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Of read into what was going on, read into the hack, into the intercepts about putin, really alarmed by what the russians were up to. the scope of the efforts. the degree to which they desired to penetrate and infiltrate the campaigns, and that doesnt speak to the res -- the other side. >> we need to remember that this began really as a counterintelligence investigation looking at a covert action by russia. an adversary. a potential adversary, seeking to affect our election in 2016 and it began, ...

Story that folks who were sort of read into what was going on, read into the hack, read into the intercepted about putin, really alarmed by what the russians were up to. the scope of the effort. the degree to which they desired to penetrate and infiltrate the campaigns. that does not speak to the other side. but it does seem that that -- the reporting has born out by enlarge a real serious effort by the russians to mess with this election. >> i think youre right. we need to remember this began a...

Side, that is a part of the story that folks who were sort of read into what was going on, read into the hack, read into the intercepted about putin, really alarmed by what the russians were up to. the scope of the effort. the degree to which they desired to penetrate and infiltrate the campaigns. that does not speak to the other side. but it does seem that that -- the reporting has born out by enlarge a real serious effort by the russians to mess with this election. >> i think youre right. we n...

>> i will stay with you here because it seems when you say this confirmation bias i was thinking of the other story which is the president and putin and the russia investigation and how he keeps essentially dishing up confirmation bias for the supporters. >> i will use another term. intelligence professionals talk about deniable covert action. and what deniable covert action means is if you are asked about it you say it didnt happen. russia conducted the covert action against the united states. ...

Thats what im seeing on the oswald case at the moment. theres a lot of data, though. a lot to go through. >> but also in the last hour you were talking about the possibility of more information about cia covert operations in central africa, congo, in dominican republic. >> thats a big deal. im telling you, ive seen references to the use of biological and chemical weapons as part of the mongoose program to undermine the cuban regime. i havent seen every document, but i dont remember those being i...

Might have been culled by the mob, the cubans, might have been killed by the cia. and the assassination records review board pulled in all possible documents that might shed light on any of those possible theories. as a result they put together 5 million pages. when the act was put together, i am sure that the congress didnt expect that there would be blanket declassification of 5 million pages in 2017. and to some extent they kept kicking the can down the road. some of the materials they pulled...

U.s. covert action against cuba, kongo, dominican republic. those involve informants and i was waiting to see whether we would get those names. right now getting interesting details. i share freds view we were not going to learn much of anything about lee harvey oswald issue because there was serious nonpartisan board in 1998 who saw all of this material and pushed for release on anything that bore on whether or not there was conspiracy behind oswald. but other details, we have materials regardi...

To undermine the regime. i havent seen every document, but i dont remember those being in the documents ive seep. also sabotaging airplane parts purchased by canada from cuba, i dont remember reading that before. so theres a level of detail -- really dark detail about covert action which were getting now that we didnt have before. but thats a different issue from whether lee harvey oswald killed the president. coming up, more on the trump campaign and the data collection effort. more ahead. wh...

About cover action but not directly related to the oswald story. found it amazing that many americans on the left and right consider their government to be inefficient. one thing both sides of the aisle agree on. yet many americans also at the same time believe that government is so efficient it could have murdered a president and kept it secret for so long. i think theres a dissonance there. in 1998 we got the best information that the u.s. government had apparently on the oswald issue. there a...

Information that the u.s. government had apparently on the oswald issue. there are new details to come out and there are some leads that may not lead anywhere, but theyre worth looking at. what i believe this release is about, though, is that era. that era of secrecy i, that era of covert action. and thats what well see more details of of the and whats being held back, i believe, are materials regarding foreign government assistance to us, materials about code bricking. materials regarding sourc...