at the role of the cia. and i think it would be the beginning of what would be a complete reorientation of american intelligence and the intelligence establishment, away from a particular focus on traditional espionaps as it was practiced during the cold war, to a laser-light focus on hunting, capturing, targeting and often killing. it's a story of the cia at the front lines of what is a seeblgt war, a war that's changed nature of spying and that's had good and bad consequences. it's changed the focus of a cia, which i would argue the cia has had the most profound change since 9/11 of all the intelligence services, because they have been the ones put at the front of this secret war. and it's shaped the perspective of a whole new generation of intelligence officers. the cia now has more than 50% of the agency are people who joined after the september 11th attacks. so, if you think about that, that is the majority of cia officers are relatively young and are people who have known a mission where two successive

, both from within the cia and from outside the cia, even from former intelligence officers for cooperating with the church committee investigation, he thought it was the best way to strengthen the agency moving forward. i would characterize his cooperation as limited. he wanted to cooperate with them in the sense that he provided them with materials, but he also created a sort of liaison operation within the cia, to manage the relationship with the church committee. so the church committee would make requests for documents that were necessary to build their story and the cia would push back, we are not sure we have the material or why do you need the material? and by doing so, they further delayed the church committee's ability to begin to get the big picture. so he did receive criticism and he received criticism for working with the committee, but he did manage to restrict the corporation in some important ways. and speaking with the former staff, you will recognize that they will speak about the frustration of the the experience trying to get information from the cia. >> now, here is cal

but the cia agents are angry.s they think he has gone rogue. >> again, i improvised for myself. i took control. >> aren't they supposed to be running you rather than you running them? >> in the ideal world, probably, yes. >> bottom line, the cia can't be picky. to locate and eliminate awlaki, they need storm, and they are willing to pay. if his plan works. you get a quarter of a million dollars from the cia when aminah crosses into yemen? >> that's correct. >> after seven weeks, storm sent back to vienna for another meeting with aminah. the next step in the match making. he shows her this video from awlaki. >> this recording is done specifically for sister aminah. the brother who's carrying this recording is a trustworthy brother. >> what's her reaction when she's watching that video? >> she's full of joy and tears. you do really know him, she says. you do really know him. >> i hope you are well. >> then storm has her record a video for awlaki in return. >> my brother, it's me, aminah, and i just want to tell you

last year of a big revelation that includes the cia and a b bunch of top head fail, cia came heavily. you had a lot of veterans suffering from ptsd, there is a bunch of operations as you read and studied about and so forth, how does the concept of terrorism in that fine line wheen what is moral and ethical in terms of what is legal but what is humane. you have the apa crossing over advising them how to extracting information and how to play with someone's mind. it was interesting that came out and several of them fell from their positions but it seems like a lot of them had been involved in the community for a very, very long time since human intelligence is based on psychology. is there any more about that, because that's kind of a real gray shady area that a lot of people don't have a lot of information about. i find it interesting when it came out last year. >> i think the connection between psychologists and psychiatrists and cia is much longer than you make it out to be. if you think of the recent stuff is controversial, speaking of missing documents by the wa way -- that's a muc

cia's retention of an amount of shellfish toxin and the cia's use of various chemicals and drugs. the relationship between the cia as an activity requiring further investigation surfaced in late april this year. it resulted in information presented by a cia officer, not directly associated with the project. all past activities, which might now be considered questionable, be brought to the attention of agency management. information provided by him and two other officers aware of the project indicated the project involved development of warfare agents, some lethal and associated delivery suitable for use. a search was made for other records made available on the project. this produced information about the basic agreement between the army and the cia relating to the project and limited records covering activity from the beginning in 1952 to the termination in 1970. in the course of the investigation, cia laboratory storage facilities were searched and 11 grams, less than a half ounce of shellfish toxin were discovered in a little used vaulted storeroom. a major requirement of the a

