f.b.i. and his connections weren't in the intelligence divisions so by definition, this was not an agency, bureau or universe that was open to reporters asking questions much less getting answers. so i said to her, well, i think i could do it in a year having done a previous book, i knew it would take at least that long. i lied. it actually took a year and a half. and bits and pieces of interviews, hundreds and hundreds over months and months and a ton of research, the life and times of john o'neill came alive to me and i began to see truly what an extraordinary man he was and what an extraordinary place he had in the entire history of trying to fight terrorism during the second half of the 1990's and right up to the day he died in the world trade center. in fact, i don't want to be too humble here and demonstrate my lack of knowledge, but one of the first interviews i had was with a counterterrorism expert in washington who worked in the washington field office and i went to see him and he

kennedy f.b.i. director j. edgar hoover and president richard nixon has also written biographies of celebrities marilyn monroe and frank sinatra his latest book the eleventh day well to one account of nine eleven is an investigation of the terrorist attacks of nine eleven september eleventh is the product of five years comprehensive research and access for the first time to tens of thousands of previously withheld nine eleven commission documents and it's being hailed as the first comprehensive independent account of the events that changed. america forever i'm honored to welcome anthony summers our studios in new york anthony rock thanks so much for being with us. let's end by the way congratulations on becoming honorary fellow at university college in dublin i must treat you with yet more research i want to have behaved behave to me in tripoli different way from. let's let's start with the present and work backwards just because you know this is this is the moment nine eleven. it's not this moment but this is

f.b.i. agents are raiding the bankrupt company solyndra,. good morning, i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm kristen sze. >> the execution of search warrants is total surprise to solyndra. what the. if i looking for? >> that is half billion dollar question. we know that f.b.i. agents have been out on the solyndra campus going into a number of buildings including this one, this is where the manufacturing equipment that ate much of that half billion dollar loan. >> agents are conducting this raid as part of a joint operation between the f.b.i. and department energy is on of inspector general. >> what are you looking for? >> unfortunately i can't go through details in this. >> what are you going to be taking out, files and equipment? >> at this point it's very early on. it remains to be seen. >> solyndra is solar power company that received $500 million in loans a company touted by president obama. suddenly announced they were bankrupt and without notice laid off 1100 workers. today the f.b.i. agents mo

f.b.i. agents are raiding the bankrupt company solyndra,. good morning, i'm cheryl jennings. >> i'm kristen sze. >> the execution of search warrants is total surprise to solyndra. what the. if i looking for? >> that is half billion dollar question. we know that f.b.i. agents have been out on the solyndra campus going into a number of buildings including this one, this is where the manufacturing equipment that ate much of that half billion dollar loan. >> agents are conducting this raid as part of a joint operation between the f.b.i. and department energy is on of inspector general. >> what are you looking for? >> unfortunately i can't go through details in this. >> what are you going to be taking out, files and equipment? >> at this point it's very early on. it remains to be seen. >> solyndra is solar power company that received $500 million in loans a company touted by president obama. suddenly announced they were bankrupt and without notice laid off 1100 workers. today the f.b.i. agents mo

now the f.b.i. was questioned about this handbook they just called it rudimentary and they claim that their practices have since changed that's despite the fact that these concepts were still being taught in march of this year so this little glimpse inside some of the downright offensive if not incredibly stupid training practices of the f.b.i. is it time for the government to take action call for some change now if you politicians already have and this was actually before the f.b.i. training materials were leaked that there's joe lieberman and susan collins of question the qualifications of those training our feds in counterterrorism and now this information is out there the f.b.i. is probably going to be forced to do some serious damage control not only is this leak unveiled a huge violation of americans first amendment rights of freedom of religion but also encourages members of our highest level of law enforcement to view all muslims as terrorists because not only that ferment of the rights of t

