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Leaving or have left. just for an example, the telecommunications system in afghanistan is largely dependent on wireless communications, which are susceptible to intercept. as weve seen, we still have an isr, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capability. human intelligence, acquisition of information from other human beings, is certainly problematic, but weve built up -- the cia built up a lot of contacts and assets in afghanistan, many of which will still be available to us. admitt...

Helping the united states track down these isis-k fighters? i mean how does that happen? >> well, i found the strike here over the last 24 hours very encouraging on two counts. first of all, it demonstrates that the u.s. intelligence network, some combination of signals intelligence, communications and so forth, and perhaps even human intelligence has come together to precisely locate in time and space one of the islamic state cadre. and then the second part was our ability to demonstrate effect...

>> its easy to say this but i do believe so, im not sure i would say imminent. however, i dont think we can operate at this ever happens and it can never happen. what we see is that they are big proponents of the loan ranger attack, one person radicalized online in carrying out the attacks. al qaeda operates very differently, large expensive huge scale attacks. i really see lone ranger attacks, its very difficult to track without gaining human intelligence on the ground. arthel: especially with ...

Despite the fact were leaving or have left. just an example, the telecommunication systems in afghanistan is depending on wireless communications, as we have seen, we still have an isr, using remotible piloted vehicles. and human intelligence, its certainly problematic but built up -- the cia built up a lot of contacts and assets in afghanistan, many that will be available to us. but admittedly, it will degrade over time, and the taliban is like the dog that caught the car. they have their own p...

Evacuation and maintaining security around the airport. people may be surprised to know that prior to the draw down, which the u.s. still had a presence, more of a larger presence in afghanistan, they shared a lot intelligence with the afghans and the afghans provided a lot of intelligence on groups like isis-k. thats one of the things that will be lost in the loss of the military presence and the taliban takeover. the afghan military no longer exists for the intents and purposes. the u.s. no lo...

Combat. you know, you have one piece of intelligence. you track it down, and then you start getting more. and -- and whether that was coming from signals intelligence, they were reading their mail. human intelligence, on the ground with them. overhead intelligence that the -- the very different kinds of intelligence. im sure the warning at the embassy tonight and, in fact, thats what kind of piqued my interest. it told me uh-oh, they got the crosshairs on someone who is planning attack and where...

Eyes and ears that we were used to having for 20 years is certainly gone, and itll be the central challenge that the united states faces, is how do we track these radical islamist groups that are going to grow inside of afghanistan when we do not have any presence on the ground. after all, we not only lost the eyes and ears of afghan security forces, but its the afghan people themselves that provided significant human intelligence to us of what was taking place in their neighborhoods, in their d...

Taliban there in a little bit of a catch 22 in terms of going after and getting after the problem. pete: what youre saying in the urban environment where we expect another likely terror attack relying on our cia to be out there with her afghan partners the ones were actively quite honestly the train at the moment so human intelligence of where this could happen has got to be lacking. >> this is something that our military officials and others who work there intelligence and counterterrorism have...

Sticker i would be very wary about this. united states has very poor human intelligence. its not just true in afghanistan. its true around the world. the idea that we would rapidly identify and take out someone who was sort of crucial to what is causing us problems. im not a believer in conspiracy theories. i think the government really isnt smart enough to conduct conspiracies. but this is a lot like covering the posterior rather than something thats a strategic move. in fact, isis is something...

Counterterrorism missions despite not having boot on the ground for rigorous human intelligence. so we do know how to do this. it is imperfect, certainly, but this is what it looks like to wind down a 20-year war. 20 years ago we invaded afghanistan, critics of the president right now have no plans to dig ourselves out of this. this president made the high integrity decision to let afghans fight for afghanistan. it is messy. there needs to be an action review -- afteraction review to examine mis...