Which russia has weaponized information as part of the campaign of special warfare, especially in the donbass. It is not a coincidence that the first thing the russian units did when they moved into key eastern ukrainian cities is pull down the Ukrainian Television and radio broadcasts. Im told the units have digital pacs plugged into the stations to immediately switch over to russian stations. The russian strategy, its important to recognize about the strategy of special warfare, the russian objective is not to win the argument, not to demonstrate truth. It is to confuse, create doubt and keep everybody off balance. Thats why you had little green men in crimea. So everybody spent a couple of weeks trying to figure out are they russians or from somewhere else . Who are these guys in slavyansk with rpgs and air peace radios. It is a strategy which rests on a tactic of misdirection which has an objective to sow division between the United States and european partners. And which has as an
First got elected was the issue of the National Guard came up and i was on armed services. A lot of those guard folks were being deployed multiple times. And it was very, very difficult for their families. And a number of us recognized that what we needed to do is build facilities, upgrade facilities, get rid of those old facilities and replace them with Readiness Centers to train and equip our troops in the event that we had to send them overseas on a mission, which we id many, many times. But we needed to construct those facilities also for their families, for their spouses and for their children. On the Appropriations Committee what tom latham did was make sure we had the funding, to make sure we built those facilities as well. So we were able to work on that issue together. And then when the great flood of 2008 hit across iowa, but mainly across the eastern half of iowa, it included a lot of tom lathams district and a lot of it included my district, about half of the damage was in
These techniques were band and it was a time when there was a fair amount of propaganda as well as antiu. S. Sentiment related to guantanamo as well as other issues. And so these are things that i think we as professionals in the National Security environment tried to take into account. And so this is a feature i think of our past. And one that we have to come to terms with. And deal with. And this agency is determined to move forward. The first part of the question. Involved with congress in 1996. Oh, yes. You know, the one thing about whether its the intelligence business or nash security or something, you can always find something that you can pull out and say, the agency said this. Or judged this or this was the conclusion at that time. Now its going to be different. A lot of times there are differences of views. It was one of the things that the wmd commission encouraged there to be, a diversity of views within the Intelligence Community so there wouldnt be single group think. The
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