Skypes. Ves four that is the miracle of modern technology and it will either work or not work. It is very tricky so somebody may go down, somebody may have a time delay which is happening with one of our three guests. Analogous to the quadruple somersault ringling brothers. Please, bear with us. We will have problems from time to time but we have an Excellent Team of techies. I know because i can understand anything a say. It is my pleasure to interview introduce our interviewer, roger cohen. Thank you. [applause] good morning. We are going to rely on technology to try to bring this in balance and ignore whoever may or may not be listening. I think it is fair to say that in the immediate landscape there is a before and after Edward Snowden. Nsarevelations about global data vacuuming are backed with concrete evidence. The feeling i think that many of us have had since 9 11 that something has gotten seriously skewed in the appropriate balance between National Security and press freedom.
Predicted it would not have been this strong. I hoped and thought we would have been in a better place in terms of having weakened the taliban. The good news is they are still fighting. They have taken those casualties and held together. They have continued to be able to recruit and take the fight to the enemy. Last point, they have been able to continue to recruit. You had not imagined five years ago that the taliban would be strong, none of us could imagine could be this strong and able to conduct core level operations. This is a reason that the Afghan People are so proud of the army. , you know all the candidates. I was honored to meet with several of them with you a couple weeks ago. Could you please help us understand the choice that is now before the afghan better on voter on the afghan saturday. And what the choice might signify in terms of who the afghans would like to see replace president karzai after his 12 years in leadership. Thank you. That is quite a big task. I suppose
You biggest surveillance makes it almost impossible to be an investigative journalist because it makes it impossible for people to communicate with one another. Edward snowden has praised russia for standing against Human Rights Violations by the powerful. President putin has just invaded and then annexed crimea. The relationship between the United States and russia is increasingly hostile. There is even talk of a new cold war. How worried should we be that mr. Snowden is old herbal is vulnerable to the Russian Intelligence Services to in this increasingly tense situation . I need to back up a little bit. Be in russia . He was on his way to latin america where he was going to transit from russia. United government canceled his passport. He was in the transit area of the airport. President Putin Blakeney made fun of u. S. Intelligence services. The one place that you can operate and go get . Go get him there. It is asking a lot for Edward Snowden who is under international asylum. It is
Eventually, it is going to be corrected. Set that, relax, this is the greatest nation on earth. After 100 years we finally have a congress and a senate and a president who have finally done something for the people. Host that is all the time we have for this mornings washington journal. We hope you will join us again tomorrow. We go live to the brookings institution, holding a panel on afghanistan 2014. The president ial elections and the planned withdrawal with general john allen and ronald nuemann, former ambassador to afghanistan. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Thank you for coming to discuss afghanistan. We have ael ohanlon, very distinguished group of american and afghan individuals and officials to talk with us former officials and continued scholars and experts on afghanistan to talk about the transitions underway. This upcoming saturday is afghanistans
2016 election had been approved of and ordered directly by putin himself. For reasons that remain unclear, that very, very, very valuable human source inside the russian government got exfiltrated from russia, got taken out of russia on an emergency basis in 2017 by the u. S. He was apparently brought back to the u. S. To live here instead. And for reasons that also remain unclear his existence and then soon thereafter his identical and soon after that his exact address have all been reported in multiple Media Outlets over the last few days. So this spy has been outed. And the kremlin has now basically confirmed that yes, thats the guy. At least theyre confirming that was his name and he was a russian Government Official and yes, he mysteriously ended up living in the United States and is no electronicer a russian Government Official. When this whole story comes out, its going to be an amazing spy novel. Its halfway there already. But i mentioned a somewhat Ominous Development in this