and isi f.b.i. >> and especially to the f.b.i. agents that was investigating, u.s.s.attack in yemen that resulted in 17 sailor deaths. >> was there political pressure from politicians, operatives coming out of the white house basically saying the white house does not want certain information known or certain people prosecuted or certain documents linked or certain allegations made by the u.s.s. cole? >> i don't know how far it goes up. the only thing i know working on the u.s.s. cole as early as november of 2000. we found about a meeting that took place in southeast asia. two people that were involved with the cole attended the motorcycle and one was a suicide bomber. we were looking at these people all over the world and we have a team working under harsh conditions in yemen trying to bring justice to though 17 sailors. and two people were in the united states. we are looking important people overseas and september 12th i was handed a file these two guys were on plane on flight 77 that hit the pentagon. and the conclusion 9/11 commission, one of the first findings th

said the man it's stock trading f.b.i. agents now is a lecture sponsored by a public private partnership for law enforcement officials and the f.b.i. has scrambled to remove gotham's entire lecture but there is a one thirty minute segment that's been salvaged and that on wired there's been a few changes to gaza or of course for starters he states that he is lecturing as a private citizen and his power point presentation he uses his military email address rather than the one from the f.b.i. it also appears as if god troops rhetoric has also changed a bit since the course he taught in quantico back in april at the beginning of the lecture he specifically states that he's talking about islam as a government and as an ideology he specifically says under the first amendment that he won't be discussing islam as a religion. the earlier the you who knew who did. the who you know ok. i know who i am the over. the the who. now despite the disclaimer which he uses to cover his ass his general feelings towards muslims are still the sa

into the fifty first occasion the f.b.i. describes its responsibility for investigating financial fraud on its website it is called mortgage fraud and epidemic they're calling it operation malicious mortgage the f.b.i. unveiled the results of a three and a half month probe it's in mortgage related fraud f.b.i. director robert muller for this operation more than four hundred defendants have been charged and we have a paid one hundred seventy three convictions in crimes that accounted for more than eleven billion dollars and estimated losses the f.b.i. first warned of this fraud epidemic in two thousand and four reporting also though that their corporate crime units had been downsized to join the fight against terrorism some criminal cases are reported in the press but not all are prosecuted with companies often paying fines rather than facing a judge or a jury goldman sachs paid sixty million dollars to settle a so brian complain the massachusetts authorities said they had this desire and mortgages to fail and they paid sixty

the f.b.i. says that it's been running a sting operation against an aspiring terrorist who intended to fly model planes with explosives into washington landmarks. an attack like that would likely not do a great deal of damage, but federal prosecutors say that the man, an american from massachusetts, was determined to wage war on american soil. bob orr has been talking to his sources and has learned details of the plot and the sting. bob. >> reporter: scott, u.s. officials tell us the suspect was deadly serious about his plans to attack the u.s. capitol and the pentagon with remote- controlled airplanes filled with explosives, but the plot had no chance of succeeding. 26-year-old rezwan ferdaus went by the name of bollywood when he played in a massachusetts band. but u.s. officials say the drummer is also a self- radicalized jihaddist, intent on attacking americans in the u.s. and overseas. ferdaus was arrested this morning and now faces charges of plotting attacks and supporting a foreign terror

friend and mentor to take their protest to the next level that friend and mentor turned out to be an f.b.i. informant and one of those men was just released from prison for his actions the other remains locked up for another two years now earlier this month their story came out in a documentary on p.b.s. and here are some clips from it. this case was in this new england secret service that was a domestic terrorist i want to go to the bar and see to protest because i want to change the world and i believe it can be changed the selling somebody. because we have seen today detail extensive use of informants inside told terrorist groups can still miss the country. would solve the race for agents of the government to go to this woman for that matter which of the scary thing. well yesterday i spoke to activist brad crowder on whom the film was based he was in austin texas and we talked about his story which tends to often be viewed by people and one of two ways either people see brad and his friend david mackay as domestic terrorists or they see them as victims of entrapment this was his respons

