of one cia interrogation cound in an unnamed country. inside it is immediately. pitch black. as black as any darkness you have ever experienced. you cannot see. if you could not see your fingers here in front of absolute darkness. and disorienting and deafening. silence a brutal regime designed to undermine prison his sense of self and induce helpless dependence we thank unconsciously that. the sun will rise once a day and then sets into the day that's one of the defining unthought of realities life not if you're in the hands of the cia we can make the sun shine or not. when he had been assigned to interrogate a captured prisoner he'd been daft in nature out what he was expected to do. so the instructions were you will do whatever it takes to get him to talk do you understand and then it was pressure him pressure him it was the word frequently used pressure him turn up the pressure on him. be creative and i was literally literally stunned i responded we don't do that. he said well we do not know my thought was pardon me for this and i th

. >> then why did the cia put out that it was the russians? >> i don't think they put it out. i think the democrats put it out. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence officials are saying they hacked, quote, prioritized democratic institutions and, quote, cia analysts updated their findings on russian hackings saying after november 8 they came to believe russian interference was ultimately designed to help trump win. today former acting director of the cia said, quote, a former government messing around in our elections is an existential threat to our way of life. this is the political equivalent of 9/11. and there was this from white house press secretary josh earnest. >> you didn't need a security clearance to figure out who benefited from malicious russian cyber activity. he called on russia to hack secretary clinton. so he certainly had a pretty good sense of whose side this activity was coming down on. >> the politics of this got interesting today when the top two elected republicans in washington, mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan, came out in favor of an investigation

a problem if you are the cia. our director of science and technology said, i am paraphrasing, the cia, show me something that is not explainable, it it will not be decision ready, it does not just had be accurate we have to know how we got there. people are using the commercial space but we are not pushing you to a better brand of coffee, you need better accuracy and to know how you got there. looking at how youet the explainability so you can determine to a policymaker how you got to that place and the billable -- and the level of trust. how do you communicate to those folks what the analytics is telling you and what it is not. how much reliability. that is something we have to do with any product, how'd you do it in this type of space? that is something we are looking at and not alone in that space. cannot count the number of people working ai ethics, it is a lot. there is a lot of work being done internationally and domestically. that is a, located issue we are thinking about -- that is a complicated issue we a

it would be nice if he had a cia director. he doesn't today because the democrats are holding up the cia director. >> i want to go back to a question you continue to deflect. why was it necessary to send out the press secretary to utter approvalable falsehoods that call into everything the press secretary will say from here on out. >> no, it doesn't. >> yes, it can. >> no, you want them to hear that. i think that is a very dangerous statement to make. >> what was the motive to have this ridiculous litigation of crowd size? what was the moment? >> your job is not to give your opinion, chuck. your job is not to say things are ridiculous. you are supposed to be a news person. >> can you please answer the question? why did he do this? you have not answered it. >> i'll answer it this way. think about what you just said to your viewers. that's why we feel compelled to go out and clear the air and put alternative facts out. >> so it is a political tactic to come up with alternative tack tix and set up the press as your enemy. >> i di

a cia veteran is thrown out of a hearing for donald trump's pick to head the agency protests over the nominee's reported involvement in a program. the us president blames iran in the middle east after announcing washington would read neg on its commitments under the iran nuclear deal . if you look at what's happening in the middle east with syria. other places that are involved in. the u.k. says it will continue funding the controversial aid group. despite ongoing accusations that it's a. terrorist. day here in moscow this is the international news on the every. u.s. president donald trump controversial pick for cia director has been grilled at a senate confirmation hearing over her alleged involvement in the torturing of terror suspects the session though was interrupted by protesters denouncing the nominee. the second person in that video right there who was wrestled to the ground by security and then escorted out is seventy nine year old cia veteran ray mcgovern he served at the agency for twenty seven years but then became a political activist protesting the use of torture program

