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Running an espionage operation, is not the same as getting the policy approval for a covert action. which is a policy measure. the e because this was presented as a malter of intelligence collection,it circumvented the usual covert action approval procedures and circumvented the secretary of state. >> did it go through the proper procedures for being an intelligence collection measure? >> those procedures are really very simple. it's that the intelligence agency decides it wants to do it. if it's important enough, it asks the president for permission. he asked the c.i.a. one, is this effective...

Approval for doing an intelligence collection like running an espionage operation is not the same as getting the policy approval for a covert action which is a policy measure. because this was presented as a matters of intelligence collection it circumvented the usual covert action approveal procedures and circumvented the secretary of state. >> did go through the proper procedures for being an intelligence collection measure? >> those procedures are very simple. the intelligence agency decides it wants to do it and if it thinks it's important enough it asks the president for permission. that'...

To the state department. there's this one very damning line in the torture report where, basically, an tern e internal c.i.a. memo it says the white house says that colin powell should not be briefed about these things. he'll blow his stack if he is briefed. is it your sense that the state department department have the opportunity to opt out of knowing this information in the same way that other senior people of the administration did? >> that's fair. there e there's a technical point e point that is missed a little bit in senator finestein's regulation when she talks about covert actions. th...

The man got rid of a backpack, fireworks and laptop computer after seeing fbi images of tsarnaev. his lawyer says his client's roommate removed those items. >> reuters is reporting the cia was involved in a espionage operation against germany that led to the arrest of a german man last week. the 31-year-old suspect is an employee of german's foreign intelligence service. obama administration relations with germany are already frosty following revelations of u.s. eavesdropping on chancellor angela merkel's cell phone. getting rid by superp.a.c. by forming a superp.a.c. hobby lobby and guantanam...

People's liberation army has more than 2 million personnel. but it's the thousand or so in this nondescript building in shanghai that may pose the biggest threat to the u.s. this is the headquarters of the army's secretive unit number 61398 where, according to the new report, english speaking computer experts spend their days stealing secrets from u.s. companies and hacking into government sites. >> this is an espionage operation targeting a broad swath of western organizations. >> reporter: among the most troubling targets, water treatment plants, transportation control centers, pipelines and...