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Sunni, the describe fighterstribal fighters sunni, iraqi army forces inserted from the golden division basically traveling all around the country. the more elite of the iraqi army and the police force. so you really have five uncoordinated organizations attempting to defeat isis. you also have a weather problem, but you have to fight through that. you have an intelligence problem. a logistics concern. all of these things are some things that we saw even during my last tour there in 2008 that the...

And second jointly with those companies go to the congress and say this is not an intelligence problem. this is a problem of american culture. do you want to be secure? in which case we collect a lot of information about americans. or do you want to be living free or dying? and that is letting people do what they want to do online unless we get a clear indication that theyll commit an act of violence. basic question. >> so you think that the decision yesterday by the federal court to stop the ns...

They went alone. this is one of those cases the europeans are going to feel as if, boy, they blew it here. >> they did blow it. it just says a lot about the weakness of europe. europe is a major economic power, an economic bloc, but they have yet to organize that 28-nation system into a coherent political or diplomatic bloc. >> they rely on russian economic interests and gas in a way we dont so its harder for them to shut that off. there is no way this does not change the political -- >> this is...

Analyst. mike, let me start with you. this is your bailiwick here. is there any question that the russians -- that these russian separatists are behind this? >> we know exactly which team through the ball, we dont know which player did. russian system, russian weapon, did the russians actually fire it, were they assisting the separatists or did the separatists fire it. i think the overwhelming evidence is its the separatists, but that is the piece now that the intelligence community is really di...

Institution, and live with us this afternoon, this certainly does change the game, doesnt it? >> hey, shepard. well, yeah, this will change no matter what. we can all imagine different things that happened here. i still think, first of all, that youre right, we have a lot of information. although im not so sure that we immediately knew how to interpret it. you know, think back to benghazi. it took a few days at a minimum to sort that out. theres a lot of confusion there. a different kind of inte...

Detailing isis growing strength and its ambitions to take territory across iraq. those ambitions now a surprise, what was a surprise was how the iraqi military melted away and failed to defend vital territory. their victory laps have become daily events. isis militants parading through iraqi cities they have overrun, driving american-supplied humvees and trucks they have stolen. with the u.s. trained iraqi military being overpowered, president obama said hes now including options including milit...

Theres been a lot of talk about whether this was a surprise and clearly there were intelligence warnings out there for a number of months and about specific targets, baghdad and mosul. the one thing that im told that has been surprising was how quickly the iraqi military melted away. that is one thing that was is surprise. >> this is the u.s. intelligence community. >> yes. >> suggesting they knew weeks and weeks ago that isis was planning on moving in, not only to mosul but to baghdad itself? >...

>> you dont want iran to get involved, the south separated by the sunnis in the north many supporting isis. on the other hand, they actually overlap here. neither the u.s. or iran wants iraq to collapse. they want to empower the shias. >> let me get barbaras quick reaction. barbara, do you get the sense over there that the u.s. military was surprised by the collapse of the iraqi in the north around mosul and what is going on around baghdad? >> yeah. i think that the pentagon, like the rest of th...

We have a big problem comtemplating amnesty that he may have solid the data already. >> 1.7 million documents, is that possible? >> it is entirely possible. i dont underestimate how severe the intelligence problem is here. it is hard to stickulate. my instinct anyone who does this to the united states doesnt deserve amnesty to us. if we need to go through an expensive procedure to do the way we do things. i wouldnt give this guy air to broeth. >> we dont know where the documents are right now. h...

Its kind of standard operating procedure. >> when you were the director of national intelligence, lets say you went to paris, you went to rome, you went to madrid, did you have a cell phone that was -- included all your personal information? >> even as a diplomat, people were surveilling me. as director of national intelligence, i was capable of taking a lot of precautions. >> you just assumed that even friendly countries wanted to know what was going on. >> the basic assumption is that the adve...