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Aperture in terms of who is a potential target for cyberactivity. and the second thing is this should be another in a series of wake-up calls that we should think about what would happen if this type of a destructive attack impacted a major financial institution, impacted a key part of the energy sector impacted the air traffic control system. as bad as it was for sony i would argue that an attack of this level on any of those other places would have much wider implications for the public. >> major general brett williams and mark rash thank you both very much for joining me tonight. >> thanks,...

Unlikely that somebody who is working for sony in the united states is going to be contacting or contacted by somebody in north korea. you know but i think what general williams pointed out is the difference in philosophy between the criminal prosecutor and someone in cyber command. cyber command wants to protect its sources and methods, whereas the prosecutors want to find out who did it and bring them to justice. and there is always a conflict between those two. i think all the investigators, whether they're in cyber command or in the justice department or the fbi need to maintain an open mi...

Former sony employee who had extensive knowledge of the company's network. he also believes some of the hackers spoke russian, not korean, and that some of them operated in singapore and canada. an fbi spokesman responded to those reports by simply saying, attribution to north korea is is based on intelligence from the fbi. the u.s. intelligence community, dhs, foreign partners and the private sector. it's possible some assets outside of north korea might have been involved but that doesn't change the conclusion about north korea's responsibility. joining me now is retired major general brett ...

>> what could they do to anyone in the united states to get prosecution. >> you could extradite people in europe. if they're in north korea, we're never going to get them. that's pretty much a given. but if it's an insider, somebody from the united states then there can be a prosecution and probably will be. but the idea of the government coming to particularly within the law enforcement context, it was the north koreans, we have classified information that shows us that's almost in the range of uss gulf resolution. trust us we have the right stuff. i think there has to be a lot mf openness if...

National security correspondent jim sciutto in jordan. a man who commanded the marine division during the iraq war, james williams. general williams, you're a straight talking man. what is the first element of american advisers? what are they going into? they've got to assess the situation but now you have shias who are marching in baghdad and they're ready to confront isis, the sunnis. >> well, you know, first of all, they're going to have to make contact with the military government in terms of working with the ministry of defense. they'll have to be assigned to various units of the iraqi ar...