Take you back live now to the conference on intelligence and National Security being held just outside of washington, d. C. This is a discussion about emerging and live coverage on cspan2. The intelligence champions council, emerging professionals and Intelligence Committee will be hosting the happy hour this evening. Year over year the senior most leaders in our community see summit as form to share strategic insight and critical partners, this has been no exception. We had allstar lineup to close out the program, to get us started please welcome to the state ken, Senior Vice President and general manager of perspective Intelligence Group, he will introduce our moderator. Ken, over to you. [applause] thank you. As suzanne mentioned im ken and im the Senior Vice President , general manager for the Intelligence Group at perspecta. We have been working with the Intelligence Community for almost 50 years and we are proud to be partnering afce at this years intel summit. Honored to introdu
I wanted to say a few words about wesley gelb. He was most recently president emeritus here at the council and served as our president from 19932003. Over the last five decades, he was a distinguished academic, a senior official at the departments of state and defense and a pulitzer prizewinning journalist at the new york times. He worked on the editorial side as well as a journalist. , he led the institution into the postcold war era. He was there for the founding or f the Maurice Greenberg center, the launch of the independent Task Force Program amongnvigoration many other initiatives. He was generous with his time and wisdom, particularly with a great many young people in the field, including myself. He was one of the countries true wiseman one of this countrys true wisemen. I wanted to be sure to take a moment at the beginning of this evening. Annuals meeting is our series on military strategy and leadership. Features top military leaders and was made possible by a generous gift fr
Prof. Beverly gage, prof. Dirk bonker and prof. 2027488000. Im going to set the tone with a few minutes of introductory remarks and introduce each panelist individually, 15 or 20 minutes apiece and then we will open the floor to discussion. We are here today to talk about the origins and effect that we call the deep state and its important to say at the outset what historians always like to say. This is not really new. Today we call it the deep state but in early areas activists spoke about the washington establishment, the power elite, the system, and the military Industrial Complex. Even though those terms very, they usually share a lot in common. The arguments that typically accompany these are almost always conspiratorial. They almost always talk about a cabal within the government working in secret to drive policy toward their own ends, their own ends, not the common good. The actual people seem to range all over the map depending on the politics. They can be the Intelligence Agen
Militaries would attack each other in cyber war, we said infrastructure will become part of the target set and there can be large damage and destruction. Not just information damage. At the time we are criticized to integrate review that said file under fiction. So i think at one time robin i decided to write the book that we were right but we also wanted to say, what has changed in the ten years and while we were right about something, we were wrong about others. Yes the militaries have become the dominant threat and if you look at the major attacks in the last three years of all the military, arena, north korea, chinese, russia, america if you look at the target they are going after every structure and just last month the United States more or less submitted they penetrated the power grid claiming they had done it to us. It is destruction if you look at the attack, the largest destructive attack over 10 billion worth of damage, it is wiped out networks to not just attack them and sti
Underneath the surface and firefighters are going to go out at night a little bit later its start its starting to go down the sun now to try to see if they can spot the actual places where the flames are burning better be in the darkness and all that using to put out the fire of bottles of water like this they really have nothing they have no problem issues no proper match for the most people have been coming in and out of here for meeting with headaches intoxicated by the smoke that is really a dramatic situation and the government has just now 3 weeks after all this began and said that it would accept International Aid but it hasnt yet made a formal request and given all of that it sounds like a horrific situation lucy how is that likely to affect the Upcoming Elections we were talking about or no campaigning has been suspended for the moment but how is what is happening with these fires likely to have any effect on that election. Well you know its very interesting politically we jus