f.b.i. officials as reported by "the new york times" have found this practice troubling. but it's part of their guidelines, it's part what have the f.b.i. does and it's what we know they're doing in san francisco. the message that this kind ofagetivity sends is that the f.b.i. considers certain communities more suspect and less american than others. the practice is alienate communities and strain law enforcement relationships. the san francisco police department cannot afford to participate in these practices. we need community trust to keep all of our communities safe. thank you. >> i'm john crew for the american civil liberties union and rather than take too much time, i want to just echo the thanks that veena already offered. briefly ac knowledge -- acknowledge chief suhr. we really appreciate you trying to dive into this issue so quickly and also comblations -- congratulations to your new command staff. i'm particularly pleased to echo also the comments made by director sparks, by both the commissioners up here. good news again is that we're all on the same page. we share

highly expanded intelligence powers under the federal guidelines, i'll go into this more later, but f.b.i. agents are allowed to conduct intelligence on individuals and organizations without a factual connection to criminal activity. it's important to for to you know that this hasn't happened behind closed doors. in fact, the f.b.i. recently acknowledged they have over 70,000 investigations open just in the past four years that are not predicated on any suspicion of criminal activity. these are investigations on innocent americans. given these massive shifts in f.b.i. activity, the question is, what should the relationship between the sfpd and the f.b.i. look like? i want to empathize again that neither the asian law caucus nor the aclu are suggesting a divorce between these agencies. we all collectively believe that sfpd can be effectively involved in the joint terrorism task force activity under sfpd rules and regularlations. but to protect the sfpd from highly criticized f.b.i. practices that amount to indiscriminant intelligence gathering and racial and religious profiling, sfpd offic

highly expanded intelligence powers under the federal guidelines, i'll go into this more later, but f.b.i. agents are allowed to conduct intelligence on individuals and organizations without a factual connection to criminal activity. it's important to for to you know that this hasn't happened behind closed doors. in fact, the f.b.i. recently acknowledged they have over 70,000 investigations open just in the past four years that are not predicated on any suspicion

who were accused of blowing up the kenyan and tanzanian embassies back in two thousand and eight but the f.b.i. wasn't as interested in the operatives on trial they want of the big fish they want to put osama bin laden himself on trial for the bombings too but in order to do that in order to get a conviction against bin laden the f.b.i. had to prove that the four men in the courtroom along to a vast terrorist network that bin laden was at the top and at that time there was no evidence to support the existence of such an organization in fact those early videos that bin laden released to the media showing his army of armed fighters with a k forty seven s. they were a fabrication the fighters were essentially just actors told to bring their own guns for the shoot according to the b.b.c. and see bin laden was nothing before nine eleven but the f.b.i. needed to turn him into something so this is all pretty a lot of nine eleven they sought help from a man named jamal dar a dog sees me a former associate of bin laden's back in the early ninety's and alford all thanks in large part to have a mint cour

i don't know if the department has had an opportunity to run this bureau order by the f.b.i., but quite frankly what will reassure the public is to put something in writen that the f.b.i. commits to and what -- writing that the f.b.i. commits to and they've said, as long as you're under the m.o.u. options, as long as you don't transit into the resolution approach, they're going to enforce the m.o.u. and block that very important decision or that access that is fundamental to the commission oversight and the o.c.c. reports and the public reporting. so the other things that the attorney general said, in the end, when you talk about addressing these concerns, he said, actions speak louder than assurances. we're getting assurances, they're wonderful, i understand you're getting assurances from the f.b.i., with you we need actions and words in writing that the f.b.i. commits to, that will be something that we can count on and this order unfortunately the way it's constructed, simply coming from the sfpd, doesn't achve

that but the f.b.i. is actually infiltrated in places like baltimore praised the quakers who are going down the street these are quakers you know very peaceful people and especially to see if they're really terrorists but there's more there intimidation tactics so that's what we're seeing and i think what they really want to point out here was ron widen the senator from oregon recently he's on the senate intelligence committee he just announced that there is a class there is a classified paper that it's much broader than what we see happen in the government doing much more invasive things that we thought he wouldn't say what. and yet you mentioned that americans don't really oppose it because the ideology has changed so my question to you bigger picture is have that communist ideology some of that to the united states with so fiercely fighting against decades ago only ten trained in american law and the psyche of this country as witnessed by the patriot act if you will is communism i say we're more like c

. >> cardoza went on the say he has not been contacted by the f.b.i. but if and if he is he will not allow his client welsh to speak with federal investigators. in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. >>> impressive debut on the new york stock exchange for the first u.s. social network company to go public. mountain view's linkedin. [ applause ] they are happy. company officials rang the opening bell and watched the stocks soar. the share price doubled immediately. first time for company i.p.o. since 2006. right now it's at $105. analysts say it reflects the investor belief that internet company that reflect people with common interest will be highly profitable. a major development underway on the bay bridge as the new suspension plan as caltrans installs a huge device to hold all the cables. they say it's history in the making for the longest anchored self-suspension fan. amy hollyfield has been watching this, since this morning and it has a special name. >> reporter: a cable saddle. think of a saddle like on a horse. fastener. it's holding the cable i

