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Usually a period of many months, where youre getting -- whether its intelligence from our agencies, maybe youre digging through their trash or conducting physical surveillance, youre gathering a lot of information in order to show a court that theres probable cause to believe that as jeffrey said, this person is knowingly acting on behalf of a foreign power and engaging in clandestine intelligence activity. so they are -- they are looking like they are spying on behalf of this foreign government...

Activities. that is a big freaking deal. i have no idea what that intelligence source is but that is a big deal. and it is remarkable, honestly, that the washington post has been able to report that. the nature of the source of the intelligence and the danger of the source of the intelligence must be in, if that source is a human source. that is just palpable, right. how do you think putin reacted to reading this in the washington post today? the sensitivity of the united states having the intel...

Source knows what theyre talking about and can we get another source to confirm it? second problem we got, if this is a human source that has direct access to vladimir putin, how do you protect him so hes not shot by the former kgb? >> there was the other issue that came up and the article mentions that there were political reasons. the president, president obama, like everyone else, almost, assumed hillary clinton was going to win the election and they would be able to deal with this with her. ...

Homeland security secretary john kelly blasting those leaks playing the whit plaguinge okay these leaks also be putting american lives at risk. lets ask garner berntsen. gary, people died because of these leaks. >> let me ask you this. when you have a leak, if the information began with human source that person can be at risk. also understands there is a big argument out there, politically people are talking across all the networks and saying these leaks are going to cost american lives because ...

In a situation where countries might not want to share information with us anymore and that could put us in danger, you say you wouldnt go that far. >> if there is a leak of intelligence information attributable to a human source it could put that source at risk for the truth is a lot of people save the theory that information being leaked other governments wont share with us but the truth is other governments there not share with us, the cia is an intelligent superpower with massive programs gl...

Officers are obviously upset. in fact, they stand to lose access or a source. maybe indeed worse, in terms of where things are. >> could it endanger lives? >> the bigger question is how it affects a lot of other people who cooperate with us on intelligence matters. the u.s. will have to find a way to reassure them that, in fact, it is not going to play fast and loose with the valuable information they share with us. >> could it endanger lives? >> well, i think it could because daesh, isis, is no...

The really interesting questions, were the russians going to be able to, from the information, provide it, including reports that he is able to identify a city that was the source of the information as well as the information themselves. were the russians going to be able to determine where it came from and what the sources and methods were in using it. and thats the vulnerability. it comes from our ally israel, according to press reports, which puts our relationship with israel under more tensi...

Then use their knowledge and their other resources to reverse engineer the information. its not certain, though, theyll be able to do this. but it is very possible. and let me tell you how this works because ive watched the russians do it before. it russians may identify, for example, if its a human source who that human source is, approach that human source and say, look, we know you are working for x country or whatever, youre spying on isis. well, were going to compmizia to isis and youll bed...

That? well, it could compromise the source of information, so that source could dry up or go away, or if its a human source, it could be worse. if the source is a sister intelligence agency of a friendly country, that country could decide it cant trust the united states with information, or worse, that it cant trust the president of the united states with information. that obviously has very serious repercussio repercussions, and particularly if were talking about information about a threat to a...

Human source could be fed all kinds of information that may not be true, or it will be true enough but there will be a detail that will endanger operatives. it would endanger potential operations against isis. >> reporter: the russians could also feed fake information into vital communications intercepts, so yetly changing the overall picture for the u.s. of terror-plotting. its not clear if president trump knew the sensitivity of sharing another countrys intelligence. >> the president wasnt eve...