there s been claims in recent gas dais from some government officials they might hold you accountable and might try to prosecute you in some way. let s play the exchange between the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers and the fbi director from earlier this week. there have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. mr. comey, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, that is a crime? yes, it is. and would be selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the united states government, would that be a crime? it would be. it s an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering function, but in general fencing or selling stolen property is a crime. your blood must boil when you hear that. what was your reaction to that? what do you think they re trying to do by saying those kind of things? extraordinary aspects to that
because of threats to criminalize me for engaging in journalism, which the first amendment to the united states constitution guarantees that i have the right to do without interference. so i am not going to let a bunch of reactionaries in the u.s. government who are afraid of transparency criminalize journalism to the point where i stay out. i just want to make sure that when i come back i do it in a way that s as careful as possible. i want to play more of what congressman mike rogers said alluding to you. let s listen. there have been discussions about selling of access to this material to both newspaper outlets and other places. mr. comby, to the best of your knowledge is fencing stolen material, is that a crime? yes, it is. and would be the selling the access of classified material that is stolen from the united states government, would that be a crime? it would be. it s an issue that can be complicated if it involves a news gathering, a news promulgation function.
terribly important. in the indicati in the case of asampgering purposely conflated the story by somehow trying to indicate that somehow the allegations, the sexual allegations against him in sweden were politically motivated. i don t think they were but i think he intentionally conflated them. of course the difference between newspaper outlets and wiki league, newspapers have editors and they have sources. there is eds cal integrity as opposed to what bradley manning did. to dump indiscriminate on the doorstep of wikileaks. and then with no real consideration for the countless number of lives that he may not have endangered in the process. do you get sense that julian assange or bradley manning, i know you didn t get to speak with him. did you get sense that was collateral to them? do they take into consideration the lives that they put in
profile folks. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live with more on the story. reporter: good morning. former senior intelligence officials working the cyber issue say it s the frequency, intensity and duration of of the attacks that can only be supported by an asian state. the two countries implicated are china and iran. in about the last two weeks at least two major newspaper outlets including the new york times and the wall street journal who were doing investigative reporting on the chinese government and military along with twitter were hacked. the office of the director of national intelligence is not commenting on a new assessment which details the threat from nation states nor is there direct comment on reports that the administration is now crafting rules that would allow them to take preemptive cyber steps. it would allow the u.s. to strike when a threat is imminent. these rules for engagement will be pushed out of the shadows later this week when th
egos among newspaper outlets or tv and radio. but some executives say listen, we ve got to go to valley intruder. channel 4 news we called him walk-in killer. it was a clash of egos. why walk-in killer? that s such a benign name? what is he doing, knocking on the doors, excuse me, can i come in? god bless the harold examiner they called him the night stalker. that s all he was called after that. no matter where we were. there was a report about night stalker. it was in all the papers. investigators say the attacker is attacking single women, elderly couples, children, anyone, any place where windows are left unlocked, the homes poorly lit. that is what intimidated people. there was a faceless, nameless, violent criminal out there. and you didn t know where he was going to hit next. and when people began to learn the magnitude of what he was doing, not just a burglary or assault, but far more, there was a palpable shaking of these people s core. these are faces of fear,