>> the cia with counterintelligence on this project cia has the best enlist in the community and then try to undermine the bureaucracy on - - the democracy so i had select individuals and they came up with the assessment for the question of trying to interfere in the election trying to denigrate hillary clinton this was done under the direction approach and to enhance the prospects of donald trump. now all of those findings were attached to apply these agencies the fbi the nsa and the director of national intelligence nsa downgrade the level of confidence from high to medium and that is his russian efforts to promote donald trump as the candidate to win the election. cia analyst were at the height so in that assessment there were two senior officers who were aligned is really not much difference in the assessment but there was with that decision so they came to talk to me about it and i listened i wanted to make sure exactly i understood their concerns i told them to determine whether or not it should be high confidence i encourage them to do it again and explain their concerns. i wor

his only source of information besides the news we have is the cia.o how does he have this relationship develop here? how does it work? >> and he can get angry at director brennan, but even when director pompeo comes in on friday, the very first day, it's the same intelligence professionals providing the same assessment, that russia tried to interfere with our election. his intelligence officials will be watching to see what al qaeda does, what china does, what isis does. >> if there's a troop movement somewhere, mobilization by the russians -- [ all speak at once ] >> perhaps the baltics, god hope that never happens because that's nato. >> what brennan told me in the interview yesterday, look, we need a president who knows this is credible, apolitical intelligence. what are our allies going to think if the president is openly questioning the integrity of the cia? you don't need the president going out, saying, i think what they're giving me is garbage. >> do you think it's possible trump doesn't know what objective truth is? >> i don't know. i can't

from the outgoing cia director. george, does that statement and the very vituperative language improve relationships with the intelligence community? we have an outgoing cia director sounding like a partisan political hack. about the president of the united states. i think everybody needs to take a step back and a very deep breath, george, and think about what their words are. you had president trump calling for unity, patriotism, giving america back to its people in his inaugural address. the government back to its people. the outgoing cia director making a statement like that. how in the world does that improve relationships with our intelligence community? it was deeply disappointing and unnecessary. >> while we're still on the intelligence community, you know several agencies and the fbi are now investigating possible contacts between trump associates and the russians during the campaign. will president trump pledge to allow those investigations to go forward without any interference from anyone in the white hou

the cia did not invent these tactics. listen to an american war hero describe what he endured as a prisoner of war in vietnam. i was forced to stand up continuously, sometimes they make you stand up or sit on a stool for a long time. i stood up for a couple of days with only a respite because one of the guards, the only real being that i ever met over upthere, let me lie down for a couple of hours while he was on watch in the middle of the night. speaking about his captors, this former american pow said they bounced me from pillar to post. kicking and laughing and scratching.after a few hours of that, ropes were put on me and i sat that night bound with ropes. they beat me a little bit, he describes. i was in such bad shape that when they hit me, it would knock me unconscious. they kept saying, you will not receive any medical treatment until you talk. i was getting about three or four -- of food twice a day. sometimes i would go a day or so without eating. i learned what we all learned over there. every man has his break

everybody always likes to kick the cia because the cia doesn't kick back.room people are clapping but it's important that this is an attempt to show the media and the rest of the world that there is no wedge between the president and the intelligence community. he went on to talk about how great mike pompeo was and was the most important pick and because this was a russian covert action campaign. it's because of the wedge whether real or received that it created against the president and the intelligence community and the american public. this was -- i'm glad he went there first to show his commitment to these people and i'm ready for mike pompeo to get approved so that he can start helming such a great organization. >> so you think the past is simply, quickly forgotten. the president comes who had clearly disparaged the brothers and sisters in your former community at the cia. he blamed it on the media. you should be smart enough to know what this is about. that would be good enough for the men and women in that room. >> i spent 9.5 years as an undercover

we had been showing you the confirmation hearing this morning for the next cia director mike pompeo. everything was moving along fine until we lost the signal from the office building on capitol hill. it turns out the hearing room and the whole building lost power. the hearing, as we understand it , has come to a stop. it's being investigated and of course we will return to live coverage when we get word that the power has been restored here on c-span2. right now we will show you the hearing from the start, all the way up until when they lost power. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] i would like to call this hearing to order. one procedural matter before we begin, we meet today prior to president-elect trump's inauguration and therefore have not yet received pompeo's nomination to be director of central intelligence agency. we cannot vote on a record denomination until it's received in the u.s. senate. today we will have a hearing and expectatio

the cia did not like that. but it took 15 years for it to move through declassification and with the history of the cia. and on the record. twelve years have passed since then. and slowly and it is revealed. a chapter in the book of two disastrous operations it disastrous and the successful operation 30 years apart. the successful operation and from solidarity. and kept alive in the eighties with solidarity wound up being a domino to overturn the soviet empire. when the nightmare of the soviet system was revealed as a proletariat against the system. the 20th century stories in this book that nobody has ever heard of. not just you, it is a story of the cei support of the congo. it is the story of how the united states try to fight back from misinformation in the eighties. and then to be in the sixties and seventies and the leader of the soviet union. >> soviet russia and disinformation. now there was three goals undermine the state of the national security institution fbi and cia. and with mlk ma have this infor

because the actions that she took during the dark period of the cia's torture program disqualify her she has been doing literally everything she can think to do other than telling the truth about the cia's torture program.

