Apt, not necessarily a direct threat to resign, but that s what we re being told is it was more of a subtle thing like, hey, look, i m going to bring my own people here in here at my o pace, if you want it done faster, maybe you should find somebody else. chris wray goes way back with comey and mueller. during the bush administration when there was a controversy over surveillance, comey and mueller were threatening to resign and wray said he wanted to jump with them. so it s can i just hit pause there? because i was on the white house staff. let s remind people what this was because this white house is like a baby vampire. they don t know what they don t know about law enforcement. but let s just relive that. there was a question, there was a dramatic bedside scene, it was about reauthorizing one of the very controversial counterterrorism programs under the bush/cheney presidency and it was mueller, comey, wray, a
What are the real costs hooer? because mike mullen is a military man who talks about the real costs of cutting global health, pet frograms for sub san african at a time when people talk about counterterrorism programs that we will see the results in major ways in terms of military needs. your point is very well taken. and the issue here is if we are serious about trying to prevent young people around the world from becoming terrorists, from becoming anti-american, they have got to know poor people all over the world have got to know what used to be the case is that the united states of america stands with them, that well do everything we can to eradicate illnesses that for a
Had wanted to disseminate unmasked u.s. person s information related to either the presidential campaign, who in the nsa would have approved such disseminations? again, it would have been one of the 20. i ve outlined the procedures and the specific 20 individuals. thank you, admiral. i appreciate your answers. i look forward to working with you on the subcommittee moving forward. mr. chairman, i yield back. mr. gowdy is recognized. thank you, mr. chairman. director comey, we will begin this line of questioning and finish it the next round. fisa and other similar related counterterrorism programs have been described even this morning as vital, critical, and indispensable to our national security. and many of us on both sides of the aisle believe fisa and similar counterterrorism programs prevent terror attacks and save american lives. but fisa and other surveillance programs are intentionally
Relationship in the sense of you can game out a set of escalations and counterescalations that get you to some pretty scary places quickly. i think it s interesting that during this time in which we ve been imposing pretty heavy sanctions on them for the ukraine, we have other counterterrorism programs around the world. it suggests that up till this point we ve been able to compartmentalize some of the most important security conversations we have with them around nuclear proliferation. whether that can continue or not, i don t know. but this idea that donald trump has that there s a reconciliation to be made with russia just misunderstands russian politics. putin needs a strain of virulent anti-americanism in order to maintain power. that s not going to disappear just because donald trump is president. so i don t believe that dashl sanctions would lead to the
Quickly. i think it s interesting that during this time in which we ve been imposing pretty heavy sanctions on them for the ukraine, we have other counterterrorism programs around the world. it suggests that up till this point we ve been able to compartmentalize some of the most important security conversations we have with them around nuclear proliferation. whether that can continue or not, i don t know. but this idea that donald trump has that there s a reconciliation to be made with russia just misunderstands russian politics. putin needs a strain of virulent anti-americanism in order to maintain power. that s not going to disappear just because donald trump is president. so i don t believe that dashl sanctions would lead to the breakup of this conversation on the other subjects just because you look to the immediate past