with them often if it is a source of the corruption f.b.i. have signed a decree this year on reducing the list of strategic companies of. the government has adopted a plan for the president is a show of large companies your company the main objective for the obvious pair of education minister raise the fish and. companies and attract more investments into the economy significant investments would be if you will move the income from the privatization should be used to to modernize our economy at. the moment but the same decision should be made in the region and the federal level. of the property of the federal authority you make. these can i'm alone property that's helps them carry out their functions and would come with the zero. thus other property should be privatized and the authorities should not own plan some news. steamboats everyone should do their own job. fairs you have to talk about the threat of them we fear modernization it will only yield is that it will do if society. lives by it means that just and where laws are going to have the c

f.b.i. is playing a major role in in basically creating these scenarios manufacturing crimes that would never have taken place if not for the role of the f.b.i. paid informants that are working with the f.b.i. to us set up these kinds of scenarios now does mr downs feel like he's getting anywhere when you mention the fact that you know amnesty international human rights watch they don't even take cases on like this so how does someone like him make a difference. well he's doing what he can do is the cone co-founder of of an organization called project salaam which includes hundreds of activists and family members of all those that have been imprisoned family members and friends of the new work for fort dix five lackawanna six portland seven the list goes on and on and mr johns believes that a lot of the men have basically been entrapped by the f.b.i. and so every time a case like this occurs if in fact alone are the people that have been found guilty and imprisoned if they are innocent it is it is harboring a lot of resentment creating a lot of resentment in this country by the family and friends

that real estate developers have been regularly paying off government officials in return for official actions. >> according to an affidavit filed in u.s. trict court f.b.i. agents have been monitoring their movements through wiretaps as far back as 2007. investigations reveal payments for $100,000 for one instance and $500,0 in another. then today agents allegedly interrupted a payoff to johnson from the developer. >> jackonson was permitted to leave that interview and then made a series of interviews of calls to his wife. >> the affidavit says those calls, monitored by f.b.i. agents, sfructed him to destroy a $100,000 check. leslie johnson asked, do you want me to put it down the toilet, and johnson answered back, yes, flush back. he told her to put the cash in her underware, and she plizz, i have it in my bra. agents later recovered $79,600 from leslie johnson's underwear. they say this is part of an ongoing investigation into corruption in prince george's county. >> we still have several people to interview. the f.b.i. will conduct those interviews and gather additional evidence over the coming days. >> kai reed reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. >> jack

. >>> bay area law enforcement agencies working with the f.b.i. have just wrapped up a week long crack down on child sex trafficking. according to the f.b.i., 72 people are under arrest accused of being pimps and customers. six children were also rescued. two were found in hayward, three in oakland, one in san francisco. >>> time now 5:41. it is a smoking topic this morning. the governor's personal view on pot. >>> and a stolen dog named deuce could be a long way from home. the suspect is now changing his story about what happened. >>> good morning. westbound 80 traffic moving well. pardon me. getting out to the macarthur maze. more about the morning commute coming up. >>> good morning. frost advisory canceled. that doesn't mean there's not a lot of cold temperatures. a lot of 30s north bay down to the south bay. some sun for the south bay andest bay. a lot of clouds roll in keeping it cool with highs 50s, 60s and rains possible to the north. >>> welcome back. good morning to you. quick look at some of the top stories we're following for you right now

investigations include allegations that investigators have been paying off people in return for actions. >> an affidavit filed in court alleges f.b.i. agents have been monitoring their movements through wire taps and other movements as far back as 2007. investigations including payments to johnson for $1,000 in one instance and $5,000 in another. today agents allegedly interrupted a $15,000 payoff. >> jack johnson was allowed to leave that interview and then made a series of telephone calls to his wife. >> those calls include johnson instructing his wife to destroy a $100,000 check. >> leslie johnson asks, do you want me to put it down the toilet? and johnson plizz, yes, flush that. the tape alleges he told his wife to put the money in her underwear, and she said, i have it in my bra. >> u.s. attorney rod rosenstein said today, the allegations are an ongoing investigation into corruption in prince george's county. >> we still have several people to interview, and f.b.i. agents will be conducting those interviews and gathering additional evidence over the coming days. >> kai reed, reporting for wbal-tv 11 news. >> jack johnson was r

f.b.i. activities have been steadily wrote it to eliminate those protections put in place that were supposed to rein in the abuses in the first place so i asked him first to give me some specifics and whether or not all of those erosions occurred post nine eleven. some of it actually creates nine eleven guidelines which were the first set of attorney general guidelines implemented in one nine hundred seventy six after the church committee had uncovered thousands of pages about f.b.i. abuses during the cold until pro era since one nine hundred seventy six there have been a series of revisions that have happened since nine eleven which particularly watered down those protections were in two thousand and three under then attorney general john ashcroft and then most recently in two thousand and eight and you're attorney general michael and it's a big. those revisions in particular that for instance allow the use of the right assessments. investigative tier to investigate allegations where there is no factual predicate or investigation which is to say to investigate potential future crimes and it

