Page 598 - Open Source News Today

Freezes so is a whole introduction to getting special fired kiltered wood and splitting the wood and six hours before and putting it on the wood stove and drying it. >> how are you on wood? good for wood? >> we are. this place is like open source. if you need, like, for example today, this woman came in with a donation of about a hundred bundles and i saw her and her kids unloading. i said could i help? at the end i said do you mind if i take a bundle? she said, go right ahead. >> reporter: ever...

Here is the bottom line. the u.s. military does not discuss the precise specifics of the time frames of launching nuclear weapons. that, by all accounts, is extremely classified. and if you know information to be classified and youre a government official, even if its in the open source, even if its on the internet, you are not supposed to disclose it. could somebody be prosecuted for it? who knows. thats, you know -- this is one of these constant questions in washington nowadays. whats classifi...

Throughout the world, more so than most people realize. and for something like this this is less a case at looking ahead of time at the open source. that tends to come afterward with the reactions. for the case of jihadi john, for example, isis themselves coming out on twitter and their own websites to confirm his death is one of the factors, one of the ways the pentagon will do that versus on the ground human intelligence. there is dark web chatter as well. theres human intelligence. theyve bec...

Stadium say when the first explosion happened, they didnt know what was going on and they were on twitter, falli followin attacks all over the city. and how do police tell what the real threats are? >> thats the problem. how do you navigate what is an open source. and you have a very difficult time verifying who this person is and where theyre talking from. certainly in real time its almost impossible. we sift through these claims in the course of hours, thats not something police have the time ...

Out, as you might imagine, and as you well know, that the intelligence we got after an attack like this in the fog of war, initially you believe one thing and then get more information and you understand something better and then you get more and you understand still something better. we were briefed by the director of the cia at the time -- wish he were here today -- and in the beginning we got it wrong. and ive looked through. and in that initial intelligence, within a few hours, there were so...

Spin what happened. and they have neglected to point out as you might imagine and as you well know that the intelligence we got after attacked like this in the fog of war, initially you believe one thing and then you get more information, you understand something better and then you get more and understand still something better. and we were briefed by the director of the cia at the time, wish he were here today, and understand it kept evolving. and in the beginning we got it wrong. and ive look...

Question about that. look these guys work really hard. our intelligence communities are very very good. they have got to be right every day 100% of the time. the bad guy only have to be right once. if they do it enough chances are theyre going to barack through -- are theyre going to break through. they get every chance to tamp them down. >> were the foiled plots imminent? >> some were. some were quite imminent. >> within days? >> within days. there was one of course one that was within hours or...

Opened the door foot for the program set to expire on june 1. what do you think needs to happen now? >> were going to be taking up that legislation in copping.ngress. theres a number of different proposals. one thing that came out of this hearing is understanding exactly how the online social medias used. first the connection is made. thats open source. once the members of isis or these other terrorist groups find committed jihadists that are willing to be recruited, they move offline to encrypt...

And now to a disturbing development in the fight with isis. the islamic terrorist group post add list of 100 u.s. military personnel along with pictures and addresses and a call for followers to find them and kill them. the pentagon says its mostly a scare tactic and is trying to determine who exactly is behind the posting but the pentagon says as of this morning officials reached out to everyone on that list urging them to exercise caution. with me now ambassador mark ginsburg former white hous...

Intelligence from open source and public information. its a problem. its items that people, especially soldiers, need to take a look at for their own protection of them and their families. >> how readily available. lieutenant colonel reese on the phone from baghdad. thank you for your input. we appreciate it. >> youre welcome. have a great day. >> you, too. before we go today, we have this march madness moment we have for you. the clock struck midnight for georgia state. >> the pap thers becam...