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Center. >> the murphys had a box that we used to call tradecraft box, essentially a shoe box with all of their gear in it. and that made it very convenient for us. we would go there on the entries and find their notes and find their disks within this trade craft box. >> we copied anything that we thought would be of intelligence value. photographs were made of documents, files. any type of computer or electronic equipment was copied so that it could be reviewed in greater detail later. >> the mu...

One woman who receives an award cant contain her emotions on stage. kims missile test may have fallen short on reentry. analysts say this public awards ceremony was designed to project success to his people and send a message. >> it was to provoke the world and consolidate the image of north korea as a true nuclear power that emerged victoriously out of this long standoff. >> reporter: kim may not have realized this may have intelligence value for his rivals. analyst who consults about north kor...

>> senator, do you think that there are republican senators who have been trying to help out the administration here or do you think theyve conducted themselves in an ethical way in the hearings you saw yesterday and what do you expect from them today? >> its my hope that we will work together on a bipartisan basis to now move to russia sanctions. russia has paid absolutely nothing for its meddling in our election. im alarmed by suggestions that the trump administration may return to russia the ...

Court was comfortable with. and they also granted us authority for the 17 section 702 efforts. >> reported to the court that they initially came to you -- >> i went to the court and so we had an issue >> and the court agreed. and i got held up and went to the process of review on the court is now signed off on the other 16? >> that is correct. >> how does this harm your collection capabilities to not be able to do that? >> i acknowledge that in doing this, we are going to lose some intelligence ...

Harm to individuals, we report it, other than that, unless there is a valid intelligence purpose depending on the authority and the case of 702 we specifically purge the data. we remove it. we dont put it in to our holdings. if we dont assess its intelligence value and its a u.s. person, we have to purge the data. >> thank you for that. vice chairman? >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i indicated ive got questions on another matters and director coats and admiral rogers, theyll mostly be directed t...

Court was comfortable with. the court authorized us to execute that solution and also then granted us authority for the 17, 6702 effort. >> so you reported initially to the court this is an issue or the court initially came to you and said we have an issue. >> i went to the court and said we have an issue. >> the court said we agree, we have a problem, as well. >> then it got held up, went through the process of review. the court is now signed off on the other 16. >> thats correct how does this ...

Department of justice, and by march we came to a solution that the court was comfortable, we executed that solution and they granted us authority for the 702 effort. >> so the court initially came to you and said we have an issue. >> i went to the court and said we have an issue. >> and the court said that we have an issue as well. >> correct. >> and it went through the process of review and now theyre signed off on the other 16. >> correct. >> how does this harm your collection capabilities? >>...

Security adviser, susan rice, might ask for those identities to be unmasked so she can understand the intelligence value of that conversation. makes sense to me. >> and its something you referred to in the past as attempt as criminalization of routine intelligence gathering. >> right. and this example kind of stands out that if this were one of those cases where she asked for unmasking, she would be derelict in her duty if she didnt try to find out more. >> okay. let me try and be generous towar...

The fbis lap. then the question is the discussions that happened in trying to determine what the intelligence value of that document is. what we learned is that by august, they had determined that it was unreliable, that it is not something that should have been counted on in any way because unreliable is a fairly straight assessment of the lack of reliability of the information therein. we found out several months later this was part of the explanation for why he made the decision in early july...

Aware that the intelligence value of it was unreliable. so in early july, did they believe it was reliable and that was influenced their decision as it was prernlted in "the new york times" article, or was this just explains as a decision making factor to us later on because, again, the public only became aware of it in april. was it used to explain after already knowing it was unreliable as justification for a decision that had been made. the question is, is it the fbi kind of got duped by some...