he had been deeply involved in cia operations, cold-war related cia operations for 30 years before he ka came back to washington and was nominated by president nixon and confirmed by the senate to serve as the new cia director in 1973. so, he comes to this position as director while the cia is in a bit of term oil. the former director had ordered a report, an inhadternal report to be produced and had asked cia officers to come forward and report on any programs they believe the agency has been involved with, which may have been perhaps, if not illegal, at least unethical, immoral, improper. and this intelternal report became known as the family jewel. and at the start of the church committee investigation, they -- the staff did a lot of work behind the scenes. they literally had to investigate these agencies more broadly, in some ways for the first time. well, luckily, fortunately for them, william colby provided them with a copy. and it provided them basically with a road map. they could begin to sort of map out what the cia had been doing and look deeply into some of these cases of

the o.s.s., the cia's precursor. he had gone into private law practice, then in 1949, two years after the cia was established, he joined. he worked abroad in europe. he had been deeply involved in cia operations, cold war related cia operations for 30 years before he came back to washington and was nominated by president richard nixon and, approved, importantly, by the senate and confirmed by the senate to serve as the new cia director in 1973. so, he comes to this position as director while the cia is in a bit of turmoil. there have -- the former director, james sles sing -- schlessinger, had ordered a report, an internal report to be produced and asked cia officers to come forward and report on programs they believe the agency had been involved in, which may have been constitutionally questionable, which may have been, perhaps if not illegal, at least unethical, immoral, improper. and this report, this internal report became known as the cia's family jewel. the family jewels. at the start of the church committee in

they were already revealing their activity. , thenk that the cia legislative charter for the cia was never approved it for a variety of reasons. and so the legislative portion of the review of the cia never reached fruition. internale a number of reviews and changes that took place as a result. later, the congress establishes the cia inspector general position to provide consistent internal oversight. that person has to report to congress about what it finds. >> thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] each saturday and sunday, we will air extended portions of the church committee hearings on american history tv. announcer: daughters of the american revolution was founded in 1890 and their national headquarters is located a few blocks from the white house. the dar museumo to learn about their 125th anniversary exhibit. we begin with the 1820 four visit to america by revolutionary war hero general lafayette. lafay

it's changed -- the focus of a cia which i would argue the cia has had the most profound change since 9/11 of all the intelligence services because they have been the ones put at the frontover this secret war and it's chained the perspective of a whole new generation of intelligence officers, the cia now has more than 50% of the agency r( people who joined after the september 11 attacks so if you think about that that is the majority of cia officers are relatively young and are people who have known -- a mission where two successive presidents, one republican and one democrat have given the cia the first and foremost mission of counterterrorism. in other words, manhunting. it's changed the language of intelligence. the idea of what is a target in traditional terms, an intelligence target is someone you would target to turn into an agent for information. targeting becomes something much different in the post-9/11 era. targeting means someone who you were hunting either interrogate for information or possibly to kill. that distorts the idea of what an intelligence service should be for.

at the role of the cia. and i think it would be the beginning of what would be a complete reorientation of american intelligence and the intelligence establishment, away from a particular focus on traditional espionage, as it was practiced during the cold war, to a laser-light focus on hunting, capturing, targeting and often killing. it's a story of the cia at the front lines of what is a secret war, a war that's changed nature of spying and that's had good and bad consequences. it's changed the focus of a cia, which i would argue the cia has had the most profound change since 9/11 of all the intelligence services, because they have been the ones put at the front of this secret war. and it's shaped the perspective of a whole new generation of intelligence officers. the cia now has more than 50% of the agency are people who joined after the september 11th attacks. so, if you think about that, that is the majority of cia officers are relatively young and are people who have known a mission where two successive

