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The intent may not have been specifically to provide share intelligence with the Ukrainians so they can kill Russian generals, but if you share intelligence that gives the Ukrainians situational awareness, if you help either identify or reinforce, for example, where a headquarters is, Russian headquarters, well, that's where generals generally gravitate, is to headquarters.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
This sort of thing lends itself to covert action on the part of The US government, and I trust and hope that we are doing something along those lines.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
To me, as a layman, I am not haggling over war crimes because that's clearly what the Russians have resorted to, and the reason for it, of course, is the fact they essentially failed in a conventional, tactical attack, so they're resorting to what they can do, which is wanton destruction and the killing of innocent civilians.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think it's a good thing to do, because by diming out the Russians, particularly if you can do it preemptively, then you may prevent that very thing from happening -- and it would appear, at least so far, that may be the case.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
Obviously, the downsides to doing stuff like this is,' Is whatever source United States got that from going to dry up on United States ?' that's always the risk-gain assessment that you have to do.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If he shoots into Kyiv or any other major cities, then you know it's a real deal.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
So this is simply affirmation, confirmation of what has already been said both by Director Wray of the FBI and Bill Evanina, who is director of the National National Counterintelligence and Security Center and Security Center, who is kind of the nominal spokesman for election interference on behalf of the director of national intelligence.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I never saw any direct empirical evidence that the Trump Jr. campaign or someone in it was plotting/conspiring with the Russians to meddle with the election, that's not to say that there weren't concerns about the evidence we were seeing, anecdotal evidence. ... But I do not recall any instance where I had direct evidence of the content of these meetings. It's just the frequency and prevalence of them was of concern.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I've come around to the position some months ago that perhaps as at least an initial plateau, in the interest of getting something done, it might be worth considering capping what North Korea have now and then maybe on a much longer term basis trying, you know, to get them to reduce their nuclear holdings to zero, which I think is going to be very difficult.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I wish people paid more attention to Volume I [of the Mueller report].
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
No one can say( the Russians) didn't interfere, and, in fact, I think taint the election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Collusion and obstruction aside, the big deal to me is the magnitude of the Russian interference.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
My read of the Mueller report is that there's a road map laid out there if the Congress chooses to follow it, i think the decision is whether to do that in the face of Republican resistance or opposition in the Senate, which is where a conviction has to happen, or let this play out through the 2020 election.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I thought it was both stunning and scary, i was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. The term' spying' has all kinds of negative connotations and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The first objective of The Russians was to sow doubt, discord and discontent in this country, and they've succeeded to it fairly well -- capitalizing and exploiting the polarization and divisiveness in this country, secondarily, of course, was to do all they could to damage Hillary Clinton's candidacy and to help, when he became serious as Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Bill McRaven's a national hero, bill McRaven performance in orchestrating the actual attack was masterful, and I think the country owes Bill McRaven a great debt for Bill McRaven leadership and Bill McRaven lifetime of service.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
What this really is is misplaced criticism of Bill McRaven.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it would have been a lot more appropriate, a lot more sincere, had he actually named the targets and said something reassuring to them.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I do want to just echo one thing that( former CIA Director) John Brennan said and that this is not going to silence the administration's critics.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I do want to just echo one thing that John Brennan said and that this is not going to silence the administration's critics.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it is, i think John is sort of like a freight train, and he's going to say what's on his mind. I think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is a genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions and values, and although we may express that in different ways. And I think that's what this really is about. But John and his rhetoric, I think, have become an issue in and of itself.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think it is, i think John Brennan is sort of like a freight train, and John Brennan's going to say what's on John Brennan mind. I think, though, that the common denominator among all of us that have been speaking up, though, is a genuine concern about the jeopardy or threats to our institutions and values, and although we may express that in different ways. And I think that's what this really is about. But John Brennan and John Brennan rhetoric, I think, have become an issue in and of itself.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I find it very disturbing that here we were in compliance with a request of the then-President of the United States to put into one document our insight and knowledge of the profound threat that Russia posed to this country, and now, apparently, we're being punished for this. John( Brennan) already has been.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is an enemies list to get at people that have been critical or who have taken actions that, you know, he didn't like. That to me is a pretty chilling message.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There is a very chilling message here to people in the intelligence community. If you tee up intelligence that the President doesn't like, you may risk losing your clearance and thereby your job.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Will the republic stand or fall on whether John( John Brennan) retains his access to classified information ? Of course not. The larger issue here, to me, throughout has been infringement on First Amendment rights and I think people ought to think seriously about that.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Even Secretary Mattis, as dedicated as Secretary Mattis is to this country and particularly to the men and women of the armed forces that Secretary Mattis leads, even Secretary Mattis would at some point I think would have a tipping point if Secretary Mattis's completely cut out of things.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's a particularly acute issue here with President Donald Trump, who I think as more time has elapsed in his tenure, feels more and more confident that, you know, he doesn't really need any advice from anybody and he's smarter than everybody else.