f.b.i. approached the head of the hedge fund and said we would like you to wear a wire and he said i have anltion, they are not doing anything wrong, and i won't wear them a wire, so not only did he decline, he asked the f.b.i. to leave and he sent an e-mail to the clients saying, the f.b.i. was here and asked me to wear a wire, and he published the e-mail. now, i have never heard of that happening in the yours i have been involved with the law as a lawyer, as a judge in law enforcement. so that tells me the f.b.i. was not very happy about the fact that they are looking for a sting and they don't have a person to do the stng so they decided to move in today, rather than let the people go on their way and say things that would make them sound go. rather than guilty. >>shepard: you wonder what will come of all of this? times are tough. for the bank people and they would like to be seen as exerting control. >>judge napolitano: this is a massive investigation. it involves very technical information about who knew what and when. it is unlikely they would do to with no evidence. they probably caug

have loved you. i think about you daily on a daily basis. >> he made this video he heard from the f.b.i. that they have been located and they told investigators they don't want to see their father. >> i don't know anything beyond that. they are over the age of 18. privacy laws kick in. >> he decided to turn to youtube in the hopes his video will go viral and seen by his kids. smith feels vulnerable having the video out there but he doesn't care. he hopes his message will reach his kids. >> if they don't call me if they don't make contact i'll be extremely disappointed but i have no ill will towards them. they are victims. >> the he is hoping a video will came other parents from abducting their children. >>> a violent car crash devastating results. it happened in san francisco leeg several families in the east bay shattered tonight. five teenagers were in the car two are dead one barely hanging on. lisa amin gulezian. >> he was nice outgoing guy. its shock. >> students at castro valley high school still can't believe what happened this morning when the car jonathan johnson crashed into a l

f.b.i. agents have made 72 arrests in the bay area in a nationwide prostitution sweep. e local police and f.b.i. rescued child prostitutes from sex traffickers. they neated six child prostitutes with 67 adults prostitutes, 7 pimps and eight johns. that's a small snap spot of a larger and growing problem. they sometimes use social net working sites to make initially contact and coerce them into working the streets. pimps also prey on parents to reach their victims. >> they buy them from their mothers who are on drugs. all kind of things that happen to these little girls that get lost in the system. >> local and federal authorities are focusing their efforts in oakland and hayward because that's where they find a high concentration of child prostitutes. they were along international boulevard. >> local transportation officials say it's time to consider whether the bay area needs another bridge. tomorrow the bay area toll authority will consider spending up to $400,000 to study the possibility of building another bridge connecting the east bay to the peninsula. the idea of

f.b.i. see itself we should not have an f.b.i. city it should be abolished the f.b.i. see is at the root cause of our banking problems it's because the f.b.i. see insurers deposits that banks are so reckless because the positives don't care what the banks do with their money because the government guarantees their accounts the bank should know this and so they have incentives to take greater risks because that's the way they get the plazas by offered by taking risk and operating better yields or better services but no banks compete based on safety which is what they would do in a free market but since the government removed all the free market regulations and substituted its own regulations that is the problem because bank regulators do not do is going to job is the free market you know they're not regulating for the right reasons they're highly susceptible to being captured by the industry they regulate their problem to. take bribes or kickbacks or just be corrupt the market is the best way to regulate banks on fortunately we're not allowing that to happen parallel th

f.b.i. will have to cut 2700 agents. congressmen ryan, do you think the american people want that? >> this is a washington monument strategy, put out the glaring cuts and show this is how devastating it is. this category of spending, base spending went up 24% in the last two years. with stimulus, it went up 84%. we had spending on a gusher. if borrowing and spending and tax and spend created jobs, and produced prosperity, we would haven't the jobless economy. i think the spending cuts are modest considering the pickle we are in. so what you'll have is we'll try to get spending turning this a different direction, cut spending and get it control and you isle have these tactics play wch had will show you that they're not serious about getting our spending under control. instead, they will put spending line on the glide path that's unsustainable to have the big tax increases. >> chris: congressman ryan, we'll get to that in a second. give me, you're the head of the budget committee and you know the budget backward and forward, give me a couple of specific examples of big ticket items t

