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I know you took that to mean pakistan. >> yeah, western pakistan. they have got three bases out there. i don't know that but i looked at what the pakistani air force has in the west side there, western part of the country. and there are three bases that could have handled this. i don't know if these were the bases. i just think that we ought to hear from the u.s. government that the denial that they have any data that shows that this airplane would have landed there. now again, they wouldn't have got it necessarily at landing. they would have gotten it different ways and they have to go into t...

Critical condition. >> the bloody rampage at a u.s. navy yard last year could have been prevented. that is according to a new report. 12 people were killed when aaron alexis opened fire inside the building at the navy compound. a new release says the erratic behavior should have been a red flag to revoke the navy yard security clearance. chuck hagel says tsz time for change. >> i am directing the department to establish automated reviews of clear personnel that will continuously pull information, law enforcement and other relevant data bases. >> hagel said the report found quote troubling gaps...

They're looking for subcontractors. i contacted the centers for medicaid and medicare services which is in charge of developing the software, and they wouldn't release the list of some 55 subcontractors. the suspicion is that perhaps one of these subcontractors may be a u.s. subsidiary of a bela russian firm. the search is not done. so far they haven't found any malware but they've got a lot of code to be looking at. >> maybe -- we're not sure yet -- but maybe they did do this on purpose. what would the people from byelarus be able to get from our website? >> i talked to mike rogers, chairman ...

As a practical matter though, this program is on an 18-month life. i think it goes away in 18 months. >> when congress has to reauthorize. >> when it has to be reauthorized. so i think as a practical matter we're going to move to the model where the telecommunications companies hold on to their own data and use the period it takes congress to act or 18 months if we don't act to develop the technology at nsa to compare and talk to these data bases among providers. >> as a result of snowden disclosures that foreign governments now know more about what we're doing than they know about their own g...

Years to do this? >> it looks like there were three years for this. but -- the development really started only about eight, nine months ago. only eight, nine months to the develop this. and in hindsight the development should have started sooner. 15 a, 18 months to do this. a very complex system. because, finally because of the nature of the different, you know, legacy, data bases, legacy systems. you know, the -- the, you know -- the -- the systems from all of the defense states that are involved. it all takes a lot of time. eight months its aggressive. at the same time, i do thing it's -- th...