be a sub unit of the fbi or doj. now that point by the administration does not shed light on who the hig will report to, either the fbi or the national security council. if the ultimate goal of the at straying is to prosecute high value detainees, in article 3 courts, the development of evidence will be key to the government's case. now, what i have reservations about, is evidence that was developed by the intelligence community, for instance, in some cases, the government may not be willing or able to produce the source of the evidence in court. furthermore the evidence may be the fruit of information obtained from foreign intelligence or foreign investigations. now, this information could lead investigators down a line of questioning during an interrogation that they will have to explain in court. if trying these cases in federal criminal courts is the ultimate goal, what solutions does the fbi propose to address hearsay evidence exclusions? and, just one follow-up question, will the fbi implement a policy on the hi

the fbi just released a 2008 crime statistic. in the work of law enforcement and the trendlines are to be commended. we hope the preliminary indications of this year show the continuation of these trends, despite the economic down turn in the financial crisis and assistance able to put in the economic stimulus package to state and local law enforcement will have to keep crime down throughout the country. and may congress pass the enforcement recovery act which gives investigators and prosecutors the resources they need to aggressively detect and prosecute mortgage fraud and financial fraud that contributed to the massive economic crisis. director mueller, i want to thank you personally and the bureau for the help you gave us in putting together that important piece of legislation. the testimony of your deputy, others came up here, extremely important to make sure we wrote a law that would actually give law enforcement the tools that need to combat this really vicious and malicious form of fraud. i think we need a similarly aggress

the fbi is left in ruins. wadih who you will see show up, he happens to be in new york that weekend. he visits the killer in jail. when i started this, where is the fbi? there was 45 pages of transcript. that's how i began. i read every single book on the subject. i read all of the open-soce articles on 9/11. and i created a database. it's up to like 70 volumes today. three inches thick. my daughters are helping me file them. that poddy of work. i created a little file using file maker, google, and a mac. began to put iniles and i began to conduct the dots. not a word on what i'm about to te you about in the space trade in a second. okay. how he's an informant for the fbi. the mosque that i told you about, when he was prosecuted what they cald a day of terror plot in 1995, they called this the jersey jihad office. he used to come up and give training sessions. they used to teach him how to clean weapons and everything. see the mosque? okay. now nancy floyd who is one of the heroic good people. of all of the vil

the fbi just released a 2008 crime statistic. in the work of law enforcement and the trendlines are to be commended. we hope the preliminary indications of this year show the continuation of these trends, despite the economic down turn in the financial crisis and assistance able to put in the economic stimulus package to state and local law enforcement will have to keep crime down throughout the country. and may congress pass the enforcement recovery act which gives investigators and prosecutors the resources they need to aggressively detect and prosecute mortgage fraud and financial fraud that contributed to the massive economic crisis. director mueller, i want to thank you personally and the bureau for the help you gave us in putting together that important piece of legislation. the testimony of your deputy, others came up here, extremely important to make sure we wrote a law that would actually give law enforcement the tools that need to combat this really vicious and malicious form of fraud. i think we need a similarly aggress

ultimately, the fbi worked with the congress. we built an entirely new fbi laboratory.massive undertaking. i think it was about $100 million, years. now the fbi's at the forefront of forensic science. in fact, one area that we see now that people agree as being solidly reliable, dna, is actually the standard developed by the fbi. >> yes, sir. >> how do we -- what do we do with forensic programs around the country? i mean, some argue that we should have one national lab. others say that the state labs can be good. as you know, some states have very good labs. some states don't. how do we establish standards, so if you're trying a case in vermont or california or ohio, and forensic science is used, that there's some touchstone standard, like the national science academy has said that we can look at and say, okay, we know this is good? >> i do believe that accreditation is tremendously important and driving persons to upgrade laboratories and shaming them into seeking accreditation. and it's going to require the support not just of the laboratories themselves, but it costs