failed the result of a three and a half month probe it's in mortgage related fraud f.b.i. director robert muller for this operation more than four hundred defendants have been charged and we have paid one hundred seventy three convictions in crimes that accounted for more than one billion dollars in estimated losses the f.b.i. first warned of this fraud epidemic and thousand and four reporting also though that their corporate crime units had been downsized to join the fight against terrorism some criminal cases are reported in the press but not all are prosecuted with companies often pain finds rather than facing a judge or a jury goldman sachs paid sixteen million dollars to settle a so brian complain the massachusetts authorities said they had designed mortgages to fail and they paid sixty million dollars but they did not made any deal that standard standard when wall street firms. what are in effect plea bargains with regulators for them not. according to an investigation by the center for public integrity twenty five of the sleaziest subprime lenders were backed by the

and now it's a back to an operation that was conducted by the f.b.i. almost one year ago on september twenty fourth of two thousand and ten the f.b.i. raided the homes of anti-war activists across the country five minneapolis homes to homes in chicago as well as the office of the antiwar committee were raided and according to the f.b.i. the warrants they had were seeking evidence in support of an ongoing joint terrorism task force investigation and activities concerning the material support of terrorism now today twenty four activists have been targeted all were asked to appear a grand jury in chicago and all refused but has the f.b.i. droplet case not quite most are actually still waiting to see was going to happen to them all their personal belongings that were taken in those raids including their passports haven't been returned so how do they see it well joining me to discuss it is just an anti-war activist whose home was raided and a member of the committee to stop f.b.i. repression jess i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i gues

for the law as it were for wall street in june two thousand and nine the f.b.i. said it was investigating thirteen hundred securities fraud cases including many ponzi schemes as well as more than five hundred eighty corporate fraud cases and most of these cases got little attention but the media loves arch criminals like financier bernard madoff is a complicated white collar crimes of which the government does not have the resources to throw really prosecute and the white collar criminals know it so they set it up not as a single transaction that's a crime but a series of transaction. what's that all put together that makes it a crime to do that you have to go beyond the prosecution of one wrongdoer and look at the way wall street itself became a ponzi scheme you have to examine a pattern a system of criminality which brought the investment and real estate worlds together in a monkey trillion dollar scamp. to simplify there were three interconnected rings in this circus and evolving the biggest firms in the industry it started in the real estate business where ou

through all the f.b.i.'s 62 legal attache offices, they jointly investigate terrorist financing matters with our foreign counterparts. these relationships are key to the f.b.i.'s efforts to stem the flow of financial support to terrorists and protect the united states from terrorist attacks. in conclusion, the efforts of tfos in close coordination with our federal, state, and local partners, the financial industry, and our international partners have established an increasingly difficult environment within which terrorist finance years can operate undetected. -- financeers can operate under defected. we believe these efforts have reduced the funding for terrorist operations and made the concealment of terrorist related funds more difficult. as the terrorists adapt their methods to raids and transfer funds -- raise and transfer funds, the f.b.i. and its partners have also adapted its efforts and capacity to detect and disrupt these financial networks. to identify new and emerging networks in currently unknown

to protect that informant and the f.b.i.'potential role in the agent's death the gun apparently disappeared. now the f.b.i. said it could not comment because the investigation is ongoing. but this information supports earlier reports that the f.b.i. and the dea new the guns were going to be in southern arizona because of wiretaps on their own informants, jon and no one told the border patrol what they were walking into. when brian terry was shot these agencies new immediately they could be partially culpable. back to you. jon: unbelievable. william la jeunesse reporting live, thank you. jenna: deadly floodwaters are beginning to recede in some areas of pennsylvania, though, the waters continue to rise and we are seeing the destruction of that. we're going to talk to a mayor of one city where everyone in the city had to be evacuated. honoring the heros of 9/11 and remembering those who fell. a moving tribute on four wheels hitting the road right here in america and making a stop right outside of fox news. [ male announcer ] do