. >> cardoza went on the say he has not been contacted by the f.b.i. but if and if he is he will not allow his client welsh to speak with federal investigators. in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. >>> impressive debut on the new york stock exchange for the first u.s. social network company to go public. mountain view's linkedin. [ applause ] they are happy. company officials rang the opening bell and watched the stocks soar. the share price doubled immediately. first time for company i.p.o. since 2006. right now it's at $105. analysts say it reflects the investor belief that internet company that reflect people with common interest will be highly profitable. a major development underway on the bay bridge as the new suspension plan as caltrans installs a huge device to hold all the cables. they say it's history in the making for the longest anchored self-suspension fan. amy hollyfield has been watching this, since this morning and it has a special name. >> reporter: a cable saddle. think of a saddle like on a horse. fastener. it's holding the cable i

officials say there's no evidence the concept ever made it to the drawing board, but today the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security put out an intelligence advisory to the oil and gasoline industry. prices at the gas pump are coming down. after peaking two weeks ago at just under $4 a gallon, the national average has dropped to $3.89 tonight. but a lot of us have noticed this: as oil prices were rising rapidly, gas prices were rising just as fast. but now that oil prices have dropped significantly, gasoline is slow to catch up. why is that? a question for anthony mason. >> reporter: with oil prices tumbling, drivers have been hoping for some relief. >> i expect prices to come down. i expect prices at the pump to sort of follow. >> reporter: but it hasn't come. >> oh, my god, they're crazy! >> reporter: as far as the price at the pump, the rule seems to be... >> it rises like a rocket and drops like a feather. >> reporter: just look at the charts. they show oil and gasoline prices marching in a virtual lockstep on the way up, but gas prices have been far slower to come down.

but we now know the f.b.i. has, in fact, issued national security letters for the library records of innocent people. for years, we were told the f.b.i. was not abusing this broad grant of power but in 2007, the justice department's own inspector general has concluded the f.b.i. wasuilty of -- quote -- "widespread and serious misuse" of the national security letter authority and failed to report these abuses to congress and the white house. the inspector general reported that the number of national security letter requests has increased exponentially from about 8,500 the year before enactment of the patriot act, to an average of more than 47,000 per year and that even these mbers were significantly understated. madam president, we can be se and free. i think it's important that the mease that passed the senate judiciary committeehould have been on the floor. it included an amendment which i offered with senator leahy and other provisions which i think are an improvement under the -- over the current bill before

was diverted to albuquerque new mexico a flight attendant found a suspicious note but police dogs found nothing. f.b.i. is now investigating. >>> u.s. officials want to talk to bin laden's three widows who are currently in pakistani custody. it's believed they could answer the question whether pakistan hid bin laden. there has been speculation that authorities might demolish his house to end the intense media attention there. >> police in prince george's county are searching for a missing woman. 66-year-old adela shepard-barett. she said she was going to visit her daughter but has not been found since. anyone with information should call prince george's police. >>> for the first time some of the people who knew love beth are speaking out. chris? >> well, it was a shocking and disturbing scrime, a beautiful college athlete beaten to death. her boyfriend was arrested for her murder. now we're feeling from her teammates, family and friends. >> she's compassionate and had a lot of things going for her. >> she really saw the world through sunshined colored glasses, everything in a positive way. >> remember

but u.s. government is letting this out it's a letter peltier was sentenced to two life terms in prison for allegedly killing two f.b.i. agents but the initial trial was corrupted some argue peltier's only crime was his political activism i have no evidence at all but he that he killed anybody would do more with a member of the black liberation movement he too was charged for a crime the world dignitaries and members of the european parliament insist he did not commit the reason maher uses in jail now is because he was free some argue these convictions are simply the most known cases of a systematic attempt to silence those seen as a threat to the establishment. and it struck me as a little bit strange that jon stewart and bill o'reilly in some ways the ideological figureheads of the mainstream left and right we're talking about peltier and mahler's of there are cases where i don't know as i won't go in as leaders drug problems or charlie sheen for that matter the fact of the matter is that mainstream news jon stewart o'reilly all of them included too often devolves into a meaningless echo chamber fanning the flames o