haspel recommended the cia destroy 92 videotapes of interrogation of detainees. cia officials remember ms. haspel was one of the staunchest advocates for destroying the tapes. the staunchest advocate inside the building for destroying the tapes. she went so far as the director of the national clandestine service to urge them to use quote mac the industrial-strength shredder just to make sure they were completely destroyed. ms. haspel destroyed these tapes despite federal court orders requiring the preservation of the cia records and despite the objections of members of congress and against the order of the director of national intelligence the cia director and the white house counsel and senior department of justice officials. in a convenient coincidence for her the case that she ordered destroyed was the interrogation of detainees of thailand that ms. haspel previously supervised in even moreve convenient some of those reported the interrogation of the very detainee who was water boarded under ms. haspel leadership. when the senator asked about her destruction o

gina haspel will be new director of the cia and the first woman

the cia themselves...governments and regimes across the world, and without being pejorative, one can talk about what happens in china and russia and countries in the middle east of many different stripes, right around the world we know from extensive independent investigation torture is used to extract information. i put it to you again, are all of these experts in counterterror completely and utterly wrong? what you get are false confessions or propaganda. if i torture you and i want you to say that you don't work for the bbc, you work for, i don't know, apple computer, i will torture you enough and and you will say yes, "i work for apple computers, i don't work for the bbc." you get exactly what you want but you don't get reliable intelligence. look at ksm, they waterboarded ksm 183 times and eventually he gave up a plot of african—americans in montana who were planning to conduct forest fires, it was all fabricated. that is one of the successes which interrogators would say, "see, we disrupted this plot

the cia's own historical documents even bragged. about the extent of the of the ugliness involved saying quote foreign governments were paying good money to the us and western germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by a least 2 and possibly as many as 5 or 6 foreign countries so if the cia owned the top and corruption company in the world up until 2018 it makes you wonder what other companies do they secretly have their hands in and that my friends is why we are always watching the hawks. you want to go on a city street you want to. do so you'd like to see the crisis joyce state and see a little slice grace suggests least systemic deception is the late show which is so. welcome i'm going to watch it with. an island a measure that is incredible wow look at this i mean from the cold war all the way up into 2002 in the cia along with german told the centrally ran the biggest and corruption company in the world giving them access to tons of people of governments foreign governments and businesses and b

trump, is at the cia. he's actually, we're hearing now, being briefed by cia leadership, so we'll talk to our panel about what to listen for momentarily here on this saturday. you're watching cnn. ♪ (ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh) (hush my darling...) (don't fear my darling...) (the lion sleeps tonight.) (hush my darling...) man snoring (don't fear my darling...) (the lion sleeps tonight.) woman snoring take the roar out of snore. yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. >>> all right. so we're going to pictures. here we have the crowd on their feet. this is the cia. we're waiting for donald trump, president trump to arrive. talk me through the significance of what's about to happen. >> look at the setting. those stars behind the the podium. there's 117 of them and those are stars for cia officers who have dyed in the line of duty. i can bet a lot of money that location is not accidental. you might guess in the light of what's been a very heated relationship since the election. public comments via twitt

cci cia knows them? and i suspect he doesn't know what his answer is yet. >> phil, you know that it's been reported that president-elect trump is receiving about one intel briefing per week even though he has the opportunity to be briefed on a daily basis with the same information as president obama. what do you now think of the fact he's briefed so infrequently in the context of this russian story? >> there are two pieces to this, michael. let me make sure i remain non-partisan. i don't think it's a huge deal whether the the president-elepr briefed once a week but how he's receiving information. mr. pence is receiving once a day. how often do they talk? is mr. trump greeting intelligence without receiving the briefing? different presidents over the past 50 years have gotten briefings in a lot of different ways. sometimes orally, sometimes in writing. the underlying question is not whether he receives once a week but whether he trusts the executive branch that he is charged with leading and i think the i

