States have a good offensive policy. I think it was admiral rogers not that long ago within the last few months said just as much as that, that we dont have a good cyber offensive policy. We talked about it ed a inad infinitum in classified settings for the entire 10 years i was on the intelligence community. We could never get consensus to move to the next place what that cyber offensive is. As a personal note i saw the administration say they will make china pay for the consequence of the opm hack. I cant wait. I cannot wait to see what the heck that thing is. Candidly, im not too excited about whats going to be. We havent crossed that threshold to bring everybody in this room to deal with this problem. Long answer to your question i dont believe they can go extra territorial to what they perceive is a threat at that point. Thank you so much. Thank you if we can give a hand to the speaks. You can see how we can take many hours talking about that. We will roll into the next panel capa
So first up is the honorable juan zarate. My good friend. First ever assistant secretary of the finance. He served as Deputy Assistant to the president and deputy combatting terrorism. His phenomenal book treasuries war discovers the new economic era of war far. So thank you. Thank you very much. Thanks to all of you for coming. This is a wonderful turnout and wonderful event. I want to thank the hudson institute. Mark dube wits. Thank you for shepherding the authors in the production of this very important piece of work i think. I would commend all of you in the room and those watching online to pick it up and to read it. The contribution, at least from the other authors are incredibly important. And im honored to be here today, especially with steve and mike to discuss these issues. I want to thank sam, too. Because she gave me an opportunity to write more about some of the details i explored at the tail end of my that i think are critical as we look forward. I want to discuss with y
Morning. Thats the Inspector General Michael Horowicz who says he will investigate comeys handling of james comeys handling of the email scandal. Heres nbcs Pete Williams with all the details. Reporter the justice departments independent watchdog said hell look at Public Disclosures by james comey and others about the email investigation. Word of the review is welcomed by clinton supporters who say they believe the fbi affected the election. When a Law Enforcement agency breaches its protocol in such an unusual and unprecedented way, i think for the confidence of that agency everybody should get to the bottom of what happened. Inspector general horowicz said hell look at how they blasted the emails. They were extremely careless in the handling of the information. Reporter it will look to the letter comey sent to congress revealing new emails had to be reviewed. Nothing significant was found. Its easily the most pointed d. O. J. Review ever of an fbi directors conduct. These are the typ
Want to tell you about this morning. Thats the Inspector General Michael Horowicz who says he will investigate comeys handling of james comeys handling of the email scandal. Heres nbcs Pete Williams with all the details. Reporter the justice departments independent watchdog said hell look at Public Disclosures by james comey and others about the email investigation. Word of the review is welcomed by clinton supporters who say they believe the fbi affected the election. When a Law Enforcement agency breaches its protocol in such an unusual and unprecedented way, i think for the confidence of that agency everybody should get to the bottom of what happened. Inspector general horowicz said hell look at how they blasted the emails. They were in the handling of the information. Reporter it will look to the letter comey sent to congress revealing new emails had to be reviewed. Nothing significant was found. Its easily the most pointed d. O. J. Review ever of an fbi directors conduct. These ar
And the recusal but Jeff Sessions style. How could the man who said he wouldnt be involved in any campaign investigations put himself at the very certainty of this firing . A deeper look at that. The Trump Administration saying they may put a partisan politician in charge the fbi for the first time ever. Democrats also working overtime and saying if trump did make secret tapes, they must turn them over to congress. He should turn them over. To destroy them, it would be a vie lafgs law. If there are any tapes, they have to be turned over. If there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turned over. Now lets be clear. One of the strongest cases against donald trump has been made by donald trump. Former prosecutors noting the president s own words could even form part of the case of potential obstruction charges. Do you believe the president fired comey to interfere with the fbi investigation . The president s actions and his statement lends to that appearance. The difficulty