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Make is that also critical to dealing with these set of enduring challenges is the continued economic and technological leadership of the United States, which as former secretary gates and others have said, is National Security imperative for us. Now i would like to talk a little bit about the relationship between intelligence and National Security. We always say its the first line of defense. This time going forward, we really do mean it. The benefits that it gives us is it informs our National Security policy. If youre the president and top advisers and trying to make sense of this wide arra...

One of the things i would like to leave you with is the tremendous change thats taken place in our intelligence capabilities over the past decade, and even greater change that we foresee looking forward. One of the aspects of this is the revolutionary impact Precision Targeting has had across our intelligence enterprise, whether its in Counterterrorism Operations, whether its in cyber operations, or classic human intelligence and espionage. To illustrate this, i would like to tell a joke that my former boss, secretary bob gates used to love to tell about the old way we did business. Many, many...

Many ideas. But there is also real darkness at the heart of the vision for the next four years. If there is engagement with the sunnis, it is about creating a new class of sunnis from the tribal and political groups at low level and trying to completely reduce and eradicate the National Level leadership of the sunnis. It struck me that the sunnis that wanted to support the sense of there being a Sunni Community who could Work Together, those people are the ones that the Iraqi Government were planning to continue persecuting. And if they were going to involve sunnis in future government, the pl...

New sources of revenue. I think theyre attacking both of those things, but to focus on the revenue side. I think, one, looking for new ways to delight and hold consumers. So if you look at comcast and its investment in the x1 platform, if you can make video on demand more attractive, easier to use, the interfaces more weblike and more delightful, number one, dont lose what you have, right . Innovate, keep what you have. You also see them taking advantage of broadband, right . That is a blessed source of new Business Opportunity for our industry. It is growing much faster. It still has a huge a...

Several developments today in the crisis in iraq. The pentagon said that the u. S. Military is flying armed drones over baghdad to protect troops and diplomats. Human watch say there is evidence that Islamic State in iraq and the levant killed up to 180 men after taking tikrit. The ayatollah called on the country. Mike viqueira is live for us on the white house with more on these militants. Do the drones represent a major escalation. Reporter heres what we knew and what we know now. Forces have flown over iraq to identify where the enemy is and ar where are the targets. And drones that are fac...