lead the cia. tweeting overnight gina haspel did a spectacular job. there is nobody even close to run the cia. with haspel's predecessor

the cia operates in the shadows. its officers are often undercover and sometimes work in hostile and fear environments. it's not just a job but a lifestyle. the clandestine nature of the agency's work, however, is both, is both the greatest capability and most challenging liability as its activities are outside the public view. we address that liability by calling upon the president to nominate individuals with unwavering integrity, and the senate approves only those who are assured will lead this organization lawfully, ethically and morally. mike, i have reviewed the material provided by you prior to this hearing and have spoken with you personally. you enrolled in the united states military academy as a teenager. you graduated first in your class before serving as a calvary officer. he went on to learn all earn a law degree at harvard and founded an aerospace company where you served as ceo for more than a decade. you are in your third term representing the people from the fourth district of kansas and oversaw the

with the cia program. one of the protagonist and then there are a number of times but there are things that should have been done differently. but during this time and then to continue to the mischaracterization of rca did in the aftermath of 9/11 and the term of many cia officers. paul this is a very positive and those that were redacting the up on - - the report but more fundamentally the claim the cia spied on the senate computers was absolutely and in terms of what i could say at that time. that the computers that the cia had an obligation to determine whether or not the vulnerability in the system that allowed the senate staffers to access a document they would not want us to have. but with those internal messages and that's why i apologize those that were part of the committee at the time to have an obligation to carry out the security review? absolutely. and with the senate committee. and with those staffers concerns what they did wrong i do think a lot of american still have the impression the cia

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now the cia and the deep states have conspired to build up by russia. i grew up thinking russia was our enemy because that's what i was taught. and then i, you know, as i got older, i realize that that was not true. ah, oh great girl, that is to really guidance on both. i'm wanting to come minister finance to put in his thoughts a and then very good that this is stupid enough. the full with the bills critically, with enough dollar one year to one the payments through what's left of the world 3 children l e p 1st week is that you probably go right on the new teacher ski column peak and i need some pool booth and you still on the 5th below guy and i get the food for that. i sued. oh my goodness. now the mark cover has been blown and it's known. i'm a russian spy, i hope proven. will rescue me and give me a passport. so archon escape america, before i'm captured, i also started a group of websites where whistle blowers could post anonymously, about corruption happening in their departments without worry, worrying about getting targeted by their departments

he served as the head of the cia and defense department under president obama. as director of the cia, you gave the order to close the black site prisons. mr. trump is reviewing those black sites and enhanced interrogation techniques, or torture. do you think that would be good ?or america' site.don't need a black we don't need to use and -- use enhanced interrogation to get the information required. general mattis believes that. others in the intelligence business believe that. the fbi believes that. i think it would be a mistake. damaging to our view to the rest of the world. >> he was surprised general enhancedes not think interrogation techniques, torture, works. he has spoken to people in the intelligence community and the last 24-hours with a different opinion, and he is leaving it on the table. what you make of these differences of opinion? >> it is hard to know what is going on within the president's mind. he has talked about going back to torture. but, i think that a lot of people regard that as not only a violation of our values in this country, but a

this is a woman who has been a leader wherever she has gone, the cia wants her to leave them

s. justice department failed to keep up with cia fantasies. they were still processing the case and didn't file charges against the wiki leagues founder. so the cia was doing to kidnap a foreign citizen from the capital of washington's closest ally with no legal basis tool. a perfect master black deed. you could possibly spoil the fun russians of course, chapter 3, fighting russians. what if vladimir putin intelligence gets there? first of dumps a sound and then flies him to moscow. that's a possibility. the paranoid ca offices thought brace yourself, the plans accounts of russians may just blow your mind. the cia left nothing to chance. besides gets into the car with the russian operatives. a cia initiates a car crash with the russian diplomatic vehicle. god knows how many other londoners collateral damage is. they say, assange gets on the plane. the cia blocks it on the runway by shooting its tires, as well as anything. and anybody else in the way the plane takes off with a flat tire? the c i, a hovers, a helicopter over is still manages to

