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Be given to, in our case, the legislative underpinnings that established the dni in the first place, and then have added additional functions and responsibilities over the years, that congress has added, two hour kit bag of duties. to say that there's not room for improvement, i would never suggest that. >> i appreciate that, and i certainly agree with you, i think that if there is going to be this major reform, hopefully both legislators and others who have been engaged in the intelligence community will be part of that effort. >> i certainly agree the congress, no pun intended, gets a vote h...

Our private phone calls. some heralding this as a victory for privacy. other say it's a win for the terrorists. hear their take. mike baker, former cia operative. is this a good day or bad day for private security and security, alex? >> i sympathy it's a good day for privacy. from a security standpoint. with this amount of data, it hasn't been shown effective in stopping any attacks. the raw amount of data, this is not -- >> mike, do you agree? >> well, look, maybe my colleague here has access to compartmentalized information and can speak to whether this was actually useful or not. i don't. i...

These documents as well, bin laden writes about drones and how much he disliked drones. he writes, they are concerning and exhausting us. this guy was a meticulous editor that really mused about all sorts of things. we're finding out. but drones specifically besides the rise of technology, he talks about drones. what does that tell you about our fight going forward? that seems to be one of the areas this administration is pretty comfortable with? >> again, giving credit where it should be, the obama administration, ramped up the drone campaign much to the displeasure of the far left. it has be...

Just $4,000. you're talking about millions. is it that we're underestimating the power of money here? could it actually work? >> well look again, what happens is you can't discount the importance of the religious affiliation of the family of triable connections when you're talking about trying to get someone to drop a dime on somebody within a terrorist organization. so it's an important tool in the kit bag, i'm not saying it's not, it's a worthwhile and important tool it's not as effective as possible. >> it's curious to me about how we're going to get the messaging to be as effective on our ...

And now we're in a point where yes, okay the administration would rather fire a missile up the tail pipe of some target that be go to the hard difficult work of capturing that target and gathering the intelligence. we have to figure where to we hold hem sno how do we deal with them? okay final. if what you are saying it's more ethical to just light up the target so we don't have to deal with this, then i guess. i don't understand that positioning. that the reality is, when you have an interrogation situation, the point is to make the detainee compliant. again people get uncomfortable with all ...