over compartmentalizing, for withholding information, having stove pipes, there s a desire to share more amongst intelligence agencies in the u.s. government. now the pendulum has swung too much perhaps there s too much of that we need to go back to a little bit of a strict com, you know, versus the notion that we don t want another 9/11 style event where one side of the u.s. government information didn t share with the other, and so, you know, that s an ongoing challenge, and you know, we ll have to kind of keep trying to find that right balance. you know, teixeira is not analogous with this, but you and i were working at the white house together when there was concern about isis and chat rooms, and online things where americans were being radicalized and the steps being taken to
members and didn t have the partisan awe row ma. but it is what it is. in any case, it led to investigation that restructured a lot of agencies that s how we got homeland security and tried to eliminate the stove pipes that were blocking agenies from talking to each other. but here you have the same situation all over again all these years later where agencies were not talking to each other. we don t know that. they are going to have to do ab in-depth study and see where this intelligence came from, who provided it, what was his credibility. he s telling us one thing. it may have come in a different way. was it compared to other intelligence. during 9/11 i worked as a reservist at the pentagon on military orders. and i was on the fbi s host act rescue team. i saw both sides of it. i can tell you since then, it s
carter page. how do you fix that problem? well, in fact, in early august, i directed that fbi, cia and nsa experts get together and so, we set up what is called a task group within our cia headquarters, to ensure that all information would be shared among the three different agencies. i spoke to jim comey about it and jim clapper, because i recognized that in the past, stove pipes can prevent and impede the flow of necessary information. and when you talk about confidential human sources foreign assets, you don t want to not ensure there s going to be that free throw of informati information. again, i go back to and i know you are under some guidelines here about classified information, but when you have a confidential source and another part of the government wants to do a fisa warrant because of
however many it is right now, i can t imagine any judge rake, not raking these bureaucrats over the coals and demanding that they provide answers. are they doing that? of course. the bottom line a plan for reunification if it wasn t for this judge down in the southern district here in california. he said very clearly on friday, there never was a plan. these were like a bunch of different stove pipes, doj, hhs, the department of homeland security that never even talked to each other. he said, look, step one is getting the eligible children back together. step two is you guys basically finding the parents you said were ineligible and we re going to reunite, even if i, the judge, didn t tell you to do this and come up with an actual plan to do this. and, step three, that this never happens again. all of these agencies you would think would talk to each other, all federal government agencies involved in the care of migrant children at the border, would talk to each other and they re not
so is this the dire situation. joining me now is robert mcdowel. he was dominated by president bush and obama. robert, i want to talk about the three seas. contents, costs and competition. i need you to dumb it down for me. i got the stove pipes, it comes to my house and delivers my internet. if my service providers also contains content, won t they impact my ban with. thank you for having me on, thank you for this inaugural moment. it is my first time on cnn. the question is what laws best apply here? whether it is the 20 years of the clinton s add administration and using three federal statue and it is the last ftwo years.