, cia contractor's. he was hustled to airport on live and then flown back to the dominican republic where he was horribly tortured and murdered by a trio. to heal. this happened in the 1950s after 9/11. >> host: this is from your book, one of the students from colombia, one of his students, she wrote this can happen here. what is left? everybody who has some sense of responsibility and a feeling for democracy or freedom should be concerned. i thought that was what your book was about. >> guest: that is a moving letter to get people concerned about the case because he did know, he disappeared. but they had suspicions about what happened. president eisenhower asked about his appearance during press conference. colombia university was complicity cause the president at the time was grayson kirk, sat on commissions and foundation supported by the cia, the colombia administration did nothing to look into the case so it is one of these dark episodes in cia history that we chessboard: allen dulles, the cia, and

it has changed the focus of a cia, which i would argue the cia has had the most profound change since 9/11 of all the intelligence services because they have had -- they have been the ones put at the front of this secret war, and it has shaped the perspective of a whole new generation of intelligence officers. the cia now has more than 50% of the agency are people that joined after the september 11 attack. if you think about that, that is the majority of cia officers are relatively young, and are people who have known a mission where two successive presidents, one republican and one democrat, have given the cia the first and foremost mission of counterterrorism, in other words, man hunting. it has changed the language of intelligence. the idea of what is a target in traditional terms -- and intelligence target is someone you would target to turn into an agent for information. targeting becomes something much different in the post-9/11 era. targeting means someone who you are hunting, either to interrogate for information, or, possibly, to kill. that distorts the idea of what an intell

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

the cia called it detention site cobalt. it was hard to believe that this place not only existed but was purpose-built by the world's premier intelligence agency. when the cia inspector general sent an investigator to the site, they found one person who had been chained to the wall so far as they knew, for subpoena days. the paperwork reads like an ice alaition film. isolation film. the chief of interrogation said cobalt was the closest thing to a dungeon he had ever seen. despite their treatments the u.s. never charged mohammed or khalid with a crime. the experience, they say, still haunts them in flash backs and nightmares. >> do you think there will ever be a day when you tell your children what their father has been through? >> islamabad pakistan. after 9/11, the cia was operating in the open here. picking people up and taking them to black site. mohammed and khalid were captured not far away. one of the most disturbing things they told us is that doctors and psychologist he monitored interrogations, pushing detainees to

cia domestic spying program called chaos. covert operations abroad and other topics. >> there's a lot to get into, and i'm going to cover two of the reports and the investigations behind them here. the first is they're uncovering and documenting of foreign sass nations by the cia and the second is a limited review they conducted of some aspects of the kennedy assassination. i first want to say i think it's valuable work for castro and others because no doubt that the church committee did the whole idea of the cia would be one of these conspiracy theories we hear about all the reminiscent of some other matter that's before us. it's also striking how much i think things have changed in america since 1975. nowadays the u.s. openly conducts drone strikes against foreign adversaries. senior officialed call "bad guys." along with the classral damage farjs member, associates may or may not call themselves bad guys in the occasional wedding party. in 1975 by contrast it was a national scandal of the very idea that the executive branc

cia says they were.ys they don't have the facts to come to that conclusion that they're not comfortable saying that they were. on the issue of the rnc being hacked, the cia says that they believe they were. the fbi says they were not. they don't have the evidence that they were. and the rnc says that there's absolutely no evidence they were hacked. so you have these two big stories this weekend split right down the middle. it's fascinating cia on one side and this sounds like water boarding days. the cia on one side. the fbi on the other side. and what's so fascinating is the roles are opposite of where they were with water boarding and suddenly the cia is the democrats best friend and the only agency to trust and suddenly republicans are embracing the fbi's conclusions. >> first of all, the cia didn't say someone at the cia said and we don't know who that is because that was an unnamed source. i think it's perfectly understandable. they have two different missions. you and i can look at the evidence the

mayer was working with the cia. he worked with him for 16 months the ntsb is working with the cia , there are people in the ntsb who are problematic. most the people, 99% were doing the right thing or trying to, including most of the fbi but there are few people in positions that were not. they just allowed things to happen. when you meet, the fact that i was just talking to us air traffic control guy that i talked about earlier, you are right to mention pension because i said. [inaudible] it guarantees silence. i worked 38 years as an air traffic controller. if they they take that away from me, i'm finished. for people who work in and around government as a great silencer, also what happens is some of these people end up working for defense contract and if they go public they not only risk there'd tension and freedom and so there's a lot of low-level fear among people who know stuff. there's only a handful of people involved but a lot of people are afraid to speak out. >> the captains of the coast guard, i do not k