f.b.i. is trying to stop our movement but we're not letting them we have a national mobilization we formed a committee against f.b.i. repression all right and we've had demonstrations so it's good that they're trying to stop us but we're not going to let him do it and interesting he said he interestingly he said he's gotten more support after having his house raided from activists he feels like it actually fueled the movement that was carlos nonces co-founder of the ground raise chicano movement now fifty years ago on this very day some very important words were spoken you could argue a speech that was given changed everything or least it set the stage is unify the country to take what was coined a giant leap for mankind now today where is that unity what happened to the nation's ability to roll up its proverbial sleeves and tackle challenges and we'll get to that we have a guest but first let's take a little look back at history. for the right. are. a mission accomplished for the united states. that hatched from a plan that began. a lot about. eight years earlier i believe that this nation

f.b.i. agents who supported devecchio applauded as the charges were dismissed. butcchio criticized him and the f.b.i. for making a "deal with the devil," letting scarpa get away with his crimes for close to 15 years. devecchio retired from the f.b.i. in 1996 and now runs a private investigations business in florida. he feels he's been wrongly accused and unfairly maligned, which is why he's written a book and is speaking to us. >> devecchio: we effectively broke the back of organized crime by using people such as gregory scarpa. >> cooper: you're... basically gave this guy a pass because he was giving you good information. >> devecchio: if that's the perception that people have, so be it. i can't change their mind. >> cooper: but is that the truth? >> devecchio: no, i don't think it's the truth at all. >> cooper: you kept him out on the streets, a guy who you knew, at the time, was murdering people. >> devecchio: it's wonderful to sit in your ivory tower somewhere and say, "oh, how can you do that?" well, why don't you go out in the street and try working that some

f.b.i. agents but the initial trial was corrupted some argue poti years only crime with his political activism you have no evidence at all. going right to me i would you mall was a member of the black liberation movement he too was charged for a crime rule dignitaries and members of the european parliament insist he did not commit the reason why uses jail now is because he was right some argue these convictions are simply the most known cases of a systematic attempt to silence those seen as a threat to the establishment now it struck me as a little strange that jon stewart and bill o'reilly some would say the ideological figure has of the mainstream left and right we're chatting about leonard peltier and i'm all that these cases were as well known as say lindsay logan's latest drug problems the fact of the matter is that the mainstream news jon stewart o'reilly all of them included too often devolves into a meaningless echo chamber in the flames of pointless controversy whatever it may be in that day now this network has been accused of many things critics say the bias questioning the status q

his -- he said he told his would-be rescuers he became separated from his board but was never in distress. >>> the f.b.i.'s hoping to catch two bank robbers this morning. the unusual disguises they used during the takeover. >>> plus thousands of people flock to florida beaches over the holiday weekend. but the unwanted souvenir hundreds ended up leaving with. >>> good morning. westbound highway 4 off to a nice start heading up to the willow pass grade. we'll tell you more straight ahead. >>> cloudy skies. some rain. santa rosa's already picked up a tenth of an inch. north bay will see off and on rain and lighter amounts to the south. if you don't have rain it will be mostly cloudy and cool with highs in the 60s. >>> time is 4:45. new this morning placer county sheriff deputies have arrested the man suspected of a triple homicide in loamiest. jeremy baker being held without bail at the placer county jail. investigators say he knew all three victims. a woman and man were found dead at a home saturday morning. a third victim later died at the hospital. police say they were all shot. they have not released

but no one's declaring victory in the war on terror. homeland security correspondent bob orr now on the continuing terror threat. >> reporter: the killing of osama bin laden was trumpeted on the f.b.i.'s list of most-wanted terrorists with a single word on a red banner "deceased." but the death of al qaeda's founder and spiritual leader does not end the terror threat. across america today, heavily armed police bolstered patrols at airports from boston to los angeles. train stations in new york and san francisco, and around the u.s. capital in washington. >> you should expect al qaeda to try to do something. sympathizers of bin laden, sympathizers of al qaeda in general will be looking to take action to avenge bin laden's death. >> reporter: while sources say there is no credible intelligence pointing to an imminent terror attack, radical islamist web sites are vowing revenge and, in an internal message today to the c.i.a., director panetta issued his own stark warning. the greatest threat may come from american-born cleric anwar al-awlaki and his yemen-based terror network, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. al-awlaki and. aq.a.p. have already tried first to hit the u.s., first wit

f.b.i. has been hunting for but it. came from the shelter sullivan argument that militants four years worth of the september eleventh attacks. were staying in the same region pakistani commandos have cornered a gunman who at least twelve people injured doesn't. look for sitting. there with arms without sense remain holed up inside it's hours are there still the culprits and variants you saw also destroyed several u.s. supplied surveillance aircraft it's all about claimed responsibility for its third major attack since. anderson a recent sun. plan backed by the u.s. and e.u. and the gulf arab states to end yemen's political crisis has collapsed the president of the sunday refused to sign it mr ottavi stopped short of putting in place is a belated still which would see him leave in a month long. lead to civil war with a westerner the passengers of broken free i think trapped in an embassy not a violent crackdown as claimed one hundred five since armistice. is expected to hit the way today and reach them well the end of th

