trying to pay them off to be nice. that bothers a lot of people, it bothers the president. the number one state sponsor of terrorism throughout the world. the negotiating agreement with them, nuclear agreements have always been stovepipes, that way when we worked with the soviet union and other countries, you have to look at the ripple effects and hold iran accountable for their actions and they said if you impose any sanctions post nuclear deal we will walk away from it. police afraid to do so. your behavior within that region destabilized the entire middle east. saudi arabia being surrounded by
yes. and i also recognize that this was an exceptionally, exceptionally sensitive issue. an active counterintelligence case trying to stop and uncover what the russian intelligence activities were. in the midst of a hotly debated presidential campaign. that s including information that may have involved u.s. persons contacts with russia, whether they benign or not. there are, one of the key pieces of any counterintelligence effort is to compartment that effort so that your operators, your investigators, your collectors can continue to uncover what the russians were doing. we set up a group within cia. i spoke to jim comey, i spoke to mike rogers to make sure they were able to send over their experts so that they could share information among them. even the most sensitive information that was not disseminated within the community. i wanted to make sure that learning the lessons of 9/11, that there were not going to be any stovepipes and barriers to sharing information from the
cohesive fashion? yes. and i also recognize that this was an exceptionally, exceptionally sensitive issue. an active counterintelligence case, trying to stop and uncover what the russian intelligence activities were. in the midst of a hotly debated presidential campaign. that included information that may have involved u.s. persons contacts with russia, whether they re benign or not. therefore, one of the key pieces of any kind of counterintelligence effort is to compartment that effort so that your operators, your investigators, your collectors, can continue to uncover what the russians were doing. we set up a group within cia. i spoke to jim comey. i spoke to mike rogers to make sure that they were able to send over their experts so that they could share information among them, even the most sensitive information that was not disseminated within the community. i wanted to make sure that learning lessons of 9/11 that there were not going to be any stovepipes and barriers to
outspoken advocate for president trump during his campaign, plagiarized sections of his 2013 masters thesis on u.s. security, according to our reporting. that s according to a cnn s kfile. it is so hard to break down stovepipes when there are so many stoves that are legally and politically entitled to have cast iron pipes of their own. that excerpt was lifted from the 9/11 commission report. just this week, clark announced he will be joining trump s administration as an assistant secretary in the department of homeland security. the department did not confirm this, however. cnn kfile s andrew kosinski joins we now. what else did you find, andrew? we found charge plagiarized 47 different times in this masters thesis that he wrote for the naval post graduate school. we found basically time and again that clark was copying
loretta lynch. wouldn t the administration know? one would think that, but at the same time the question that keeps coming up that s been going on since 9/11 is these various agencies are still locked in their stovepipes and even though we do have this director of national intelligence, you know, sometimes these thing don t get to everybody, and again, just keep in mind, clapper said not that he s aware of. shouldn t he know? he should know. you d think he should know. frances this gets to the point that lindsaym gra addressed in his town hall yesterday when he was asked about these tweets and he said yes, if president obama unilaterally ordered a wiretap of candidate donald trump that would be a watergate-type scandal, but he said it would also be a watergate-type scandal if the administration had gone to a fisa court, gotten a warrant to surveil because that would indicate that a judge believed that the fisa court that there was probable cause that a crime had been committed.