he called in two cia analysts and said i need your help. i need you to help me come up with something that i can give the president that will give him everything he needs to know and nothing he doesn't. take the huge stack of reports and boil i down to essential elements and if you could put it into a formality he could fold and put into his suit pocket, because we can't seem to keep his attention for more than a few minutes. and that way he can read it, put away for a meeting and then pull it out again between meet examination get to. one of the cia officers smiled because he has been talking about such a project, an tis pacing kennedy's personality and change help already had something in mind. so much so that within 24 hours they had dry run of the new product and something up heard of in bureaucracy since. less than 24 hours they had a few product designed for the president of the notice the hatches of the military aides saying what due you think? liked. so much that the very next day he took the inaugural copy of what is known as the p

>> the inspector general of cia is one of three officers within cia who are presidentially appointed and senate confirmed, so it's the priority of the white house. we've had an acting ig, the deputy who is presiding over that office. i'd like to think that i would be seen as pression to say that i think such nomination would be forthcoming soon. >> i hope you'll convey back to the president the importance this committee puts on that and we believe an appointment in the immediate future is appropriate. >> i will do my best to do that. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator cotton. >> thank you. director brennan, good to have you here again. i apologize, i have not been present in person. i've been in the intelligence committee's equivalent of a makeshift daycare. i've been listening intently. chairman burn, i appreciate him babysitting my son so i could act questions. we're afraid it would land both of us in child protective services. i did, however, hear his opening statements and many of the opening statements of members of the committee thanking you on behalf of all of t

produced it, the cia edited it, the cia delivered it, the cia got the feedback on it and would repeat and do the same thing every day. that was up until ten years ago in the aftermath of 9/11 and the iraq wmd issues, the office of the director of national intelligence was created. the pdb was handed to that new organization and under the control of the director of national intelligence now. now, cia is still heavily involved in it but the book is now open to authors from any intelligence agency. it is coordinated around the intelligence community giving more people a chance to get input to the president. there's still editing and bureaucracy done but that's done at the level of national intelligence and his senior officers. i did ask george w. bush in his administration this change happened, i said, what did you see when suddenly this thing that has been going on for decades in this institution is transferred to a new organization, what did you notice? he said, i didn't notice any difference. most of it was still written by cia and my briefer was still the same briefer, cia officer, t

is the cia documents proved the cia and fbi for the next 16 months would collaborate on the twa investigation which they did not say outright. the collaboration was to subvert the twa investigation. the cia had no other role and that becomes incredibly clear when you read your documents than to make all talk of missiles go away because on the opening night for tall people were talking about within the fiercest -- first the ours. we know there's one amateur video taken of the complete sequence of events. some of you may have seen it. it was aired on "msnbc" to the best of my knowledge probably two or three times. i talk to one of the fellows who is the technical director at "msnbc" and he said we showed it a few times in these three guys in suits came to pick up the copies and that was the end of that. the best collaboration of who we have seen i got from a 747 pilot and he was willing to give him his name and the use of his name which is a sign of some confidence. he was laid up in a hong kong hospital with that surgery and his wife came to visit and watch tv for several weeks. the start of t

his cia is facing a new front in cyber. and a focus on it, he set up the agency's first new directorate in more than 50 years. that cyberenvironment can pose a very, very serious and significant attack vector for our adversaries if they want to take down our infrastructure. if they want to do -- great damage to our financial networks. there are safe guard put in place. but that cyberenvironment is one that really is the thing that keeps me up at night. >> you can see more of scott pelley's report on our website. cbs news.com. the overnight news will be right back. i think we should've taken a left at the river. tarzan know where tarzan go! tarzan does not know where tarzan go. hey, excuse me, do you know where the waterfall is? waterfall? no, me tarzan, king of jungle. why don't you want to just ask somebody? if you're a couple, you fight over directions. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. oh ohhhhh it's what you do. ohhhhhh! do you have to do that right in m