today, there is a cia briefing members from which most have been excluded. i think it is wrong that the cia has expressed the conclusion that the crown prince was involved in the killing of jamal khashoggi and then with all that information. i know about the information of the cia's conclusions only by reading it in the media. if i were in the briefing today i would ask the cia director several items. brothercrown prince's communicating with jamal khashoggi telling him it was trying to go to the consulate in istanbul? were there text messages sent -- were there text messages sent back from the killers to the crown prince's office? some are saying that there is no smoking gun. what is being reported is that there is a smoking gun. communication directly from the killers back to the office of the crown prince. it is time that the senate grabs back foreign policy to say -- you know what, no president, this one or the previous one has the power to take our country to work. without the permission of the senate. is the white house preventing the cia director from

and it's the cia's ravenous thirst for intelligence and control no matter the cost and what lines are crossed that is at the heart of the recent revelations coming out of switzerland regarding the cold war's biggest manufacturer of encryption devices a joint investigation by the washington post and german public broadcasters e.d.f. has revealed that crypto a.g.t. the world's leading manufacturer or crip to logical equipment during the cold war whose clients including included over $120.00 governments around the world was a front company owned by the united states central intelligence agency whoa discovered through a secret 2004 cia historical document and in a 2000 a oral history by german intelligence the operation was considered to be the intelligence coup of the century by taking over the manufacture of the devices this allowed the cia and n.s.a. to rig the crypto agee's products so they could easily break the codes and have access to a client's encrypted messages and guess what the cia wasn't just some silent donor either according to the post unbent nouns to most employees except

that people at the cia believe that the cia director has their backs. the great ones always did, the leon panettas, the bob gates, others of that kind. >> well, chris whipple, thank you for a wonderful conversation. i know the audience has liked it. you can buy this book, there's a button that you can push for the link you got today, so you're going to like it. i can tell you that right now. chris, thank you so much. i'm sure we'll talk again soon. >> it was such a pleasure, thank you. thank you for having me. >> yep. .. >>> director brennan, thank you for sitting down with me today. your book provides really interesting background and detail, not just about your career and on intelligence debates of the past but very much the news of our current days. it's four years later, we're style fighting about russian interference in 2016. the republican and democrats are still debating whether the investigations were handled properly four years ago, whether you and intelligence leaders of 2016 drew the right conclusions about russian action. your book opens wit

meanwhile the woman who wants this is new director of the cia is set to be grilled by the senate the appointment of gina her spell would be controversial that she's been implicated in the agency's so-called enhanced interrogation techniques but against yet there's more. trump's really pushing gina haskell is the perfect candidate strong really strong smart tough and with thirty years of judy behind her so why all the hate one highly respected nominee for cia director gina her support has come under fire because she was too tough on terrorists think of that in these very dangerous times we have the most qualified person a woman who democrats want out because she is too tough on terror when jeana tough and terrorists meaning she ran a secret cia detention center where she those under her reportedly tortured prisoners by the way the videotapes which allegedly documented some of the most horrific tortures were destroyed by the cia tough woman all right with years of experience in the moral torture and any other reasons to vouch for her there's no one more qualified to be the first woman

the cia has become too bureaucratic. i realize allen dulles probably had the same complaint five years after the cia was created but it has gotten worse in no small part thanks to former director brennan's so-called modernization. talkers have replaced doers, managers with no field experience have taken over operational roles. the ratio at the cio is badly out of balance. third, the cia's analysis and priorities have been politicized. intelligence analysis all too often has aligned curiously with the biden administration's policy preferences. the afghan army is strong, ukraine army's will collapse within days of russia's invasion, iran's air defenses are mighty inverse of. time and again the cio has produced an accurate analysis that conveniently justifies president biden's actions or inaction. likewise the cio's misplaced priorities have yielded too many reports on matters like the prospects for gay rights legislation in africa. these topics might have their place in government but not at the cia. i certainly hope to ne

