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The ability to oversee them budget them and understand both future and proposed intelligence operations. the problem is, wolf, it doesnt exist. im going to encourage the germans to understand fully what the german intelligence services are doing today. and that means to u.s. personnel, it means to personnel around the world, and by the way, i dont think thats a problem. i understand it. and so again, thats why i think this is so important. do you want to the have the an adult relationship as we ...

The staffers on her committee and potentially shutting down their investigation of these techniques. >> now senator mark udall, who is a member of the senate intelligence committee, he had voiced his concerns on "now with alex wagner." watch. this. >> there are a lot of smart, dedicated patriotic americans who protect us through our intelligence operations. but there has to be confidence that the cia also respects the balance of powers and the separation of powers. and that respect has not been ...

To the west was too much for putin. he has a stance, kind of a fanciful idea, he can build a our ray shan union to be a counter-point to the european union. he knows it would be impossible without ukraine. >> what does he plan for ukraine? it appears crimea is under his control. there would be a referendum so the de facto authority is then bolstered by some kind of de jour authority. is he presumably going to try to influence the rest of ukraine through various kinds of intelligence operations, ...

Americans, not just of our own citizens, but of people around the world, as well. thats a commitment, by the way, thats fairly unprecedented in terms of any countrys intelligence operations. and what we have said is that we are putting rules in place so that were not engaging in what some of the speculation has been when it comes to ordinary citizens in france. we are respectful of their privacy rights. and we are going to make sure that our rules are abiding by concerns about those privacy righ...

Years old, he was a computer systems administrator for booze alan hamilton for the national security agency. in the months that followed, he continued to leak information about americas intelligence gathering operations, explosive secrets, secrets about how the nsa may have broken federal privacy laws, misled the courts overseeing intelligence operations, the director of national intelligence seemed to mislead congress in this exchange with oregon senator ron widen in march of last year. >> does...

Intelligence operations, to compromise agents in the field, theyre going to do a deal with him. as distasteful as it is, they may have to. prosecutors every day offer immunity to organized crime people to get another person and to save something. you know, something, thats what theyre looking at right now. >> paul callan and buck sexton. thank you very much. fascinating discussion. well see where it goes next, where he goes next. now this. recent turmoil in north korea has not put a kink in de...

In effect, the white house acknowledging there is over reach in nsa surveillance and words we will ensure to collect information because we need it and not just because we can. clearly, the president is saying i want you to limit this in someway. >> the"the washington post" say there is revelations to come. >> what is crucial here, corporation on intelligence with some of our friends who are not publicly allied with the u.s. so its not the europeans but countries where its arguably going to be m...

They might involve vehicles that look like this. keep your guard up. thats all you can do. they are trying to step up in africa and the horn of africa. they did already have an operation there. the s.e.a.l.s traditionally trained the yemeni counterterrorism forces. if its horn of africa, its probably a naval s.e.a.l. operation. but the u.s. armys delta force, which is based at ft. bragg, got a new assignment roughly a year ago to start tracking al qaeda in north africa so that as al qaeda starts...

Since its inception. >> reporter: the former vice president says when you are telling the american public you are also revealing it to terrorists so there are reasons for secrecy for intelligence operations. he took us back to 9/11. >> when we set this program up in the weeks after 01 we briefed ranking members of congress. we did it in my office in the west wing. we gave them the layout of what we were doing and what we were learning from it. eventually we did it for the elected the leadership,...

But whether this will be just as successful is hard to know. >> from our reporting now, it is to totally unclear. he may have checked out of his hotel and may be on the run again. >> china, above all, wants to know how our intelligence operations work p.m. so much sing directed against china. he someone that could be very valuable to the chinese. >> funny how that happened on the very day that the president here meeting with -- >> as if they didnt have enough to talk about. >> so angry about the...