cia. through a excellent question with the cia is doing involving itself in a nest forecast airplane crash. we'll get to that in a minute, and we've also gotten some interesting videos. and some it a lot of whistle blowers from inside the investigation have come forward so the state of our knowledge today is much better than what it was 20 years ago. when i say we, i'm gong to give credit to the people who have done a lot of research here like sometimes partnering james sanders, business and some of the other people christina who came here and spoke tomorrow cbs producer. ray lare former -- eastern aret pilot and also investigators attorney john clark good at actress and media -- [inaudible] and hank senior sbn investigators so they deserve credit for digging up the information i'm going to share. i want that to be known. sips since the book has come out i've heard from 100 individuals within military and aviation industry supporting my thesis most of them worked for and at the investigati

cia is still the engine for the pdb, but in all cases, it is always, regardless of who drafted, cia or any component of the intelligence committee, it is always coordinated throughout the intelligence community. and importantly, where appropriate and where someone wants to, dissents are reflected. you won't find dissents in the pdb's that were rolled out in the university of texas, because it was done by one agency. i think that is a strength, frankly, to register dissent, president obama has won more than one occasion said that he welcomes that, would be surprised that there weren't dissent within the intelligence community, so we reflect that. the other changes are more occasioned by the technology. i may be a little biased, but i think our pdb's today are richer because of the many more sources of information we draw on and the timeliness of the availability of those sources of information, which weren't available then, because of the technology in the pdb's that will be rolled out today. we have gone to an ipad. president obama, who is very i.t. smart, we went through this a couple

same things in the cia.re's a great pride in being a case operations officer, great pride in being what i think is the gold standard of analysis being an analyst in the cia. we want to leverage that the bring together so that they are able to interact with one another in a manner that empowers both of the capabilities and mission. when i look out, i was part of this to the national counterterrorism center and we could create a self-sustaining organization but the real challenge in setting it up from scratch was how you're going to make sure that it interoperates with the rest of the counterterrorism ecosystem. that ecosystem is embedded within a intelligence community ecosystem which is part of the national steady system and the government. so the real challenge looking out in the next administration will have this certainly, how are you going to ensure that you design a system so that you have the optimal advantage of the capabilities, the networks, the authorities, the expertise that resides in the u.s. go

so we're not talking about the cia here. we're talking about a few people, apparently, who are leaking information to journalists, maybe to curry favor. and, you know, there's always going to be somebody in there that doesn't support, but i would commend to your viewers to read the "newsweek" article that was posted last night. no friend of donald trump, the president-elect's. they're even showing not too fast, rushing to judgment here, this needs to be done competently and cohesively, that all of these facts have not been knitted together yet sufficiently that would bring us to the conclusion many are making and many want your viewers to assume here which is it was russia, maybe jim comey, sprinkle in a little bernie sanders, how dare he won, russian interference, the alt-right. it's everybody's fault but hillary clinton. i'm not going to allow them to confuse this. >> right. >> you know what, you want to attack me, you want to attack the president-elect, folks, go, but guess what, not going to allow you to undercut 62 mill

>> inspector general of cia is one of three officers within the cia which are presidentially appointed an senate confirmed and so therefore it's the prerogative of the senate and the white house, so we have had an acting ig, the deputy who is presiding over that office. i would like to think that i would seen that such a nomination would be forthcoming soon. >> i hope you'll convey the importance that the committee puts on that position and we believe an appointment in the immediate future is appropriate. >> ly do my best to -- to do that. >> thank you, thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator cotton. >> thank you, director brennan is good to have you here again. i have been in the intelligence committee of a make-shift day care. [laughter] >> i did, however, hear his opening statements and many of the other statements and thanking you on behalf of the men and women who serve the cia, in many cases, they face even more hardships and risks and do our troops and while our troops get recognition appropriately at the ball games or when they walk-through airports, obviously your officers do not

