Welcome to the washington journal. Ina reminder, you can join on the conversation. Our focus is the issue of the wikileaks, privacy and security. Our phone lines are open. We welcome our listeners and viewers across the country and around the world. For those outside the u. S. Website,tching on our cspan. Org. And send us a tweet or join us on facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Good sunday morning to you. In onf you are weighing our Facebook Page and issue of your own privacy. The latest batch of wikileaks and National Security. Here are a few comments from our facebook. Com website. Versusks privacy security. If you do not do anything stupid or illegal, you have nothing to worry about. People listen in on my conversations they would be extremely bored. And this from francis, is the u. S. The only country being attacked in war by wikileaks . It is a war, isnt it . Or is it just that most people will take nor this. Send us your comments on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com space cspan. The headline on forbes, google and microsoft still waiting for wikileaks to deliver the cia hacking tools. It has been a few weeks a few days since Julian Assange promised to hand over hacker tools to tech giants. That pledge alleged leak of thousands of documents. While its altruistic while its altruistic move should protect from cyber attacks, Neither Company has received those tools. More details Available Online at forbes. Com. This past week, the fbi director traveled to the boston opposite he talked about the threat we are facing. We will get that. Country, all of us have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our homes, in our cars, in our devices. It is a vital part of being an american. The government cannot invade our privacy without good reason, reviewable in court. That is the heart of america. But it also means that with good reason revealed in court, the government through Law Enforcement can invade our private spaces. Orderedthe bargain of liberty. The most common example is that Law Enforcement has probable cause to believe that there is evidence of a crime in some you control whether that is your home, safe deposit box or car, Law Enforcement goes to a judge, makes a showing of probable a warrant. Ets and then, Law Enforcement can search wherever the judge told them they can search and they can seize whatever the judge has said they can seize. They can take it over the judge has permitted them to take. I do not mean to freak you out but this is true even our memories are not absolutely private america. Any of us can be compelled in appropriate circumstances to say what we remember, what we saw. Even our communications with our spouses, our clergy members, and our attorneys are not absolutely private in america. In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any of us to testify in court about those private communications. And they are important and there are important constraints on Law Enforcement as there should be but there is no such thing as absolute privacy in america. There is no place in america outside of additional reach. That is the bargain. Overe made that bargain two centuries ago to achieve two goals to achieve the important goal of privacy and security. Encryptiondefault changes that bargain. In my view, it shatters the market. Host from boston, the fbi director who met with fbi officials in massachusetts and again, the issue of your own privacy versus security and the latest batch of wikileaks. Our phone lines are open. On our Facebook Page at some of your comments including this one from mike that says the cia is there to protect the state and not the people. I see them no different from the cagey b. And jerry says we need privacy and security on the internet. Has issued aasse statement saying that Julian Assange needs to spend the rest of his life in jail. It is important to comment on the leaks. He should spend the rest of his life wearing an orange jumpsuit. He is an enemy of the American People and an ally of vladimir putin. His life work is endangering innocent lives, a betting despots and stoking a crisis of confidence in the west. Let us go to rob joining us from new york city. Good morning and thank you for cspan. For the life of me, i do not understand why our government is not able to ward off and protect techniques that we have available to us to sort out and we doubt and find criminals, terrorists, etc. I am very upset that these leaks have occurred. I would have thought that over the past few years, with all of this leaking going on, wikileaks, whatever, and snowed n, they would have stopped this from falling into the hands of our enemies. Host how should they had done that, rob . I am no i. T. Expert but you would think you would put the itxperts on the case is mindboggling that we have not put the tech experts on top of tech experts to protect this kind of information from falling into the hands of our enemies. I do not mind my privacy being invaded. I am a democrat. I know a lot of republicans might think that democrats automatically side on some liberal notion that all privacy at all costs but when you are talking about the leaking of these kinds of investigation techniques that we can use to stop the bad guys, stop the terrorists it is outrageous that we have not put these mechanisms into place to prevent this from happening. Host rob, thank you for your call. Join us onweet or facebook. The ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff issued this tweet the potus loved wikileaks when they were hurting clinton but hates them now. Says he isr consistent. Behind thisge is latest batch of leaked material. Speaking via