now 13-16 have been appointed to the department of justice who have had this background. defending the unpopular is not disqualifying. we voted and i voted for a number of people in the department who have been involved in this kind of defense efforts, who file lawsuits against president bush. they really thought they were really doing something great. i guess they didn't turn down the evidence if it helped in any way lead to the location of osama bin laden, but we do have standards about how we should gather evidence and lines should not be crossed, but that doesn't mean we're not in a war. it doesn't mean that the people who are attacking us are common criminals that need to be tried in civilian courts. they're at war with us. bin laden said he's at war with us. he declared war on us. you don't treat prisoners of war, captured enemy combatants like you treat common criminals. this is fundamental. i served in the army reserve a number of years, some of that time as a j.a.g. officer. i taught prisoners of war, how to treat prisoners, what the standards of the field manual

nadler: it ought to be in the authorization or perhaps the appropriations bill for the department of justice. the only reason that the parliamentarian might rule this not ungermane is because the rule waives all poifereds but -- all points of order. it's authorized and appropriated in the department of justice. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from arizona. mr. flake: may i inquire as to the time remaining? the chair: the gentleman has three minutes remaining. mr. flake: let me just say that two successive administrations, one republican, bun democrat have -- one democrat have called for eliminating or severely reducing the funning that goes to ndic because as we've heard before, programs are duplicative, wasteful, and there's no doubt that some good work goes on there, nobody is disputing that, but there's also good work that goes on at the ondcp, or the d.e.a. or

this department of justice respects that decision. but i think questions can be asked about, are there too many felons who for whatever reason are in possession of guns, people who have mental issues, whether they should have guns, people who have domestic violence issues, whether they should have guns. there are a whole variety of questions as to the who i think we need to focus on as well. >> i agree. to close, i would suggest to those who are very supportive of the second amendment that, while that case did grant second amendment rights, the majority opinion did talk p about limitations. one was who and one of the others was what. i think it's fair to ask if you're out to protect your home or you're hunting deer whether you need a 30-round clip. that's my own editorial comment for the day. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. quigley. mr. goe mert is recognized. >> thank you. i want to follow up on what mr. franks was talking about, the case volving the holy land foundation. you have mentioned the dallas morning news article.

even after they were cleared once by a career department of justice investigators. were any of these cia operatives involved in getting the detainee information that led to osama bin laden's death? >> the inquire require i ordered -- >> were any of them involved? >> the investigation that i ordered last year -- >> were any of those involved in the ultimate information that -- >> ias trying to answer the question. >> just a yes or no. >> i can't answer that way. the investigation i ordered last year was of people who poe leshlly went beyond the loc opinions. >> that were previously cleared. >> well, their information being exined by a special prosecutor who had been appointed by -- >> i'mot asking exactly that. i was wanting to know if they were involved in getting the information that ultimately caught bin laden. >> i'm- i don't -- i'm not in a position to answer that. i'm not allowed to answer the question. >> okay. maybe in another venue you could answer that for me. >> no. what i'm saying is i was trying to answer the question. you'relooking for yes/no and i don't

this department of justice respects that decision. but i think questions can be asked about, are there too many felons who for whatever reason are in possession of guns, people who have mental issues, whether they should have guns, people who have domestic violence issues, whether they should have guns. there are a whole variety of questions as to the who i think we need to focus on as well. >> i agree. to close, i would suggest to those who are very supportive of the second amendment that, while that case did grant second amendmentrights, the majority opinion did talk p about limitations. one was who and one of the others was what. i think it's fair to ask if you're out to protect your home or you're hunting deer whether you need a 30-round clip. that's my own editorial comment for the day. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, mr. quigley. mr. goe mert is recognized. >> thank you. i want to follow up on what mr. franks was talking about, the case volving the holy land foundation. you have mentioned the dallas morning news article. i