cut a deal with the cia and which he would turn over terrorism suspects to the cia.one day in 2003, mohammed dere's militia grabbed suleiman abdullah salim out of his car and beat him and picked him up as few hours later and turned them over to the cia -- which eventually he was thrown into a secret prison in afghanistan where he was tortured. is reallye he endured hard to hear from him. to me, that was the hardest part of doing this was actually to hear the person that the cia had tortured describe the torture that they had endured. you know, many of us have read innocents torture torture report or the newspapers, but to actually hear and sit with someone who had to endure this is a very difficult process. amy: jim risen, we want to turn to suleiman abdullah salim in his own words speaking to the aclu about the long-term impacts of the t torture he endured. amy: i am in so much pain. i vomited. why are you doing g this to me? tell us what happened to su leiman. >> he was picked up in somalia up. the cia arranged to fly him to kenya where he was questioned by the ken

bush received a cia briefer every morning along with usually the director of cia. and then after that every day he would bring in his homeland security top team, the homeland security director, the attorney general, the fbi director. so it was an extension of the pdb briefing often continuing the discussion of the president's daily brief, but it was explicitly combining the foreign and domestic when it came to national security issues. >> okay. right there, amanda. >> first of all, thank you. very, very interesting. i can't wait to read the book. you mentioned early on that often times the daily brief was contrary to maybe the president's policies or whatever. how did they react to that often times? would they turn a blind eye to it? did they embrace it? did they change policy? maybe you could talk about that. >> i will. in the older cases, that is the presidents like richard nixon, you'll see the story in the book. it's unclear whether richard nixon even read the pdb every day, and that's the one president we really don't know. kissinger on the one hand said i kne

three years en since the cia said that. the case that no one has been held accountable for systemic failures that the agency has acknowledged? wantrst of all, senator, i to say that i respectfully disagree with your opening comments. irst of all, u.s. companies dominate the international market as far as encryption are available at through these various apps and i think we'll continue to dominate them. right there is the ability of foreign companies o be able to have those encryption capabilities and available to others, i do believe that this country and private sector is integral to addressing these issues and i this committee on to continue to work on it. course of over the the last several years took ctions to address the short comings that we have fully the detention and interrogation program. there was individual account accountabilitynd for some of the management and systemic failures. would be happy to had in a different setting the details of i think the hat committee is aware of. >> i want to make sure i heard tha

david robarge, for cia. david? [applause] david: this event mirroring the pdb's of nixon and ford gives us an excellent opportunity to underscore a point about the relationship between central intelligence, the pdb process, and the white house. it is up to the president how it is going to be run. there is nothing in the national security acts of 1947 setting up cia and the national security council that says the intelligence process will be a certain type. it is strictly up to the president, whether he is interested in intelligence, thinks it is important, wants to use it, advising against us, considers it irrelevant, as other sources, that is up to him. the extent to which the agency, over the years, and now the dni in collaboration with the agency and other community elements, has tried to tailor the product to the president's needs is a fascinating story. you can see by scanning through the documents in today's release how the pdb itself as a product has changed. behind the scenes is an important story, as dr. t

the cia has the cia act. the nsa has the nsa act that can be invoked. >> right. >> to essentially, you know, deny certain information. but i think that, you know, going to your point, ben, with internally, there can be proactive disclosures whether it would essentially mean that, you know, perhaps i didn't need to file a foia request for an ig report or 400 of them. but that, you know, could be something where you just put that out there. d.o.d., as an example. again, the cia is a secret agency and everything is classified. department of defense inspector general, they put their ig reports out there. some things are redacted. there are proactive steps that can be taken that can minimize that. but largely everything is, you know, is secret. just trying to get at that is difficult. and that is certainly, you know, part on congress and you know responsibility for changing that. >> one follow-up question on that. there's been recent legislation that requires if there are three requests, i think for the same docum

