scenario studied by the u.s. forces by knocking out fifty u.s. military satellites the chinese could literally cripple the u.s. . they could prevent the military from being able to communicate with its forces they could blind the u.s. intelligence community which uses electro optics satellites to determine military force movements around the world and they could also cripple the guidance systems that are used on precision guided munitions that are satellite guided. in many senses could be a kind of an electronic pearl harbor. without space the u.s. would be unable to conduct any type of military operation in an effective way. the civilian space industry generates more than two hundred fifty billion dollars every year the destruction of even a single orbiting satellite could put at risk the economy daily lives and well being of millions of citizens. if you look at space lots of times you think about the hubble telescope. most people don't realize that they use every day. when you open yourself to make. money out of the tank. and satellite t.v. sho

u.s., all the way from the west coast to the east, and all the while we've been told these are minute, trace amounts that pose no harm to any of us. but now the epa says traces of radiation have been found in milk. again, they say, far below levels of public health concern, but that won't stop some public concern. it's where we begin tonight with nbc's tom costello in washington. tom, good evening. >> reporter: hi, brian. the u.s. has already halted imports of dairy products and produce from japan, but radiation travels in the air, it falls on pastures and meadows and it appears to have been consumed already by american cows. 4700 miles from the nuclear disaster in japan, the faintest hints of radiation have now turned up in america's milk supply. trace amounts of radioactive iodine 131 found in samples taken from california on march 28th and washington state on march 25th. but levels so low the epa says a sample taken from spokane would have to be 5,000 times higher to reach levels at whi

intelligence operatives killed two local men in the city of lahore earlier this year. fifty years ago today mankind opened our grad new chapter of its history by ushering in the manned exploration of space people across the globe are marking the anniversary of yuri gagarin's pioneering flight. of course from the cosmos you're on that launched the first man to space i'm here in baikonur where many significant events in space history had taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut you to go got aboard his bus took one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the garden start it's a very safe launch pad used by the is so used to it may twenty one crew when they left for space on april fly go into the international space station they were of course in a spacecraft that had the image of god into mark this anniversary well since then a lot of there's a long list of achievements in terms of space exploration what's diffe

media reports quote unnamed officials income as u.s. and pakistani spy chiefs meet at the cia headquarters in virginia relations have been between the countries have struggled to recover after a u.s. intelligence operative killed two local men in the city of lahore earlier this year it was one small flight for man but one giant leap for mankind the world marks fifty years since your garance historic first flight tests are sillier reports from the cosmos drone that propelled the first man into space. i'm here in baikonur where many significant events in space history had taken place not least of which was the first successful manned space flight well it all began here because on this day fifty years ago cosmonaut you to go got aboard his vostok one capsule and blasted off into space well that launch pad where he had taken off from is now called the good god start it's the very same launch pad used by the u.s. so used to have a twenty one crew when they left for space on april five going to be a international space station they were of co

same region relations between the u.s. and its allies pakistan in the fight against al qaida seem to be on the brink of collapse pervert cia operations drone attacks and civilian deaths have prompted islam of god to rebuke washington and demand it reduces its presence in the country are the correspondent maria krishna reports. here in islamabad officials say the relations between the u.s. and pakistan are today at its worst since nine eleven and there are many reasons behind the material ration a case in point is that of raymond davis a cia spy who shot two pakistanis died in brode daylight earlier this year claiming they were trying to rob him this incident exposed huge concerns over the activity of for us private security firms similar to those operating in afghanistan and iraq and others claim that there was real work was on neutralizing the country's nuclear arsenal which is to become the world's largest pakistani officials here in islamabad say they have no idea how many u.s. contractors are currently functioning in p

intelligence was libya before this started it's very similar to what happened in iraq at the time when they chose to back. someone who had a greater constituency along the potomac river than you get along the tigris and euphrates so i think you know while i like many people around the world would welcome the fall of the theory g.m. i think we have. and be very very careful about who we get into bed with and who we start backing and particularly we're talking about a civil war khadafy does have supporters and has a lot of supporters and that's a reality that you don't hear often on television this is a civil war and it's dangerous game the u.s. is playing with you absolutely green and i've been saying that for some time and with we not only supported we're paying him three hundred thousand dollars a month i'd like to get into a conversation or move a conversation into your book blackwater and where you know where your thoughts are about that right after this break german stick around more conversations of the great minds after the break with jeremy scahill. the latest science. from. the