f.b.i.'s most wanted list. but even. i would say it's unfair to compare osama bin laden to people like lloyd blankfein but certainly there are a lot of executives on wall street who have escaped the attention of the justice department and they they would definitely be natural prosecutorial targets and i don't think there's any reason why we can't move on to guys like that why is it that raj rajaratnam raj rajaratnam walked off with sixty million bucks stole sixty million bucks basically and he has to go out on bail will and probably doing prison time but treated very very nicely whereas last week a guy walked into a seven eleven what a bag of potato chips put some of that that the cheese stuff you know for the for the corn chips are right they arrested him took him to jail ten thousand dollars bail it's like. things are well i guess the it's a rhetorical question let me let me get ag in your article as well as your book griftopia you outline a number of frauds committed by all that mostly defrauding investors what are th

but if you were a president with no regard for the rule of law you could just send troops into a foreign country and kill someone without a trial nor the constitution you could ignore the f.b.i. and the justice department you would stand against all that which we hold dear in america to chase down the devil you could cut down every law in america but that begs a question for our dear leader and when the last law was down and the devil turned round on you where would you high but the laws all being flat this country is pounded with laws from coast to coast man's laws not god's and if you cut them down and you're just a man to do it but you really think you could stand upright in the wind that would blow then president obama you have been responsible for more deaths than bin ladin could even hope to be responsible for you've continued to wage illegal occupations in the middle east ploy troops for fifty six combat tours without a declaration of war you've invaded sovereign countries and i'm not even getting into any of the many ways or domestic policy as violating the constitution to which we both soros yes i give the devil benefit of law when i see. now i am not saying we shou

f.b.i. is had gone and said hey we need to follow this person but it's been shown that it has been grossly misused by the f.b.i. where they have engaged in warrantless wiretapping tapping without even going through any legal proceedings or even showing that it's warranted we get this information so i want to ask you case then if it's something that you can't prove that it's you know really an interval in the war on terror is it ok to violate the constitution. and fortunately i don't think jason can hear me so let me pose that question to seton what would justify that aisle aiding the constitution. does it doesn't necessarily violate the constitution for example if it were if you're if you're tapping foreign so much less wiretapping doesn't violate but not attack and then not if you're not if you're tapping non-citizens now because the constitution doesn't apply to nonsense that is but a wiretap citizens well that's a totally different subject so is that and that's a constitution again within the parameters of the patriot act if you're going to go to a legitimate reason. consistent information goin

. >> pelley: but after those articles, the f.b.i. raided the homes of all the people you've met in this story who filed that confidential complaint with the defense department, asking for the trailblazer investigation. >> binney: they came busting in. i was in the shower at the time. and one of them came running up and was... pointed a gun at my eyeballs. and pulled me out of the shower so. >> pelley: he drew a gun on you? >> binney: well, yeah. he had it pointed at my head, yeah. >> pelley: but only drake was charged. he's being advised by the government accountability project, a washington legal organization that defends whistleblowers. drake told us that he knew he'd violated a confidentiality agreement with the n.s.a. and he thought he might lose his job, but the prosecutors charged him under the espionage act, not for divulging classified information, but for taking classified papers home without permission. he faces up to 35 years. >> wiebe: how does a man see 9/11 happen, know that some part of it is due to corruption and mism

but we now know the f.b.i. has, in fact, issued national security letters for the library records of innocent people. for years, we were told the f.b.i. was not abusing this broad grant of power but in 2007, the justice department's own inspector general has concluded the f.b.i. was guilty of -- quote -- "widespread and serious misuse" of the national security letter authority and failed to report these abuses to congress and the white house. the inspector general reported that the number of national security letter requests has increased exponentially from about 8,500 the year before enactment of the patriot act, to an average of more than 47,000 per year and that even these numbers were significantly understated. madam president, we can be safe and free. i think it's important that the measure that passed the senate judiciary committee should have been on the floor. it included an amendment which i offered with senator leahy and other provisions which i think are an improvement under the -- over the current b

. >> suarez: but, hernan, the president cited f.b.i. statistics that show big border metropoliss, san diego, tucson, phoenix, el paso, are safer than they've been in a long time. has he got something there? >> well, that brings up the whole issue of spillover effect or spillover violence that again has become a political issue. it's really hard to decipher how much spillover violence there has been. there's no doubt that the increase in violence in mexican-border cities has had some kind of impact on the u.s. side but it's starkly different when you go from the u.s. city into the mexican city. i mean, as you were saying, el paso has been cited oftentimes as being one of the safest cities in the u.s., and there it is right across from the most deadly in the world at the moment. >> suarez: what kinds of spillover effects? the president was in el paso today. what are the kinds of things you see there right next to one of the most dangerous cities in mexico? >> well, it's pretty well documented that the drug cartels have a pretty strong pre