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Feds want to impose upon them in terms of protecting from emp or cyber, even the tree branch threat. the great northeast blackout contacted a power line in 2003 and put 50 million americans in the dark. took a decade of foot dragging before they allegedly did something to improve our security. mark: if the federal government said this is part of infrastructure, wants to spend a tril and a half on infrastructure. you are reading my mind. mark: we haven t talked about this. said let s put two or three billion aside for this? exactly. that s one of the emp recommendations in the reports that we ve put forward in our advice when we have briefed the national security council that emp protection should be made part of the infrastructure or renewal program, and one of the things that we need is an executive agent at the level of the white house, somebody responsible for protecting the national grid and the other critical infrastructures too ....
Investors worried about inflation and rising interest rates. once again erased all the index s gains this year. checking our other stories on the political radar. a plan has begun for a military parade by the president. but that planning still in its early stages. the president often looks for opportunities to honor and appreciate our service members. we are looking at several different options. right now the army is the executive agent on it. but we don t have those options yet. we re still in the first stages. when we have those options, we will present that to the white house and the president will decide. a long list of members of congress from both parties say they worry about a cost of a major parade through the streets of washington. the pentagon says the ultimate decision belongs to the commander in chief. former president george w. bush say he thinks the russians ....
Wars. when they re not fating, they re preparing to fight the next war. it may be chemical biological or radiological weapons. you have to learn to detect treat, and immunize against it. what s going on here these dry spores as they were called were not supposed to have any capability were sent to different location ss to develop training kits. that s part of the assessment and detection. they were in the middle of an anthrax detection program. that s what happened the executive agent for department of defense and chemical weapons is embarrassed by this. early interkators it was a process ing processing error. all of us remember the anthrax terror attacks after ....
Is one of them. thomas drake was a senior executive at the nsa and is himself a whistle blower. he joins us from d.c. thanks for being with us this evening. thanks for having me, judge. judge jeanine: you spent ten years in the air force. with the cia and then the nasa. those that would call you a hero based on that alone. then when you went to work at nsa you objected to a program that involved wireless wiretapping and made the decision to become a whistle blower. why? shortly after 9/11 i discovered much to my horror that the government unchained itself from the constitution. abandoned the rule of law and revoked the fourth amendment and violated the foreign intelligence is surveillance act on a vast scale. they did this this secret. it was a collaborative arrangement between the white house approving the program and nsa became the executive agent. ....
Nsa became the executive agent. i discovered that and blew the whistle finn nsa, to congress and to the department of defense and shade what i knew that was unclassified about the secret surveillance programs as well as the multibillion dollars of fraud, waste and abuse at nsa in 2006. judge jeanine: you make the decision and take the designated whistle blower route. the supervisor, congress, dod, inspector general. you end up getting indicted. why? under the obamaed a about menstruation no less. it was part of his looking backwards not forwards i believe they chose me he given what i had rehe vealed internally and the fact it that i had gone to a reporter and ultimately a criminal investigation was opened up on me over a number of years and in april of 2010 they charged me with ten felony count indictment five under the espionage act designed to go after spies not whistle ....