 17, 2017. a president's about to be inaugurated. he's still under investigation. the campaign still under investigation. members of his campaign, jr., otherwise, still under investigation. this isn't just a couple of people in the fbi. you're talking about the top law enforcement and federal intelligence agencies of the united states government. you're talking about the director of national intelligence. this is an obama administrationwide effort, is it not? >> right, three days before the inauguration. and don't forget that we don't find out that -- the public doesn't find out until march 20th when james com

national security council to discuss options to deal with russia's cyber attacks? has that meeting happened? >> there was a principals committee meeting between senior officials in law enforce pt and national security agencies to discuss this issue specifically. >> does the president believe that someone who is on the no fly list should also be -- because of suspected terrorist activity should not be able to buy a gun? this was a position he expressed during the campaign. he was asked about it again. sarah was sad again. does he still hold that view, no fly, no buy? >> i don't know if he supports that specific provisions. individuals on that list are not given due process rights to be able to get there. >> one last one. steve bannon, sarah was asked when was the last time the president spoke to steve bannon? >> i'm not aware of any phone calls they've had recently. i think in the last several

comes from if it's from russia there's as much to criticize as if it had originated from the national security agency lawmakers now want to discuss the details in a moving up the parliamentary supervisory body on intelligence. for more on this i'm joined by isabel secure can she is a researcher with the digital society institute at berlin's european school of management technology it's good to have you on the show we we're hearing tonight that this cyber attack is still ongoing what does that mean yes so that means that the attack was discovered apparently by the security agencies in december two thousand and seventeen and since then they haven't wanted tarring the attack so they've basically not eliminated the hackers from the network but they've been monitoring and what they call isolating the attack getting it under control to observe so they're moving though that's being done now is information still being destroyed or stolen well. but judging from what the officials say no there's no damn it's a more you know you can see say that as you were mentioning they say that the government. has been able

comes from if it's from russia there's as much to criticize as if it had originated from the national security agency. lawmakers now want to discuss the details in a moving up the parliament's supervisory body on intelligence over russian president vladimir putin says that his country has tested a new missile that could reach anywhere in the world putin showcased a range of new weapons a short while ago during his annual state of the nation address delivered to top russian lawmakers now he said the united states has abandoned nuclear arms reduction agreements and that russia has been developing the weapons in response and also outlined domestic goals pledging to cut poverty in half over the next six years and to strengthen what he called the country's democratic institution. in poland a new law that makes it a crime to blame the country for aiding in the holocaust has taken effect that's led to a major diplomatic standoff with israel polish and israeli officials met thursday in jerusalem to discuss a wall it imposes joelson is of up to three years first adjusting polish complicity in nazi crimes the

one was addressed to the national security agency. another was stopped at secret service fact-finding arm -- service facility. >>> there's must have rumors kim jong-un had talks with chinese's leader. the two countries share a border. china has grown impatient with kim jong-un ambitions straining the relationship. this comes weeks before the planned visit with kim and south korea's president and potential meeting with president trump. >>> a chicago man that spent two decades in prison for a crime he didn't commit is back on the job working for the white sox. his return to the ball park coming up. >>> and we hear a lot about the gender pay gap but not the gender investing gap. ahead, a look at the leading financial firm geared the specifically toward women. >>> beautiful, clear skies out there for this lunch break. temperatures are warming up. we'll talk about how warm we're going to get. it's not the warmest day of the week yet. thousands of signatures today.. urging his fellow lawmakers to repeal the state's gas tax.. the tax was sig

