during this top secret operation. it would blot whole mission. and force america into a big confrontation with putin. they were able to make it out without any major incidents, thank god. until last month when the threat of a russian invasion increased, joe biden pulled out the cia but-to-avoid a repeat of the disastrous afghanistan withdrawal. brian hillsburg, the former cia intelligence officer spy x.com analyst and the director of corporate security at a global biotech company. so this is a pretty brave mission that the u.s. government pulled off, was it worth it. hi, jesse, thanks for having me on the show. do you know what? this is something that is done normally with our liaison partners and countries that support and a lot of the training that is provided is
you can see the entire building has been trashed. there is nothing that has been left by the taliban. that was not the case at the british embassy. i suppose as a former cia operative, you would say that would be standard procedure, we don t leave anything behind that would give the taliban a propaganda coup? that is true. and in terms of the president s. the press has affected actually the cia had a programme of capacity building for his liaison partners, and eagle base was repetitive of that, in terms of a special forces unit that was able to conduct covert terrorist missions with ca training. with ca training. have you been on that basically with ca training. have you been on that basically shall with ca training. have you been on that basically shall i with ca training. have you been on that basically shall i am with ca training. have you been on that basically shall i am not - that basically shall i am not really allowed to speak to it, except to say i m a very familiar wi
wittis, msnbc legal analyst, editor and chief of law fair. john, let me start you. let me ask you, so i heard from a doj source that the impact is immediate. the potential consequences are severe and that a source may still work with the u.s. government but they may say, hey, do not put any of this information in a fisa application. well, that s certainly possible. i mean, you know, what we benefit from overseas when we look and talk to sources and we deal with liaison partners, people who help us overseas, is credibility, reliability, and building trust. and you build trust by over time taking things seriously and keeping them secret. and when it when the head of the house intelligence committee is willing to openly, you know, smear a source, this tears at our credibility and makes it much harder for our partners to take us seriously. john, you mentioned credibility and reliability. are we viewed as being led by a president who s either of those things? well, i i can tell
well, we await to hear the fate of the democrats rebuttal memo, many are dissecting the nunes memo. one writing, the smears against christopher steele are unfounded and could have severe consequences. he writes, needless to say the nunes memo and breathless public statements hurt our standing in the world. our intelligence collectors will have a harder time convincing potential sources or foreign liaison partners to trust us with their information. whether or not steele was an fbi source, the memo gives the impression that the u.s. congress and white house were willing to smear those who take risks to give us information for their political gain. joining us now is john cipher, former member of the cia senior intelligence service, deputy of the agency s worldwide operations effort, and benjamin
decade or so. and the short-term future is horrible. mike rodgers was on the house intelligence committee. we overlapped by two years. he was not yet chairman. i saw him friday and hopefully we will write a piece together about the sad demise of the house intelligence committee. what does it do when the president this morning attacks the ranking member adam schiff of that committee as you were saying calling him little adam schiff and says along with james comey, mark warner who s the chair of that senate intelligence committee, brennan who was cia director and james clapper dni, he calls them all leakers and law breakers? the damage they re big boys and they will handle it. if you re in politics and even brennan if you re at that level, you re in a glass house, but what about the people who work for them? what about someone who is deciding whether or not to join the fbi or the cia and what about our foreign liaison partners in intel agencies and