>> the fbi. >> instead, he was set up and sting two of the wanna-be terrorists. in this undercover tape, assad is on the left, shown with one of the wanna-bes. assad arrived with a car loaded with high-powered weapons for mondai. both targets were convicted and sent to prison, but assad said it ended any hopes of infiltrating what turned out to be the real al qaeda terrorists. >> one of the biggest problems when you target somebody is that your energy and focus is on that particular group. you know, unfortunately calls are made where you don't follow up on information that's given to you while you're working on something else. >> shortly after the attacks, assad says the fbi asked him if he could identify any of the hijackers, and he did. >> i was very upset, angry. i cried. >> you cried? >> i cursed on everybody. i destroyed half of my furniture. i went crazy. >> you were that close? >> it confirmed what my suspicions were correct. i was right. >> but because atta and his men were suspicious of the fbi undercover man and secretive, the fbi sent him after the eas

for $100,000 in bribes, michael looked the other way. this fbiveillance taps catches a texas sheriff's deputy in the act of corruption. >> you either pay me here or you follow me and you can pay the judge. >> reporter: for cash payment, the deputy tells an fbi agent posing as a mexican national that he can go, even though he just broke traffic laws. >> the fine is 150. >> 150, no? >> mm-hm m. >> so i don't worry about nothing? >> no. >> reporter: the fbi says corrupt border officials willing to betray their badge for a price represent a lethal national security threat. the bureau is investigating more than 100 such cases. >> it is our first line of defense for both people and material coming north of the border. >> reporter: are one of the key agents under increasing scrutiny is customs and border protection. since 2004, 94 federal customs officials have been charged with mission-related corruption. the agency said it's taking the problem seriously and has been aggressively expanding it to root out crooked employees. the fbi fears the worst case

al qaeda training, bomb making instructions, a team of terrorists that the fbi says were preparing to attack targets here at home. we the latest on -- we have the latest on the alleged terror plot. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good evening. investigators today continue to search a property in northern california that until just a few weeks ago was home to phillip and nancy garrido. but police say it was also where they kept a child that they kidnapped almost two decades ago. a child they say who was forced to conceive two children with her captor. if that were not enough, police believe that the property may yield clues to other crimes committed by a man who they say was both disturbed and deviant. 8:30 this morning, forensic investigators are at this sprawling property, 40 miles from san francisco. they have been sifting evidence for four straight weeks. and still, the dust has not been allowed to settle. they believe it may yet give up further secrets of child abductions even murders, unsolved for decades, perpetrated by the occupants. >> we did begin digging today, and we spe

the fbi did not specify this claims. but we checked with assaad. and he said he told us the truth and stands by his story. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> space shuttle "discovery" is still circling the earth this morning, after bad weather delayed its landing. there could be another attempt to touch down today. but the forecast for florida is even worse. nasa says the shuttle may have to land at edwards air force base in california. "discovery" has been in space for 14 days. it has enough supplies to remain in orbit until sunday. >>> michael jackson's sister, latoya, has opened up to abc's barbara walters, in her first in depth interview since her brother's death. she said michael was drape dressed in all white. she blamed his death on anyone who provided him with drugs. and she described him as the osest thing to a god she ever knew. you can get a preview of the exclusive on "good morning america." and the entire interview will air tonight on "20/20," at 10:00, 9:00 central. >>> and coming up here this morning on "america this morning," gender

agency of the week. fbiicials in the days of the first clean's buddy says the real problem is the december sem nation of incripple may goss one side is week one is great. when you read by the drive bia gagses or they are covering their high quarters. this guy is as pretty has as it teams. >> this this guy did you believe the he hadding cake is bombed. why are you letting him go. in that case i have a weak case and get bring them in. there may be a difference than the case they brought in court at the poem meant. their sus special about evidence that led to them to conclude which they fairly did. one law enforcement official said there was a terrorist attack on nt road to submission. >> on a past on explosion. natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, yet a lot of natural gas has impurities like co2 in it. controlled freeze zone is a new technology... being developed by exxonmobil... to remove the co2 from the natural gas... so we can safely store it... where it won't get into the atmosphere. exxonmobil is spend

agency of the week. fbisays the real problem is the december sem nation of incripple may goss one side is week one is great. when you read by the drive bia gagses or they are covering their high quarters. this guy is as pretty has as it teams. >> this this guy did you believe the he hadding cake is bombed. why are you letting him go. in that case i have a weak case and get bring them in. there may be a difference than the case they brought in court at the poem meant. their sus special about evidence that led to them to conclude which they fairly did. one law enforcement official said there was a terrorist attack on nt road to submission. >> onxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwxwb >> live with a spirited discussion debate over the track record i think you can say that post 911 era of federal authorities in their intense investigation of potential terror plots many of whom involve the newburgh case with a one-slick guy recruited a bunch of homeless dopes gave them fried chicken and convinced them to blow up synagogues o

