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Our values. the task force now brings together across the waterfront of fbi expertise. so were talking counterintelligence, cyber, criminal, and even counterterrorism. designed to root out and respond to foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operations have encompassed a wide range of activities. so just like we have a multidisciplinary response, thats because the threat is multidisciplinary. so just a few examples of some of the things weve seen over the past. ...

Of fbi expertise who were talking counterintelligence, cyber, criminal and even counter terrorism, designed to root out and respond to foreign influence operations. for their part, our adversaries influence operation have encompassed a wide range of activities. just like we have a multidisciplinary response, thats because the threat is multidisciplinary. just a few examples of some of the things weve seen over the past, targeting u.s. officials and other u.s. persons through traditional intellig...

>> mr. director, its willie geist, good to see you. the president is calling this spygate. he believes the president infiltrated his campaign to spy on him, you say it was to see how russia may be influencing the russians. you said the other day that they were spying on, a term i dont particularly like. whats a spy? whats an informant? whats the distinction for you. >> for me -- everybody has their own narrative on this as you well know, but for me if youre going to use the term spy which i neve...

Them, the unwitting part is interesting because i wonder if they realize they were maybe being played or used or manipulated by force thats they werent even aware of. >> right. i mean it is a part -- part of intelligence trade craft is to essentially get people to do what you want them to do without them not necessarily knowing it. i do think that it becomes harder to suggest that people werent doing it knowingly when you start getting into things like accepting financial transactions and paymen...

>> right. i mean it is a part -- part of intelligence trade craft is to essentially get people to do what you want them to do without them not necessarily knowing it. i do think that it becomes harder to suggest that people werent doing it knowingly when you start getting into things like accepting financial transactions and payments. and this is where you see some of the financial issues with paul manifort. they do have a relationship with the counter intelligence aspect to the investigation. >...

Of the implications that it helder if other agencies running the software or contractors or employees might have it at home and the kind of school tools and the computer code the nsa uses to spy on other countries. i mean, if you like, analogize them to the tools for spying or the methods for spying. when this kind of thing gets into an adversarys hands, it tells them how to defend their networks to gain information from them and potentially to take the tools and use them against other countries...

Against other countries, maybe even against us. its the kind of thing that you protect as a basic element of intelligence trade craft. >> yeah. the sort of thing you want only theres an enthusiastic, unified aware whole of government approach toward recognizing that threat, defending against it and honest with the american people of the seriousness of the intent behind this kind of attack and i will not ask you to comment on that because you dont deserve it. shane harris, national security repor...