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World is that they are getting bolder and theyre getting better. >> theyve certainly shown the capability to do this. kyung, its hard to independently verify this information but the defector you spoke with has documents to back up his claims, right? >> reporter: yes. those documents are financial documents. weird and eerie because we got to see hundreds and thousands of personal accounts, accounts he says he got directly from someone who works inside bureau 121. >> kyung lah, fascinating work. ...

Up his claims, right? >> reporter: yes. those documents are financial documents. weird and eerie because we got to see hundreds and thousands of personal accounts, accounts he says he got directly from someone who works inside bureau 121. >> kyung lah, fascinating work. turning to former fbi official sean henry who spearheaded the division and martin williams, founder of northkoreatech.org. thats some information the way the hackers got in by getting someones information from sony. maybe a syste...

Fired, particularly if they were system administrators because oftentimes these companies are lax and dont terminate their password. they are disgruntled but have complete access, the keys to the kingdom and go about getting even with the company that fired them. you could have that here. >> david, you were a speechwriter for the bush administration. you were one of those guys who helped coin that phrase, axis of evil and that included -- >> north korea. your excellence, to introduce the segment...

They are trying to get away from this whole idea of using systems administrators like snowden to do a lot of these jobs. in fact, the director of the national security agency recently announced that they are accelerating plans to really move a lot of this work on to computers. >> what were in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing our system administrators by about 90%. for the first reason, which was to make our networks more defensible and more secure. >> to put that in perspective...

They are trying to get away from this whole idea of using systems administrators like snowden to do a lot of these jobs. in fact, the director of the national security agency recently announced that they are accelerating plans to really move a lot of this work on to computers. >> what were in the process of doing, not fast enough, is reducing our system administrators by about 90%. for the first reason, which was to make our networks more defensible and more secure. >> to put that in perspective...

>> i cant even believe im laughing, but, im sorry, when you put it all together. all right, to be fair, to your point, booz allen didnt decide the security clearance. that actually was left to another contractor, usis, theyre under grnd jury investigation. but i guess the bigger question here is the government doing anything to wean itself off of what is frightening dependency on contractors? >> the no just wean itself off contractors, wean itself off people. they are trying to get away from thi...

Answer the question holding her in contempt of tcongress. i think that would be appropriate. >> the new fox news poll finds 59 percent of americans believe the irs scandal is serious. about half as many say its a phony scandal. >> peter doocy live in washington, thanks. a dramatic step to keep people from leaking classified documents. the agency ace director announced it will rely on machines rather than people to keep that information classified. listen. >> what we are in the process of doing...

General keith alexander today saying they are taking this dramatic step of cutting down nearly 1,000 system administrators employed by his agency or hired as contractors to avoid the snowden-type access. 1,000 people. >> we dont know if that would help. the problem is we know so little about how snowden was able to throw this entire thing on its ear and contractors versus regular government employees with security clearances. we dont know that tossing out 1,000 employees will make a difference t...