skype, here is what he had to say. There is a lot more information on what has been going on with this program. Announce todayto what weer considering think is the best way to proceed and hearing these calls from some of the manufacturers, we have decided to work with them to give them some exclusive access to the additional Technical Details that we have so that fixes can be developed and pushed out so people can be secured. Once this material is us, byvely disarmed by removing critical components, we will publish Additional Details about what has been occurring. Host Julian Assange speaking to reporters last thursday on the latest from wikileaks. We are talking about Security Issues in your own privacy. This is clifford joining us from rockingham, North Carolina on the independent line. Good morning. I watching the news on cspan and i agree with most of the should bet think he in an orange jumpsuit for the rest of his life. Hurt the security of the united states. I think he has helped russia isr up a lot of bs and it kind of scary that our president felt that wikileaks is a good thing when it was hurting and clinton but now it shows support for donald trump and i get a little bit andous about donald trump the relationship, let us call it that, that he whacked that he has with russia. Host this is a headline from the washington post. Exposure of the cia hacking renews hacking tools the debate over Cyber Security versus National Security. That is what we are asking this sunday when. There is also this article from the slate agassiz. Messaging apps like signal. What does that mean . It says the cia and other Government Agencies can circumvent secity. Chief lorenzo hall, the technologist at the center for democracy says that kind of bulk surveillance we learned about through Edward Snowdens revelations is now more difficult to accomplish things to the proliferation of encryption. That story is online at slate. Com. Heaven is joining us from woodbridge, virginia. Good morning. A couple of comments about why this happens. We have to understand that first of all, this is the way the way that this works is that top secreto has a security clearances with certain caveats, it is a matter of trust. They call it special trust and confidence. When we have contractors who sign nondisclosure agreements, they are allowed to have access to these things and because we do not have a system that overlooks, if i might put it a bunch of have approvals for various things that is how these things get leaked. It is because some of these people have various viewpoints were various agendas. Aw, we could put in technological solution that would say if you want to download these particular types of files, you need to get approval. What that does is in a case where we really have to move fast, we have to wait on approvals and that takes time. And then all of a sudden, the thing that we want to use that for has passed. It comes back to the issue of special trust and confidence in those who use those tools. Have a special trust and confidence or if they have an agenda, then at that point i mean, unless we want to sacrifice speed for security, in the case of a National Security event, well, that is what we have. Host what is your background . I was in the military, and i will leave it at that. Host thank you. This is from darrell who says no matter how good you are in tech, there is always someone better. And this from michael deliveredprobably has these to the tech companies. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I would like to make two points. The problem with the fbi director is 11 days before the election, he had no problem releasing a letter that hurt hillary clan Hillary Clinton implying that an indictment was coming against her in the case of anthony weiner. He had no problem making the statement that hurt her campaign. He has been quiet. He knows if donald trump lied or not about calling to say that president obama bugged trump towers and yet he is quiet. Hillary it came to clinton, he had no problem opening his mouth then. My other point that i have with the religious right is that when bill clinton lied about monica lewinsky, they were all over him think he was an immoral president and he lies but they had no problem with President Trump continuously lying. He lies about president obama wiretapping trump tower. He lies about the crowd size at the inauguration. He lies one after the other. And they had the nerve to tell us that we are immoral what are we supposed to tell our children when we have a president that makes things up and lies at the drop of a hat. What kind of respectability what we have around the world . Host this is something from the New York Times what the cia Wikileaks Dump tells us that Encryption Works. If there is one lesson, it is that data scrambling and Encryption Works and the interest he should use more of it. And the industry should use more of it. Cia agents must go to Great Lengths to circumvent encryption that they cannot break. Manypresence is needed in cases to carry out these targeted attacks. If the u. S. Government wants to get your data, they can. Shattering earlier assumptions. This morning from New York Times. Com. Back to your calls, the issue of security versus privacy. It from el paso, texas on the republican line. The morning. Are all kinds of americans in every institution down, including military, intelligence, Law Enforcement. If they could sell their mother, they would. That would sell their own country out, should be shot. Many of the problems of the Intelligence Community is with the contractors. Do not want to do the polygraph. We have a situation here on the border, Border Patrol agents