how do you plan to address security of classified information at the agency? >> mr. chairman, the safeguard of our national secrets, the safeguard is one of the most important things the next director will address. my intent is to look at the secure enterprise and network initiatives that nsa has taken to date are timely, accurate and on target to ensure that we continue to have the safeguard and security of our national treasures. with that said, i would add, mr. chairman, there are two elements i see as we look long term to this issue. first of all, continuing to hire great people that work at the nsa. not only hiring them, but training them, developing them and ensuring their long-term careers with the nsa are well tended to. second thing, though, we need to also understand that there are control mechanisms we, as an agency, need to continue to look at to ensure we have the ability to not only safeguard our network, but also secure our environment. >> general, do i have your commitment that if such a leak happens, that you will, as timely as you can, notify the com

intelligence committee held a confirmation hearing for president trump's pick to head the national security agency and u.s. cyber command. committee members asked about cyber issues and encryption technologies and recruiting and retaining talent at the nsa. this is about an hour.

the national security agency n.s.a. for short the largest foreign intelligence agency in the usa has been responsible for the worldwide monitoring of electronic communications since one thousand nine hundred fifty two. some of the thirty five thousand employees weren't comfortable with the massive expansion of surveillance and september eleventh. all of the colleagues that i knew which was just a handful bill binnie ed loomis kirk we chose to retire from the n.s.a. . in late october two thousand and one they realize what was happening they could not stand by and see the subversion of the constitution and all the work that they had done being used for mass surveillance they left the agency i begged them to stay i chose to remain and fight from with it as long as i could i got mad at them you know so i my my objective was that counterattack i don't believe in defense you know just sitting back and being defensive i mean you have to get out there and attack so that's what i started doing that was my point it's time to attac

>> i read a declassified history written by a historian, the national security agencies are descendentsri of wartime code breaking and they knew the origin was largely female and there were internal histories about this. i read it and i talked to some agency historians who introduced me to the larger story and then it was a matter of tracking them down and getting the records declassified. >> hidden figures, rocket girls came out around the same time. how is it that they came out about the same time? >> i think of them i as the hidn figures of the greatest generation and it is a fascinating day has gone unknown until now. we are inav the era people are receptive to be leaving the stories. hidden figures did an enormous service to the rest of us in terms of preparing people to believe that this happened that these women have been laboring in the room rooms in history, bn dark switches are being slipped into the lights are going on and we realize they had been here doing important work all along. >> you have first-person accounts. >> in some cases they have to convince them they would not b

very very clear in confirming that these platforms have actually been penetrated by the national security agency and various other agencies in various ways. some of that some of it is through backdoor some of it is through kind of direct kind of agreements with these companies and so on and so forth but what's very clear is that these companies like facebook and google and other big platforms have to have given this kind of open playing field for agencies to really be able to monitor in quite a fine grained way the behaviors of populations which increasingly taking place online but that has all sorts of ramifications and one of the ramifications of that . and it's important to recognize that when we participate in these platforms i mean a lot of this sounds insidious but we're participating in it through the way in which we signed these terms and agreements which basically hand our data over to these companies you can't participate in facebook without doing that you can't participate in google without doing that we kind of giving them the key to access that sort of information and what's happeni

the cia the national security agency that you see educated such. an organization that is well known. to these agencies and in an organization that they. walter raleigh fort. this kind of fog does just by tolls and see in the distance and it's photos to see mostly diplomatic cables also come but intimate connotation is each of interest upon us as a. as a. d.m. i listen to kid of us as we didn't cave it's come for him to give in the seventy's was when up to dusty bush on the book the human toll in the vehicle does it stop just stop and. the us plot against julian a son came to light in two thousand and eleven as part of the so-called strat four x. . strat corps a texas based consulting company developing geostrategic all strategies for the us government jeremy hammond the hacker who copied a total of five million emails from the strad for server was sends to ten years in prison at the end of two thousand and thirteen. how means data theft included controversial messages by the vice president of stratford to the u.s. government they contained a multis

