. >> he worked 24 years in the f.b.i. and served as supervisor of arabian lebanese squad. >> after graduating with his fellow colorado, anwar al-awlaki moves to deny krer ver. -- denver and joins the islamic society. >> he is preaching the word at that point. >> but the 25-year-old is ambitious and wants to be the imam of his own mosque. he picks up and moves to san diego. >> in southern california he becomes the imam of a mosque, small and unassuming building in a seed did i part of town. >> the mosque is about ten miles east of downtown san diego. >> he also continues his studies as a graduate student at san diego state university. one man who knows alaki asked us to conceal his identity. >> what did he look like? >> this guy was small -- >> and we see his neighborhood firsthand. >> in san diego, it's at ghetto. >> we go to the mosque and we learn more about his time there between 1996 and 2000. >> it was a residential neighborhood with non-muslim neighborhoods. >> did you like having the mosque on the block here? >> yo

frank figliuzzi is the f.b.i.'s top counterintelligence agent. >> the f.b.i. undercover agent was so convincing that anna chapman actually handed over her covert laptop to the f.b.i. undercover agent. >> reporter: the f.b.i. was also watching with video and still cameras when russian spies richard murphy and mike zottoli met on a brooklyn street. and, again, when chapman shopped for leggings, hats and jewelry inside macy's as a russian official paced outside. the surveillance tapes document the f.b.i.'s ten-year effort of ghost stories, to track ten russian spies who burroed deep inside american culture. it's clear the f.b.i. was also patient. agents took these still pictures of the buried package containing $60,000 a russian operative had planted in a rural field in new york state. two years later, video cameras then recorded one of the spies we trooefing the treasure. officials say overall the trade craft was sophisticated by compromised. this video shows spy mikhail semenko leaving a package in a cold war style dead drop under a bridge in arlington, virgini

f.b.i. is new toys could mean for our individual privacy rights. and drives the world the fear mongering used by politicians who makes decisions to break through it through the plane made who can you trust no one who is you know view with the global machinery to see where we. had a state controlled capitalism and schooled satchels when nobody dares to ask we do our tea question more. the f.b.i. doesn't know where to find you know. they will soon be getting in january and continuing over the next few years the f.b.i. will be setting up its next generation identification n.g.i. service in law enforcement an impressive new tool to track down criminals or just keep tabs on all of us this new n.g.i. system will expand the f.b.i.'s current database comprised mostly of fingerprints and mug shots with new biometric identifiers things like iris scans palm prints photos and voice data also with the help of new facial recognition software that will be up and running in all fifty states within three yea

the f.b.i. said the evidence was inconclusive as to whether those guns were the ones responsible for this murder. but i understand you have learned there may have been another gun at the scene of the crime, and i understand you're writing to the f.b.i. director to ask for more information. are you suggesting, sir, that the f.b.i. may have tampered with evidence at the scene? >> we're not suggesting that, but when you have tickets that are numbered 2 and 3 and there's no ticket 1, in other words, the weapon, one weapon has a 2 and one has a three on it, there's no one, when agents who were at brian terry's funeral made statements to his mother indicating that there were three weapons, when the two weapons that they have tested don't conclusively match up, then you look and say, well, was there a third weapon at the scene? were there additional people who escaped with weapons? the terry family has suffered a great deal. it doesn't seem like the answers are coming. more importantly our investigatio

the f.b.i. arrests a man accused of hacking into the personnel e-mail accounts of hollywood celebrities. and dewey bozella wouldn't let a terrible injustice defeat him. now he's fighting for his dream. >> don't let nobody tell you what you can do, and that's what i'm doing. i'm letting my dream come to reality. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. president obama slapped new sanctions on iran today, and the white house said there could be more to come. all of that in response to that alleged plot to assassination saudi arabia's ambassador to the united states. the administration is consulting with allies all around the world. u.s. officials insist that the iranian government was behind the plot. norah o'donnell is at the white house with the latest. norah. >> reporter: scott, tonight, secretary of state hillary clinton said iran must be held accountable for what she called a reckless act that the u.s. will not tolerate. >> this pl