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like somebody that you might want to associate with but from what i understand he later became an f.b.i. informant if brendan someone you blame for what you've gone through the last couple of years i'm not really interested in and point fingers and language i mean i have to take a certain level of responsibility for my own actions but i think when people especially if they watch the documentary and see how things develop i think there's it's a complicated situation and everybody bears some responsibility for mistakes and you know in some cases some really unethical behavior so you were you were arrested along with your friend david mackay and how long did you spend behind bars and kind of what was the legal process that happened. i spent twenty one months behind bars i was sentenced to years and with a good time in the federal system it's fifteen percent. reduced so to twenty one months the court situation was prolonged i spent about fourteen to fifteen months of my twenty one month in cars ration. in county county jail which means i was going through all the court process through that

the cia together which was opposed to after world war two the idea of linking the cia the f.b.i. was opposed by president truman this linkage to me is not it's not clear that it's serving him with all the final twenty seconds of a camera but at a time i want to ask you what do you think as the world changed for the better post nine eleven i'd like to say well i'm afraid i have to say no a war of terror killing bin ladden doesn't stop at the killing of a good war didn't stop the communist movements during the cold war killing bin ladden will not stop it we have more we have to gauge a collective security and it southwest asia we have to find ways to reconcile with the taliban and and and the kabul government we have the word. to india and pakistan to reconcile those those issues we have to work with egypt and israel that card which is getting worse since post-war boruc we did a lot of work it's going to be done in order to calm the situation down in real we resolve these problems because they're not resolved thanks for your thoughtful gardner professor and chair of the department

gulf this is ministration comes to light thanks to spencer ackerman his scoop at wired dot com the f.b.i may not be known for its cultural sensitivity but he played a story paints a disturbing portrait of an agency that seems to be actively promoting bizarre islamophobia mis information you see when they're not busy tracking down naked celebrity photos of scarlett johannson and whoever else the f.b.i. agents that the training center in quantico appear to be busy listening to the kinds of presentations that one would expect to hear and hearing chaired by congressman peter king presentations that build mainstream american muslims as terrorist sympathizers labeling the prophet muhammad as a quote cult leader and agents were also shown super scientific graphs like the one you see behind me the sliding scale chart supposedly proves that jews and christians somehow become less violent as they grow more devout all muslims immersed in the koran somehow morphed into a bomb wielding terrorist events on our destruction very scientific indeed and according to f.b.i. manuals the constitutionally prot

they're not busy tracking down naked celebrity photos of scarlett johannson and whatever else the f.b.i. agents at the training center in quantico appear to be busy listening to the kinds of presentations that one would expect to hear and hearing chaired by congressman peter king presentations that build mainstream american muslims as terrorist sympathizers labeling the prophet muhammad as a quote cult leader and agents were also shown super scientific graphs like the one you see behind me the sliding scale charts supposedly prove the jews and christians somehow become less violent as they grow more devout all muslims immersed in the koran somehow morphed into a bomb wielding terrorist bent on our destruction very scientific indeed now according to f.b.i. manuals the constitutionally protected religious faith of millions of americans is now somehow an indicator of violence islam equals terrorism just like war is peace freedom and slavery and ignorance strength. familiar words if you know where they came from now the main author of these briefings merely a guy by the name of william gahl

another terror plot that was foiled by the f.b.i. despite the fact that maybe the f.b.i. had a little bit of a hand in creating it themselves well yes like most of the terror plots since nine eleven the majority of them i think this is actually they do they never got operational and a lot of times it involves an f.b.i. informant who's actually goosing the plot along but i think to your original question i think look i know abolishing v.h.s. would be an uphill battle but unlike other ways for inefficient on necessary departments this is one that gives people the business end of the state every time they every time they travel you know that this is an agency that the most visible part of the county to a choice when you travel you know the government is either going to look at you naked or feel you up and it's your choice i think this is causing a lot of resentment and i think you're increasingly seeing even republicans looking at cutting some of this but so do you it's more about the principle here if you don't like what the timing of homeland security is doing rather than

the f.b.i.ot have the specific statutory authority to assist in all investigations. specifically with requests to the investigation of mass shootings or other violent crimes occurring in nonfederal venues. h.r. 2076, the investigative assistance for violent crimes act of 2011 is a commonsense bill that allows the f.b.i. to provide assistant to local and state law enforcement authorities if requested in response to a mass shootle or other mass casualty. this bill addresses where the f.b.i. -- when the f.b.i.'s asked to assist state or local authorities with mass shootings or killings at a public place such as a shopping mall or a school. the f.b.i. has traditionally assisted state and local law enforcement authorities, but the statutory authority explicitly granting the f.b.i. jurisdiction is lacking. to be sure, the f.b.i. helps and is willing to help, but the absence of a specific statutory grant of jurisdiction, even jurisdiction by invitation, needs to be resolved. this bill is not an expansi