that's what you'd want from the department of justice. they're the values and the character that we want in our nation's department of justice. and jim cole will bring that to the department of justice, already brought it to the department of justice. the bottom line about mr. cole's approach on fighting terrorists is one i believe we all believe in. we're a nation at war with al qaeda and taliban and their associated forces. we need a tough, aggressive and flexible policies that recognize the paramount importance of providing the president with the ability to use all of the lawful tools, all of the lawful tools of our national power to protect american people and bring terrorists to justice. jim cole believes in that. he's committed to working with the congress, so that we use all available tools, we make the judgment in each individual case as to where it's the most effective way to bring a terrorist or criminal to justice. he not only has expertise in handling terrorists and bringing them to justice, he's had very important positions in

spent eight thousand dollars on blue drapes to hide two nude statues in the great hall the department of justice asked for one of the statues covered because he didn't like being photographed in front of them he was in a t. the it is a hard line social some conserved. and one of the breasts on the statues was exposed so you know maybe he is qualified to help clean up black bloggers ie if they're just looking for someone to stop hiring strippers or hookers but if they're actually looking for someone to pick a box on a massive waste i would say that eight thousand dollars on curtains because you're a prude would fall right into that category and that's just a little excerpt of the ashcroft files from when he was attorney general so services is he the man to help or rehab your image and clean up your ethics problem i think not but you chose it and that's why the foley known as blackwater is tonight's tool time when. now all the news world bombards us with the latest updates on the killing of osama bin laden the gaming world is going nuts over the massive security breach of sony's networks last week

these breaches of privacy have real consequences for real people. a justice department report based on 2006 data shows each year over 26,000 adults are stocked but the use of gps devices including gps devices on mobile phones, that's from 2006 when there was a third as many smart phones as there are today. >> host: paul? >> guest: he makes interesting points. congress doesn't keep up with the technology on a daily basis, and what congress does usually follows kind of the technology. in this case, he pointed out at the hearing, the current laws are not set up for location based services. there are laws adopted in the 1980s and 1990s that are now out of date, so the senator and others, as well as some house members talked about legislation to cover location based services and more widespread security legislation data, privacy legislation saying if there's a breach, they have to notify people. more than 40 states have laws like that, but no framework. at the hearing yesterday, there's representers of justice, federal trade commission talking about the need for federal legi

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and since last year our office has been working with the d.o.j., department of justice on the a.d.a. compliance. and one of the suggestions that we have is that because of the vulnerability of a new set of growing small business community that we have strongly urged d.o.j. to conduct outreach and to provide educational and informational information in different languages. we have made that request several times. in fact as late as a month ago when they released the latest proposed rules we had reminded them of the importance of providing outreach to small business community directly. because we also understand certain small business communities do not sit in front of the computer to read what are the regulations. the one to one interaction is really important. so we had made the repeated request to d.o.j. and we are very optimistic that we will be -- because we have submitted to them information about small businesses, stakeholder organizations so that when they are ready to provide the outreach, provide the educational seminars then they would be able to reach out to the broadest sma

don't actually intend to do this it's a law it's just one in a wall series of lies that the department of justice and the drug enforcement administration of put out there in an effort to you know push down the medical marijuana industry as it obviously is continuing to spread throughout the country they're really just trying to intimidate these states and stop the medical marijuana movement from moving forward it's not going to work one thing that i think we see happening on the sidelines or as a result of this move is now there are certain governors out there that are trying to lobby for marijuana to be rescheduled substance to or at schedule to excuse me my my knowledge isn't completely up to par but so that i would you know that in february normal was saying that this is something that pharmaceutical companies are also lobbying for because that way they can get their hands on it you create some you know some types of drugs with derivatives from t.h.c. so in essence if they get all of the governors to start lobbying for the rescheduling of marijuana then is that going to end up helping out the

