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Chilling. the man in charge of all intelligence gathering for this country says furloughing his agents has put our national security at risk. >> give' been in the intelligence business for about 50 years. i've never seen anything like this. from my view, i think this on top of the sequestration kwuts that were already taken, that this seriously damages our ability to protect the safety and security of this nation and its citizens. this is a dreamland for foreign intelligence service to recruit. >> it's a dreamland for america's enemies and a nightmare for us. but despite all this, republicans ...

Imagine if he said something about russia, what putin might come back and say. he's been dist by both russia and china and i think he wants that to stop. >> general clark, it is true, putin has been thumbing his nose at the press. putin likes to do that. >> it's an opportunity to take advantage of -- in politics it would be like a gaffe. this is -- for a statesman, it's like a gaffe. it's where you've been doing something, it comes out like this. every nation does this. what the united states is doing is not any different and probably much less than what china and russia is doing. >> in terms ...

World. it was the anniversary of 9/11. the cairo he demonstration. there were demonstrations in pakistan and other muslim countries. was there too much information we couldn't focus, we couldn't see through the noise, so to speak, to see the real peril our people were in this libya? >> i think that the noise in the system is sometimes can be distracting to people. we can kind of look at things and we get -- the things that are familiar we understand. the things that are less familiar we think are unlikely and the result is that people make mistakes and it is a tough job the intelligence busine...

World. it was the anniversary of 9/11. the cairo he demonstration. there were demonstrations in pakistan and other muslim countries. was there too much information we couldn't focus, we couldn't see through the noise, so to speak, to see the real peril our people were in this libya? >> i think that the noise in the system is sometimes can be distracting to people. we can kind of look at things and we get -- the things that are familiar we understand. the things that are less familiar we think are unlikely and the result is that people make mistakes and it is a tough job the intelligence busine...

There's an aspect of the intelligence business called targeting. just in the past 10 years, the agency has a transition from strategic intelligence through tactical intelligence that helps you identify the movements and locations of one specific individual. i'm not just worried about want al-qaida looks like strategically. i want an analyst who's spending all of their time looking at one target with one name. and people whose whole goal in life is following one human being. >> i went to targeting officers when i moved over, jennifer