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

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this is ciaran martyn, the head of britain's cyber security agency, gchq, he is the cyber defence unititten an article in the telegraph tomorrow morning saying it is a matter of when and not if britain faces a serious cyber attack and its focus now is on building resilience. this is going to have an impact on all of our lives because it is the systems and the systems we care about the most, power and water supplies, internet and rail networks of the health service and it does not have to be a catastrophic bring it all down in one go, it is the drip, drip, drip of disruption that then makes britain and unreliable country to do business with, to bank with, transport systems and things get lost, things get broken. the point here is what he is trying to do is warn us that they cannot stop everything. in a sense, we have had that from the director—general of mis that from the director—general of m15 who has always said, publicly, we will trying keep your safe as we can, but inevitably, the bombers will get through and we saw that tragically last year. the same thing applies to the cyber att

finally officially admitted that m i five the united kingdom's domestic counterintelligence and security agency played a major role in politically vetting b.b.c. job applicants from get this the mid one nine hundred thirty s. until the one nine hundred ninety s. let that one sink in a minute a highly secret intelligence agency was deciding who was allowed to report edit the news and work for the united kingdom's oldest and biggest public service broadcaster for more than sixty years. and they call our t.v. state controlled propaganda and just what terrible no good things was m i five looking for that would have won you a big red stamp of rejection on your job application well paul reynolds who was a b.b.c. correspondent from one nine hundred seventy eight to two thousand and eleven writes that one thousand nine hundred eighty four memo yes one thousand eight hundred four memo lays out the undesirable list on the left there were the communist party of great britain the socialist workers party the workers' revolutionary party and the militant tendency but the right wasn't alone on the right the n

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but security agencies, the police in germany, expected something to happen in the past months from everything were listening in on or that was provided by other intelligence agencies, mainly the american agencies around the world. >> julian reichelt of bild newspaper, thank you so much. meantime, cnn national security analyst samantha vigograd is with me. sam, one thing that really popped out that julian said is the importance -- sorry, we don't have samantha's connection. do we still have juliette kayam? juliette are you able to hear me? >> i can hear you. >> let me ask you about something that julian just said about the importance of eyewitness accounts. possibly eyewitnesses may have seen some kind of activity involving that van before that van careened into a crowd. so talk to me about the importance of what people are saying about what happened just prior to this incident and even in the midst of. >> right. so what people are seeing, saying, excuse me, is often less reliable than, you know, the pictures, any videos, things like that. because, remember, when you're in a crisis like this,

a lot of increasing interest along the fbi and our security agencies.zkers, marco rubio, ted , they pay more attention to this. something that will be a building debate in the months to come. >> specific legislation, some of requireents of an act entities that promote political agenda for a governments to register for as an agent and it forces universities to disclose donations from foreign sources, $50,000, important to consider, especially when it comes to china. >> foreign agents registration russia was forced to register, the problem is that an old law was passed in 1938 and has a lot of gray areas. there is a lot of ways that people, or companies, or nonprofits, or donors, who do have ties to foreign countries or foreign local parties, they do not have to register. there is a lot of perhaps foreign influence that we are not aware of. what this law would do is to try -- if a mediat is outlet does not have editorial control and funding for a foreign government, it would have to register. that would apply to the chinese network, chinese television net

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quoting attacks broke of the punjab because i'm certain of that and then dramas were made by the security agencies where the first rules were one of them well did displayed in a different career and i'll not go into the detail everybody knows about it so the survey really angered the people there the found terms of militancy of the brim and fire. now answer the for the military entity if they did the happenings from here are sitting in punjab and the foot soldiers are in the tribal area the foot soldiers are ahead but the fountain regenerated which is that was known to everybody there has not been touched that is another issue and the third one is when the people of our town what a display if they were to seek shelter in the settled area of pakistan in punjab there were not allowed in sindh there were not allowed a sort of collective was issued not to allow or do these people took us into our area though this is the behavior unfortunately vitez which has led to the foundation of the anger and then the government failure to do anything to address the issue has given whys and now the people are up i

as spying on the national prosecuting authority and misleading the public protector and state security agency about its existence. one of those the center of the allegations was you one from luxembourg he took over the unit in two thousand and eight it was set up in two thousand and seven to tackle organized crime syndicates spoke exclusively to people in power the last time i counted i think it was something like eighty two . allegations of some kind of offense ranging from breaking into president's private residence and planting listening devices. down to murdering people everything else in between it's extremely a million eighty two you have to read it yourself in the newspaper on the front page being associated with findings attributed to a reputed company or what i thought to be attributable companies like p. and g. . who basically make me out to have been a criminal report also implicated in finance minister pravin darn who'd previously headed sars saying he ought to have known of the existence of the unit this was later used as one of president zuma motivations for firing gaudin as fin