of software it's built into your browser and it's just good to have strong encryption and yes there may be certain communications the f.b.i. can't get at but that's just the price you have to pay and the sense that in the last nine years you have you know has had to report to congress when they've been investigating someone with criminal matters and if they run into a corruption and whether it stops them and the feds haven't we're going to be a christian in four years so i don't understand why they're going after blackberry saying you need to build a barrier in your corruption because at least in terms of criminal prosecutions in corruption isn't it a problem for the law enforcement interesting right now business you know could this also backfire in the sense that if you start building these systems and creating them with a backdoor available then there's going to be someone who can take advantage of that who can probably infiltrate the system we've we've seen it happen before you know in china what they what they did this with g.-mail. exactly so you know the classic example it's not like us in the computer security circ

f.b.i. says the teen had no known terrorist ties. he may have become radicalized through the internet. >> the kind of people who become loan wolf terrorists are people who have some deficiency or gap in their lives they're trying to fill. >> reporter: mohamud's own father reportedly told the f.b.i. his son was becoming radical. in a video he made, mohamud blamed his parents for not letting him join the jihad telling them "if you make allies with the enemy, then allah's power will ask you about that on the day of judgment." meanwhile, authorities are still investigating a weekend fire at the mosque mohamud used to attend. they believe it was arson and muslims there are worried about retaliation. now, late today mohamud's public defender suggested that the government may be guilty of untrapment. he says government agents suggested key actions to the teenager and gave him thousands of dollars and they helped set upmost of friday's events. now, the government says it's not entrapment, that they gave him nonviolent options all throughout this informa

have never stopped thinking about you. i think about you daily and i miss you on a daily basis. >> he made this video now because he just heard from the f.b.ichelsea and zachary have been located and told investigators they don't want to see their father. >> i don't know anything beyond that. they're over the age of 18. the privacy laws kick in and rightly so. >> he decided to turn to youtube.com in the hopes his video will go viral and will somehow be seen by his kids. smith feels very vulnerable having this video out there but he says he doesn't care. he just hopes this message will reach his kids. >> if they don't call me, don't make contact, i -- i'll be extremely, extremely disappointed. but i hold no ill will towards them whatsoever this is they're victims. >> he hopes it will serve as a deterrent and keep other parents from abducting their children. >> the f.b.i. now says smith's ex-wife is a fugitive. she is wanted for child abduction. and a violent car crash, a devastating result. this all happened in san francisco yesterday leaving several families in the east bay shattered. five teenagers were in this one car, two died, one is ba

december 19 1997 i have loved you and i have never stopped thinking but and i miss you on a daily basis. >> he made this video now because he just heard from the f.b.i. chelsea and zachary have been located and they told investigators they don't want to see their father. >> i don't know anything beyond that. over the age of 18. privacy laws kicked in. >> he decided to turn to youtube in the hopes his video will go viral and somehow be seen by his kids. he says he doesn't care he hopes his message will reach his kids. >> if they don't call me if they don't make contact i'll be extremely disappointed, but i have no ill will towards them whatsoever. they are victims. >> he hopes the video will be a deterrent from parents abducting their children. >> f.b.i. says smith's ex-wife is a fugitive and wanted for child abduction. >> more than a dozen people in san mateo are homeless this morning after a fire raced their their apartment building. fire investigators are trying to figure out what started the fire on north bay shore drive. six apartments are damaged. 14 tenants are displaced including some in wheelchairs but the red cross has been there assisting.

have loved you, never stopped thinking about you. i think about you daily and i miss you on a daily basis. >> he made this video now because he just heard from the f.b.i. chelsea and zachary have been located and they told investigators they don't want to see their father. >> i don't know anything beyond that. they're over the age of 18. the privacy laws kick in and rightly so. >> he decided to turn to youtube.com in the hopes his video will go viral and somehow be seen by his kids. smith feels very vulnerable having this video out there but sails he doesn't care. he just hopes this message will reach his kids. >> if they don't call me if they don't make contact i'll be extremely, extremely disappointed. but i hold no ill will towards them whatsoever. they're victims. >> he also hopes the video will serve as a deterrent and keep other parents from abducting their children. in walnut creek, amy hollyfield, abc 7 news. >> smith's ex-wife is a fugitive. she is wanted for child abduction. a violence car crash brings a very devastating result. and this all happened in san francisco yesterday leaving several families in the east bay shattered. five teenager

something we call the freedom of speech in this country where they have ever gone through with it had the f.b.i. not egg them on i mean how much money how much time how many resources were devoted to cooking up a plot that could have never have it to creating a terrorist do we really need mass hysteria americans fearing for their lives at a christmas tree lighting ceremony that only resulted in the mosque the mohammad attended being vandalized in more hate and muslim members of that community then feeling attacked you know in this day and age with the monitoring capabilities of the government has which we know they use couldn't there been no other way the more sting operations the feds create the more it makes us question their tactics rather than congratulate them on a job well done how they stopped a real bombing rather than fabricating one the more angry creates around the world the more jihad ists it recruits and we all want to be safe but these types of actions they begin to blur the lines or we don't know if they're helping or only hurting. on friday we told you that the da said that they