the airplane lock-ups that put fighter jets, bomb squads and the f.b.i. to work. >>> it's a good idea. >> i think it's a great idea. >> happy meals are slimming down. starting today what's no longer an option for kids. starting my progresso soup for lunch plan, huh. nope, just having some tender chicken and some tasty noodles. let's see... south western vegetables... 60 calories, oh beef pot roast... ...ya' know those jeans look nice. they do? yup. so you were checking me out? yup. >> the national september 11th memorial officially opened to the public today. and it's a monument that the world has waited 10 years to see. as manuel gallegos explains, people came from across the globe to pay their respects. >> reporter: visitors are getting their first look at the 9/11 memorial. brian parker came from texas. and wanted to be here for the 10th anniversary. >> to be here is speechless. there's like a -- i don't know how to describe it, but there's almost like a love you feel. >> reporter: cascading water and reflecting pools, each one acre wide, now sit where

the f.b.i. was given no names to work with, but agents since then have been checking immigration records and airline passenger manifests to see if they can identify any recent suspicious travelers who could match up to the missing operatives. we've been told two of the three men could be u.s. citizens, and all three are believed to have some kind of american papers for travel. but so far, no operative has been apprehended and officials have to say they don't know if any al qaeda terrorist is actually on u.s. soil. >> pelley: bob, we didn't hear anything about this until last night. why is it being taken so seriously? >> you have to go back to may and the raid on the bin laden compound. in that hideout, they found papers that bin laden himself was dreaming of another attack on 9/11. and then, on top of that, along comes this source that has turns out he's been relyable in the past and is highly valuable by the c.i.a. but all that together, the information still has to be corroborated. that hasn't

sources say the weapon was procured by an f.b.i.that allegedly killed brian terry to protect the informant and the f.b.i.'s role in the agencies death the gun apparently disappeared. the f.b.i. said it could not comment because this investigation is on going. martha, i'll tell you the information supports an earlier contention by investigators that the f.b.i. not only knew about and allowed this fast and furious to continue but helped facilitate it through that informant. back to you. martha: william thank you very much. bill: four minutes before the hour now. severe flooding, a hundred thousand people told to get out of the rising waters, do not e end. >> completely unbelievable. everything is ruined. first floor is covered in mud. people's cars are ruined. there is a car stuck in that reservoir over there as well. i don't know where it all came from. bill: as you can clearly tell from the past couple hours of our broadcast here, things here in new york are moving along to

connecting the dots didn't happen in right so many ways we have the f.b.i. already have the cia we have the n.c.t. the national counterterrorism center how many more you know levels of bureaucracy are there and is it important to keep some of these agencies that threat to what extent do you think well need to change immensely. the agencies have separate distinct missions however the information sharing should be totally integrated and seamless and that's just not happening you again it goes back to my answer of the culture you can change the infrastructure or you want to have the same people who did or did not share information before they're going to do it again and that's what we're seeing here there's too much layering i spoke to one of the nine eleven commissioners about three years ago about his view of did they get it right is the director of national intelligence what you do as a commissioner who understands intelligence is that what you want and he said absolutely not they do not want another bureaucracy nonfunctioning bureaucracy sitting on top of o

the f.b.i. raids gibson guitars with guns a blazing so why are they picking a fight with this all american company to gives and c.e.o. and we just once. the president has. the immigrant rights movement they were promised hope but now in the british years are being moved to the side that is until the next election cycle when every vote counts so long as president obama trying to straddle the border with his immigration policy seems clear. and keep your friends close and your oil closer friends of libya are getting even more touchy feely these days with libya's oil supply in the future. so just how serious is this relationship getting. it's thursday september first eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for down and you are watching our team i want to start off with a story of an attack on something so american you can almost put it in the same category as baseball and apple pie i'm going to go rock n roll and more specifically one of the most well known instruments that has helped create and k