david robards, for cia. david. [applause] john brennan: this event -- david: this event mirroring the us's of nixon and ford gives a way to look at the white house , which is that it is entirely up to the president how it is going to be run. there is nothing in the national security acts of 1947 setting up cia and the national security council that says the intelligence process will be a certain type. it is up to the president, whether he is interested in intelligence, thinks it is important, wants to use it, advising against us, considers it irrelevant, as other sources, that is up to him. and the agency over the years and now the dni and other elements have try to tailor the daily product to meet the president needs is a fascinating story. you can see by scanning through the documents in today's release how the pdb itself as a product has changed. but behind that is an important , ary as dr. turgeon says process. how they integrated the pdb into their intelligence below, who managed the intelligence below. more i

the cia has multiple missions. we have the human and technical, the all force analytic mission to provide policymakers in congress with the insights they need. we have the counterintelligence mission to make sure we can protect ourselves from adversaries trying to steal our secrets. we also have a covert action mission which involves the paramilitary dimension, and given our roots in the services in world war ii since our birth , in 1947, every administration has taken advantage of cia's tremendous abilities in that paramilitary covert action realm. as we fight in yemen and iraq and other places, the cia's give abilities in this area will be increasingly called upon in the future. i also would add one other component to those missions and that's on the liaison front. our partners. we need to make sure we develop the partnership we need to leverage their capabilities, because as good as cia is we're , not able to confront all these angles globally. we need to develop the professionalism of other services and make su

russia attacks us and trump tax the cia. man, he ought to -- he ought to be the one, brooke, calling for an investigation like right now. >> well, he's not, so far. on top of all of this, what he is calling for is a potential pick for secretary of state. this is apparently a man who was one of putin's best american buddies, rex tillerson. congressman, does this concern you? >> no, you know, again, i separate the issues. i don't have a problem with getting friendly with russia. i don't have a problem with -- if tillerson is friendly with putin. that's a policy disagreement. i have a problem with any foreign government trying to pick our president. that's a totally separate issue. if donald trump is watching right now, he blocked me on twitter, brooke, so he doesn't follow me any more. man, he's going to use this as an opportunity, i think, to bring the country together and lead an investigation. >> you got blocked by trump on twitter. did that hurt your feelings, congressman? >> hey, brooke, it did. if donald trump blocked yo

thatside on then cia director david petraeus. others are pointing to russia's role in creating fake news stories that may have shifted perceptions against hillary clinton. that of course insults voters who may not have been mindlessly drawn to trump over emails and giving russia more credit than they deserved. if they are so good at changing feeling and beliefs and actions, then defeating isis should be a no-brainer for them. i'm glad you are here to help me sort it out. i'm kennedy. the cia says russia tampered in our election. the democrats, maybe they are being losers. >> i don't believe it. i think the democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country. kennedy: ambassador john bolton says it could be a false flag operation. welcome back, ambassador. you say that the intelligence has been politicized. what exactly do you mean with that statement in regard to the cia? >> i think we have seen over 8 years of the obama administration a lot of of politization

the other member of the missile team putting the cia analyst, okay with the cia.and we don't know this until recently, on april 29th he was fighting with the cia. he was in north carolina, and on paper he does, interviewing one of the witnesses in his book, the story of witness number 73. some of you saw this, i will play the story a little bit. in 2009 i got a call and she goes -- this is witness 73, you know who i am, yes i do. here is the story. the fbi writes 302, here is what the fbi witness summary from july 20, 1996, says about their interview with witness number 73. it is not a real name, they are talking to sandy who tells them she is on the beach and she is -- has an interest in aviation and a travel professional, tracking flight 800 across the sky, out of jfk and she was right, and you see this object off of the horizon and a smoky contrail comes up out and over, closed outside the right wing, another explosion and the nose of the plane came off and stalls and falls out of the sky, breaks into flames in a fireball. three days after the crash sandy told