>> guest: the national security agency is our descendent of wartime code breaking. we know the story was largely female and there were internal histories about this, one of them had been declassified and introduced me to the larger story that was a matter of tracking down women into getting records declassified. >> host: hitit in the figures come of the rocket girls came out around thehe same time. how is it these books came out around the same time? >> guest: i think they are the hidden figures of the generation and the stories have been unfold up until now. for preparing people to believe that this really happened that these women had been laboring in the rooms in american history, they had been dark but the switches are being slipped into the lights are going on and we realize these women have been here doing important work all along. >> host: utep first-person accounts with these. >> guest: they would have been n put in prison if they spoke to rime about what they did. they were very, very good about keeping the secret. here's the quote. that got that sop saying

nsa historian, the national security agency is our defendant of wartime code breaking. one was declassified then i talked to agency historians who introduced me to the larger story then i had to track down the women to get them declassified. >> hidden figures came out around the same time so how was that they came out at the same time? >> i think of them as the hidden figures i think it is extraordinary they have been untold up until now. i think we are in the era there was a disservice to the rest of the authors letting people think that they that this really happens the rooms were dark but now the lights are going on and we realize they have been here doing important work all along. >>host: and you have first-person accounts. >> in some cases i had to convince them they would not be put in prison. they were very, very good about keeping their secret. >>host: francine. here is a quote she's the one that got that slb yamamoto saying only ed dm woman could have figured out that blinking code. >> there was something about that irrational that the japanese were using it wa

a senator, represents the largest intelligence agency, far, for larger than the cia, the national security agencywhere you are actually court-martialed. >> >> right. you know, and the national security agency collects an enormous amount of data and information, but it is more of these policing agencies that i'm focused on. you know, ice is -- ice has more law enforcement power than any other federal law enforcement agency. and it's only a matter of time. and we've already seen people who are assisting, you know, people crossing the border and assisting people that, you know, be arrested and charged with federal offenses. they're going to expand the net of their federal law enforcement powers over the next few years. they've already said that they're going to do this. ice didn't exist 15 -- or ice didn't exist 18 years ago. it's a brand-new institution. it didn't exist whenever i was a teenager. it should go away. we don't need ice. we don't need a lot of these gigantic, you know, police agencies that are singularly focused on deporting people. amy: if you were a senator of the united states and e

complete corruption of the national security process whereby the senior people in the national security agencies have been politicized and essentially are are instead of being interested in the security of the country are basically looking to support their political bosses you know steve you know the in the mainstream media likes to say that there is a war against the f.b.i. it seems like there's a civil war within the f.b.i. because the mainstream media doesn't like to talk about how mccabe was exited from the f.b.i. he was it was the f.b.i. that got rid of him ok but you wouldn't get that i think it was like a new york to a new york times article is like the forty first out of forty four paragraphs that they actually said that i mean they really put it down deep you know like a footnote here because i think there is something going on in the f.b.i. go ahead steve. well first of all the office of personal responsibility recommended that mckay go according to all reports or if you if you could find it in a report and who is the head of the office of personal responsibility someone who is a poor

the much praised security of virtual currency bitcoin may have been compromised by the us national security agency. the son of libya's former leader of. the president we speak exclusively to his lawyer. the situation we have in libya now is the result of the destruction of the state institutions. that received the world turned back to its roadmap and become a democratic state. welcome to the program here on r.t. international we have your latest headlines but this hour from all around the world . and act of terrorism that moscow is qualifying the alleged poisoning of a former russian agent and his daughter russia's foreign ministry adds that it expects on the script from the u.k. and questions why london refuses to even cooperate with the investigation. reports the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on preparation of chemical weapons and he mentione

national security agency's efforts to track down and identify bitcoin users. great to have you with us this hour my name's neil harvey this is r.t. and. the russian foreign ministry says that it considers the poisoning of form a double agent and his daughter to be an act of terrorism and held a briefing on the case with a number of ambassadors attending the event with details he's in the ditch. the foreign ministry spokesperson said a number of things firstly he reiterated that russia could have in no way benefited from the attack moscow says they consider this to be a terror attack secondly they stated that the u.k. refused to cooperate with russia which is against the convention on prohibition of chemical weapons and he mentioned the attack could have been orchestrated by another party but then clarified that russia is not pinning the blame on anyone and asked that his words not be distorted let's take a quick look. we see that the british authorities are becoming ever more nervous and it's clear why the clock is ticking they have backed themselves into a co