are being caught taking money from drug dealers, to let people in a passing illegal aliens. They are not able to do the polygraph. Now, they are talking about hiring new order patrols and they do not want to do the polygraph again. We do not seem to learn. And the contractors they should have gotten rid of them that them. Edward snowden, manning, and Julian Assange whoever has done this need to be shot. Ont wikileaks released cachey that massive c of data. Against the need to protect National Security. That is our focus on this sunday morning. Let us go to denny, it joining us from bluefield, west virginia. I have a couple of points to make. Corrupt asi has been far back as anyone can remember and they have been caught law. Tedly violating the blackmaileder people and encouraged Martin Luther king to commit suicide. To keep hime files in power for years the aunt the normal retirement age. They have shot several hundred 700 odd people over the years in investigations. The investigate the shootings themselves and low and behold, every single shooting was justified. They never once made a mistake. Second point, after 911, they expanded so rapidly into the surveillance zone that if you go to fort meade, the home of the nsa, nine out of every 10 employees are now private contractors. And they even subcontracted the process of giving people a security clearance. And the company that did it has since admitted that they were just rubberstamping security clearances. The authorities used to come around and check with your , aghbors, with your bank sure you were a reputable citizen that you endeavor bounced a check. They made really sure before they gave you a security clearance. After 911, they were giving them out like eminems. Ms. It is no wonder it is leaking like a sieve. John joininggo to us from wayne, illinois on the independent line. What is your take on all of this . Take some deep breaths and count to 10. I have often wondered for a long time how good people and intelligent people succumb to fear and propaganda. Whichcan it air at called therendt banality of evil. Chris hedges said that they vomited up hitler. Just calm down people and thank your lucky stars. Host the wall street journal also writing about this here is the headline. Authorities question the cia contractors in connection with the Wikileaks Dump. Going back to the earlier color with so many contractors. Thatxpectation is that could be one lead into this investigation. And there is this from woody that says wait until wikileaks releases trump tax records. During the campaign, donald trump said famously i love wikileaks. And when sean spicer was asked about it this last week you can imagine, he is extremely concerned about this, about these allegations and the potential that something, if this were true, would have on our National Security. Make no mistake about it the president has talked before that anyone who leaks classified information will be held to the highest degree of law. We will go after people and prosecute them. This is playing with our nations National Security. This should not be taken lightly. When it came to the campaign and Hillary Clinton, the president said i love wikileaks. There is a big difference between disclosing John PodestasGmail Account about a back and forth and his undermining of Hillary Clinton and his thoughts on her of a personal nature and the leaking of classified information. There is a massive difference. Occurredutrage that last year i a lot of democrats regarding leaks it is interesting that we are not hearing as much outrage. Host that was from sean spicer at the briefing this last week. Back to the wall street journal story. They are investigating a small group of private contractors. Probing those that may have links to the Central Intelligence agency. They may have been disgruntled job losses. Authorities on thursday questioned a handful of contractors working in at least two locations in the virginia suburbs of washington. Law enforcement Officials Saying that no arrests have been made that one person said that it was rapidly unfolding. That is more on the investigation of how all of this happened. We are asking you about your own security and privacy issues as well as National Security and what this means for the cia. Stella is joining us from worcester, massachusetts. You hear all of this concern about wikileaks, julie massage, and Edward Snowden and the leaking of this information. I have not heard one word about were hiredhers who exclusively by democrats who have held top security, top security clearances that have been accused of stealing secure government material, data, who have criminal backgrounds who had top security clearances. Working for the democrats. I have not heard one thing about that on any of these talkshows or any indepth investigations. These people made over 5 million of taxpayers money. They have gone back to pakistan with not even a care and i would like to know why. Host stella, thank you for the call. And forfor democrats are outside of the united states, we have a line. This is a tweet from one of our regular viewers one has to wonder why whistleblowers do not feel safe reporting to our government. Perhaps they do not feel safe in in in doing so. America is more vulnerable today than ever before. Let us go to tom joining us from rutland, vermont on the independent line. No one would even listen to them if our news media was not lying to us and keeping us in the dark. They treat us like mushrooms. They feed us craft and keep us us crap anded feed us. Reuters says cia contractors are likely the source of the latest wikileaks release. 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