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Counselor, there is a reference to this january 2017 washington post story, i know you ve been talking about it but this really is one of the important data points in the investigation. it was the first time that there was a leak about michael flynn and the conversations he had with the russian ambassador at that time. as i recall, mike flynn was outside the country so his communication even as an american citizen would have been picked up by the intelligence community but in those circumstances, the american citizen s identity is hidden and anonymized sean: if i may come i don t mean to interrupt but i think the audience needs to know, there is a process i understand he s out of the country but there is a process when we know that there is an american citizen on the line, a process called minimization. they are not supposed to identify they would usually identify as american citizen unless it was cleared, terrorist ....
washington post story, i know you ve been talking about it, but this really is one of the important data points in the investigation. it was the first time that there was a leak about michael flynn and the conversations he had with the russian ambassador at that time. as i recall, mike flynn was outside the country so his communication, even as an american citizen, would have been picked up by the intelligence community, but in those circumstances, the american citizen s identity is hidden and anonymized sean: if i may, i don t mean to interrupt but i think the audience needs to know, there is a process i understand he s out of the country but there is a process when we know that there is an americande citizen on the line, a process called minimization. they are not supposed to identify they would usually identify as american citizen unless it was cleared, terrorist talk or something so outrageous ....
. greg: i agree. that is worse than waterboarding. bottom line is if you have to make a terrorist talk in order to save lives then everything should be on the table including films, toes and noses. a lot of media critics have the luxury of not having to face such dilemmas. in their shiny studios they parrot the same old pointless phrase, but we are better than that. i m not. [laughter] i will admit it. i am what is called a bad pers person, terrible even. the media however acts as if ....
There. and let me go to bill. bill, when you left the nsa, some of the things that we re seeing now are programs that you helped develop but you say it was intended to look at foreign sources, not u.s. is that the point that you feel like that our government has stepped across the line? yes it is. plus, the fact that they re collecting such bulk data. they were i left them with analytic principles like if you have a terrorist talk to somebody in the united states that was like the first degree. then the second degree would be who that person in the united states talked to. that formed a zone of suspicion and also you looked at who the people are that were looking at the advocating sites that advocate terrorism and then you add them to the zone of suspicion. that could have captured every terrorist i ve ever known. that gives you a very focused ....