department of justice issued a warning to texas yesterday saying that if the laws were adopted then quote t.s.a. would likely be required to cancel any flights or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew and translate that into english you can't fly an airplane out of texas now i know most of us have a problem with the growing checks in the church or no x. ray scanners that is what texas is doing really the best remedy here offer his take is texas state representative david simpson is joining us from the capitol building in austin texas representative simpson welcome to the program. thank you for having me is this the best way to confront the t.s.a. certainly with you in spirit here but. i'm not sure that well your take well is certainly the best was actually at the duty of texas legislature legislators to do this that we swore an oath to the u.s. constitution and the state constitution both that would. have parts of the constitution that requires to protect citizens from under reasonable searches and. the fourth amendment just says that we're prot

meja was a complex law to implement because it touched on the interest of both the department of justice and the department of defense. and there was a period of time where the two agencies were working on an implementing regulation that finally emerged. and that's why when i was in germany in 2001, meja was not yet a viable response mechanism to this act of civilian misconduct. my understanding is that the department of justice has moved substantially in a positive direction, and i'll leaf that to -- i'll leave that to the justice representative in implementing meja. i think personally whether we're operating under meja or if you enact ceja, one of the important aspects of implementation is ownership. i'll go back to my military training and the importance of effort. meja has a split interest and, therefore, you have the military responsible to initiate the case, but a u.s. attorney in the united states responsible to bring the case to trial and bring it to fruition. and i think there are creative ways that that could be streamlined. but, you know, as i understand it the, again, much of

he also stated that the department of justice's office of professional responsibility would investigate the actions of the two officers, yet a year after that, we still have heard nothing out of office regarding their conduct. the department of justice has publicly talked about how they increased training in terms of discovery obligations, and they have issued memos in terms of what they are supposed to be doing, yet they have yet to do anything regarding the behavior of those prosecutors. contrast that to the case that occurred a couple years ago, that boasts -- that of the prosecutor in north carolina, where six months after the charges were brought against the lacrosse students, and they were charged with rape, the defense attorneys uncovered evidence in the files, and north carolina is open, but they found evidence in the files showing their clients were innocent. the state attorney general immediately dismissed the charges against those individuals, and a few months after that, he was disbarred for withholding evidence and evidence of innocence as well as improper statements he mad

department of education, u.s. department of justice, bullying and harassment based on race, ethnicity, national organization, sex, disability or sexual orientation is so damaging that we need to have an aggressive coordinator response. with the advent of new technologies including cell phones, texting, emails and social media tools such as facebook and twitter, to name is few, there seems to be new avenues for bullies to take in their quest to make them -- make the lives of others absolutely miserable. as such, the naacp commends and appreciates the u.s. department of education, the department of justice and, of course, this commission as well as various other government and nongovernment organizations who are aggressively pursuing the laws in order to protect our children. yet, sadly there always seems to be a case in which their efforts fall short. take, for example, the case of darian albet who was a 16-year-old junior and high school student at christian fender academy high school on chicago's south side when he was beaten to death

in contrast, in 2008 when the fbi tried to switch resources, the department of justice over world theer and at first they refuse to put together a task force focusing on financial crisis crimes. it was not the kind of "go figure out if people need to go to jail" approach. and in the 1980's, bank regulators like the fdic, the sec, the sec, they were all required to refer cases to the department of justice. but they sought anything going wrong, they were supposed to pass it over. they would report hundreds of hundreds of cases. we the get the number of referrals lately from bank regulators and they are really tiny compared to the number of cases we saw in the 1980's and early 1990's. then the department of justice and the fbi did not have much to work with. host: louise story is with us today from new york city. we are with her for the next 40 minutes talking about the prosecution and lack thereof from the fine actor crisis. the numbers are on your screen. -- and a lack thereof from the financial crisis. our first call for louise story comes from charleston, west virginia, on our line f

