Last year, we declassified the basics of the u. S. Military pot cap towers and the u. S. Militarys counterterrorism activity in yemen and somalia. It was a long and difficult process to get there. Certain people in the white house persevered. We said publicly and officially what we were doing. As far as i can tell, the world has not come to an end. That event is available on our website, cspan. Org. President obama expected to johnson this afternoon. Leftover john cspan starts at 2 00 p. M. Eastern from the rose garden. Live coverage on cspan. The syrian envoy to the u. S. Will speak in washington at 11 00 eastern, we will have live coverage. For guys like us who have been in the game for a long time, we know that there are landmines and that you have to be careful about the way you manage these things. Issues to do with abortion in race, care of, israeli relations. In other countries, i have lived in other countries, they have their own bread lines to be aware of. What a cartoonist ca
Talk to them. G to that is of the way it should be. There is a link between the nsa program and others. There are government surveillance issues that have come up. Let me ask. The post had an exceptional story a few weeks ago about the effect of these leak investigations on the whistleblowers. It catalogued how, going up against the mechanisms of the United States government has one person, can destroy lives, even for those for whom the prosecution fell apart. Do you think these early prosecutions that did not seem pointed towards True National security information that would damage the United States were really done to make a point to say this is what can happen to him you . We do not know that. A previous director of the National Intelligence told a reporter on record that this was his intention, to get the Justice Department to prosecute people so that it would have a Chilling Effect on others. Could you talk about the Insider Threat program . I thought your discussion about that wa
Your discussion on that was exceptional. You can imagine how the government would have a program after the disclosure and the scope of documents. Get your arms around. It seems to become something quite different. Yes, the original president ial which they started rolling out late last year. Not emphasize the aspects. It was left up to each individual agency to decide how to carry it out. One of the new bureaus in washington did a very good job to see how they were carrying get out. Thatber of them made clear any kind of leaking to the press was the same as giving something to china. And also usable to monitoring your fellow employees. Monitoring your fellow employees and if you see any signs of leaking documents are being unstable or anything like that, you are required to report to that. You get in trouble for not reporting it. That is unprecedented. It is now being rolled out. It has to be further chilling. It seems have a Chilling Effect already on daytoday, routine business. The w
How you ask it is crucial. This is why i never, ever ask a negative question. I think its insulting to the person you want to talk to and it creates a bad impression about what youre doing. Youre asking for someones time because you need information that will lead you to a better understanding of your subject. Sometimes you get negative information when you really dont want it and you havent even asked for it, i know, i remember calling a woman to ask her about a Senate Wives Luncheon in honor of the first lady. She said to me, quote, i know why youre calling. You want me to repeat those nasty things that nancy reagan was telling us yesterday about barbara bush. [laughter] actually, all i wanted to find out was how much money the senate wife his raised for mrs. Reagans drug abuse fund. In that telephone call i got more than i asked for and i used every single w. Cities in this country doing things well. You always try to learn from those were doing it best. I think back to when i was a
Rollout of obamacare. Gwen can the administration regain its own footing on the world stage . The u. S. Is reviewing the way we gather intelligence to ensure we properly balance the security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share. Gwen tell that to angela merkel. Covering the week, John Dickerson of slate magazine and cbs news. Beth reinhard of national journal. Kimberly dozier of the associated press. And peter baker of the new york times. Awardwinning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. Live from our nations capital, this is Washington Week in review this is Washington Week with gwen ifill. Corporate funding for Washington Week is presented by at northrup grumman, we know in cyberworld, threats are always evolving. At first we were protecting networks, then we were protecting the transfer of data. And today its evolved into infrastructure. Finance. And military missions. Were constantly innovating to advance the front l