the government has already promised more staff for security agencies like mi5 — crucial if they are toand new powers have been promised — again, these are expected to focus on allowing police to move in at an earlier stage when attack planning is less well advanced. already announced are higher sentences for viewing terrorism content online or publishing information about the police or the military for use in targeting attacks. the home office would not comment on these leaked reports but said the coming strategy would be a comprehensive response to the evolving threat from domestic and international terrorism. tom symonds, bbc news. verne troyer, who is best known for playing mini—me in the austin powers films, has died at the age of 49. the actor has been ill recently and had a history of problems with depression and alcohol. simon clemison reports. he is exactly like you in every way... ..except one—eighth your size. but that never held back mini—me... i shall call him... ..0r verne troyer. ..mini—me. screams. the role of dr evil‘s smaller clone in the austin powers comedies brought

admiral rogers who serves as head of the national security agency and cyber command responded, i can't say that i've been explicitly directed to, quote, blunt or actively stop. the other witnesses could not point to any directives to blunt russian influence operations either. on february 27, 2018, i asked admiral rogers whether he has the authority and the capability to disrupt hacking operations where they originate. he responded he does not have the authority from the president to go after these perpetrators and stated that the government as a whole has so far, in his words, opted not to engage. the bottom line is that the president has not directed anyone in the intelligence community, his cabinet or elsewhere in his administration to develop or implement a strategy to disrupt, blunt or retaliate against russia for its hybrid aggression against our democracy. this threat is clear and it only grows as we move closer to our midterm elections in november. it is past time for the president to step up and provide strategic leadership against russian interference. russia has gone to schoo

the government has already promised more staff for security agencies like m15 — crucial if they are toer of suspects. and new powers have been promised — again, these are expected to focus on allowing police to move in at an earlier stage when attack planning is less well advanced. already announced are higher sentences for viewing terrorism content online, or publishing information about the police or the military for use in targeting attacks. the home office would not comment on these leaked reports, but said the coming strategy would be a comprehensive response to the evolving threat from domestic and international terrorism. tom symonds, bbc news. at least 31 people have been killed and 50 injured in a suicide bomb attack in the afghan capital, kabul, according to officials. the bomber targeted people waiting outside a voter registration centre. it's the latest in a string of attacks in afghanistan since voter registration began this month, ahead of elections in october. election officials say security is a big concern, as the taliban and other militant groups either control or con

the government has already promised more staff for security agencies like m15 — crucial if they are toe been promised — again, these are expected to focus on allowing police to move in at an earlier stage when attack planning is less well advanced. already announced are higher sentences for viewing terrorism content online, or publishing information about the police or the military for use in targeting attacks. the home office would not comment on these leaked reports, but said the coming strategy would be a comprehensive response to the evolving threat from domestic and international terrorism. tom symonds, bbc news. labour leaderjeremy corbyn has condemned the government's handling of the windrush scandal, where some people who came to the uk from the commonwealth decades ago have been threatened with deportation or refused jobs or healthcare. speaking at the welsh labour conference, mr corbyn accused the government of evading its responsibility. this week, something rotten at the heart of government has come to the surface. the windrush scandal has exposed how british citizens who c

at the heart of political power is information that's why government security agencies go to extraordinary lengths to vacuum up data but increasingly it's also becoming the key to winning power. i think that there's you know. a legitimate argument to this that facebook influenced the election at the united states election results i think that facebook and algorithms are partially responsible if not you know the main reason why there is this shift towards hyper partisan belief systems these days. when donald trump became the front runner in the last u.s. presidential election you pundits predicted that he'd actually win one of the trump campaign secret weapons was an ability to research social media data and extraordinary detail that helped him understand and target his voters with the precision we've never seen before. by using facebook's ad targeting engine for example they know if some of those independent voters have actually liked republican pages or like the bernie sanders page or like a donald trump page so you can go to them to spend money to target advertising specifically to those

this was basically run by a number of us government agencies including the cia and the national security agency and it was managed by a private company called the meta corporation is a well known u.s. defense contractor and this program was basically about trying to put money into potential big kind of. new innovative kind of digital technology outfits startups you know innovations that will basically be of use to the pentagon in some way now this time i spoke to a source from the university of texas professor to raising she heads up the cyber security center there and at the time she said she had actually been one of the chief data scientists i meet a corporation. and she actually can fire her and a particular cia official by the name of rick stein. had met regularly with brin during the one nine hundred ninety s. to manage their funding of some of the research that they were giving to stanford university and specifically had given to support sergio grin in the development of various elements of their kind of search program that would go on to become kind of the core of google particularly pag

