Retired in two thousand and six and give a rare insight into the Strategic Thinking at the time if a tranquil delves into the sometimes humorous documents. Heres the age of the worlds mightiest army being in charge of it is a hell of a job who else suddenly has to order a full list of languages spoken in afghanistan or worry about the pronunciation of the word is lab and even hassle their assistance for a dentists appointment. Seriously thats what the only american whos twice been pentagon boss was up to Donald Rumsfeld forget the book he wrote for future generations about his career in case youre interested in his experience thanks to the freedom of information act you can now learn directly from mr rumsfeld so called snowflakes what do you think i should do with this collins memo i look at it and i dont know what to do with it please take a look at this article and tell me what you think i ought to do about it i need to start seeing films overheads video and photos everyone in the room is seeing all kinds of video and pictures and talking about them and i have no idea what theyre talking about so the nickname snowflakes was for the tiny notes or memos for subordinates oh id love to have a job where i could go ive got an article here i just read it didnt get a thing what should i do about it youll find it loads of snowflakes like that and the d. O. D. Archive apparently thats how it works there something just pops up in mr rumsfelds mind he types it out boom the word homeland is a strange word Homeland Defense sounds more german than american lets visit about this someday in a press conference the president is going to be asked how many and cabinet meetings he had that could be embarrassing we need to think of bad things that could happen and good things that could happen please give me a list of both the next one will give you an idea of how tough the boss could get if staff misbehaved if people come late to meetings we should remove their plates from the table well. What else can you do if assistance just cant do their job properly if im going to give gifts i have to know whats in them we say islam with an s. Not a z. And muslim with an s. Not a double z. I still need a dentist appointment with a quick summary of rummy snowflakes i mean we have to try and go. A moscow cinema has been rated by police after each show with a newly released british film the death of stalin the theater pup the film the spiked it being banned in russia oh wow. When asked if this british movie follows the last days and death of Joseph Stalin as well as the political infighting that ensued so why is it having a problem here in russia its not about style in themselves but it is about the timing the showing of this movie was supposed to coincide with the anniversary of the battle of stalingrad it was one of the most decisive moments in the Second World War and its bloodiest battle and since this movie is a dark comedy it is showing in a rather satirical way some of the people that made this victory for russia in that war possible so some are saying that this movies is a bit insensitive for the veterans and those who cherish the memories of the great patriotic war many elderly people will perceive it as an offensive mockery of the soviet past the country that conquered fascism and most disgusting the victims of stalinism we dont have censorship were not afraid of critical assessment of our history so the Russian Ministry of culture decided to revoke the license of the movie when it comes to Public Opinion while its played some agree that some may find the timing a bit insensitive others are saying its art its not intended to be story accurate and that people probably shouldnt be taking it too seriously. I dont think they should have banned it whether one likes it or not is this persons business i live during the time and i saw us talents funeral i was there and what i just showed doesnt offend me. Well its a terrifying film. I laughed as a comedy i think it would be well received in most countries im not sure it would be as funny for british canadian or American People or for those who know the Historical Context but for me it was interesting and it was a good comedy is very important to show the film and id like to thank the pioneer cinema for ignoring the ban on the film its worth the risk a few months ago a russian movie found itself in an identical situation the film called me. Well there was telling the story of the last russian tsar nicholas the second and his love affair with a ballerina and the reason that movie face so much opposition both from the politicians and from ordinary people in the street is because according to the Russian OrthodoxChurch Nicholas the second is a saint so some details of his personal of his love life could be disturbing to a religious person in russia the outcome of that story was the movie was allowed to be shown and people had a chance to make up their own mind while the fate of the death of starland remains in limbo because done up to. The greatest sporting show on earth gets under way in russia this summer if you think the twentieth dean fifa world cup might inspire you to maybe improve your footballing skills a little arties very own star studded cullimore meets the man who designs the boots of some of the games greats. 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Are heading stateside where journalists in the us have noticed they quietly made edits online to the official Mission Statement of the National Security agency it turns out the words almost state trust and openness are now all gone the old core values used to begin with the word honesty saying that the American People have placed great trust in the n. S. A. Therefore the agency promised to honor about with openness well now it instead starts with the phrase commitment to service heres how the n. S. A. Explain the changes its nothing more than a website update thats all it is. The effort to delete words that are that mean a lot to americans such as honesty and transparency and what have you has is something that. Is important but if if the National Security agencys deleting it i think that that means that theyre getting more according to reality as to just how these intelligence agencies work they are theyre not called the deep state for nothing and and the only thing that they did agree that they did keep was the provision of. Respect in the law and and but but even there they fudge on that. The german media has revealed a growing concern in berlin over the number of islamist extremists inside europe those claims were based on classified documents obtained by Germanys Left Party our europe