intelligence officer for the wrong thing says if secret agents operating the battlefield a ground mission could be unavoidable. the problem is if you have several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of discipline or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level than of cia people are doing this at a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates as recently as today promised would never happen boots on the ground. later today artie's cross-talk debate show discusses who's backing the rebels as a military campaign if you're eight years old and supreme. we have to be a little skeptical that that's a u.s. good u.s. strategy to go in and then hope for it is the idea that he had hoped i guess you could quote the president's own saying to run a strategy like this or we're going to get into some and that sort of thing and hope for the best and i just don't see going to war in that way is responsible and i can't believ

intelligence during that period there is a mixed bag of the libyan opposition in terms of what people have asked for what they want the other thing that i think is makes this all very problematic is that in the context of the of the arab spring we're in each of these situations they began whether it was egypt whether it was tunisia whether it's been yemen bahrain all of them have faced massive military assault at the beginning only in libya was the decision made to take up arms i'm not going to second guess that this is not in the morning there are two hundred one says you are. right on this why is it why is it with. the structure of the national it's. my job. why is it is because those products are very good why is it different because it used now with these different i do think. but i personally think that it's a numbers going on i think in terms of victims being a numbers game i don't want to say that there were more people who hear more people who are there but they quickly realize that if it was on the radio program i mean if you look at i want to use iraq as a very good example

former u.s. intelligence officer to randy explained why it's impossible to avoid the ground mission in the if secret agents rating. the problem is if you have several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of discipline or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level then of cia people are doing this at a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates as recently as today promised would never happen boots on the ground. going about twenty minutes and he's cross don't debate should discuss these issues back in the revels that's going to campaign appearance on there's a creepy. we have to be a little skeptical that that's a us good us strategy to go in and then hope for it is the idea acidy of hope i guess you could quote the president's own saying to run a strategy like this oh well we're going to get in do some thing and

former u.s. intelligence officer philip giraldi feels the opposition in libya is so disorganized that foreign forces on the ground will have to be involved at some point. the problem is if you have several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of discipline or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level and if cia people are doing this at a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates has recently promised would never happen boots on the ground well i don't know if you know the of the american folk story about that tar baby where the tar baby looks like a baby but once you grab hold of it you stick to it and you never get loose this happens far too many times in terms of american involvement in countries that we don't really understand very much about and in situations that we don't understand and what happens is the

say that resulted in a lot more u.s. military deaths as well as civilian deaths so what we have with petraeus is yet another military person after bush put general michael hayden over at the cia after he was deputy director of national intelligence and n.s.a. director at the cia as a civilian institution and this is yet another move to militarize the key u.s. intelligence agency and many people at langley would look very of scans at that i would point out that the president want to militarize the civilian institution well i you know it goes back to where and when bush put hayden over there hayden was actually walking around the cia in his uniform and and it was it was gates who actually told him you know you should really take off the uniform and retired from the air force now what happened traders at the cia i guess we'll have to see whether he's going to be walking around the halls of langley in his army general uniform but i think this again is just another indication that obama seems to be the third administration of

a former u.s. intelligence officer for that explains why it's impossible to avoid the ground mission in libya if secret agents are already operating in the battlefield problem is if you have several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of their supply or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level and of people are doing this at a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates as recently as today promised would never happen boots on the ground. top officials across the world continue to rally against moammar gadhafi exactions some believe their reaction is inconsistent former leaders can sometimes get away with crimes they commit if they have the backing of the west. african reports from washington. welcome and firm handshakes for someone who just three years ago gave the order that led to the deaths of civilians in th

well first of all u.s. defense secretary gates admitted that the u.s. intelligence has no information that the qaddafi government with its air force strafed innocent civilians and that was used images of that reports from syria and from libyan opposition figures standing outside the white house in washington claiming that was a case were used without any international inquiry to prove whether or not it was true so this was run by a media barrage the they wanted qaddafi out because he's not playing according to washington could you could you know how argument sorry to interrupt a lot of time could use argument in syria because no journalists have there at the moment getting accurate reports apparently five hundred people have died during the six week uprising but is it fair to say that we're not too sure really war is going on in syria i don't think we can say with certainty what is going on in syria and the media reports that are coming out this is being run by pentagon propaganda. journalism in the in the same way that the iraq and the afghanistan wars

