if you're nsc gets too big however and you get stovepipes within the nsc that nearer the stovepipes in the government agencies, you will not be able to integrate the process. you are just re-creating at the white house the stovepipes. it is your job to try to overcome that. my preference was always to try to have more information in fewer heads because it allowed you to integrate and allowed you to see connections between things and overcome the stovepipes. i think one of the challenges get backew team is to to a smaller, leaner, nsc that supports the president on the functions but with the presumption that less is more and smaller is better. mr. stimson: steve, we will end where we started. and that is, the title of this presentation is "how intelligence is used by the president." give us your thoughts. how is it used by the president? is an input to the president. isis both information and it an interaction with the people in the intelligence community who have spent their lives studying these problems. it is one of the things i think that makes our government unique. we have this ph

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a lot of theongly things we are doing to remove the stovepipes in dhs and have a more strategic approach to budget making, acquisitions and so forth should be institutionalized. i think it will make the department a utter and more effective place for homeland security. direction of the more centralized, more strategic approaches to our homeland security mission. we have been stovepipes far too often and we need to move to a model like the department of defense were you have joint duty and joint task forces and like. there are provisions in the current law that create some limitations on our ability to do that. authorization of our unity effort initiatives is something i very much support which includes reforming and restructuring. i know your committee is working through these rings now and i support the good work there. senator carter: and i think it is fair to say we support what you are trying to do. thank you so much for enjoying us today. >> i have some questions today and i will kind of step through them. i appreciate you working with me on the board metrics bill and if we are goin

one of the reasons you can say 9/11 happened in the first place was because of the stovepiping betweenious agencies that were not sharing information with each other. well, we learned from that, but they haven't learned that as vividly as we have. we lost 3000 people on a much and difficultated to pull off operation on 9/11. we are better off than they are, but that's not -- no one should take any comfort in that, because you saw what happened in san bernardino. attack in san bernardino killed 14 people. that investigation is still ongoing to attract attention connections to a terrorist network and includes the battle between the f ei and apple over one of the attacker's iphones. and ahead on "full measure" -- from terror attacks to personal attacks. sen. cruz: donald, you're a sniveling coward, leave heidi the hell alone. sharyl: a look and listen to the tone of the presidential campaign this week. sharyl: the attacks in brussels refocused the 2016 presidential campaign to the global war on terror. at the same time, the candidates are facing criticism for the tone the presidential con

he throws his stovepipe hat in the ring and announces his intent to run for the republican nominationnothing can stop him now. except for the hot favorite to win -- william henry seward. >> william henry seward was an upstate new yorker, a man of fabulous gifts as a speaker, a man of principled opposition to slavery, and a man of great political experience. >> he was urbane. he was charming. >> here was a man who looked like he was effortlessly ascending the steps toward the presidency. >> and the man behind seward is the most terrifying operator in american politics, his campaign manager thurlow weed. his cheery nickname? the dictator. >> thurlow weed was known as the dictator in part because of his ability to get things done. >> some people would say he was a bully. some people despised him. other people were afraid of him. >> he was not a spokesman of high principle but of clever backstage maneuvering and bribes and kickbacks. >> everyone knew that he held the power within the republican party. >> lincoln will have a fight on his hands at the convention. chicago, more of a roman or

he throws his stovepipe hat in the ring and announces his intent to run for the republican nominationnothing can stop him now. except for the hot favorite to win -- william henry seward. >> william henry seward was an upstate new yorker, a man of fabulous gifts as a speaker, a man of principled opposition to slavery, and a man of great political experience. >> he was urbane. he was charming. >> here was a man who looked like he was effortlessly ascending the steps toward the presidency. >> and the man behind seward is the most terrifying operator in american politics, his campaign manager thurlow weed. his cheery nickname? the dictator. >> thurlow weed was known as the dictator in part because of his ability to get things done. >> some people would say he was a bully. some people despised him. other people were afraid of him. >> he was not a spokesman of high principle but of clever backstage maneuvering and bribes and kickbacks. >> everyone knew that he held the power within the republican party. >> lincoln will have a fight on his hands at the convention. chicago, more of a roman or