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think that history is replete with examples of where there have been, shall I say, communication gaps between the White House and Pentagon.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I saw a Dennis Rodman that I have never seen before on the course of that interview, and you drew that out of him.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Cuomo Prime Time, i've long been an advocate of involving Dennis Rodman.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It wasn’t my place to do that, i was reporting to the then-government, the executive branch policymakers. But for me to pick up the phone and call a political candidate would not have been appropriate.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I prefer to remember Rusty Giuliani that way than the way Rusty Giuliani's conducting Rusty Giuliani now.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think there's value having gone this far, there's value in meeting and greeting, gripping and grinning, and just establishing a rapport. I think yes, it would be important to have the summit.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I support the letter that President Donald Trump sent to Kim Jong Un, I think it was a good thing to do.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That is kind of in my mind, and maybe I'm a traditionalist, violates a norm and standard of behavior that's long been abided by previous presidents and to me that's bothersome and I think another sign of some erosion of our institutions and our norms and standards.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
To me, it stretches logic and credulity to think that there was no impact.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
No, they were not, they were spying on -- a term I don't particularly like -- but on what the Russians were doing. Trying to understand were the Russians infiltrating, trying to gain access, trying to gain leverage or influence which is what they do.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The parallelism between what the Donald Trump campaign was doing and saying and what the Russians were doing and saying was remarkably parallel, particularly when it came to attacks on Hillary Clinton, all Hillary Clinton alleged physical and mental maladies, and there was almost an echo chamber between the two.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
No, they were not, they were spying, a term I don’t particularly like, on what the Russians were doing, trying to understand, were the Russians infiltrating?
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I didn’t have any contact with media until after I left the government on the 20thof January.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It speaks well of him for picking a seasoned veteran of the agency who is widely and deeply respected by the workforce as well as those outside the agency, she has also been a strong proponent for integration, not only within CIA, but across the intelligence community.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I was told by senior officials to keep [Clapper] out of it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don’t know when I’ve listened and watched something like this from a president that I’ve found more disturbing.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
This behavior and this divisiveness, intellectual and moral and ethical void that the president of the United States exhibits, and how much longer does the country — to borrow a phrase — endure this nightmare ? Trump’s remarks in Phoenix were reminiscent of candidate-Trump on the campaign trail, slamming the media over its coverage of his presidency — specifically noting his response to recent violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think in many ways our institutions are under assault both externally -- and that's the big news here is the Russian interference in our election system -- and I think as well our institutions are under assault internally.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You could rationalize that it helps the Russians by obfuscating who was actually responsible.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
During my tenure as DNI, it was my practice to defer to the FBI director -- both (former FBI) Director (Robert) Mueller and Director Comey -- on whether, when, and to what extent they would inform me about such investigations.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
They must be congratulating themselves for having exceeded their wildest expectations, they are now emboldened to continue such activities in the future, both here and around the world, and to do so even more intensely.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
For the part of the national security apparatus that I oversaw as DNI, there was no wiretap activity mounted against the President-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There's no question this is going to set back and make more difficult cooperation with the Turks.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Our most important resource is our people, the compromises, decisions we've made, and then the budget reductions occasioned by sequestration or sequestration-like reductions is – the cumulative effect of all this is what I worry about and the reduction in our capacity. It's not as great as it was, say, a year or two ago. And if we continue, you know, these cuts, it will continue to have a negative impact.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Based on the pace and scope of construction at these outposts, China will be able to deploy a range of offensive and defensive military capabilities and support increased PLAN and CCG presence beginning in 2016, once these facilities are completed by the end of 2016 or early 2017, China will have significant capacity to quickly project substantial offensive military power to the region.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor, we further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor’s spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months.
Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed, i have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Such malicious cyber activity will continue and probably accelerate until we establish and demonstrate the capability to deter malicious state-sponsored cyber activity.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The day after [Greenwald] wrote about it, the program was shut down by the government of Afghanistan, which was the single most important source of force protection and warning for our people in Afghanistan.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Terrorists particularly have gone to school on the revelations caused by Snowden.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
They've been funded anyway even with the sanctions regime, so I'm sure they'll get some money but I don't think it'll be a huge windfall for them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They’ve been funded anyway even with the sanctions regime, so I’m sure they’ll get some money but I don’t think it’ll be a huge windfall for them.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So many times, the Chinese and others get access to our systems just by pretending to be someone else and then asking for access, and someone gives it to them.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
From an intelligence perspective, I think clearly we need to step up our game.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
There are, in addition to ISIL, probably six or eight other terrorist groups that have gathered in Libya. So it's a magnet because, essentially, it's ungoverned.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The issue is the time it is going to take ... to get the ... firepower that will have an impact.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
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