. >>> trump versus the cia. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. i'm not an adviser to president-elect donald trump. if i were, i would look him in the eye right now and tell him how wrong he is on this question of who to trust. donald trump is denying that russia intervened in the presidential campaign. he's attacking the cia for discovering the intervention. he's thinking of naming john bolton to the state department. how can he do such things? he ran against iraq where he said it was stupid, horrible, disastrous. but it wasn't the cia's fault we started that war. the chief briefer for the agency told me on air that no one in the ccia ever told an administration official that iraq had nuclear weapons. >> he has in fact reconstituted nuclear weapons. is that true or not? >> we were saying -- >> can you answer that question? is that true? >> no, that's not true. >> you're saying you made that case when you didn't. so they're using your credibility for making the case as dish

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certainly it's a lot of goal, it's one cia would share. >> is there anything we are not given the cia that the american people are not giving, is there something we can do to help the cia? >> the cia needs most policy and constancy of leadership. they are been given resources that are well in abound dance of what we had in 9/11. i don't think it's a resource issue. it's a question of public understanding what the intelligence do, for example, the role of intelligence is to -- i think the public and the administration needs to develop a more sophisticated understand of what this is all about. this is an agencies that's -- they are working against a world that tries to deny it information and tries to deceive it and they have the task of for seeing the future. this is tough. >> it's impossible. >> it's a math kalley expect them to be good. and can try to understand the struggle they have. it's going to be a tough struggle because there's never been a list of issues as long and complicated as today. >> thanks for joining us. >> pleasure. >>> many critics attacking sean spicer about inaug

when you look at the different roles and you're telling me what the cia thinks now, but the cia's traditional function is to think about what foreign leaders overseas are thinking. they're tasked with foreign intelligence collection and assessment. our role when i was at the fbi and working with them at the department of justice was different. we usually collect within the united states. we make intelligence assessments but we also try to prove cases beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. >> the cia's bottom line is circumstantial in part because the information that emerged was all damaging to the democrats and hillary clinton. if they did hack republican institutions or individuals, none of that information was significantly leaked. that's one of the reasons why the cia apparently concluded what they concluded. i guess the bottom line question is this. how vulnerable is the u.s. right now to russian cyber attacks? >> that is the key question and it's not just russia. we are vulnerable to russia, to the pacemakers in our hearts are going to be digitally connected. they already are. the

cia veteran is thrown out of the confirmation hearing for donald trump's pick for the new head of the agency amid protests over her alleged involvement in torture. also protesters burn in u.s. flags on the streets of tehran after a truck decides to withdraw from the iranian nuclear deal. this is r.t. internet. russia's been celebrating victory day marking the defeat of nazi germany it's the seventy third anniversary of the end of the great patriotic war as it's known here in russia which claimed the lives of more than twenty six million soviet people. victory day celebrations with huge firework displays among them the biggest was in moscow he says he managed to find the perfect vantage point. thousands of fire trucks and lighting up at least guys tonight sent across and several and spots across multiple such as you can victory park fireworks will be illuminating and i skies tomorrow and of the seventy fifth anniversary celebration it's now down by a little in the crowd so you can see people wearing symbols of victory day such as this saint benton a sign a member in some respects and s

he's attacking the cia for discovering the intervention.inking of naming john bolton to the state department. how can he do such things? he ran against iraq where he said it was stupid,

you live in the cia. you live the cia. you breathe the cia. now, you will lead the cia.ulations. [ applause ] okay. that means we're keeping her, right? that's what we were waiting for. they love you. they respect you. they respect you. a native of ashland, kentucky, gina's father served in the u.s. air force. she spent much of her childhood overseas. from a young age, she was instilled with a deep love of our country, which combined with a thirst for adventure, that led her to the cia. throughout her storied career at this agency, gina has truly done it all. she's completed seven field tours, served as a case officer, recruited assets, sanctions, captured terrorists, and disrupted networks that proliferate deadly weapons. they send those weapons all over, and you catch them. you're going to get even better now. better than ever before. you're the best. you're going to be better than ever before. we're getting you the resources to do it. our enemies will take note. gina is tough. she is strong. when it comes to defending america, gina will never, ever back down. i know h

we speak to a former cia analyst who is jailed for almost two years after he became the first cia official to differ to declare publicly the bush administration's use of waterbrboarding. anand the mosque bombing onn saturday. why hasn't trump said a word about what the minnesota governor has described as an act of terrorism? cowardly, ae, it terrible acts committed yesterday. it was a crime. if the roles were reversed, it would be called a terrorist attack and that is what it is. an act of terrorism. the president has been tweetiting up a storm on his vacation but not a word on the mosque bombing. all that and more is coming up. to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i am amy goodman. the average temperature in the u.s. has risen dramatically and the impacts of climate change are being felt across the country. the new york times obtained and published a copy of the unreleased report monday, amid concerns from scientists that the study's findings may be suppressed, changed or censored by the trump administration, which has sought to deny the effects and human impacts

