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The build up to the olympics. putin's government will pull out all their stops to stop them. and now there is one hopeful sign. and that's at a new year's eve, new year's day, the most important holiday in rush sharks the terrorists weren't able to pull anything off. they have pulled off attacks, nobody can crystal ball and say yes, they will kill americans. >> how strong is putin's intelligence apparatus. they are ruthless, there is not a lot of them at guantanamo bay. they will shoot them dead if they find them. how strong is the intelligence apparatus? >> it's effective but not efficient. i...

He wrote, in all candor, however one must recognize that an investigation such as this one, he's referencing the church committee but i think it could apply to what this committee has done as well. of necessity will cause some short-term damage to our intelligence apparatus. a responsible inquiry, as this has been, will in the long run result in a stronger and more efficient intelligence community. such short-term inquiry will be outweighed by the long-term benefits gained by the restructuring of the intelligence community with more efficient utilization of our intelligence resources. so, agai...

>> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, we've learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where there's a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intelligence apparatus, it's pretty easy to talk about the intelligence failures. we don't talk much about them many times, and we have intelligence and we're able to stop or prevent or disrupt an ...

Get there in time? >> no. >> you didn't have enough warning in benghazi? >> no, we did not. >> anything that could have been done better on the intelligence front, or is this what happens in a place like libya that right now is an unstable state? >> well, we've learned a lot from the benghazi incident. as the secretary said, we work -- the state department kind of surveying those parts of the world where there's a new norm, if you will, of instability. in terms of, you know, discussing the intelligence apparatus, it's pretty easy to talk about the intelligence failures. we don't talk much abou...

Sons, perhaps the intelligence apparatus. perhaps the army. it's probably some kind of combination of all those things. but it highlights the problem which is it's not clear that anyone is really in charge in libya. the whole country is run but a very clannish way. that's why so much of the government, ambassadors, ministers are spinning off defecting left right and center. >> they are. >> and what is likely to happen is fairly chaotic in the aftermath of gadhafi's leaving. still, it shouldn't deter us from pushing ahead because no matter what what happens afterwards, it's probably not worse t...