former u.s. intelligence officer philip drove the explained why it's impossible to avoid a ground mission in libya if secret agents are already operating in the battlefield . the problem is if you have several thousand rebels who are not used to using weapons have no idea of discipline or how to fight a battle a general is not going to make a big difference you need to have people training them and directing them at a lower level and the cia people are doing this out a lower level that means they will inevitably get involved in the fighting and this is what robert gates as recently as today promised would never happen boots on the ground. still to come here an artsy craftsy factor this through time. despite the fact that the earnings season was somewhat slow in coming to watch that story still people hear from you when you make something we should be hunted by wants to lead the world over fancy watches to cold steel black prince a craftsman of the ural show on their skills in the latest close up

intelligence and watch the full interview with julian assad monday here on r.t. . the world's eyes are on the run ins a day is prince william and kate middleton tie the knot in the lavish ceremony at westminster abbey thousands of police officers were deployed in one of the biggest security operations in the u.k. and more than forty people were arrested before the event a friend of one of the arrested protesters silkie carlos says the police approach was too harsh. it's been around one hundred pre-crime arrests which is not something you come to expect a democracy and these are people who really planning on just voicing their opinion and opposing them want to k. they do live in a very hierarchical system a very unfair system one that promotes inequality in poverty i mean it's thought that the cakes at the wedding a costing around one hundred thirty three dollars per slice there's been about twenty four million british pounds just spent on security by public funds and yet at the same time there are cuts being made to disabled people for students so it really highlig

intelligence agencies and google and others obviously they they know who butters their bread and they're going to do the what the agency asked them to do or in the military the pentagon so you can put out the fire walls and take them down it depends on the situation i would say that the u.s. right now would be very interested in creating a firewall on bahrain for example i really want to say more u.s. corporations already censor the internet and leave the government behind oh absolutely absolutely where we want to support that regime because we have a huge naval base there and want to keep it there same thing with saudi arabia oman and what leads you to believe that there's actually that exact line where the u.s. government can actually influence a corporation when things hit the fan of bahrain to say hey that's it and all of the cooperation between the u.s. government and us take companies is legendary eighty into google it's across the board we see this kind of. situation in the cia even the cia has its own venture capital firm called in-q tel that actually provide seed money for a lot

it employs former u.s. ambassadors, generals and senior intelligence officers to argue its case in the white house, congress and the media and wall street journal. needless to say this lobby's work is assisted by our oil and armsmaking organizations whose concerns have less to do with u.s. securities and making sure they keep their seats on the

but also his intelligence service. again, libyan armed forces are 10-1 advantage over the rebels right now in numbers and combat power. so if the u.s. steps out of this equation, takes away our enormously effective u.s. air force, it's hard to see why we're not going to end up in a stalemate civil war in libya with sort of an embarrassment to the president's public commitment and public policy. >> is that where you think this is heading? i mean from where we were twn rendrtle alone to reach tripoli. do you think we'll be in a long ground fight here with the cia trying to pick off dsidents one by one? how do you see this playing out? >> well, if the usair power isn't a major factor in this campaign i cannot imagine why the canadians, danes, french, and brits argog ave t awacs, refueling tankers, precision munitions. only the u.s. air force or u.s. naval air power can do th iwee coming out then i think thisgadhafi's inner circl. but remember, those sons of his, ti. again, i think we have to make up our mind. what are we

and law enforcements in the u.s. and u.k. and see how violent extremism changed the business of intelligence. we have the world's most perfect panel and starting with charles allen who was at the cia for more than 40 years and basically was doing intelligence longer than i've been alive, and people that i have -- [laughter] it's a complement. people i spoke to about mr. allen referred to him as a legend, and i never interviewed a legend before, so i'm looking forward to that. bill bratton is the smartest cop in america, and if you don't know a lot about him, but he's the only person alive or dead to led the two largest police forces in the united states, the nypd and lapd. also peter clark from the u.k. is here today. with all the focus on the royal wedding, he used to be in charge of the royalty and protection department, in charge of protecting the royal family and residences and looking for a way to get prince william and kate into the conversation, but i couldn't find a smooth transition, so we'll focus on his ot

. >>> the u.s. army intelligence analyst expected of leaking thousands of documents to wikileaks is being moved to ft. leavenworth, kansas. bradley manning is being held at the u.s. marine rig in quantico, virginia, in what some describe as harsh conditions. the pentagon denies he is being mistreated and say he is being moved as part of an assessment to see if he is mentally competent to stand trial. he faces dozens of charges, including aiding the enemy. >>> the world's youngest billionaire and the president of the united states come together in palo alto, california, today, to discuss deficit reduction. president obama visits the headquarters of facebook for a live internet town hall meeting with company founder mark zuckerberg, aimed at building support for the president's spending plan, and his re-election. >>> just ahead a shooting at a texas elementary school. >>> plus a fast thinking security guard stops armed robbers at an internet cafe. this is "cbs morning news." dog: bacon? gotta get that

