Cspan2. Cspan2. Hi, everybody, im david, welcome to the National Book festival in the difficult time of the pandemic. One single they think we can do and i know youre loving it as i am, is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer, the paladin, about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our times, which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the Washington Post who wrote an extraordinary memoirs and his dealings with Edward Snowden and the technology and surveillance and the title of the book says, the american surveillance state. And another outstanding office, thomas rid who teaches at Johns Hopkins and his accurate measure of history what weve come to call disinformation, the w
Recent National Book festival on covert operations. Hi, everybody. Im david ignatius, columnist with the washington post. Welcome to the National Book festival. In this difficult time in the pandemic, one thing we can do is to read good books. I wrote a book that was published this summer which is about a cia officer whos struggling with one of the central problems of our time which is knowing whats true and what isnt. And its my great pleasure to have with me today two people who wrote two two of the very best books of this summer about issues related to our new technologically sophisticated world and the dangers. First, i want to introduce bart gellman, my former colleague at the washington post, who wrote an extraordinary memoir of husband dealings with Edward Snowden that led to the rflations about nsa technology and surveillance, and the subtitle of barts book says the american surveillance state. I also want to introduce another outstanding author the, thomas rid, who teaches at
american democracy while finding that china decided against meddling in the u.s. election last year. let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who s been watching all of this so closely. how extensive, first of all, was russia s election interference? reporter: i spoke this evening to a former senior u.s. intelligence official who was involved in the 2016 assessment. he said to me that russia is nothing if not consistent here. when you look at this assessment, the headline figures in this assess, it is almost verbatim from what we reported on 2016. we assess that the russian president vladimir putin ordered this, directed this, much as the intelligence community assessed in 2016. let s then go onto what russia did to interfere. it says they conducted influence operations aimed at denigrating president biden s candidacy. reminds you of what they did in 2016 in terms of denigrating hillary clinton. but also denigrating the democratic party, supporting
Watched that their emails were being read and that that was extreme bias within the f. B. I. With the senior investigator with the f. B. I. Now exposed to be sending extremely anti trump emails with hes a lover whos also an official of the f. B. I. And struck way indeed absolutely and having discussions about it in the office of the Deputy Director of the f. B. I. Mr mckay who was referred to in the emails as an andy what you know ive said this before on this Program People on what. Their social media if they want to say the president the United States or canada candidate for the United States presidency trump hes an idiot thats fine with me thats a personal opinion but when you Start Talking about an insurance policy thats when i start getting concerned because these are unelected officials meddling in the election. And these are these people are supposed to be a politically least nominal piece there it is really high time for a new Church Commission to be instituted to investigate th
What was russia gate is now quickly becoming f. B. I. Gate who will investigate the investigators also does the u. S. Have a real north korea policy and the end of Net Neutrality and the start of internet apartheid. Cross talking f. B. I. Gate im joined by my guest albums under me curious he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com we also have victrola levitch hes a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have dmitri bob itch he is a political analyst with Sputnik International rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate your joining us here visiting moscow and you have a great legal mind as we all know. I think its fair to say this is f. B. I. Kate because it never really was a russian scandal i mean after what eighteen months not a shred of a. Evidence but we have day after day after day enormous amount of collusion by us. Inside the inside the f.