exist. experts who reruled the activities of the protile, it s typically of espionage efforts on of professional site has made it a more powerful magnet for spies. rafael joins some he from london and ken is back as well. rafael, always great to have an old ap colleague on the show. thank you so much for being here. this story is absolutely stunning. can you walk us through how you figured out this profile on link linkedin that presumably many powerful people thought was a person actually isn t? what happened was about a month ago, i was alerted by a british academic in london that head had been approached by this katie jones character. he thought there was something suspicious about her, because she would claim to work in the field of russia studies. he s a longtime russia watcher.
keep it is because i want to be looking a little bit at iran because iran is a real problem. whoa, that s news. you re keeping troops in iraq because you want to be able to strike in iran? no, because i want to be able to watch iran. all i want is to be able to watch. the beginning, i m sure a lot of people agree with the assessment of iraq. but to say in an interview you want to keep troops, soldiers deployed in iraq to spy on iran, i called the former national security official and said what do i do with that? he said i ignore him. i said that s news. if you tell me you would have ignored that, where are we? he s the commander in chief. he said something on television what troops should do in iraq vis-a-vis iran. and at the same time in baghdad there s growing frustration among senior officials in the iraqi government with u.s. presence there. we re seeing high-level people say they don t feel comfortable with the u.s. using it as essentially a potential launchpad for espiona
democrats plan to drill down on a different key issue: privacy. is google protecting privacy? what is he doing with the vast data it harvests from us? i don t think we should be racing to regulate based on the president s subjective experience one morning. a linkedin is getting drawn. on friday unofficial disclosed china is launching super aggressive espionage efforts on the site to try to manipulate americans. mike: gillian turner, thank you. preparations underway for what may be a final effort to wipe out opponents of syria s government. iran is teaming up with syria for which could be a major assault. iran s foreign minister is in damascus today.
yes, these are conservative institutes whose board members have not been shy about voicing criticism of the president when they believe it s warranted or, for instance, the hud sson institute recently hosted the director of intelligence dan coats who learned about the lights are blinking red here in america. and, you know, the russians are the most aggressive actor in the space. and they are, you know, we could be we need to be very aware of and alert to any big cyberattacks coming. so yes, it s you know, it s hard to know whether they re going to whether they re planning to see if they could get information that they could find and put out into the public domain. maybe they just wanted to take information that could help them in their own espionage efforts, which is what spy agencies have been doing for millennia,
expelled a large number of soviet diplomats and a lot of commentators have said that was really the shot in the achilles heel of the soviet espionage nest in the u.k. and that it never recovered do you think that this expelling this explosion of these thirty two diplomats could it have the same effect on russia s espionage efforts in the u.k. . well it will have some impact i mean an espionage is quite different now i think you know it s not always the these guys on the ground who cloak and dagger thing a lot of espionage the electronic. you can steal more things over the internet than you probably can that s going and run the way that we look at it ninety seven so this will certainly damage teligent russia. but i don t think it will cripple but it will make rights to look space in a professor of strategic studies or sin entered university carsten phenomena or