had a stovepipe hat to prove it. we have an interesting and well-rounded speaker. ladies and gentlemen, sidney blumental. [ applause ] >> thank you. i appreciate those kind comments. i especially appreciate terry's guidance in my scholarship. he is a wonderful scholar and has won an -- written an award winning book on john wilkes booth. i'm honored to be here at the abraham lincoln institute to be able to speak about my new book and honored to speak before you. i hope that there will be time for questions. if there aren't, you can always come up to me afterwards. there will be a panel in the afternoon. i will be happy to answer any questions. in an age of anti-politics, i am here to speak of a career politician, a party stallworth and partisan who conducted his own permanent campaign for elected office from the age of 23 onward when he was not serving his corporate clients. after the founders was the greatest revolutionary figure in american history. perhaps it's a good thing abraham lincoln is not available to run for office this year. especially in the party he h

it's a very dispersed kind of a country and also there's a stovepiping of information so that police information but they're not necessarily sharing it with the next town over, the next neighborhood over even. and it's really structural. some of it is it by design, and that's been ag this whole case. really for over the last year. >> well, clearly theyabç'x reco that this disjointedness of security services was a problem because there used to be like 80 different police forces. they cut that down to 6 and realized there needed to be more cooperation. is it a history of distrust and mistrust? is it more structural in what are the roots of it? >> i think it's a little bit of both. in some of it is cultural as well. this really is a bi-cultural country split between a french and flemish half. there are bits of regional distrust. i think it will take a bhiel to get over it. i think there ace recognition now that something needs to change. >> is it the reporting of the associated press now that the authorities are carrying out more operations there trying to get more basic human intellige

i believe very strongly that a lot of the things we are doing to remove the stovepipes and dhs and have a more strategic approach to budget making, acquisition, and so forth should be institutionalized, not just something that should exist while i am ini am in office. go make the department a better, more effective place if we move in the direction a more centralized, more strategic approaches to our homeland security mission. they have been stovepipes far too often and need to move toward a model more like the department of defense where you have joint duty, joint task forces and the like. there are provisions in current law that create some limitations on our ability to do that. the current homeland security act. so authorization of the unity of effort initiatives is something i very much support which includes reforming and restructuring. i have seen the legislative language that i know your committee is working through now on a numbera number of these things and i support that and the good work here. >> it is fair to say we support what you're trying to do as well. >> thank you, sen

technology is changing so rapidly, and our government unfortunately is so stovepiped and lacks ability to respond so as the technologies increase and change the threats are increasing exponentially. but after 9/11 this country came together and we resolved that we would do whatever it took to keep this country safe. we need people in america today at the grassroots and all over this country to come together and once again resolve that come 2016, come right now, we will do whatever it takes to keep america safe and secure so we can remain free. thank you very much. >> thank you, ron. >> all right. >> nice job, jim. >> that was fun. >> my parents they came from mexico. they had no more than a third grade education. my parents they came for a better future. not only for themselves but for their families. they came over to the u.s. chasing that american dream. i wouldn't be where i am today if it weren't for the hard work of my mom and my dad. they always told me education is the key to success. you want to go somewhere in life and if you want to be somebody, you have to go study. and that

the results of 9/11 and the commission and what they were talking about, the stovepipes, that continues to be a concern of mine. you've got these cross-purposes, you got two different agencies now split and i think you are always somewhat split under ins as well but i'm concerned about that. director rodriguez, are you aware of what happened at the u.s. cis office in san bernardino on december 3rd following the san bernardino attack? are you aware of the events that occurred there? >> at the u.s. cis office in san bernardino? i'm not specifically -- honestly, no. i'm not aware that anything occurred. >> director saldana, are you aware of that? >> i think you are referring to our hsi office. the subject of a letter that you have sent i believe to the secretary which has been sent to me for response. i am aware of it. >> can you describe what happened? because hsi is under your jurisdiction. can you just describe from your standpoint what you are aware of that incident? >> well, with respect to the whole san bernardino -- >> i'm talking about agents showing up at the office of u.s. cis be