do they disagree with the cia conclusions? they are asking the question they want answered but if they look at all of this information with a high degree of probability the crown prince was involved secretary mattis and secretary pompeo disagree that is not what they are saying. but i would say do you disagree with the conclusion? my guess is they don't. the constellation of all facts are that yes. he is involved but a game of words with no direct evidence or smoking gun that is open to argument i really think there was direct communication the media reported the crown prince directly communicated with khashoggi the media has reported there is communication in an sample to the crown prince's office at the time of the killing. the rank-and-file are excluded from oversight i can have no oversight when the deep state simply means intelligence community has too much power independent of representative oversight it has nothing to do with the president i would say the same democratic or republican. >> so with this specific informati

the cia and the deep states have conspired to bill of by russia. i grew up thinking russia was our enemy because that's what i was taught. and then i, you know, as i got older, i realized that that was not true. full great girl. that's to really kind of own book, almost like a minister of finance with putting his thoughts little and i'm very good that this is stupid enough. the full risk, the bills could integrate with goofy in okay. yeah. not a one year to one. the payments through what's left of the wall street journal. it gives us the week this value probably go right on the new teacher ski calon peak and i need a some pool booth and you still a little bit below guy and i get the food for that. i sued, oh my goodness, know that to my cover has been blown and it's known. i'm a russian spy. i hope proven, will rescue me and give me your passport. so archon xscape america, before i'm capturing, i also started a group of websites where whistleblowers could post anonymously about corruption happening in their departments without worry, worrying about

to describe the cia's -- her role in the cia's torture as immoral. this comes as her confirmation is repeatedly interrupted by anti-torture protesters. is, what doestion you do [indiscernible] you are a torturer1 syria where the israel-iran proxy war is intensifying as israel launches its largest aerial assault today on iranian targets inside syria. >> we have hit all of the infrastructures, not all, but almost all of the iranian infrastructure in syria. they must remember the saying, if it rains here, it will pour over there. i hope that we finish the chapter and that everyone got the message. amy: we will speak to syria journalist marwan hisham in the award-winning artist molly crabapple about 30 book "brothers of the gun: a memoir of the syrian war." all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. israel has bombed dozens inside syria the largest attack by israel since fighting began in syria in 2011. the bombing raid came a day after israel accused iranian forces in syria a

trump also tapped cia deputy director gina haspel to head the cia. haspel was directly involved in the cia's torture program under george w. bush. she s responble for nning a seet cia bck site thaind in 20 where o prisoner wasaterboard 83 tis and rtured iother ways on tuesday, president trump praised pompeo and haspel. pres. trump: i have worked with mike pompeo now for quite some time. tremendous energy, tremendous intellect. we are always on the same wavelength. the relationship has been very good. and that is what i need as secretary of state. . wish rex tillerson well gina, who i know very well, who i've worked very closely, will be the first woman director of the cia. she is an outstanding person who i also have got to know very well. amy: mike pompeo and gina haspel must now face senate confirmations, but barring any republican defections, both can be confirmed without any democratic support. e hearing will mark the first time haspel has been forced to speapublicly about her role in the u.s. torture program and the destruction of cia tapes docu

in the defense department and cia and that in the director. national tell me. these people understand what the russians have been doing what the russians are up to in have been promulgating policies that i think are good for our country and i think we're seeing some of that now just one last question on the kind of hacking alleged hacking the response by trumped intelligence chiefs including trump's own cia director mike pompei of warned that the twenty eighteen midterm elections could be targeted by russian intelligence as well and a lot of people are criticizing trump for not proposing countermeasures or some kind of defensive measures what would you want to see as a response to what you believe is russian meddling in the election are you calling for a kind of counter cyber war count to meddling in the russian elections all out military confrontation where to end the actions that mr putin took those active measures that i talk to you about these are asymmetric warfare it's part of their doctrine and it's this asymmetric warfare is the is the doctrine of the w