are looking at materials or accessing or downloading and printing out materials they shouldn t be looking at the thing seems like they was one barn door and another one opens. like for instance, you have these restrictions on thumb drives right to correct one problem, but you re not correcting this problem. when you re using thumb drives. we did have a pentagon press conference a short time ago where, the deputy press secretary said that they are now conducting a review of who exactly has access. let s just listen to what they have to say, because i want to see if you think it s sufficient. and just to be clear as part of that review, you ll be looking at who has access to this type of information that is the direction of the review. that s part of the review. yes who has access to, um, who was able to access and review classified information, sensitive information, and part of that is not just looking here within the building but are across our components worldwide. so that is somethi
the second thing is clearly the security issue itself. after snowden from what i understand we thought to stop the thumb drives being used babe operating these networks. they cannot take out information from them for this otherwise to take information out. think initially he was taking notes on it. while he still got out of the facility with this note somewhere on his person. secondly i think he began to make copies of it. if you are going to do something in the system, listen i am not an it person. i think you can have a system alert if someone is going to transfer information on the system to some other vehicle, even a copy machine. maybe that person is authorized to do that based on a position that they have. other people there should be a default system. so the security is an issue. we were blindsided by this for the intelligent services are blindsided. the pentagon is. we have got to get to the bottom
um, looking for computers, hard drives, thumb drives, cameras, phones. anything that would have been used in the collection, copying photographing posting of this material will probably also want to clear those houses of those weapons. um, assuming that they are that they belong to him , whatever their legal status as part of the search, steve, you re the former head of russia operations at the c. s. c i a what do you think? russian government officials are thinking right now watching all this? yeah. well jake, my i imagine the russians have been following this for a while because they re very good as we know from the past couple of years of watching how the russians do entries and collection operations against electronic systems, so if i would be surprised if the russians hadn t been aware of this sooner, of course, it s been out there in 11 shape or another for a number of weeks. and so the russians have been watching this very carefully. one of the things i think that the russians a
manning, who of course, was the army private who was arrested in iraq associated with the wikileaks disclosures, there was this question about removable media and using thumb drives to put into the system we know on her computers, at least, according to an army forensic examiner who testified in her case that they found hundreds of thousands of documents the source code on her computer. and of course, there was a question about how can some one just so easily put a thumb drive in and then cart away all of these documents and so they continue to lock down the systems over time after they learn from each new vulnerability will have to wait and see exactly here. how this suspect actually got access to these top secrets. this top secret information there. officials are alluding to it. we know based on cnn s reporting, and as the pentagon spokesman said, a short time ago, there s this issue of distribution list so every morning for those who are working in intelligence, you get intelligence
or not for example that ther could be other shoes to drop if this is a flood, shouldn t our government have damp where are the safeguards t prevent this from happening, a relevant of what motivated the person or people to push this out but definitively, w should ve had safeguards i place to prevent this. after the snow didn revelations in 2013, and after even a much more significant vault seven leaks in 2017, which many of cia s hackin tools were exposed and published by wikileaks many audit trails were enacted paper trails were enacted. literally could not print document inside of a governmen building without there being a full audit trail no thumb drives were allowed i the building there were numbers of th changes that-limited and reall cracked down on who coul access which documents on computer but if there are hard copies unless somebody is going to be searched every time they leave the building, and that is just simply not done for the tens o