Counter Intelligence Effort News Today

♪ ♪ chase. make more of whats yours®. in august of this year on a beautiful sunny day in broad daylight a man on a bicycle wearing a wig rode through a quiet berlin park in germany and he shot a man in that park. he shot him once in the torso and twice in the head. the man who was murdered in that park that day was a 40-year-old recent immigrant to germany. ethnically he was chechen. back in the early 2000s when the chechens were fighting a war with russia, he had helped lead forces in th...

He shot him once in the torso and twice in the head. the man who was murdered in that park that day was a 40-year-old recent immigrant to germany. ethnically he was chezen. after the shechen russianer war he reportedly helped the nation of georgia in their counter intelligence effort. the man had been living in the nation of georgia for several years but after two failed assassination attempts against him there he fled to germany to try to stay alive. and that is where he had been living until t...

Looked at facts and they could not end up with a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits in terms of a criminal prosecution. if they decided they couldnt prosecute on those specific things that is still going to be of interest to congress in terms of the conduct that went on behind the scenes during the campaign. >> when you hear democrats in the senate and the house talk about not only getting the full mueller report and the underlying documents, does that seem like to you theyre moving ...

Because this began as a counter intelligence effort, lets not forget. there are 25 individual russians actually indicted for interfering in the election. the material and information that the special counsel obtained related to those charges and anything like it are the things that are most likely to be when he would because of the intelligence value of them and then theres also the question of unindicted folks who the department of justice has traditionally not outing when they arent going to i...

This, why arent they stopping the suspected russian operatives from entering the country? >> we are told that counter intelligence is speaking to keep an eye on this activity. in some cases the fbi uses surveillance to track the suspected russian intelligence officers as part of their counter intelligence effort. that was how the u.s. is able to identify and expel 35 russian diplomats accused of spying in response to the alleged russian election meddling according to officials we talked to. u.s....

>> yes. and i also recognized that this was an exceptionally sensitive issue. active counter intelligence case trying to stop and uncover what the russian intelligence activities were in the midst of a hotly debated presidential campaign. that included information that may have involved u.s. persons, contacts with russia. benign or not. so therefore one of the key pieces of any type of counter intelligence effort is to compartment the efforts so your operators, investigators, collectors, can con...