the fbi was thin champagne and springfield and decatur. the court hou was in no urbana so there is a lot o driving on interstate 72 and is a long, open drive for you see cornfields, soybeans depending on the tim of year and the driver got there used to it. c-span: where you from originally? >> guest: i was raised in dallas, texas andow live outside of new york city. c-span: where did you go to college? how long did youeen with the "new york times"? >> guest: for 16 years. c-span: what got you interesd in wring? >> guest: is ieresting. what got me intested in writing and it will sound cliche, writing for the school paper, but the biggest thing that got me interested in writing was h boring a thought the school paper was. i remember i it just brennan artie about parent night which i thought was probably the most boring thing in the world, and was talking to a teacher, mike sheppard hill said i really want to write things that are more interesting. he said why don't you? done under his encouragement i went off and wrote an article about laetri

when the fbi had heard about this they had an interesting show down they said that is what ouemies do. they refuse to have anything to do with it and it went up to the white house where the president gave the lead role nonetheless to t cia and at that point* robert moller, the director of the fbi was through and you don't see a lot of fbi participation during that period during the interrogations'. they did not want to be in the room. military had the same reaction. you see that and in guantanamo some amazing whistle-blowers people who with -- risked their careers to sak up one people who say we doot want to be in the room we want nothing to do with this it is illegal, i don't care if it is illegal, it is an illegal order and they start to work their way back up to the general counsel of the navy who is the most prominent person who says i will not do this and goes to rumsfeld. >> host: tell the story of the davy top lawyer? >> guest: alberto moravia is e top lawyer and he gets the word that something bad going on prisoners are abused an awful ways and he thinks that first-come it is

could the attacks have been prevented? a top fbiperative says he knows the answer, and he's speaking out for the first time. here's our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. brian? >> reporter: that's right, charlie. he's coming out of the shadows to tell abc news, the fbi had hijack ring leader mohammed atta in his sights but shifted focus to an easier case. as a highly prized undercover operative for 13 years, he was known as mohamed. his real name is ellie asad, a 36-year-old native of lebanon. >> i gave 13 years, and people need to understand what i did. >> reporter: eight years after the 9/11 attacks, he is going public with an account of how he says he and the fbi missed a chance to stop the hijackers. you could have stopped the attacks? >> yes. i could -- i'm not 100% positive. i'm 80% positive. >> reporter: in 2001, the fbi sent assaad to infiltrate this mosque. there, he says he spots and recorded conversations with the man later identified as the leader, at that, as well as others in his group. you saw them? >> yes

a second part of the fbi probe centers on city hall. the feds arrested the chief of staff to jim graham. loza is charged with accepting trips, gifts and bribes of $1,500 in exchange for legislation introduced by graham that favored certain cab companies. >> we fully believe once all of the evidence has been put in front of the jury he will be vindicated. >> reporter: sources tell 9 news now that councilman graham is a target of the probe. the ward 2 councilman had done nothing wrong and knew of no wrongdoing on anyone's part. we have confirmed the bill will not be passed. >>> a local woman doing yard work died last after night a tree fell on her. police say the 63-year-old victim was doing yard work when the tree fell on top of her. her husband came outside to find her trapped under the tree. he called 911. >> we found a 63-year-old female under an approximately ten inch caliber tree. the tree appeared to have been dead and fallen with the dead root system and possibly with the rain we have have had in the area. the woman's name is being

