Last question. The three roles of u. S. Cybercom, one is specifically to look after the security of dod networks, the other two being to support commanders and the third which is in some ways the most difficult and challenging is to defend the nation and how that engages. So cybercom has that responsibility, i think, the challenge if it were to arise would be a lot of the intelligence that Cyber Command needs to do its work comes from the nsa side, and splitting the two out would be highly inefficient. That inefficiency may be worthwhile in the long run, but in the short term i think the judgment is the benefits are not, do not justify that inefficiency. General sort of wrapup comment, i think what has not been commented on too much, but is also worth getting on the record is, one, the interesting aspect of this speech is president obama directly confronting the National Aspects of this which havent been part of the administrations presentation to date. So when you have a dni sitting i
Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. Learning new details about the condition of the freed Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl. We have the latest on the political firestorm over the deal that freed him. The possible now saying, bergdahl is showing signs of improvement. He said to be speaking in english, described as more engaged than his treatment. Previously, Senior Defense official said bergdahl was having trouble speaking english, the pentagon Spokesman Says hes not talked to his parents yet. Bergdahls being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in germany, where he was taken after his release from captivity. No word when hell head off to a u. S. Military base in san antonio. President obama, meanwhile, offering an impassioned defense of the deal that freed Bowe Bergdahl. The agreement to release five taliban prisoners from the u. S. Military prison at Guantanamo Bay in cuba in exchange for bergdahl set off a political firestorm. A News Conference in brussels today, the
Be viewed as an escalation of the u. S. Involvement in the conflict now tearing apart iraq. American drones are flying over baghdad, but not the observe and report kind. The kind that can kill. Iraqis have repeatedly asked the u. S. To carry out air strikes on the terrorist militia called the Islamic State in iraq and syria, or isis which has rapidly seized huge sections of iraq through a campaign of blood. But air strikes are not the u. S. Mission there yet. American drones armed with hell fire missiles are now patrolling the skies over baghdad. But they will not go after isis targets. Flying instead to provide protection for 180 u. S. Military advisors deployed to iraq. Frustrated by the lack of american air support, iraq has now turned to russia, buying second hand russian fighter jets. Just the latest in a spring of american adversaries from syria to iran now aiding iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki slammed the u. S. In an interview with the bbc saying iraq could have repel
Than a year ago. It hasnt recovered from that. Monday you met with the Deputy Attorney general rob rosenstein. Right. Did you ask for a recommendation . What i did was i was going to fire comey. My decision. You had made the decision before they came i was going to fire comey. Theres no good time to do it, by the way. Because in your letter you said i accepted their recommendations. You had already made the decision. Ways going to fire regardless of recommendations. He made a recommendation. Hes highly respected, very good guy, very smart guy. The democrats like him, the republicans like him. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, its an excuse by the democrat for having lost an election they should have won. When i did this now, i said i probably maybe will confu
And weve been looking into why that might be. Because manaforts spokesman has been forthcoming about the fact that his that his client, that Paul Manafort has been having overt discussions with federal authorities about his foreign work, about his Political Consulting in foreign countries. Now that as far as we can tell would be the department of justice. Because thats who has jurisdiction over the Foreign Agent registration act. He is saying that within having this consultation with these federal authorities, he is taking appropriate steps around this matter. Leading everybody to believe he would register, and he never did. The interesting thing there is twofold. Number one we have seen other people involved in this. Namely, mike flynn register retroactively as a Foreign Agent, apparently after consulting with the Justice Department. Raising interesting questions about whether or not he is being pressured to become a cooperating witness because of the threat of prosecuting him for his