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With that, mike, im certain that with your experience specifically with your involvement in the house select committee, benghazi, you understand how valuable intelligence can be to oversight. if asked by the committee, will you provide the raw intelligence and sourcing behind agency finished products and assessments if, in fact, this committee needs it to complete its job? >> it senator, i have been on the other side of this and i know how central it is to make sure you have all that you need to...

Not longer. as you look at all of that, in your personal opinion, is vladimir putin and the russians looking at all of this and saying, we have done a really good job of creating chaos, division, instability in the american political process? >> senator, you put a lot into that but let me try to unpack it just a touch. i certainly want to make sure i talk only about my observations and judgments based on unclassified information, but i have no doubt that the discourse that has been taking place ...

Of time talking about how we handle encrypted devices for americans and for encryption here in the united states. my effort will be to understand it more fully, to make sure that i understand its impact on my role to keep america safe. and to work alongside you to develop a set of policies that achieve that goal while still achieving all of the goals that we have here in america. >> and spending some time in the house intelligence, seeing the relationship between the dni and the cia, what do you...

Using subpoena power, classified evidence, as well as open source information. and it ought to be as quick as possible. >> so you think it should look at the conduct and the motive, but not the financial questions? >> the financial question is a subject that ought to be investigated, but perhaps not as a part of this particular investigation. the reason is that were talking here about criminality on the part of russia and the need for a better policy to deter and defend against this kind of cybe...

>> well, its the u.s. and the western and the rest of the worlds response. ukrainian officials have constantly said they want to see the world talk with a united voice, one voice to president putin because it is absolutely clear that president putin has significant influence over those separatist rebels or at the very least, and at the very least significant influence over his own military closing that border. so what has happened over the last weekend is that many of the european leaders have s...

Puzzle palace. joining me now is journalist james bamford, author of three books on the nsa, including the most recent, "the shadow factory: the nsa are from 9/11 to the eavesdropping on america." thanks so much for being here. >> my pleasure, mara. >> few people outside of the nsa understand the agency better than you. can you describe some of its operations, the scale of what happens there? >> sure. its a mammoth agency. the largest intelligence agency on earth. and its job is to collect intel...

Up. now, in my opinion, he like bradley manning should face the consequences of what theyre accused of doing. >> now, since this came out, all this information and information about edward snowden, i have since learned of the number of private contractors who have access in some form or fashion to government information. do you think that thats a big part of the problem here, that there are too many people who shouldnt have access to that information, that can get it in one way or another? >> we...

9/11 commission report. where that pocket of the u.s. intelligence community had information derived from sensitive sources about two would-be plotters. in this case, though, it just wasnt shared with others such as i.n.s., state department or the ncis/fbi team conducting the cole investigation. >> well, it seems like a tremendous amount of information. were talking about this phone records tracking. its the phone records of everyone who is a verizon customer that we know about, and maybe theres...

Discussed, we really liked this kind of information because of the potential. and again, whats been discussed publicly about the program where you have the metadata that may represent an electronic footprint, somewhere, say, central asia to an unknown entity in north america. thats the kind of information that can produce leads and investigations and operations to disrupt acts. >> now, can you get that information in other ways that dont present these questions about breaches of privacy? >> abso...

Report for later use? >> the difference is that our constitution protects personal information. and the more personal the information, the greater the constitutional protections. and for hundreds of years we have had a standard in place in the united states, and that is probable cause to engage in an intrusive search. yet under this bill the standard would be much, much, much lower. essentially the standard would be little more than a hunch, which is not the right constitutional standard, and it...