Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
Good afternoon. I hope everybody enjoyed lunch. Im the Senior Vice President here at the director of the middle east program. One of the great joys of being in washington is sometimes youre in an environment where you get to be the dumbest guy in the room. I think im here as the dumbest guy on the panel. The people that we have talking now, and we envisioned this sort of as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom, are just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike negata. Your title it has it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. Word name ever. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special Operations Forces in the u. S. Central command and now is with the National Counterterrorism center, thinking all of the strategic do thought that i think we have been struggling with in many ways. Were very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John maclachlan, as many of you k
Vice president at the program. One of the Great Stories of being in washington is sometimes written in the environment. Sometimes being the smartest guy in the room, thats the dumbest guy at the panel. The people we have talking now, we envision this as a way to capture some of the strategic wisdom or just three people for whom i have tremendous respect. Lieutenant general mike nagata. Your title, it is the most difficult title, the director of the directorate of Strategic Operational planning. But the job is incredible. He was the commander of the special forces, special Operations Forces in the us central command. And now hes with the National Counterterrorism center. Thinking all of these strategic thoughts weve been struggling with in many ways from day one. We are very grateful for you to take the time to be with us. John mclaughlin as many of you know was the acting director of central intelligence, Deputy Director for intelligence at the cia. I have grown reliance on him as a pe
If i cannot give you the source and method would you prefer i dont govern you the information . I think it would be best for all concerns if when you make an allegation like that you are able to back it up with more than i say so. That is not what i said. It isnt because i said so. You get up at the u. N. Counsel and secretary gets up on sunday making allegations and your evidence to back it up appears to fall short of proof. I cannot remember the rest. They are firing artillery to attack ukrainian military. Did you believe rockets, missiles, over whatever fired from russian territory took down the two ukrainian planes or do you not have conformation that happened we are looking into exactly what brought into the planes. Are you sure . You are sure the planes wept down . We dont make determinations until we have facts. Yes, but you are sure the russians are firing artillery . We have information, yes. Coming up on cspan2. Two astronauts testify to a house science, space and technology
If i cannot give you the source and method would you prefer i dont govern you the information . I think it would be best for all concerns if when you make an allegation like that you are able to back it up with more than i say so. That is not what i said. It isnt because i said so. You get up at the u. N. Counsel and secretary gets up on sunday making allegations and your evidence to back it up appears to fall short of proof. I cannot remember the rest. They are firing artillery to attack ukrainian military. Did you believe rockets, missiles, over whatever fired from russian territory took down the two ukrainian planes or do you not have conformation that happened we are looking into exactly what brought into the planes. Are you sure . You are sure the planes wept down . We dont make determinations until we have facts. Yes, but you are sure the russians are firing artillery . We have information, yes. Coming up on cspan2. Two astronauts testify to a house science, space and technology