$ sl should not be issued because they might have concerns there was no check with the power with the fbi? >> exactly no outside check that allowed the abuse to happen. >> how do we fix that? >> in other words, of the reinsure that the fbi or the justice department does not have to go to court to get the nsl orders know that the proper safeguards are there? >> you have to take a broader view the first of this is not the only had been mistreated of subpoena authority there are those on the criminal side better used every day by federal authorities and have different requirements could issue directly by the agency to people who possess third party records it is not the anomaly the nsl is a tried and true tool kit that until has used for years secondly this is one instance that was highlighted by the report by the ig report but this got most of the attention in that looked at activity i don't believe this is symptomatic of a broader problem the fbi will subvert the first amendment these are invested of investigative authorities they have different of taxes -- objectives 1/2 to meet i do not

stephen may is with us now, the fbi bank robbery coordinator. lar concern about the buckshot bandits? >> their last robbery was in july, they were a very dangerous group. they were demanding money, leaving behind a hoax device in the bank. they wait for the police department to show up, shut the bank down, evacuating everyone out of the bank, shutting down any streets in the area. they are a dangerous group that we want to get off the streets. jon: the theory is that the violence could accelerate. >> in all bank robberies there is a chance of escalation, especially if they are carrying shotguns. they could always shoot off a round in the bank. the robbers to be surprised. there could be a shootout. we need the public to help law enforcement identify these people and get them off the streets. there is reward money, and i will give the information, we do get out reward money. anyone that calls in remains anonymous. shepard: the baby boomer bandits, apparently not as much of a concern, he is the most recent fee? >> -- he is the most recent thief? >>

others the fbi is still trying to track down. drew lech son, clevinson, cbs news, new york. >> in another terror case unrelated, a jor dapian teenager is in jail this morning in dallas. the 19-year-old was arrested near a 60 story downtown office tower. they say he had tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb in the building's parking garage. it was actually a fake given to him by an undercover fbi agent. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg spent the night at a washington hospital after becoming ill at her office last night. doctors say it's just a precaution. the 76-year-old ginsburg apparently suffered a reaction to treatment for iron deficiency. ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer in february. >>> in pittsburgh, this will be the second and final day of the g-20 economic summit attended by the leaders of the world's 20 largest economies. it's also likely to be another day of noisy protest which is so far have failed to disrupt the conference. whitt johnson is in pittsburgh with the latest. whitt, good mor

at least five meets are scheduled over the next three days. >>> fbi director robert muller will be on hill today, to testify before a senate committee. he'll address the threat of terrorism inside the u.s., eight years of 9/11. >>> the transportation department kicks off a two-day meeting on ways to crack down on drivers who use cell phones or send text messages behind the wheel. >>> michelle obama joins u.s. athletes in copenhagen, to make the final appeal for chicago to host the summer games in 2016. those athletes are fanning out across copenhagen to drum up goodwill. >>> last year's host city, beijing, is virtually shut down today, as china prepares to host 60 years of communist rule tomorrow. >>> coming up later on "good morning america," former model kathy ireland, becomes the latest contestant to be bumped off "dancing with the stars." tom delay is hanging in there. >> kathy ireland will beoining us live. and who does she think will run away with the mirrorball trophy? we'll get her take on it, as she departs the show. >> the tango was the end of it for her. >> shouldn't havdan

zazi is the prime suspect that was arrested by the fbi. the rumors are around about big box retail stores, mass transit. he has been captured. he has been incarcerated and under interrogation. let's bring in kroroger cresse. what's your thought on this breaking news story? >> the most important thing is he's in custody and he's given us credible, accurate information on the program toefrs a plot. what we don't know is probably the most disturbing stuff. were there other individuals who are part of the plot that law enforcement hasn't identified. are there facilities such as warehouses or storage facilities where either bomb components or actual bomb are now being stored? and what were the specific targets that they were intended to hit. all these issues have to be figured out, but it looks like we've sbruptsed something significant. >> were there any bombs found? >> we know there were a number of backpacks found. there were notes on his computer about per red sox side based. there's credible evidence that prior explosive techniques wrt ones

or is the fbi getting better at catching them? >>> chynna phillips comes forward to defend her sister's allegations of incest and abuse. we'll have the latest on the shocking revelations and the insuing family feud.

