i think everything allows sharing of institutional knowledge within governments is a good thing. .s.c., ar to the n/s/ strategic decision was usually practiced, the foreign secretary or defense secretary would make the final decision. now we have the n.s.c. you're chairing that meeting. can you think of of anything where there was a defense decision where you have taken the ultimate decision rather than the secretary of state? >> i'm not sure mrs. thatcher or tony blair would say they just left defense and foreign policy decisions to their secretary of state. and only occasionally intervened. i think the history -- history as a bilateralds thing between a prime minister and a foreign secretary or prime minister and a defense secretary. the good thing is that it's a more collective way of making decisions. of course, there are decisions made by ministers. you talk about the decisions -- for instance, how we went about our engagement in libya and the decisions we made about syria, they were genuinely discussed around the table with those ministers, with the expert advice and another poi

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of s.c. senior fellow and director of c.f.r. center for preventive action. he's held senior positions at the u.s. institute of peace, stanford university and the brookings institution. he has written or edited 10 books on various aspects of world affairs and he directed the production of this year's preventive priorities survey which is available on cfr.org. now, are we going to go left to right? >> left to right. >> left to right. then, dr. gordon. >> thank you very much, jim. and it's a great pleasure to be here. this has become something of an annual event and it's great to be able to sit down with all of my friends and have a good hard-headed discussion about what's going to happen in the coming year. so, i think that -- let me start with some of the themes that we're looking at, at the global macrolevel and then we'll work down to some more specifics. i think that as we look at the world in 2014, i think the striking thing is that the set of issues that dominated global macroconcerns since the financial crisis has really begun to retreat. that is, the r

. >> s.c. release that information , though? >> we don't know. the newspapers have not published it. who has it been to has had access to it, knowingly or unknowingly, we don't know. why he would have taken it is a pretty important question. but the reality is that whenever his motives, we simply cannot have a system where anyone in the intelligence community can make unilateral decisions. i disagree with this policy. it just can't work that way. >> so in your legislation or any legislation that comes forth, will it address people like snowden, contractors that work in this government. what do you want to say? >> it will in the sense that it is already ongoing effort to dramatically improve security within the agency so that you don't have people without a need to know having access to vast amounts of information so that in a particular system analysts like snowdon will be able to come on their own, access different systems where they can download information that they should not have access to and that they will have some kind of mechanism for r

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