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Has its suspicions. tonight north and south korean military officials meeting for fresh talks at panmunjeom on aimed at reducing tensions just as satellite imagery shows north korea could be building new liquid fueled ballistic missiles according to the "washington post." this despite the trump administrations hope that north korea would give up its nuclear weapons following the singapore summit. for intelligence analysts, the critical question is what has north korea been up to in the weeks sin...

Himself could be releasing material that intelligence analysts assessed and havent yet released to the public. either the president is breaching intelligence protocols, putting out material that should not be public at this point according to the intelligence community, or the president is just making stuff up to try to troll the public and be funny. either way, it just goes to the broader credibility crisis that this white house has had ever since he was inaugurated. >> on a serious point, beli...

At this point if they wont come to the table there is no reason for the president to go over there. >> sandra: any further communication since north korea released the statement last night. the president seems to think it was warm and productive. >> i wont get into any conversations between our intelligence analysts and our state department with foreign governments at this point. i can just tell you where we are at this moment. we dont have plans to go over there right now. but if that should ch...

Found a little more than a year ago. i will add there as well that, yes, the intelligence chiefs who were in charge at the time and signed off in effect on that assessment were political appointees. but, remember, it was career intelligence professionals, intelligence analysts that prepared that report, analyzed the intelligence, et cetera. so its -- you know, if the argument that its a political argument that is contestable by the fact that many career professionals took part in bringing that r...

But knows the clear parameters. and just how far intelligence officers, intelligence analysts and intelligence operatives should go when it comes to informing policy. >> but, ned, haspel has been linked to the cia destruction of interrogation tapes that documented harsh interrogations of at least two al qaeda suspects in cia detention, the destruction ordered by the head of the clandestine service. haspel, his chief of staff at the time. is this something that could perhaps pose a problem for he...

Sight unseen, the intelligence community is going to be more sparing in what it actually provides to the oversight committees knowing that their information could just go wholesale be made public. and similarly, i think were going to see intelligence analysts and intelligence officials think twice or even three times before they do what used to be routine. submit fisa applications, unmask the identity of terrorists and other spies and others. and the implications of that are profound for our nat...

Congress ability to conduct its critical oversight role. by releasing the nunes memo sight unseen, the intelligence community is going to be more sparing in whatting it actually provides to the oversight committees knowing that their information could just go wholesale be made public. and similarly, i think were going to see intelligence analysts and intelligence officials this twice or even three times before they do what used to be routine. submit fisa applications, unmask the identity of terr...

Committee? >> well, look, chris, this is not the first time that weve seen partisan squabbles within the intelligence community. weve never seen the intensity like this before. all commit has essentially broken down within the house. the senate seems to be doing much better but the house has come to a standstill. my worry is that there there be tremendous implications for congress ability to conduct its critical oversight role. by releasing the nunes memo sight unseen, the intelligence community...

We do know that a very well known military charity, the fisher house foundation, very quickly as they did in 2013 shutdown stepped in and said they would volunteer to cover the payments to help the families out. a short time ago, the fisher house told me they havent even heard from the pentagon yet, though they have made this offer. so whether or not the shutdown is lifted and certainly everyone hopes it is, there has been serious impact on the u.s. military. some of the -- and it has been worki...

They say from published pictures of iranian iran makes nine valv. you know, i think when you see a picture of a missile thats from north korea, from the u.s. side or the iranian side, their entire -- not armies but teams of intelligence analysts that pore over these documents. when they find material in the field, whether fully exploded or partly exploded, they try to match that up. theyre open to having outside experts come in and subject this to scrutiny. they think they have evidence on four ...