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>> good evening, everyone. so glad youre with us. im poppy harlow in tonight for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, faceoff, the justice department taking aim at trumps argument for a special master. today, announcing fbi agents have already sorted through those documents and weeded out any material that may be covered by attorney/client privilege. trumps team has argued much of the seized material contained presidential communications and therefore in their view is protected. the forme...

Of the nation in broad terms, and strong encryption is important to strong internet defense and will defend it is in our best interests. Within the broad framework of though the challenge we cant figure out is realizing that communication that the use by very law abiding citizens, nationstates and companies engage in lawful activity is also being used by criminals, terrorists, nationstates who attempted generate advanced against the United States advocates are allies and partners. So were trying...

Issc considered just as bad and make sure that that culture is incolcated throughout the force. I agree, but now the admiralt is assaulted by the telecoms who want to tie his hands behind his back by doing all of the encryption. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. In our state, naval surfers warfare, senator crane has taket the lead on much of our effortso to protect against the threat oe counterfeit electronics. And so secretary work and director clapper, the Global Supply chain f...

Well, it didnt affect a National Security entity but it did cause damage to a company. In that case and this is an important illustration of when we could attribute. Very clearly there was agreement across the Intelligence Community to attribute that attack to the north koreans, and we did sanction them. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chair. Gentlemen, thank you for your service and for joining us here today. And director clapper, before i start on ill begin to focus on...

Okay, thank you. My time has expired mr. Chairman, i just would like to pursue which at some point fiscal issue of trading because i think it has great bearing on what is allowed to happen. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Now recognize that children from north carolina, mr. Meadows, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Ms. Leonhart, youve been with dea for how many years . Thirtyfive. Thirtyfive years and as i understand it about five years in your current position . Since 2010. So you take this ...

Who was aware of these misconduct issues . Are you talking about the bogota incident . No. Im talking about, 2005 to 2009. That they were aware of . Highest ranking person. Probably a group supervisor. Did you have, did you have power to discipline on the level of the regional i candice minute the regional director. He is an sef. You could have fired him is that right . I couldnt, i couldnt fire him. You have to show misconduct for him to be fired. But, with what the law allows me to do with an ...

During this period . Part of the problem here and the frustration, i think, of the committee is that its taken so long because you had no policy to go up the chain of command. And so you can tell me, well this was 2003 and 2004, but i tell you if i was there, id want to know exactly what happened then so id make sure it wasnt happening now. One part of the investigation was to go through and audit and do just that. From that period . From that period . Yeah. To look at the books from that period...

To see what happened back in 20002003 in columbia, to see what happened in 2009 with the agent in bogota, fantasy cartagena and then to see cartagena. This is our opportunity to make sure that this culture there is no doubt that employees know that this is unacceptable and see what will happen to them. That is why firing the three employees, agents after cartagena sets the tone for what happens from here on. Mr. Meadows it might if it wasnt reinforced in other ways. You keep coming back to carta...

So effectively and so far. The other is there apocalyptic narrative. Of course, it is impossible for me to know for sure if they believe the end times are coming or whether they are capitalizing on widespread believe in muslim majority countries that they will witness the end of time. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. The head of the joint Enforcement Administration was on capitol hill last week to testify about allegations of Sexual Misconduct by dea agents overseas. This comes...

Him. From intercepts of Saudi Arabians discussing the plan. It raised the question of whether the Trump Administration was obligated to warn Jamal Khashoggi he was in danger from the saudi regime. There is no doubt now just how much danger khashoggi faced. He entered the saudi consulate in istanbul in turkey last week and has not been seen since. Hes a Saudi Arabian dissident who has been living in the United States in selfimposed exile and writing where the Washington Post. He left in order to ...