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It just strains creditulitie to think that the chinese in hong kong and the russians in moscow have not aveiled themselves of the information on the laptops that he has. what do you make of that? well you think they exploited the situation already? i would be shocked if any intelligence service in the world, let alone russians and chinese, would not have tried to do whatever they can to get access to what he has. because we still don t know what he has. we know that the washington post and the guardian of england have gotten a stash of documents from him. they ve done a couple of stories, but not all of the stories they could, and they say there are some secrets they have not revealed, which are the type of secrets do you believe his earlier claim? i will be neutral on this because i have a mixed feeling about this guy. do you think he had the ability to out agent and station chiefs around the world? he said he could do that. all our top spies in the world, spice, he ....
Here s what i know and here s what i think. he s very precise. he offers evidence. and i have not found him to be mistaken about anything he s told me. that s to me the most earth shaking thing. i want to bring in howard here. i want to get to some of the background thing. the most earth shattering news is some young person, male, female, not even a cia agent but somebody working at booz allen, a contract employee, has the power to bring down the entire intelligence structure of the world that we ve got if place right now by outing every station, every location, every agent just at will if he feels like being the bad guy. he said in the videotape with the guardian he could have brought down the entire surveillance of the world in one afternoon. that means anybody. not just outing the station chiefs, but also the mechanics of it. he could have ruined the whole thing in one day. he s not that high level a guy. right. my understanding, there are now i ve been spending the da ....
Spread. he has reportedly told cia station chiefs to immediately gather all the information they can from the role of internet and social networking sites to the strength of the opposition in their assigned countries. catherine herridge on details with this live from washington tonight. this is really about looking for trouble in other parts of the region. you wonder why, well, it starts now not a long time ago. well, the cia director, i mean this is ongoing project, but they specifically put together this group because they want to take a look at other countries in the region that really have the same conditions on the ground that gave rise to what we saw in tunisia and also in egypt. so they are looking at things like the impact of a bad economy and countries with large numbers of people who are under 30 who are educated and unemployed. what we have seen is that the ripple effect is clear. there is no question that what we are seeing happening in egypt will have tremendous impact ....
The planet and he s an idiot. he can t be allowed out in public. this is embarrassing. megyn: this is not an enemy. egypt is our ally. we have diplomatic relations with them and should have a direct line of communication and yet you have our director of national intelligence making comments like this about the muslim brotherhood and the president making a speech that sounded like he expected a resignation. you have leon panetta suggesting that mubarak would go and then c.i.a. had to clarify that they were relying on news reports. why is the c.i.a. director relying on news reports? you mentioned the station chiefs a couple minutes ago, megyn. what do you think the c.i.a. station chiefs were telling washington, the station chiefs megyn: catherine herridge tells us they were reporting for ....
Weight to order the more to order them around. and there was a lot of infighting, too, between the director of national intelligence and the cia over how exactly intelligence matters were going to be handled around the world, who was going to install the station chiefs. then there was a back and forth with the white house, and we saw his comments, blair s comments on capitol hill about the politization of intelligence around the christmas day bombing investigation. it s a job that is not that attractive to many folks, and perhaps you re seeing the result of that and the politics surrounding it with this vacuum that is being created by all these retirements. jon: talk about politics, there s going to be a lot on display come monday when elena kagan begins confirmation hearings for that u.s. supreme court position. reporter: yeah, it will be really interesting to see how these hearings develop. a lot of conventional wisdom going in was that this is a ....