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Gathering intelligence. and if thats breached because somebody gets a classified document floating around and knows of it, we lose that information that we are grabbing. so its more than just a bunch of papers and what big deal is this and so forth. lives can be lost. none can be misspent. we can be our adversaries are out there searching, trying to get this kind of information because they want to undermine us. so we have these threats that come in, and so its something that we remind our peopl...

London 1968 and a huge demonstration outside the american embassy against the vietnam war. involved in gathering intelligence, a newly formed undercover police unit, the special demonstration squad. forthe the special demonstration squad. for the next 40 years, ses officers infiltrated left—wing and progressive groups on a long—term basis, passing back information to scotland yard and m15. their targets included anti—apartheid campaigners, including peter, now lord hain, who went on to bec...

Than in 2019. thats the equivalent of 27 million days lost to illness. judges at the court of the appeal will rule today on a challenge to the governments plan to deport migrants to rwanda. the case, which was brought by a group of asylum seekers and a charity, centres around whether assurances given by rwanda to the uk are sufficient guarantees of safe and fair treatment. the findings of a long—running public inquiry into undercover policing are due to be published later today. it is the firs...

Probability or to any other evidential scandal as to whether the attack would have been predicted. —— evidential standard. however, there was a realistic possibility that actionable intelligence could have been obtained which might have led to action preventing the attack. the reason for this missed opportunity included a failure by the security service, in my view, to act swiftly enough. the director general of m15, ken mccallum, said he was profoundly sorry m15 did not prevent the attack. ...

And the decision, if it was not a threat, we let it fly up there. are we changing the posture, that if we dont know the origin, were shooting it down now? >> i hope not. if thats where we going to go, were going to have an accident. i think its early to make that call. i would say two things about it. theres a logic about what the administration has done. member, the initial chinese balloon was at 50,000 feet, 60,000 feet, thats not a threat. at or below at 40,000 feet, youre in the travel zone....

One, its a threat because its gathering intelligence. but nobody disagrees it didnt see anything they can see from the satellite. it can last longer and look closer. and the key is, what is the advantage of letting it go? if youre thinking of it as anan intelligence officer, its their collection platform. can we get its telemetry. >> can we still do that? >> we can pick up the pieces. its going to otd, operation technology division. they will put the preisses together and see what they recognize...

They had to wait for it to be over water because the debris scatters over something like six miles, you can tell me, john. but when they be -- if it fell over someones head? >> weve picked them up in alaska, there are many -- there arent too many people and a lot of trees and maybe a few animals and birds, and thats it. im just saying, i dont know. and that here to second guess anybody. im just telling you the average person looks like this and says, we let this thing fly all the way over the un...

They have obviously had to acknowledge its existence because of people frankly being able to see it from the ground. they say it is of no danger to aircraft or indeed to people on the ground and they also say, and perhaps they would say this, that it is of limited value, in terms of gathering intelligence. there are more efficient ways like satellites. nevertheless, they have protested to the chinese here in washington and have done the same in beijing. the chinese have not acknowledged it is th...

Implications tied to the suspected chinese spy balloon hovering in u.s. air space. nbcs courtney kube first broke this story. kristen welker is at the white house. ali vitali is on capitol hill and with me is victor cha at the national security council, the senior vice president for asia at the center for strategic and international studies. courtney, china says the suspected spy balloon over the u.s. is a civilian airship used for weather research. just as canada says it is monitoring a potenti...

Concern, but there are ways i am absolutely sure of being able to, in one way or another, not just track the balloon, but be able to maintain some element of control over where it goes. >> i assume if you were the secretary of defense or the cia director or the white house chief of staff at this moment, your advice to the president of the united states was whatever our capabilities under no circumstances let this get outside of the united states air space now that its in it without capturing it ...