terrorists and suspects well, the foreign countries believe it is, and our liaison partners believe it will, because we have seen what has happened when other incidents have been used in the propaganda machine to incite it. think of the cartoons in denmark and how many people died as a result, and the burning of the korans ark and they will use it to incite violence, and this is the scary part, and secretary kerry has engaged in this, because he believes this is dangerous to what they are trying to accomplish overseas, a and that tells you something that it is more than just differences on what happened. this is, and then you have to ask this, what good will come of this report? a department of justice investigation, and stopped under the bush administration, and there has been congressional action to stop this activity, and president obama put out an
our intelligence community believes it will and our foreign liaison partners believe it will because we ve seen what happens when other incidents are used in the propaganda terrorist machine to incite violence. think of the cartoons in denmark and how many people died as a result. think of the burning of the korans and how many people died as a result. here s the scary thing about it. secretary kerry has engaged in this because he believes this is dangerous to what they re trying to accomplish overseas. that tells you this is more than just differences on what happened. this is and then they have to ask this, candy, what good will come of this report? there s been a department of justice investigation. it was stopped under the bush administration. there has been congressional action to stop this. president obama put an executive order saying he wouldn t continue any of that activity. it had since been stopped. have you to ask yourself, if you know all those learned people
saying, hey, pay attention. it s the anniversary. you know, this would be a great time for these guys to hit us and please share this with your liaison partners and please share this with the chief of mission and with rsos. and so that, that warning did go out and that is something we always paid attention to was the anniversary of 9/11, absolutely. so your thought process never said it could be al qaeda? no. my thought process, the analysts said from the get-go that al qaeda was involved in this attack, from the get-go. so they said it was involved in the attack? yes. but you took it out of the talking points. i did not take it out. some people have alleged that i personally took out al qaeda from the talking points. that is not true. who did? the group of officers from
executive branch. and what we found pretty quickly is there was a pattern of these types of leaks that were very dangerous. and, of course, there s, you know, certainly without some of the stuff in the articles is wrong. some of it is right. but it s been very damaging to our liaison partners. to the people we work with. they raise questions about our ability to keep secrets. and the individuals that we ask to go out in some very dangerous circumstances and risk their life to get information that keeps us safe. so what i ve come to the conclusion, this needs to be a full, fair and complete investigation wherever it takes us. so americans watching us right now are saying wow, this is a rare show of bipartisan fire against this administration. i mean, this is something that both sides of the aisle are coming together on. is there anything criminal that s going on here? oh, this is very criminal. the leaks that we have seen and again, in a pattern of leaks and
being able to stop it and also being able to evolve more tools to control it and where it cannot be controlled to be able to take additional actions. this obviously because of the timing will have to be done in the next month or so i would think. and so we will be working together in that direction. so i now would like to ask senator chambliss, my distinguish distinguished vice chairman, to make some comments. well, thanks, chairman feinstein. let me just say that thanks no the leadership of chairman feinstein as well as chairman rogers, ranking member berger, the four of us have worked closely on any number of issues. there is no more important issue that we have to work on than this issue. i think it goes without saying that all of us are extremely upset about the fact that not only have leaks occurred, but there s been just a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community over the last several weeks and months, and it s our clear intention to put a stop to thi