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in both cases the f.b.i. arrested each al qaeda operative in the midst of an unfolding terrorist plot and was able to obtain useful intelligence through interrogation. just most recently the d.e.a. and the f.b.i., through shared human and signals intelligence were able to interrupt the plot to kill the saudi ambassador right here in washington, d.c. and that man will be tried in federal court. and that man was interrogated by the f.b.i. and that man spilled his guts, as they say, in the vernacular, to the f.b.i. to go back to abdulmutallab, he phr*ed guilty last week to all counts charging him for the role of the christmas day 2009 bombing of northwest airlines flight 253. he cooperated. he provided intelligence. and he will probably spend the rest of his life behind bars when he is sentenced in january. by comparison, two out of the six individuals convicted in military commissions over a six-year period are already out of prison living freely in their home countries of yemen and australia. consider these re

with regard to the f.b.i. and their involvement, they are a great investigative agency, and if they participate in the arrest of one of these individuals and they were turned over to the military, the f.b.i. can still work with the military to investigate the case t would just be tried under military commissions according to the lawful system that congress in a bipartisan way passed several years ago. mr. mcconnell: i was going to pose another dwoa my friend that it's kind of lewd dross assume that this ultimately leads to the reading of miranda rights to a foreign citizen on foreign soil. if in fact we're saying that routinely foreigners, enemy combatants are going to be mainstreamed into article 3 courts, when do these protections, if you will, that wwe afford to american citizens under the constitution attach? mr. sessions: that's a very good question. under the law of the united states, if you interrogate an individual that's been taken into custody, the splice to give them miranda rights before they inter

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 my think this is actually the they never got operational and a lot of times it involves an f.b.i. informant who's actually grew seeing 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 on like other wasteful 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 it puts you 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 to you it's more about the principle here that you don't like what the department of homeland security is doing rather t

the attorney general in the f.b.i. director say well we're not saying you're running a government is involved in it just parrot of the iranian government we don't know a fact within the knew about it i think what you need in mind you can keep in mind is that the saudis want the iranians destroyed the israelis want the iranians destroyed the congress in the united states is owned by israel and so the congress wants iran destroyed and this is an opportunity for them to push for war and so i think we have to be very careful until we find out exactly who is behind this plan but an opportunity for the u.s. government to push for a war i mean this is a time when nobody in this country would want war where you know our troop levels are exhausted certainly still in afghanistan iraq and libya to some capacity why on earth would you say that there are people in this government that. a lot more because i've listened to senator graham and i've listened to senator mccain and have a listen to senator joe lieberman neighbor listen to

what the f.b.i. did in this case was nothing new. during the bush administration the f.b.i. consistently gave miranda warnings to terrorists detained in the united states. here's what attorney general holder said, and i quote, "across many administrations both before and after 9/11, the consistent well-known, lawful, and public-stated policy of the f.b.i. has been to provide miranda warnings prior to any custodial interrogation conducted inside the united states." end of quote. in fact, under the bush administration they adopted new policies for the f.b.i. that say, quote, "within the united states miranda warnings are required to be given for custodial interest gaitions." end of quote. let's take one example from the bush administration, richard reid known as the shoe bomber. reid tried to detonate an explosive on in his shoe on a flight from pair toys miami in 2001. similar to the atact by another foreign trivet who also tried to detonate a bomb on a plane. how does the bush administration's handling of the shoe bomber compare with the obama administration's handling of th

we talked with f.b.i. official john miller and author roya hakakian. >> there were the rivalries between iran and saudi arabia have only become more and more pronounced since the arab spring and since the growing of the tensions between iran and saudi arabia. >> charlie: we colude this evening with a conversation about chinese aunt pureship wang boming president of the stock exchange and executive council and the two partners. >> we solve our problems with the history of china and converse form relations from -- electricity and car. now the two countries work together in a way to get the maximum geration of products to solve the problem we are facing. i think we have this opportunity and also obligation. >> charlie: wall street protests, accusations against iranian officials and chinese entrepreneurship when we continue. >> every story needs a hero we can all root for, who beats the odds and comes out on top. that this isn't just a hollywood story line,t's happening every day all across america. every time

but he wanted the f.b.i. to clear it up. today the d. o.j.william lajeunesse, thank you. well, might as well add a surcharge onto your next shot or glass of wine or can of beer because health officials say the cost of excessive boozing is roughly $2 per drink. the centers for disease control and prevention calculated that amount based on expenses like medical care, workplace productivity and property damage. according to the researchers, in 2006 alone, excessive drinking cost nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars and the researchers say that every year, heavy drinking costs americans more than 2 million potential lives. >>> republican presidential hopeful signing up for one of the most critical ballots on the whole provide marry calendar. the latest on the fight for the gop nomination is coming up, plus the nation's biggest wireless carriers now making a deal with the government that could help save some serious money on your next cell phone bill. that's next. emergency crews are prepared. they're in place. all we can do now is watch. wait.

