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Attacked is nuclear power plants. so if they succeed in hacking the power plants it would be a very efficient way of threatening our government and achieving their goals. >> should america be prepared for north korea to try to break in to these types of agencies in america? >> translator: of course. even though the u.s. is one of the best prepared nations with u.s. cyber command, cyber attacks are hard to protect yourself from so they have to constantly be vigilant. >> reporter: if south korea i...

State among the nations. so the normal things that you would do as punishment, those arent available. president obama is said to be meeting with law enforcement, diplomats and the military in terms of how to come up with a response to what north korea may or may not have done, but the u.s. government is leaning towards saying they did it. one part of the military now is the u.s. cyber command, which is based at ft. ms. speaker e action d along with the nsa. we tend to think of cyber command as p...

Do you get google to put it on a website and they worry about being hacked. >> the u.s. has to take action. we have u.s. governments being hakd by multiple nations, including china and russia. when you think about u.s. citizens fighting and it is not their fight and the government has to take a stand when we have the revelation that the government of north korea is behind this. they have to take a stand. >> so what should the stand be. so there are sanctions. there is sanctions on north korea. w...

Current employees only need apply. >> yeah, so if youre unemployed, dont even bother. >> dont bother. if you dont have a job, they dont want you to even apply. >> this will be a welcome change, if these companies follow through with this promise. >> and if its more than just symbolic. 7 minutes after the hour. this morning president obama is a step closer to having a new leader for the nsa. his pick is vice admiral michael rogers, who if confirmed, would also head up the u.s. cyber command. ro...

From many inside the intelligence community while civil liberties groups are applauding the 46 recommendations made in the report. so far the president has only weighed in on one of the changes, rejecting a call for the nsa to have a separate leader from the pentagons u.s. cyber command, possibly a civilian. in an interview, senator rand paul said the report is a sign the agency needs to be reined in. it went all to call for the resignation of national intelligence director james clapper. >> tha...

And the longer you serve in a position like that, the more power you acquire. in addition to that, hes been given enormous more responsibility than anybody else has been given because he runs not only the most secret and largest intelligence agency in the world, but also he runs the cyber command. hes a four-star general. nobodys ever been head of the nsa thats been four stars before. the highest you can go in the military. and now he runs a cyber command which is this enormous organization dedi...

Hes one of the most powerful men in the entire u.s. government, and until just two short weeks ago, you probably never heard of him. a man that controls huge swaths of the governments security and intelligence apparatus, whos managed up until now to be a shadow. at this very moment, he is. the director of the nsa, the chief of the central security service, and the commander of the u.s. cyber command. along with those three titles comes control over the navys tenth fleet. the 24th air force. and ...

These issues. or not even confused. theyre ambivalent. theyre strongly pro-choice. they support roe v. wade. theyre also uncomfortable with abortions -- >> third trimester. >> end of the second and beginning of the third trimester. so the plan here is to essentially try to replace the viability standard. >> and start marching it backwards. >> time. >> and start marching it backwards and use the idea of fetal pain as a kind of new substitute scientific standard which will allow them, again, to ki...

The obama administration to head the newly created u.s. cyber command. much in the same way that j. edgar hoover built a power base in the fbi independent of the presidents he worked for, keith alexander has risen over the past decade, over two presidents, a republican and democrat, to command an awesome arsenal of power with very, very little public notice or oversight. joining me now, nsa historian james bamford, author of the book "the shadow factory." also author of a new piece on wire.com a...

Of democratic accountability for the status quo, that kind of democratic support for the status quo is absent in the political calculations. >> yes and no. it is complicated on later abortions. so people are confused about these issues. or not even confused. theyre ambivalent. theyre strongly pro-choice. they support roe v. wade. theyre also uncomfortable with abortions -- >> third trimester. >> end of the second and beginning of the third trimester. so the plan here is to essentially try to rep...