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You i ask that you answer based on open source information available to the general public, and also your understanding of the law of war is a graduate of west point and your service as an officer in the u.s. army. first of all, your understanding of the officer in a u.s. army, is military targeting of civilians a violation of the law of war? >> senator, intentional targeting of civilians is absolutely a violation of law of war. >> based on open sources and information available to the american ...

So he ordered the air force to bomb the checken capital of grozny. they hit hospitals, outdoor markets. they used thermobaric and explosive and burned the air breathed in by people hiding in basements. they used cluster munitions. he used battlefield weapons against civilians. when it was all said and done an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed and the city was completely destroyed. by the way, there is credible body of reporting, open source and other that this was all those bombings were p...

Closed hearing later today. so the questions im about to ask you, i ask that you answer based on open source information available to the general understanding and your understanding of the law of war as a graduate of west point and your services as an officer in the u.s. army. first, your understanding as an officer of the u.s. army, is military targeting of civilians a violation of the law of war? >> senator, intentional targeting the civilians is absolutely a violation of the law of war. >> b...

By the way, there is credible body of reporting, open source and other that this was all those bombings were part of a black flag operation on the part of the fsb. and if you want to know the motivation, here is what it is. putins approval ratings before the attacks against the checkens was 31%. by mid-august of that year it was 78% in just three months. so based on all this information, and what is publicly in the record about what has happened in aleppo and the russian military, you are still ...

To me, senator. >> again, all of the answers you just gave are based on open source is unclassified. >> yes, sir. >> the second question i have, and i think youve artie said that you accept this as a fact, that there is indeed an effort by russian intelligence and others associated with the russian government to so, to conduct a campaign of active measures in the united states designed to so doubt about the credibility of our elections and our democracy, to sew divisions and chaos in our politic...

He used battlefield weapons against civilians. when it was all said and done, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed and the city destroyed. it was an incredible body of reporting, open source and other, that all those bombings were part of a black flag operation on the part of the fsb, and if you want to know the motivation, putins approval ratings before the attacks against the chechens was at 31%. by mid-august of that year, it was at 78%, in just three months. based on all this informati...

Label out there that hurt the chances of doing that. thats why i think its important. but heres the last reason. you gave the need for a lot more information in order to comment on some of these. and believe me, i understand that. its a big world, theres a lot of topics. these were not obscure areas. i can tell you, number one the questions i asked did not require special information we have. all these sources were built on voluminous open source reporting, rights groups, the leaders sometimes t...

When it was all said and done, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed. and the city was completely destroyed. by the way, theres credible body of reporting open source and other, that this was all -- all those bombings were part of a black flag operation on the part of the fsb and, if you want to know the motivation. putins approval ratings before the attacks were at 31%. by mid-august of that year, it was at 78% in just three months. so baseod all this information and whats publicly in the ...

2016 to influence future efforts in the united states and u.s. allies abroad. so as we pointed out last hour, many analysts are questioning the report for being a little bit long on conclusions and short on facts. "the new york times" max fisher writes this dni report is so odd, i worry it will end up undermining facts that are already established by open source methods. and dan dressner tweeted this weekend i think it requires the reared to trust the intelligence agencies and we are now in a lo...

>> anthony: whats clear is the way china claims things are and social media and access information and the way they actually are, two different things. meet thomas yeo. hacker, entrepreneur. he recently received star up money to build what he called an open source project to share platforms to connect chinese students with the world. >> anthony: when you say hacking, whats -- what do you do when you hack? whats the intent? >> actually, it starts from mit. if you go to the computer science of art...