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central intelligence agency there's a there's a dark clouds looming i'm afraid for us involvement in afghanistan and other places wayne madsen was interesting in what you have to say thanks very much for join joining us live from the u.s. capital thank you. all the time that up there you have some international news in brief for you this hour in our world update rival palestinian parties fatter and hundreds have agreed a reconciliation deal that's according to officials under the agreement a temporary government will be formed and the election date set and isis been in power in gaza in fact has been running the west bank for more than four years the two factions split when violence erupted author hamas won the palestinian election in two thousand and six. and after an air force pilot shot dead eight u.s. troops and a contractor at an airport in kabul the gunman was reportedly suffering from mental illness and either got into a fight with these foreign colleagues or planned the attack after being recruited by the taliban incidence is the deadliest of a number of recent attacks in fore

. >> first of all, the u.s. military and intelligence, particularly the cia, go to great lengths to stress that violence islamists are a minor element in this anti-gaddafi movement and have been up to this point. gaddafi himself suggests and argues that al qaeda is behind everything against him. the cia covert action in libya is there for a couple of purposes. first of all, one of the great problems that has emerged is that the gaddafi troops wearing civilian guard had infiltrated into the rebels and confused the air attack, so that it has. made it. they want to identify where they are and deploy them. and setting off grenade launchers to identify where the rebels are -- it has allowed the gaddafi forces to use heavy artillery against them. it will be to bring some sense of command and control. >> i keep thinking of "charlie wilson's war." all of a sudden, the law of unintended consequences. >> secretary gates said he did not want to get into the arm ing business. i am more worried about gaddafi himself. gaddafi

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>> to that extent -- first of all, i don't know exactly what the u.s. intelligence -- nobody knows exactly. >> i'm happy -- this is the intelligence committee, and while -- i'd like -- we're trying to help them. that's our job to call them in and say, hey, we heard this at the hearing. you want to correct these things. >> i can't speak to the question of whether our agencies have been hoodwinked or not, but because you're talking about people who collect intelligence, you can raise a question that i've had because i lack intelligence both in the sense of intelligence gatherings and iq. chairman, you mentioned this 1991 explanatory memorandum and it was a document written by a muslim brotherhood guy when is a document -- i read it, got it, and read it, and it seemed to be a document where this member of the muslim brotherhood in the united states is writing to his people back home and trying to encourage them to make the united states kind of a priority for profittization and political activation and all things. the page in the document that caused the m

intelligence knows exactly -- >> this is the intelligence committee and while we are going to try to help them that is kind of our job is to then call them and say we have heard this at the hearing and you might want to correct these things shown to us in terms of -- >> so, i can't speak to this question of whether our intelligence agencies have been hoodwinked or not but since you are going to go back and speak to the people who do collect our intelligence, you could actually raise a question that i've had and this is because i lack intelligence both in the sense of intelligence gathering and iq. so chairman, you mentioned this 1991 explanatory memorandum and lorenzo mentioned it as well a document written by this muslim brotherhood by which is a document that i read and i got it and read it and it seemed to be a document where this member of the muslim brotherhood in the united states is writing to his people back home and trying to encourage them to make the united states a kind of priority for the proposition political activism all kind of things. and the page in the document tha

it is named in honor of thomas' father, an unsung hero of u.s. intelligence services. cfr would also like to thank longtime member and supporter rita houser, deeply involved in intelligence work through her service on the president's intelligence advisory board. rita, thank you very much for all your support. i would also like to think georgetown university's bruce hoffman, ellen mchugh, henry, and peter for the international center for the study of radicalization. also, thanks to my colleagues here at cfr. ed and steveed. in addition, it takes a lot of people working the background to make an event like today happened. my colleague, nancy, heads up a truly outstanding meetings team here. i want to thank nancy, chris, emily, jeff, alison, and kate for polling today's conference together. i have a couple of housekeeping details to go over. first, today's sessions all on their record, with two exceptions. the exceptions are session two on the violent radicalization keep trends in development. and sessions 6, new frontiers countering online radicalization. total supply of