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Featured on booktv . Send us an email at booktv cspan. Org or tweet us at twitter. Com booktv. At the time the Central Intelligence agency had really taken a beating. They had been through grueling hearings before congress about who should be blamed for 9 11 and whether the cia had failed to watch list certain individuals and had otherwise failed to share information with the fbi that might have foretold of or allowed the fbi to investigate the plots on 9 11. The cia, i think its fair to say, was really buffetted by these particular hearings, and then the 9 11 commission came along and had another set of hearings which really were very, very tough. Indeed, the chairman of the 9 11 commission noted that their staff statement about what happened, what the cia did on nerve was really on 9 11 was really an indictment of the agencys performance. A second factor occurred that contributed to this momentous change of events in the fall of 2004, was really the 9 11 commission itself. They were
Continue those discussions as well. Inwhat was your experience the cloud sector and smart grid sector tell you that will end up looking like . Probably the most maturing right now is the discussions the smart grid, just because it is a little bit older than the cloud side. It was focused on the government adoption side. The smart grid, a smart grid interoperability panel, which is an actual 501 c 3 organization , was put together because the Stakeholder Group felt there was not an existing organization that could facilitate that process. They establish one of their own. This has provided funding for the operation of the organization. We remained working with them routinely today where you now have a living cycle of, ok, here are the changing issues, here the top ones, here are the ones to fix. The top panel does the triage. And in many cases, now works with all of the different standard organizations that are hey,rting that, saying, here are key areas to improve. And making sure the ad
Of staff to mike rogers on the House Intelligence Committee and also spent seven years in various senior positions with the National Security council under the george w. Bush administration. He managed to write a book and have two young sons and set up a very successful new business all in the space, and continue work on the hill at the same time so very impressive. Mike has agreed to speak about the big themes and stories in this book for a half an hour and engaging q a and throw it out to you in for questions. Mike. Thank you. I will go over to the podium if thats okay. I think you can do without that. I want to thank the new America Foundation for having me today especially peter for the invitation and thank you all for coming out in the rain to hear a little thats about my book blinking red and i look forward to q a about other pressing Intelligence Community topics. Blinking red is an attempt to write the authoritative object if history of the most substantial restructuring of the
While, more reluctance on their part to share what they have, and while its not going to be permanent, issue, you know, what happens if theres shortage of information about a terrorist attack, and for whatever reason, because of political climate, because of what snowden created, that information is not passed . Thats what i worry about. Host do you think were out of time and its the last question where our government and certainly cia, too, needs to just assume that things are going to get out, and they, then, in other words, secrets will not remain secret, especially in the environment where we depend on the internet for i. T. To keep the secrets, and they have to calibrate that and act differently . Guest yeah, we talked about this before. Leaks are inevitable. There were leaks in the cia 35 years ago, and theres going to be leaks 35 years from now. Leaks are a facts of life in the intelligence business and business community, as you know, and so we have to just live with it and rec