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Particularly with your background. if you can address that. >> clearly counterterrorism is going to be a priority area for the energies committee and for cia for many years ago. just like weapons proliferation is as well. those are enduring challenges. since 9/11 the cia has dedicated a lot of effort and very successfully, they have done a tremendous job to mitigate that terrorist threat. at the same time though they do have this responsibility on global coverage. whey need to take a look at is whether or not there has been too much of an emphasis on the ct front,ed ed good as it is. we have t...

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Microwave communications, these places have technical intelligence teams all the time. we don't have deep level intelligence collection like the way the russians certainly have had for decades in the united states. but we kept our eye on them. >> what did the u.s. government have to gain by keeping these compounds open, by allowing them to operate? >> well, that's the best part is that u.s. intelligence monitors their intelligence collection. so we would know or have a pretty good idea just how sophisticated they were, and also what kind of targets that they would be going after. so if they su...

What mr. davis was doing in pakistan. referring to his role as a security officer, says, quote, they do not conduct foreign intelligence collection or covert operations. however, a "new york times" article today says that mr. davis carried out scouting and other reconnaissance missions. so just what was mr. davis' role, as you understand it there, in lahore? >> i don't know mr. davis' specific role but as described the individuals who contracted out to provide security in high threat posts like pakistan are basically limited to physical security. they don't do intelligence collection. they don...