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Intelligence business, every source that we have of intelligence, we try to confirm that with other sources. i believe some of that has been confirmed and we don't know what that is, and because that is obviously classified. and the fact of the matter is, but even this information, as antiinflammatory and explosive as it is, would have been shared with the entire national command authority and senior leaders of our government. it's indisputable that it would not be done. sergeant bergdahl was a very high intelligence collection target with multiple agencies trying to gather intelligence on him...

You are in the intelligence business. did we fail to see something or did it happen so spontaneously that there was nothing to see? >> i agree with tony. this was pre-meditated. you have to look at putin's history and what he said in the past. this is, to me, he is reconstituting or trying to reconstitute the old ussr. as far as did we miss it? i think tony would know better than me but i think at the russian desk somebody should have seen it or felt it coming. there is an awful lot of activity, a lot of movement that has been going on for the past few weeks if not longer that i think we shoul...

>> commissioner, you were nominated for homeland, you are in the intelligence business, did we utterly fail to see something here or did it happen so spontaneously that there was nothing to see? >> i agree with tony, this was premeditated. you have to look at putin's history, what he said in the past. this is to me he's reconstituting or trying to resconce substitute the u.s. ussr. as far as the, did we miss it? i think tony would know better than me. but i think the russian, somebody should have seen it or felt it coming. there is an awful lot of activity. a lot of movement that has been goin...

>> well, the threat environment is the primary responsibility for our team on the ground here. we've been preparing for this for several months. actually a couple of years now. we have an office here with about 150 people. the threat assessment has not changed since we've been here. and we accord fate very closely with the russians to share information about anything that might happen. >> the fear is that the russians are not actually sharing everything they've got for fear that the u.s. would exploit that, would somehow try to make them look bad. is that the case? do you know everything you n...

Between privacy on the one hand and protection on the other hand. it really is a tradeoff. when you're on the insides of the intelligence business, you're really driven by trying to find out who are the bad people out there who are making plans and intending to kill a lot of americans, a lot of innocent americans and you really are driven to do everything you can within constitutional limits to try to identify them and stop them and we have done an extremely good job so far i would say over the last 11 years, 12 years, since 9/11. the question is -- >> the panel is saying that you've drawn the...