correspondent peter all of us the story theres a growing threat from islamic extremism in europe based in the balkans and the German Government is keeping to itself and thats according to a highly classified report thats being seen by so. Hes the media. The German Federal government cannot discount the basic threat posed by individuals and splinter groups in the islamist scene in bosniaherzegovina. The hush hush document goes as far as to claim that there is a direct link between radical islamic groups in Bosnia Herzegovina and people in germany the true nature of what this heavily classified report says doesnt come out parts of it were redacted from the copy that was shown to the left party the federal government has been trying to downplay the growing islamist threat in public furthermore its entirely unacceptable that the government continues to cover up the role of the gulf states my colleague charlotta bin ski traveled to Bosnia Herzegovina back in december she witnessed firsthand the situation on the ground there regarding islamic radicalization the local a mom is telling me that some of the residents have joined Islamic State and its one minute of the road and there are people who went to syria and forty on the side of ice but who tried to stop them. It looks like an ordinary sleepy village a few houses nestled between the hills not how you might imagine a cradle of terror. A look at the mom says he fears for his life after speaking out against those who joined eisel we do this in a parade of these radical elements are always unpredictable and these people prayed with me the aide at the same table as me and they want to shoot me this heavily edited version of the report issued by the government raises a lot of questions over what exactly germany knows about islamic radicalization in the balkans and how bad the situation actually is as we see in the answer to our parliamentary in question the German Government gives the expert types expertize that it doesnt explicitly in the gate the possibility that single persons or groups who are belonging to the islamistic seen or boston or else the gobi now could be a threat to germany and europe but in the same time the government indicts to speak about it Financial Transactions that are provided for example by the govt states or turkey to the bucket states as well as the sending of the moms by the states and contrary to the German Secret Service one does not fish the German Government tries to hide the fact of growing danger coming from islam is the groups from the problem. 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Hello and welcome to cross talk were all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle were told a secret society existed within the f. B. I. With the sole intent to undermine candidate and then later President Donald Trump also were told the f. Last Text Messages from members of this secret society with russia gate rapidly losing steam we now have f. B. I. Get. Crosslinking released the memo im joined by my guess the annual ferrazzi in washington he is director of Grassroots Political Consulting in atlanta we have kevin ship he is a former Central IntelligenceAgency Officer as well as author of from the company of shadows and lake jackson we crossed to Daniel Mcadams he is the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity all right gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime and i always appreciate kevin you drove three hours to come to this program so you get your you have the honor of having the first question here ok. Kevin you know when i when i was growing up i was a young boy but i used to play hooky from school to watch the watergate hearings the only time i ever did that when i was a school kid even a student and it was quite fascinating its probably why i ended up what im doing now and what was interesting then is that a crime was committed and then an investigation ensued and the Nixon White House tried to recruit the f. B. I. To do dirty tricks to fix things to make the coverup go away etc etc now we have this situation in washington where its the f. B. I. That seems to be driving whats going on here russia gate has lost a lot of steam we can still have the innuendos and the rumors and the leak but it hasnt amounted to anything but day after day it looks like the f. B. I. Is where the real problem is kevin go ahead. Yes the real concern here is it appears that there has been a weaponization of the secret intelligence agencies in this case specifically f. B. I. Counterintelligence and the a huge concern here is it appears that f. B. I. Management colluded in f. B. I. Agents actually swore false have a davids to the pfizer corps to devise a court judges which resulted in n. S. A. Surveillance of a president ial campaign a Transition Team that is very serious ok well its called the fruit of the poison tree daniel in washington here. Is there a real crisis going on here i mean this is the premier. Law Enforcement Agency in the United States certainly maybe even in the whole world here. Are these people that can be trusted last emails counterintelligence is supposed to be watching emails and they lose their own i mean im sorry it is hard for me to believe that go ahead in washington yet absolutely we have a few answers to this question one is the f. B. I. In specific since Herbert Hoover and the movie that was portrayed on him to call me the f. B. I. Has been a Political Institution i know great agents that work there and some that have left there but in the bureaucracy and the leadership it has been known as a political weapon and has been utilized look at bill clinton spec ground as well i mean its a lot of very recent history where its continued to be used in the way it is but yes we do right now have a constitutional crisis where devon noone is many of the other congressmen and House Homeland SecurityCommittee Chairman ron johnson and his statements yesterday they have woken up to the fact of the flagrant abuse weaponization and politicization of this institution and it creates a very dangerous precedent because this goes back to a hoover style. Yeah. You know and the way that theyre doing things and being able to as kevin and just said surveil a candidate and surveil a Transition Team under false pretenses missing Text Messages come on theres no such thing i could recover my own if i deleted them tomorrow so this is just beyond the pale granite of the annual in lake jackson we have j. Edgar komi i think is the new movie thats going to be made here. You know where its very troubling is that peter struck you know hes kind of the premier character in all of this right