. >> well there is more cbs 5 has learned tonight that a branch of the department of justice, that specifically deals with hate crime is now involved in this controversy. to what degree? no one would say. i contacted a mediator based in san francisco with the department of justice and she tells me she cannot talk with reporters. dana. >> all this talk and yet gravestones sit there. maybe somebody. >> the bottom line after nearly six decades, those gravestones are still there. each of them with the n word on it and right now no plan to change them. >> wow, infuriating. robert lyles, thank you. >>> now police in santa clara are hoping fliers can help solve the brutal murder of a man known as the church man. officers found luis pleading on a street corner a little after 6:00 thursday morning. he was bloodenned to death. he is known for his commitment to his church. he was on his way to work when he was attacked. there's a $5,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest in this murder. >>> neighbors packed the meeting in oakland where tonight the city council could decide whether to cut o

i would add, however, that i think that the department of justice investigation into the c.i.a. operatives who were involved with enhanced interrogation techniques is a most unfortunate thing. these people were operating at the direction of the president. they were doing things that had been approved by the department of justice and it sends a chill throughout the government in terms of not just the c.i.a. people but also the military people that they're going to have to get lawyered up if they do something. i imagine if a year from now or two years from now there's a new president in and he decides to have investigations on the decision that president obama had to attack obl and have him shot. i agree with senator kerry. they did the right thing. the navy seals and the special operations people. we ought to set that aside and go with life. >> schieffer: where do we go with pakistan now? >> well, we need to ask the questions that are being asked and we need to recognize as was said that we supply our coalition forces in afghanistan from pakistan. we have damaged our relationship

of these guns were seized by the san francisco police department in december. they knew who had them because the suspect was on a list of people prohibited from owning guns. the california department of justicee maintained the system since 2007. it is supposed to keep guns from the 18,000 people listed who purchase guns legally but are not allowed to own one. >> in some instances, knocking on the door, in some instances they are on parole or base officer and work it through the process. it's been very successful. >> the list matches registered gun owners with court records of people who have been convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors have a restraining order, are mentally ill or mibtd from owning a gun. >> san francisco police begin using the list two months ago. since then, they have had 200 people on the list and already looked into half of those. they seized 53 guns. >> every gun i get off the street is one less gun of being used in a crime. >> hundreds of people are in the system. law enforcement agencies give reminders to sign up for the program and every month, the state department of justice sends out an updated list for police departments that ask for it. but many police dep

last march the department of justice took on the case. while fedex says the government found no unwarranted security delay claims the company still settled with the department of justice for $8 million. britany morehouse, 9news now. >>> a spokesperson with fedex just released a statement to 9news now. they say of it in the best interests of the company to avoid a costly legal battle. but they also deny any abuse of their security delay policy. >>> coming up on 9news now. prince charles shows off his green thumb to a group of georgetown students. we will tell you what he says. >>> another hour or so. live doppler 9000. pretty good shower rolling down river road ladied towards the district moving off to the south and east. we will track that for you. and we will also track the weekend. >>> but first, hollywood is coming to virginia. while the world's most famous director is bringing his cameras to our area. [ female announcer ] love the look of freshly colored hair? now you don't have to wait 6 weeks to get it. introducing natural instincts

and omissions of each employee remains vested with their employing agency and that us-doj, department of justice, made its discretion, whether that individual should be afforded legal representation, legal defense or indemnification of the civil action. given your past experience within the department, are you aware that any cases wherein the department has made a co-defendant, along with the other federal agencies with respect to third party claims? >> i am not aware of such a circumstance, no. commissioner chan: my concern here is that the defense of participating sfpd members in the jttf appears largely as a matter of grace to the federal bureau of investigation or the attorney general of the united states. since it's discretionary rather than mandatory. they apparently on the m.o.u. have preserved that determination on case by case basis as it states there. has this section of the m.o.u. ever been reviewed by department council? >> i believe that the 8.10 g.o. was reviewed by department council as was the m.o.u. from 2002. i think that the most recent m.o.u., as has been discussed, there was