the national security agency is our descendant of wartime code breaking. and they knew that their origin story was largely female. and there were internal histories about this. one of them had been declassified. i read it, and then i talked to some agency historians who introduced me to the larger or story. and then itin was a matter of tracking down women and getting records declassified. >> host: margo lee shetterly's hidden figures came out around the same time. >> guest: right. >> host: how is it that these books came out about the same time? >> guest: yes. and i think of these women as the hidden figures of the greatest generation, and it is extraordinary their stories have been untold up until now. i think we're in an era where people are receptive to believing these stories. i think hidden figures did an enormous service to the rest of us authors in terms of preparing people to believe that this really happened, that these women have been laboring in rooms in american history. the rooms have been dark, but theen switches are being flipped now, and t

there's a lot of increasing interest among the fbi and our security agencies. lawmakers, you have seen marco rubio, ted cruz pay more attention to this. it is certainly something that is going to be a building debate in the months to come. host: this specific legislation and some of the elements promote the agenda of foreign governments to register as foreign agent and forces universities to disclose donations from foreign sources of $50,000 or more. why are those things important to consider when it comes to china? guest: we talked about the foreign registration act especially since rt was forced to register. it was an old law passed in 1938 the has a lot of gray areas. there's a lot of ways that people or companies or nonprofits or donors who do have ties to foreign countries or foreign political parties don't have to register. there's a lot of perhaps foreign influence that we are not aware of. what this law would do is try to -- toy what what clarify what exactly, is a media outlet that has editorial control and foreign funding from the government, they wou

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they are doing it because they also know the circumstances, they also have security agencies which arehat frankly what all of us have seen, you do not have to be a member of the security services to have seen many of the things that russia has been involved with over the last two yea rs, been involved with over the last two years, from crimea to chechnya, to the ukraine, to shooting down the malaysia aircraft, the goodness knows what they are doing in the middle east, backing up the assad regime, this is a very, very nasty and invidious regime that is not held to any of the same account that we are used to in the west. it is essentially a 1—party state, there is no free media and jeremy corbyn is no free media and jeremy corbyn is in some way aligning himself with this, it is not only worrying as you say but it is frankly a disgrace. although, it is there not least the potential that many of jeremy corbyn‘s core supporters and voters will think that perhaps is right to be on this? i think his supporters will but i do not think the wider public will, even though they voted labour last y

injured when western coalition missiles fell on to a military depot west of homes that sources the security agencies there my name is sean thomas my colleague will be taking over for me after a short break i'm here with a jacqueline. stay with us to watch an arch international. you never know what's around the corner you never know what's in the pub you can walk into excitement it's that not knowing that's where the adrenaline in much comes from. and you can easily move on definition and the extremes will put most of. the violence in the pot and it's almost a schizophrenia gang culture where you can do all these things and behave badly. they're going to befall the horse by the fall for us both more so focused on the last. punishment and infirmed. role. in the start. of a broader way enough i figure out a really good uphold i don't want to get. the meaning in these images that beast if you don't and the involves it's constantly evolving and if. something happens in this case it was the chemical attack on civilians in syria and then the public in the media are waiting for the response and i think it's

finally officially admitted that m i five the united kingdom's domestic counter intelligence and security agency played a major role in politically vetting b.b.c. job applicants from get this the mid nineteen thirties until the nineteen nineties but that one sink in a minute a highly secret intelligence agency was deciding who was allowed to report edit the news and work for the united kingdom's oldest and biggest public service broadcaster for more than sixty years. and they call our t.v. state controlled propaganda and just what terrible no good things was m i five looking for that would have won you a big red stamp of rejection on your job application well paul reynolds who was a b.b.c. correspondent from one nine hundred seventy eight to two thousand and eleven writes that one thousand nine hundred eighty four memo yes one thousand eight hundred four memo lays out the undesirable list on the left there were the communist party of great britain the socialist workers party the workers revolutionary party and the militant tendency but the right was alone on the right the national front and the

finally officially admitted that m i five the united kingdom's domestic counterintelligence and security agency played a major role in politically vetting b.b.c. job applicants from get this the mid one nine hundred thirty s. until the nineteen nineties but that one sink in a minute a highly secret intelligence agency was deciding who was allowed to report edit the news and work for the united kingdom's oldest and biggest public service broadcaster for more than sixty years and they call r t state controlled propaganda and just what terrible no good things was m i five looking for that would have won you a big red stamp of rejection on your job application well paul reynolds who was a b.b.c. correspondent from one nine hundred seventy eight to two thousand and eleven writes that one thousand nine hundred eighty four memo yes one thousand eight hundred four memo lays out the undesirable list on the left there were the communist party of great britain the socialist workers party the workers' revolutionary party and the militant tendency but the right was alone on the right the national front and