now i mean the hillary emails and then we have the flynn interrogation eccentrics letter he still has his job why why why isnt he on leave why isnt he gone in front of a. Place legal you know complicated implications of what hes done i mean there is none of it at all but we dont even hear from him go ahead. Well this goes back to the the whole problem with the f. B. I. In the poorest place remember when it was first formed the first thing it did is started spying on antiwar people in the early part of the Twentieth Century and putting them to jail f. B. I. Agents do what if the rest of us did it we would be sent to jail and thats the core problem and blundering and losing losing evidence is nothing new a look at the cliff and bundy case in in the western part of the United States they absolutely obstructed justice they got rid of evidence to exonerate them and they were found to doing the same thing happened if you remember a few years ago in ruby ridge in waco under president clinton this is part and parcel of what the f. B. I. Does this is the danger of having an organization like the f. B. I. National police force a kind of a stasi for the United States so it really is nothing new but what they do the rest of us would be thrown in jail if we did it kevin what is Jeff Sessions doing i mean is he perpetually on vacation or are maybe maybe we dont know maybe he is already called some special investigations hes not obligated to tell the public that hes doing that the marriage act he really cant ok but i really have to wonder i mean you know there is so many of these things you know we want to find out there is donald trump in the white house theres Jeff Sessions at the department of justice they couldnt release any documents they want whats going on explain it kevin. Well you know peter i was in counterintelligence with the cia and we were daily with the f. B. I. And at the lower levels our work with them actually fantastic f. B. I. Agents but at the upper levels i can tell you we saw constant politicization by f. B. I. Supervisors even leaking information to the press on cases that we had but up to attorney general sessions one thing we did learn about the f. B. I. It was kind of frustrating it will take them or year or years to investigate a case just move in plodding along dotting every i crossing every t. I think a sessions is just being careful slow and really meticulous in what hes doing its frustrating theyre not going to come out and say things that will get sessions or others in trouble until they have things solidified so although its kind of frustrating and i hear all the time people are are wondering about sessions but their silence does not necessarily mean that theres a bad thing going on it could just mean that trump and sessions are building a solid irrefutable case ok well daniel in washington you think that cases against jim comi Loretta Lynch and Samantha Power i mean in these types of people here because it appears that they have their fingerprints all over this and then we can talk about the entire history of the quote unquote russia da ca ok which is a whole different the need to go down go ahead daniel in washington i think the problem i kind of disagree on the attorney general sessions part ok he has not been effective he has not been a good leader and he has not done what it is unprecedented when you have a change of party you get rid of all of the institutional employees and you bring in your own people this has obama attorneys working all throughout this institution he brings Rod Rosenstein in and also you know recuses himself instead of proactively addressing the administration on this a. Tires special counsel investigation and in addition to that hes that the white house is not known as a well run machine right now they do not have their act together internally and this is you can see it and state department d o d so many other places that really need white house direction but i find that turning general sessions is not doing his job effectively you mentioned a let me of things that he should be speaking about at least addressing and hiring and directing and hes just not doing it and i think that was you know a poor choice to have him in that position and if we had Rudy Giuliani right now you know you have a completely innocent situation and absolutely in the department of justice it daniel in lake jackson. Is you know one of the things that were witnessing right now and i think is the real dilemma is that you have this entire how many people in the highest elmo of the f. B. I. That appear to be in collusion from what we know lets be careful here and then you have this special in but you have a special prosecutor and juxtapose both of them here i mean it mulder comes out with something you know and its accusatory inflammatory theres going to be a lot of people and im going to be one of them going to say but what about investigating the investigators you see the kind of deadlock this is going to create and i think thats another real crisis that the country is facing theres no confidence in the probe i mean of course you would hear that on c. N. N. And n. B. C. Would see i mean the junk that they spew is extraordinary but the rest of the country is listening and wondering whats going on is there a crisis here go ahead jackson. Well i wonder how many of the rest of us im sure peter you feel the same way are wondering about the mole or investigation where is russia. Was talking we remember this is all about. Well i can you know i know his Campaign Team please forgive me i forgot all about that ok youre right go ahead. Youre supposed to youre supposed to just just relax youll be ok listen to c. N. N. No no were not talking if this was a very very limited investigation of whether the Trump Campaign and trump himself colluded with russia whether five or six years ago president putin woke up one morning and said you know what i bet donald trump is going to be president someday so lets set up this whole chain of events to entrap him in a way that we can manipulate him and make him our puppet this is what the whole thing was supposed to be about yeah and now were talking about an interview with trump and ruler to talk about whether there might have been obstruction of justice when he fired komi as a previous speaker said very well he had a right to fire all these people and he should have that was probably his big mistake hes all bluster and no action ok gentlemen im going to jump in here were going to go to a short break and after that short break well continue our discussion on released a memo. Her. 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