california department of justice folks side visited you? >> yes. >> reporter: what did they tell you happened to your complaint? >> they told my my complaints did strike a mark with cnet and that it got passed up to the head of cnet, who was -- i never met that gentleman, but he was part owner in this evidently and that he had been set up -- the false massage appointments so that his investigator who was legit would come out and give a report saying no there is nothing really wrong there. >> chris butler cannot be trusted. he is out there. he is trying to save himself some jail time and the way he is doing that is by lying. >> reporter: attorney michael cardoza who represents wielsch says butler was lying. >> butler has apparently spoken to law enforcement and told them that my client was involved with running a brothel. that's not true. this is butler at his criminal best spinning yarns to the district attorney's office and to law enforcement in order for him to try to lessen the time that he is going to spend in state prison. butler in my

and that's been something that mueller and the bureau and eric holder and the department of justice have been working on over the last couple of years. there has been this repriorityization has been, i think by most accounts, pretty devastating to the bureau in terms of white collar fraud, in terms of kidnapping, in the terms of what they call the drug enterprise cases, the bigger drug cases they work. one of the clearest causes of the fbi's repriorityization has come along the southern border where mueller pulled 2,000 agents away from the crisis along the border. and if you look at that over the last decade, the rise in violence in mexico among the drug cartels matches pretty closely the disappearance of those 2,000 agents. >> host: what has congress' reaction been to that? >> guest: well, in many ways as much as the fbi has grown in terms of national security, that has mostly been at the expense of pulling agents out of the criminal division. and many of those agents have not been in government terms back filled. the fbi has not been hiring new agents at the pace that it's been redepl

marijuana dispensaries in states that had legalized medicinal marijuana but earlier this month the department of justice started singing a different tune sending a letter to the governor of washington threatening to prosecute any state employee or business involved in the unlawful marketing and sale of marijuana prompted the governor christine gregoire to veto that state's medicinal marijuana law other governors around the country are now having second thoughts about legalizing medicinal marijuana as well so why is the white house suddenly targeting medicinal marijuana and what's the future of marijuana legalization in america alan see here joins me now is the executive director of normal at ash an organization for the reform of marijuana laws alan malcolm thank you great to have you with us what's behind this letter from the department of justice is this just some bureaucrat who's just been running on autopilot left over from the bush administration or is there an actual change of policy that's happening under the old it's there has definitely been a positive change from the reformers point of view wit

laws allen welcome thank you great to have you with us what's behind this letter from the department of justice is this just some bureaucrat who's just been running on autopilot left over from the bush administration or is there an actual change of policy that's happening under holder. there has definitely been a positive change from the reformist point of view with the election of obama they've done a lot of positive things but a rubicon seemed to have been crossed a few months ago in oakland where the city was going to seed for plots of land that were going to grow two hundred thousand square feet of marijuana and i think in one of the greatest acts of see why a so i don't have to describe what that means the city attorney i think wrote to the federal attorney saying can you give me some instruction whether i can sign off on this and until the federal laws change really every state that allows the sale in production in taxation of marijuana for any reason is violation of federal law well yeah of course and and so for the city attorney or any state attorney for that matter to ask any federal a

to be government officials so i've talked to consumers where they received calls from the department of justice that doesn't even know who actually these kinds type of plea but they'll be on the phone where people are saying yes it will be the department of justice has filed this claim against you. and you know if you don't work out a payment plan with us we're going to file this claim against you tomorrow morning and it's with the state attorney general that you may make a bogus claims and they really intimidate persons will call a person at their place of employment and i have to speak to their supervisor. i mean they do all sorts of things and situations where persons have had been subject to racial slurs on the phone. gendered slurs all sorts of abusive practices all of which are. are illegal and we saw some of those examples and his story just now it's you and you know i've even read that sometimes they tell people that they should commit suicide and you know i mean if you look at it some people actually have committed suicide over the massive amounts of debt that they have so it's incredi