they wrote him up for lying to the fbi, which is a crime, even in a casual conversation. lding these three until they can muster more evidence against them. some of the charges against them do not hold up right now. for example, it is not a crime to have a bomb-building instructions on your web site or computer, when you can get bombed building instructions from libraries -- bomb-building instructions from government- owned libraries. the use of the terror coats is what terrifies the fbi, because "wedding cake" is a phrase identified and associated with explosions that are about to happen. so the government's job is to show that there was a conspiracy, which is an agreement to commit a crime, and then some steps taken by at least one of the conspirators further into the agreement. rick: have they done their job, the government, or is this a reach? >> we will find out when we see what the charges are. you do not order no bail for lying to the fbi. you do that if you think they will go out and kill somebody. so the fbi may have said something to the judge like, "give us more

the fbi is investigating it as a possible hate crime. the man told police that the woman spit on him and she denies that. >> an amazinging story here. a colorado woman spent almost six days on a colorado mountain side after her car went off a slif cliff and she survived. >> no protection, no money, nothing. >> there's bears and all kinds of things that roam around up here. i don't know how she got mauled and she's got the held of a will to live. >> she started yelling and someone conducting a tour through the mine heard her cry. she's now recovering at the hospital. she says the accident happened when she swerved to avoid hitting a deer. pretty amazing. >> well, they say big things come in small packages and now we have the proof. you may think that these dinosaurs are entirely different. but take a look here and take a guess which one came first. >>> welcome back. we know have the pictures of phillip garrido's house where he held the girl for 18 years. she found a septic hole and outside toilet not connected to a septic system. piles of

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the defense on a silver platter. to you, daniel horowitz. getting an fbi lab tech's dna on this crucial evidence, the tape wrapped around the child's head, is a torpedo to the state. >> it shows sloppy work, nancy. i could see innocent ways it could happen. you probably are dissolving the things on the tape in acid. or it's not acid. but alcohol. and extracting. and dna can fall on it. but that missing heart, the evidence that may be manufactured, that's a tremendous concern. that could be fatal to the forensics in this case. >>> can someone let me -- come on! >> that odor, that's something you'll never forget. >> there's something wrong. they found my daughter's car today and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car. >> my entire life has been taken from me. everything has been taken from me. >> i believe something was placed in the back of that trunk. i don't want to believe it was my granddaughter. >> i'm going to hang up and just walk away right now. let me speak for a second. dad, i let everybody talk. >> i don't want to believe it's an

alex tree seen owe is live in norse with more. >> the fbi probe includes alleged bribes at the vehicle inspection station southwest. our sources say both dc council member and his chief of staff were on tape talking with who they thought was a cab company representative, when in all actuality it was an fbi agent they were communicating with. >> reporter: 9 news now first listened cab drivers were leaving $20 bills in the ashtrays of their vehicles. some inspectors were allegedly taking the bribes as payment for overlooking deficiencies on the cabs that should have earned them a rejection sticker. >> reporter: a second part of the fbi probe centers on city hall. the feds arrested ted loza, chief of staff to jim graham. ted loza is charged with accepting gifts, trips and bribes and $1,500 for legislation favoring cab companies. >> we fully believe once the evidence is in front of the jury he will be vindicated sources tell 9 news now that councilman graham is a target of the probe. he said he has done nothing wrong and knew of no wrongdoing on ted loza's part. councilman graham has cance

they say that they hoped the fbi would be in charge. the goal, they say, is to get all the options on the table. a senior intelligence official insisted that the cia is the lead to be out of the detention business. shepard: the army field manual has been their guide. is that the story? >> correct. it does not seem that that is the case in the future. the fbi director said that he would investigate or interrogate some options outside of the field manual, declared the standard by the administration. they said that they would make some options that are useful. this is the same position taken by michael in january of this year, that all of the options have to stay on the table. shepard: that is for the future, but for the suspects already in custody, the administration has already planned to ask for more time? >> that is right. there was another very interesting filing in federal court, one of the most compelling pieces of evidence to date, it will come before mid- november. these court papers on the hijacker from germany, the government wan

>>> the fbi makes arrests as it investigates an alleged terror plot. so far none of them are charged with terrorist activities. who they are and what they're accused of. >>> president obama hits the sunday morning talk show circuit. what he's saying about a bill that is reshaping the health care debate. >>> and, yes, we have shown you a lot of interesting video. none grittier than this, you could say, you won't believe how many pounds of grits the winner of this eating contest managed to consume. >>> good sunday to you. you're watching hln news and views. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. >>> we are learning more about the three men involved in a terrorist investigation. >> reporter: najibullah zazi is arrested in denver. all charged with lying to the fbi in the course of a terrorism investigation. according to court documents authorities found on zazi's computer nine page december tails how to build a bomb, handwritten documents. according to the charging documents zazi told the fbi he had not written them or put them there. fbi forensics and handw

