Who have ties to al qaeda, or are affiliated in some way, i think some of those players were involved in what happened in benghazi. It may depend onit may depend oe ties are. I would tend to agree with senator feinsteins reaction. I think it oversimplifies matters to say we had no involvement and it oversimplifies things to suggest the core al qaeda planned this because i dont think that is the case. Host does it matter . Guest it does matter in the sense that we want to know exactly who was responsible and we want to know whether there was any al qaeda instruction so from that point of view it does matter. From the point of view of if they are not affiliated with al qaeda do we not need to worry about them so much . I dont think thats the case. One of the things we we are all in agreement on is the role of onstar alsharia Organization Part of which we were counting on for some security. Its almost worse if people that we were counting on to help us turn around and attacked us. From th
Testified and said to me and started to become pretty clear quickly that this was certainly a terrorist attack, not just something sporadic check. I believe leon panetta was a part of this as well. Again, theres been the response was not that this is a al qaeda attack but some blame on some video and a protest over what do you make of that . Chair. A couple of things. The first is that it was obviously a terrorist attack, by any generally held definition of terrorism which is its use of violence to achieve a political end or convey a political message. These are people who are attacking the u. S. Consulate in benghazi. They obviously were not there just have a good time or profess they did not like that the consulate was there. There were there to make a statement against america. Classic terrorism. Why there was a hesitancy to do that at the beginning, frankly even if it was as some white affected by the video which i ended up concluding that it was it was only that the terrorists saw
Bid to topple the government. And the biggest e waste site in the world where young people risk their lives to make a living. And we start in ukraine, two disturbing stories of intimidation right in the middle of the countrys political crisis and one involves journalists attacked by police, the other a 35yearold political activist demetri says he was beaten, tortured and part of his ear cutoff and also that he was crucified and we are live from kiev and what does he say happened to him . And we are still trying to establish the full scope of what exactly happened to him but what we know comes from a brief interview he gave last night. As you mentioned there he had been missing for more than a week. Many people were fearing for his life after previous reports of abductions and cases of torture has surfaced and said he had been abducted by men with russian accents and subjected to horrific treatment at the hands of his kidnappers and this is what he had to say about his experience. Trans
Crisis to show restraint. Plus, criminal connections. Warn that londons gangs are expanding across the u. K. And the economics of the environment, permission is granted to build the worlds biggest coal port near the Great Barrier reef. The first round of talks to try to end the war in syria has ended. A second round is planned for february the 10th. So the government has yet to confirm whether or not it will attend. Now, according the the unimediator, its been a modest beginning. Which can be one which can be built on. Over the past eight days here in geneva, sides engaged each other through me, it was a very difficult start. But the sides have continued. Neff presented positions and listened to one another. There have been moments when one side has even acknowledged the concern and the difficulties and the point of view of the other side. Progress is very small indeed. But the sides have engaged in an acceptable manner. This is a very modest beginning, but it is a beginning on which w
Order. I have a new announcements before we start. We had a classified section to discuss our most pressing intelligence issues and the threats from nations and the increase in cyberattack capability. Now we turn to our open session where the American People receive the benefit of as much transparency about intelligence as is possible. We are in open section and should be careful not to talk about classified items. And those who hackle members or are disruptive with clothing and appearance or engage in other activities that distract the hearing will be removed. James clapper, john brennan, micha Michael Flynn and james comey is here. The illegal disclosures is outmatched by the shocking volume of critical information that cause stolen and likely disclosed to our enemieenemies. We are not talking about Business Records or phone data. They go to the core of the ability to defend itself and threaten to capability of the armed forces and long into the future the stolen material will threat