will repeat again today, is that many of these changes were, in fact, codifying practices the department of justiceof the things that was discussed. it's been implemented. so the departments are listening, and they have taken action where there have been problems. so i would like to say to my colleagues that the executive branch has heard and has acted to address concerns about intrusions into american civil liberties. the office of the inspector general and the department of justice has indicated that it intends to conduct audits and inspections to ensure that the implementation of fisa is in full compliance with the law and its reports will be carefully reviewed by this congress and by the concerned committees. a major priority of the intelligence committee in this house is to conduct regular oversight on the use of fisa authorities, and we will continue to do so after passage of this legislation. now, just about every administration official to testify on the use of fisa authorities has also noted the importance of having the stability that comes with a long-term extension. since december of 200

last march the department of justice took on the case, while fedex says the government found no unwarranted delay claims, the company still settled with the department of justice for $8 million. britney morehouse, 9news now. >>> a spokesperson with fedex released a statement to 9news now, they say it was in the best interests of the company

that goes well beyond anything the department of justice ever authorized. hat the department of justice authorized was a number of techniques closely supervised by medical officers, by trained interrogators, and so the kinds of conduct you just described go well beyond what was authorized by the department of justice. >> holder is making a statement that he becomes attorney general, he is privy to these documents, and he claims this is true. >> well, again, to the extent there are allegations that someone did this, there may have, in fact, been allegations. perhaps there was an investigation, and the investigation showed that, in fact, these allegations were not true, but, again any conduct like that, or coming close to that, would have been unlawful and would have been prosecuted under the bush administration. >> someone said that when you are running for president, you say things that are different than what you actually do once you become president. president obama had promised to close gitmo, and he promised we would have these federal courts handling te

obtain one over one million personal documents of people or from medical histories to you know cell phone records and the like. and the justice department found that the investigation. those things weren't even to do with terrorism most of the time so you know it's unclear what benefit this the these provisions even have all that all that's clear is that they make americans less free and give more power to the government why do you think president obama when he was senator obama spoke out against the patriot act said that it needed to be ended but that now we see the obama administration officials continuing to say that expanding these provisions are vital to national security wouldn't that possibly make the case to play devil's advocate that obama god office in real life that this has been instrumental in the war on terror i mean it's possible but it's more likely that you know he's a smart guy and he played politics in order to get elected there are many ways to reduce the threat of terror right if we want to reduce the threat of terror and that's where you start is to stop participating in it so stop funding rebels without the ties o

up in arms about civil liberties and we see the government going into other areas like the department of justice saying that they want cell phone companies to store all the information on users of the patriot act is in fact in fact repealed are there just many other ways that the government can infringe on civil liberties and that they're putting that into law. well you know the public opinion is missed by the subject at the same time we saw. the asking for more rights and so for location we saw a huge public outcry about awful stories people felt the locations there was for the duration of the other day trying to get them to stop so i think when people see it in their daily lives when they feel the abuse is concretely their own rage when they want to do something that's often the problem most of the government abuses have been done behind closed doors and we only find out about them years later if you read a real information act requests so you think that if more people knew about how the patriot act was being misused which there is proof that i mean the d.o.j. found that members of the f.b.i.

department of education and joselyn samuels, senior counselor to the assistant attorney general for civil rights of the u.s. department of justice. assistant secretary russlynn ali has a tight schedule and has to leave early this morning so to accommodate her schedule i am going to bifurcate the panel so she will have ten minutes to answer -- to make her presentation. we will follow that with questions that will occur until 9:40. at that time, we will go to ms. samuels will have ten minutes to present her presentation and then we will question her until 10:ten. so i would ask each panelist to please, raise your right hand and swear and affirm or affirm that the information you are about to provide to us is true? and accurate to the best of your knowledge and belief.????? assistant secretary ali, we begin with you. >> thank you, commissioner castro and all of you to be here with you today. this is a hugely important issue, and as the secretary of education arne duncan has bate the come made it clear it can't come from washington alone, solutions can't come from washington alone and certainly not from the department so that