trace: the fbi is four for four. there are more plots being hatched out there, it has to be concerning to a lot of americans. >> if we enable the police departments to have more resources, they can help the fbi. trace: if you had to point to something, what is fomenting this? >> it is not that simple. there are people out there -- look at this guy in illinois. he is obviously unhinged. global events do not have that much of an effect. trace: it is all this extremism. they have gone to al qaeda training camps. there is a common denominator >> the internet helps to radicalized. it helps them to plan and plot. it is one thing you have to be aware of. they are effectively advertising themselves as terrorists. the fbi was able to get in and stop an attack. the fbi could not even search the internet and look for bad guys. >> clearly, we are getting better. martha: we heard about this story. there is an uproar over a sing- along. the songs that has some parents riled up. trace: this baby here, a typical sized newborn. one b

that's the fbi's warning to the nation's police departments. orities are urged to remain on high alert. >> reporter: these are fbi s.w.a.t. team agents entering the lobby of a co-op at 2:30 yesterday. the february detained, questioned and released a muslim family originally from bosnia because of their alleged association with a man the fbi is watching possibly as a result of this and other raids at two other apartments in flushing, the i and homeland security issued a national alert cautioning police departments to be on the look out for someone trying to build a homemade bomb. it talks about peroxide and the burns, possibility of someone being burned. i think it's more -- it covers more subjects than that. there is no indication that anyone specifically is being looked for. >> kelly added that evidence taken from the three apartments raided is being analyzed. sources say the fbi is watching the man originally from afghanistan who ran a coffee cart in manhattan then moved to denver this year. he recently sent a number of e- mails to people in a

the fbi just released a 2008 crime statistic. in the work of law enforcement and the trendlines are to be commended. we hope the preliminary indications of this year show the continuation of these trends, despite the economic down turn in the financial crisis and assistance able to put in the economic stimulus package to state and local law enforcement will have to keep crime down throughout the country. and may congress pass the enforcement recovery act which gives investigators and prosecutors the resources they need to aggressively detect and prosecute mortgage fraud and financial fraud that contributed to the massive economic crisis. director mueller, i want to thank you personally and the bureau for the help you gave us in putting together that important piece of legislation. the testimony of your deputy, others came up here, extremely important to make sure we wrote a law that would actually give law enforcement the tools that need to combat this really vicious and malicious form of fraud. i think we need a similarly aggress

the fbi is looking at this tape. shirt there, checking out with his purchases of acetone and some other ingredients that he was using to build bombs, build bombs that he received instructions on how to build via the internet, and perhaps, the fbi believes, and al qaeda training camp in afghanistan. they believe that is him, but they have not absolutely authenticated that. we will continue to watch it for you. jane: are also following a second highest this week of a brinks armored car in florida. two security guards collecting cash from a gas station. they were sought out and attacked by these suspects. no shots were fired, but the video shows the men were brandishing pistols there. this comes after another heist on tuesday not far away in broward county. in that case, the driver of the truck was shot in the leg. an fbi spokesperson is on the phone with us now. what can you tell us about the suspect? >> they were all dressed in black, and they were wearing ski masks as well. jane: are the guards on the trucks armed? >

we're told the fbi is taking over the investigation. we're going to continue to follow the developments, but the new information right now is that the fbi is taking over the investigation. a wnbc producer apparently says the passenger in question scu y scurried on to the plane at the last minute and was one of the last people to board the plane when he sat down. he started to speak to another passenger and they, according to the wnbc reporter, eventually switched seats and they think in all, three passengers were taken off the plane, norah. >> and i can see, tamron, too, a report in to us from knbc, of course, our affiliate out there reporting per the lapd, los angeles police department, that two middle eastern men in their 30s were taken off this ua flight 22. the lapd says the fbi is now taking over the investigation which you just mentioned. so, again, different reports coming in at this hour about the number of men involved. clearly some unusual behavior that raised the concerns of the pilot and that's why now they're turning this o

