ago when that report came out, $75 billion was spent on the intelligence budget. almost all on spying on american citizens, hacking into the systems of other countries. none was spent on how to do defense, defending our own country. even in russia gate, all the hysteria about the russians attacking our election system, tulsi gabbard said if you re worried about it, pass this bill to provide paper ballots to make sure there was no hacking. there was no interest in that. seems like there s a real interest in hyping this enemy constantly creating new programs and bureaucracies that take billions of dollars. but simple solutions to actually provide defense don t generate much interest in washington. tucker: that is such a great point about paper ballots. people just weren t i vaguely remember this. people were not very interested in protecting the system with paper ballots, which would do it. yeah, i mean that was her
issues and drive our intelligence. going back to the coast guard if they can only interdict 25% of drugs, that means 75% come through our ports of entry. we don t know what that means. i m a professional intelligence officer, i spent 9 1/2 years as an undercover officer in the cia. people making the drugs and moving the drugs in north and central america are hiding in a cave and we need to use all our tool kits to go after the kingpins and smugglers as well. you talk about the drug cartels making $66 billion. the u.s. intelligence budget, $61 billion. who do you think is winning that fight? every time we make a move, the narcos and traffy kantes will make a counter move.
to correct. he was interviewed by the staff of the committee on monday, not by the committee itself, and i haven t, between being on the floor with health care for the last two days, i haven t really had a chance to sit down and look at the transcript so i m afraid i can t illuminate any of that. this is, was a preliminary interview by the staff and that s the way we re conducting this. the staff is talking to witnesses i think we re up to 25 or 30 witnesses at this point and we ll go back, review the tran crypts and take it from there. it s a more efficient process and will enable us to get their questions in the end. i really can t answer your question. did he produce documents? i honestly don t know because i haven t sat down. we had a meeting yesterday but it was on the intelligence budget so i haven t sat down and looked at what he brought. i don t think he did, but we ll find out in the next couple of days. jeremy petepeters? senator, listening to some of your democratic
messages from his followers, reinforcing the view that the modern s al qaeda is in decline. putting politics in those questions aside, lawmakers say that the blocks are making all of the documents unacceptable. the value of learning and who is debating who on what issues, it is incredibly valuable in trying to make sure that we have the best information possible. reporter: they tell fox news that they believe the document goes way beyond the al qaeda network itself and that sheds light on the connections between the senior leadership of al qaeda which was first documented by the 9/11 report. in congress forced the cia to release the documents? it seems that they are going to try. buried in the new intelligence budget is language that calls for the declassification of these files and the republicans that author that section told fox news that there is evidence
believe that there have been some modifications within the cia in terms of access that contractors would have just in the short amount of time that this short time time span, since his information was revealed in the guardian newspaper and the washington post to today? do you think there s changes put in place at the cia to limit access that contractors would have? oh, i think absolutely they re looking at it. but keep in mind it s 70% of the intelligence budget. about that goes to contractors. you know, getting contractors out of the government, out of the intelligence business will take years and years. they re just everywhere. they re writing their own contracts and takes a very, very long time. bob baer of the cia, thank you so much from irvine, california. all right. a lot of folks are mourning the loss of the big hollywood star to a lot of his fans james began doll if iny and tony soprano