see so practically speaking what is i mean by all means of the f.b.i. see and in turn the u.s. government is now backing most likely trillions of dollars of toxic derivatives and i thought all of a complex that it's essentially a really sneaky way for b. of a to cover its own ass the bank of america goes belly up or if the derivatives market collapses taxpayers are once again on the line for years of being evasive bad financial decisions because now they're actually insuring them which is exactly the opposite of what the f.b.i. see is supposed to be doing that the i.c. is set up to reward insure individuals that are banking with a certain company not to insure the banks themselves and the f.b.i. see isn't happy about it either really because it just came out of the red this past june you know after holding a negative balance for seven consecutive quarters and finally carries three point nine billion dollars of net assets but here's the icing on the cake the fed knows that. big of america's doing when it's moving all this money around and borrowing from its customers in fact the

f.b.i. director robert mueller. >> these individuals have no regard for hair intended victim, no regard for innocent citizens who might have been hurt or killed in this attempted assassination. >> reporter: federal prosecutors say the conspirators discussed killing the ambassador with a bombing at a washington restaurant and arbabsiar shows no concern over the potential deaths of innocent bystanders. now, sources say arbabsiar, who was arrested nearly two weeks ago, also talked about wanting to attack embassies of saudi arabia and israel and he also implicated by name one of those officials in the quds force. that man, gohlam shakuri, has now been charged in the case but he's still in iran so he's not in custody. u.s. officials, though, said they monitored numerous phone calls between arbabsiar and shakuri in recent weeks. just a week ago agents listened in as arbabsiar encouraged shakuri to move quickly with the plot saying "just do it, it's late." >> pelley: how did officials take arbabsia

it's the f.b.i., the head of the f.b.i. so i think there is something here. but it's a very strange plot. it's not characteristic of past quds force plots. they elicited help from this iranian american who basically like you said was a used car dealer. pretty shady character. didn't really have any sort of expertise. and -- in counterespionage or espionage and he approaches what he thinks is a mexican cartel agent and turns out to be a d.e.a. informant. it has a keystone cops feel to it. gwen: but the quds force, the air presence in this is what has everybody's attention. who are they? >> the quds force is the paramilitary wing of the revolutionary guard in iran. basically run their support to terrorist groups, extremist groups all around the world. they have a very nasty history of doing very nasty things. they were behind the bombing of the marine barracks in the early 1980's. the kidnappings of americans in lebanon that led to death and captivity of a c.i.a. station chief. they were behind bombings in south america in 1994. the khobar tower bombing of the

department of justice came up with those accusations the f.b.i. and this was drug enforcement agency have arrested a new raney and born u.s. citizen his name monsoor are burps yar u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and for that according to the americans this iranian man turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. operative turner general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking iranian officials firmly denies the allegations saying it is a comedy show fabricated by america fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now what they are not bringing up is possible motives behind accusations like that whether those accusations make any sense at all why would the government if you ran want to kill the saudi ambassador in washington would the rainiest actually do it taking into consideration the potential fallout i heard eggs work on american mainstream channels beating the drums of war sayi

department of justice came up with those accusations the f.b.i. and was drug enforcement agency of arrested a new grainy and born u.s. citizen his name monsoor are burps yar u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and for that according to the americans this iranian man turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. operative turner general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking iranian officials and firmly denies the allegations saying it is a comedy show fabricated by america saudi arabia on the other hand took the allegations seriously and thanked us authorities for thwarting the alleged assassination attempt of their ambassador fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now let me remind you that the state department has list that you ran as a state sponsor of terror it seems now war mongering has reached a tipping point basically the questions asked in the u.s. media now come down to th

turned to members of the mexican drug cartel to turn out to be undercover f.b.i. operatives investigators say they are wired some one hundred thousand dollars to an f.b.i. undercover bank account sort of as a down payment for the assassination that he has allegedly ordered we also know that he was arrested in september this year eternal journal said the man confessed in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking you renia and officials all of those accusations to come from the u.s. justice department we don't have any comments from the. now now washington has made any secret of its own to most of you towards iran so what could be the potential fallout from today's claims. well bill it's actually interesting to watch how the u.s. media took on this story fear mongering against iran has been going on for many years now let me remind you that the state department has listed iran as a state sponsor of terror since one thousand nine hundred eighty four and it seems now the war mongering has reached a tipping point first minutes into the statement of the attorney

department of justice came out with those those accusations the f.b.i. and the u.s. drug enforcement agency have arrested a new born u.s. citizen in a sting operation his name on store r.b.s. . u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and was ready to pay one and a half million dollars for the murder so that according to the americans this ukrainian man turned to members of the mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. operatives investigators say they are wired one hundred thousand dollars to an f.b.i. undercover bank account sort of as a down payment for the assassination that he has allegedly ordered we also know that he was arrested in september this year the attorney general said the man confessed in the plot and said he was directed by high ranking you raney and officials all of those accusations come from the u.s. justice department we don't have any comments from the. now you know washington hasn't made any secret over its on the most of the towards. what could be the potentia