all of it caught on tape by the fbi. according to the indictment, loz attack the money from a person described in the indictment as someone involved in long standing and corrupt efforts to limit the number of taxi cab licenses and to create an exemption to the limitation. the indictment also said that loz attack the money because he needed it. late this afternoon, the fbi left jim graham's suite of offices at the wilson building with several boxes. the agents spent hours going through the office space used by teddy loza. agents searched loza's home and another office in the wilson building. jim graham learned of the investigation plot if the -- from the fbi but loza himself. he's baffled by the charges since loza had little to do with taxi cab legislation. >> mr. loza has never, to my recollection, spoken to me about any elements of any taxi cab bill i was considering. he may have been, and again, i want to see this information there, but in meetings where it was discussed that i would -- no situation where mr. loza asked

the fbi documents say ahmad afzali tipped off zazi and then lied about it to the fbi.ng to use him in such a sensitive case. >> and now they have to blame someone. instead of coming in and saying we messed up, you know, we shouldn't have had afzali conducting an investigation for us. >> reporter: so far authorities say they have no specifics on potential targets but they say zazi's computer had images of grand central station and he researched football and baseball stadiums as long as sites used for the the well attended fashion festivities in new york city. security will be even tight they are week, especially as president obama and scores of other foreign leaders come to the city for the opening of of the u.n. general assembly. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> in washington state a sigh cot being killer who escaped while on a field trip to the county fair last week has now been recaptured. there are questions about why phillip arnold paul was allowed to go on the trip in plain street clothes in the first place. he was found insane after the brutal murder of an elde

the fbi realized that this was an al qaeda switchboard. and through tracking the telephone calls that were made to and from and then from those numbers that are called elsewhere, they were able to draw a map of the international reach of al qaeda. they could see, by calling here to hamberg and so on, they could see where al qaeda was. it happens that one of the two men that flew in january of 2000 from there to san diego was the son--law of the man who owned that pne. his daughter was pregnant. and he called her eight times. now thesa of course was recording these calls. they were monitoring who was calling who. they didt give this information to the

martha: we are told that they gave false statements to the fbi. they have also been very tight- lipped about what they know so far about what these three were planning, according to this investigation. my mind goes immediately to the question of interrogation. this is a very delicate investigation. >> sure, is certainly is. it reminds me of the 1993 attack on the world trade center, which also had ties to afghanistan, al-qaeda, and a local mosque. this one now is a mosque apparently a frequented by afghans and those of afghan dissent. again, you have an islamic mosque at the center of a local terrorist plot. martha: there are reports that there were backpacks and bomb details. when you think about the london bombings and the fear that gripped the subway system, and now we're learning in may have been in the works here. >> you are right. this is an example of very good work by the intelligence authorities, by our law enforcement trace: what do we know? >> we know they are really counting on the haitian authorities. they knew that they could not go t

the fbi says that for $100,000, michael looked at the other way. the surveillance tape catches the sheriff's deputy in the act of corruption. >> [unintelligible] >> the fbi is currently investigating more than a hundred similar cases, representing a potentially grave national security threat. >> is our first line of defense for people coming north of the border. dodge the fbi says that he was recruited by a powerful mexican cartel to smuggle drugs through border checkpoints in el paso, texas. the cartel apparently paid him $5 million. the fbi says that the worst case scenario is that some immigrants might be terrorists. >> you don't know what is coming across. it may not be narcotics, it may be ingredients for a bond. >> immigrants are not just from central and south america, but from around the world. hundreds have been caught from pakistan, afghanistan, somalia, yemen, iran, and iraq. if the border does become a gateway, nobody would have a clue they are here. >>> we have word of a medical breakthrough tonight. it an experimental vaccine has prev

last year pulled in the fbi. they discovered the ring leaders were finding unqualified buyers, so-called straw buyers and padding their bank accounts so they could get large loans. once purchased, houses were torn down, turned into mcmansions a sold to other straw buyers. neighbors wondered why the mcmansions kept popping up. supervisor jeff mckay says the arrest are the pay-off. >> i told the citizens to bear with us, trust us, exercise all patience until we get to et end of this. this is an enormous conclusion that helps protects our communities. these citizens should feel relieved county government stepped up, brought in all the partners we needed to end where we did today. >> reporter: some of those arrested today will be prosecuted in federal court. others handled in local county courts. as news4 at 6:00, some of those suspects. julie carey, back to you. >> we'll see you then. thank you. >>> also a major business expansion could bring more than 1,500 new jobs to the area governor tim clain was in mclean. 6 ot