at&t began providing service just a few years ago after the department of justice required asizon to sell it's spectrum part of another merger. the scrutiny of that merger allow for people in vermont to have access to the i phoned for the first time -- iphone for the first time. wireless carriers contend a shortage in up available spectrum makes it difficult to expand service. in vermont, we were told both at&t and t-mobile have large blocks of unused spectrum in rural areas. per month citizens have more job calls and fewer cellular options in places where emergency responders have no way of communicating. still, but at&t and t-mobile argue that their spectrum allow more consumers than either could independently. at&t represented to me that within two years this acquisition will result in 250,000 more vermonters would have more service. knowing how slowly things have moved in the past, i hope you'll forgive me if you're still a bit skeptical. my questions i will have on this issue, i would urge at&t and others to respond in writing. i look forward to hearing more details as a basis fo

cameron kerry was drunk there is your brother the commerce department and james baker from the department of justice and you saw a really kind of radical disconnect between those two it's a testimony you saw kerry acknowledging kind of consistent with the commerce department interested in forcing stricter consumer privacy rules but was badly outdated it didn't really protect a very well you know the expectations of privacy people actually have when they when they use these services and the d.o.j. saying no no everything's fine as it is because they like being going to run because they want their job to be made easier i guess right first i reasoned they think that they have a right to access all of our information when conversing it should be the opposite right we should have a right to our privacy to keep that information away from them so let's just really quickly break down what they're asking for now compared to what they already demand or how much information a lot of telecoms out there already collect on us i mean so part of the problem here i will admit is that is that in general these compani

then she testified also that a complaint was filed with ocr -- i'm sorry, with the department of justice on january 19th and then at the end of february, the department of justice showed up. and they have rules. and there should be certain rules. but it strikes me that those rules would be ineffective in that interim six-week period where kids were getting beat up, heads beaten, hair pulled and people being dragged down stairs, yet, no one was disciplined, and i'm wondering, you know, here we are in washington and we like to write rules and get the lawyers involved and those things are appropriate but in terms of the immediate prevention of this kind of conduct, it strikes me that's something that a principal, a teacher, a counselor, a security guard should be involved in. what are the things that can strain schools from taking immediate action, exercising some form of accountability at those principal actors right there on the ground as they say who can prevent the conduct in the first instance? >> thank you for the question. i wasn't in the room when that conversation was had so i'm ju

department of justice. first, i would like to thank the attorney general for supporting the reauthorization of the expiring patriot act provisions. i support -- appreciate support of a policy that helped law enforcement officials tracked dangers pedophiles and keep children safe. although he may not want to take credit for this next item, i should think the attorney general for the decision not to try it certain terrorists. it is the right decision and will ensure justice for the families of 9/11 victims. terrorist remain intent on carrying out their plots to destroy america. the killing of osama bin laden is a significant victory in the efforts to combat terrorism. the terrorist threat does not end with bin laden's death. in the years of -- since 9/11, al qaeda has expanded and splintered. this makes it harder to detect and deter plots against americans here, at home, and abroad. despite sunday's victory, we cannot afford to leave our intelligence community without the resources it needs to dismantle terror

an official with the california department of justice says gangs are their main focus. >> a number of highly financed, well organized gangs are in california and perpetrating serious and violent crimes against people of the state. >> operation red reach seized six vehicles including two assault rifles. >>> school officials and parents are outraged over the contents in a child's backpack. they spotted a gun. the student had no idea he was carrying the gun and did not plan to use it. police called immediately. in a note sent home, the principal writes we are not taking this lightly. it's not reflective of the culture we have developed. >>> in oakland, a slow start for the defense in the bailey murder trial. a key witness refused to testify citing his defense. richard lewis is serving a life sentence. the attorney claims lewis, not his client was the get away driver. after bailey was shot back in 2007. >>> the trial is under way in the face against josh fatale and james bower after hiking over into iraq in 2009. the second session of the trial is set to begin may 11th. >>> days after u.s