are you concerned that as th tele- band gain ground, that al qaeda will be able to move back in and be able to strengthen enough to attack the west. if so can you give us a sense o how long before they will be able to have that cap ability? general, i know you don t want to talk about the book, but you have not denied any of the recent reporting that s been ou there including the comments an some of the actions, and the american public and members of the military because of your silence on it and denying it, have no reason to believe that that was anything, but accurate. looking back now, i know you said you didn t violate, but looking back now, were you to political at the time, and are you concerned about the message that that sends to the rank and file? courtney, on your first fees and whether or not we are concerned about al qaeda coming
they are constantly losing the cap ability and then regaining it in some other way or investigating how they can get into systems. the bottom line is that whenever you show your hand to the adversary about what you re capable of doing, and more specifically what you re targeting, you re really giving away a lot of information about your intentions, and that s really worth a lot to these countries. kimberly: megan. meghan: why now? the timing seems a little strange. is it to invoke further distrust between us and the intelligence community s? wide survey? i have spoken to a number of military intelligence and cybersecurity experts and what they ve all pointed out is that there does seem to be a pattern. you look at the data points you see the thread that goes to wikileaks. in this case also in the 2013 documents from edward snowden and then recently with russia s