the fbi says this man was trying to blow up the building. according to police, michael fenton drove a fan that he believed was carrying nearly a ton of explosives, and parked it in front of the courthouse. then, the fbi says, fenton got out of the van, jumped into another car and dialled a cell phone to remotely detonate the bomb. it was a sting operation. the explosives were fake. finton was arrested. >> he talked about a number of different targets, including the fbi building. so, this is just one that he identified was important for him to attack. >> reporter: sources tell abc news, finton converted to islam while serving time in prison. authorities say he tried to become a pen pal of an american caught fighting the taliban in the days just after 9/11. the fbi claims that last year, finton met another man he thought was a fellow radical. the man was actually a government snitch who introduced to finton to other cell members working with police. they supplied finton with fake explosives. today, he was charged in the same courthouse he alle

two of those fronts involve alleged bribes to city workers and their bosses. >> reporter: the fbi probeest. back in april 9news now disclosed cab drivers were leaving $20 bills in the ashtrays of their vehicles. >> and you have seen this happen? >> yes, i have. >> you have been offered a bribe? >> i have been offered a bribe many times. >> some inspectors were taking the bribes as payments for overlooking deficiencies on the cabs. >> walk over to me and give me a smile and say there is something for you inside the vehicle. >> the second part of the fbi probe centers on city hall. on thursday the fbi arrested ted loza, chief of staff to dc councilman jim graham. accepting bribes in exchange for legislation that favored certain cab companies. >> all the evidence has been put in front of a jury we believe he will be vindicated totally. >> ward 2 councilman has obtained legal council. a former assistant u.s. attorney now with a law form. graham said he knew of no wrongdoing. >> mr. loza has never, to my recollection be spoken to me about any element of any taxicab bill that i was considerin

of their around-the-clock surveillance of key individuals and locations in this neighborhood. >> the fbi and the nypd are still actively hunting down the bomb and the bomb-making facility. they believe there's a garage or warehouse somewhere where the bomb parts are being stored. >> reporter: the man authorities say was at the center of the alleged bomb plot, 24-year-old najibullah zazi, was arrested late saturday on charges he lied to the fbi about bomb making instructions found on his computer. according to court documents, agents found nine pages of handwritten notes on "the manufacture and handling" of explosives. authorities say zazi learned all that at an al qaeda training camp in pakistan where he twice traveled in the last year and was then sent back to the u.s. apparently to carry out the plot. veteran agents say charging zazi and others with lying to the fbi is considered a kind of last resort prosecution. authorities say, because the fbi had to move in sooner than planned, prosecutors don't yet have enough evidence to bring a more serious set of terrorism charges. but they say

it was a setup by the fbi. ng to the people here. >> i'm surprised to see it here. >> reporter: but it wasn't just there. about 700 miles away something similar played out in springfield, illinois. where the fbi arrested a 29- year-old convert to islam, michael fton, also known as talib islam, who is accused of trying to detonate a bomb outside of a federal courthouse. >> the fact that this is a plot that was spoiled is a tribute to the fbi. >> reporter: prosecutors continued to build their case against najibullah causa with connections to colorado and new york. officials say he accumulated household products to construct a bomb. he's been indicted accused of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. he was the closest to building a real bomb. in the other two cases, in illinois and texas, they were fakes provided by the fbi. but also in those cases,s two guys involved it try to trigger the device. so if that's the case, there was clearly some intent there. tony. >> and it's all startling news. doug luzader

the trace evidence unit at the fbi law saw anything on tape. re keeping an eye on two unrelated terror plots targeting two u.s. cities. federal agents say the suspects in both were ready to pull the trigger. there were arrests in texas and illinois. investigators say neither case is connected, but the allege plot uncovered in colorado and new york. first, let's get to springfield, illinois, where fbi agents arrested 29-year-old michael finson wednesday. finton is also known as talib islam, which means "student of islam." he is accused of trying to detonate a truck bomb outside a federal build. the justice department says fin actually tried to blow it up with the remote control and was arrested as he pushed that button. agents have been tracking him for about two years, but this sting operation started back in february. according to the fbi affidavit, an undercover agent posed as a low-level al qaeda operative and then gave finton a van supposedly filled with a ton of explosives. the bombs were fake. finton did not know that. agents arrested him