keiser a lot's going on let's get right to it hit me with a headline well first max i have to tell you you know the f.b.i. might walk in at any moment because i am in connecticut and they're raids going on all over the place here at a connecticut hedge fund guys apparently have been you'll be shocked at this max that apparently they've been manipulating markets and insider trading yeah right of course the big headlines are coming out that the hedge funds are involved in insider trading and market manipulation you know the funny thing is that to report the kind of returns that they've been reporting the only way you could do that is by training on inside information by definition what they do is trade out inside information of course goldman sachs lloyd blankfein all say well he calls it making a market that's a euphemism for breaking the law now the f.c.c. and others are coming down on these guys but i doubt it'll be more than a slap on the rest of the small civil fine i don't think we'll see anyone it's not true because it's not a c.c. investigating this and it's not a civil matter because it's by the v

hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams maccollins nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a woman how we go lives americans no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the us has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leaving many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do not artsy. as the obama administration tries to tackle human rights violations in the country former president george w. bush is once again sparking controversy this time with his new memoir was almost two years ago after leaving office america's forty third president is now having his say on his time in the white house in the book decision points with fields his thou

hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's lee don't wake up because i don't know what and how we go lives of many kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leading many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do during the fortnight marty we are. don't forget that there is much more at our web site also your home so check out all the latest videos of political blogs and analysis as well as top news outlets have a look at all of that if you live. in iraq it's called for just that is that the claims that british forces sexually can relate prisoners by forcing th

hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime a practice other countries term entrapment aleesha macwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a living hell we go lives and never kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leading many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do sure enough or not artsy. that's one of the stories we've got. also the iraqis calling for justice for claims that british forces sexually humiliated prisoners by forcing them to strip naked and watch soldiers having sex with each other disturbing story it's online on our own page tonight so when summary is the hardest word or you're just too chicken to say i

hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime or practice other countries term entrapment aleesha mcwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i am a living hell we go lives and never kids no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own question is when the people speak who is listening the u.s. has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leading many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do during a fortnight artsy new york. and there is a call for north korea to return to international talks over its nuclear activities as soon as possible and comes from russia and south korea were president of vietnam war and that simmering tensions in the region could boil over and he was speaking at talks ahead of the g twenty summit and so now is there. everyone un

f.b.i. is doing its job. the bad news is you have american citizens still trying to blow up their fellow citizens. >> reporter: last month, a virginia man was arrested in a federal sting after being accused of plotting to bomb the washington, d.c. subway system. in may, pakistani-born american citizen faisal shahzad failed in his attempt to blow up an s.u.v. in times square. in november, 2009, the massacre at fort hood, 13 people killed, 30 wiewntd after u.s. army major nidal hasan allegedly opened fire on his fellow soldiers. husan was connected to cleric anwar awlaki who is linked to al qaeda and is himself an american citizen. there was also najibullah zazi, an afghan turned u.s. resident who in september of last year conspired to detonate backpack bombs in the new york subway. >> so this isn't just about al qaeda plotting attacks, like we saw in the new york subway attacks. but you have american citizens planning attacks against their fellow citizen, even in portla portland, oregon. >> reporter: this report says u.s. legal reside

discrimination against muslims another blemish on america's human rights record with hundreds have been arrested in so-called f.b.i. for oil terror plots plots using government paid informants to set up the crime a practice other countries term entrapment aleesha macwilliams mccollum's nephew is among those caught in these web she warns the system is losing its bearings america's need to wake up because i don't know where the hell we go lives of americans no one country has all the answers but all of us must answer to our own people question is when the people speak who is listening the us has rejected international calls to abolish the death penalty and dismissed several other recommendations leaving many to ask if u.s. exceptionalism means do as i say not as i do during a fortnight artsy. violence against christians is on the rise of the very cradle of their faith in israel and the palestinian autonomy christians and their holy sites have been targeted by both extremist muslims and jews or has many of those struggling for freedom from persecution. think david ortiz lives dangerously a christian pastor among reli

f.b.i. says they have recordings of the couple trying to destroy $200,000 in cash and checks. money was from local developers who paid the couple for business favors. >> a california school does an about face and will let a student fly the american flag on his bicycle. this week the school told the 13-year-old that he could not fly the flag because it could fuel racial tensions. but dozens of people complained and the school changed their mind and he flies the flag to honor his grandfather, a veteran, and show support for upcoming field trip to washington, dc. and now a check on the forecast. >> a chilly day right now but it will not be as bad as we head west with low pressure system producing snow across parts of minneapolis and head of the system a line of light rain extending right to the west of chicago down into parts of new orleans and arkansas. that snow as we zoom into minnesota, that is snow extending from northern wisconsin down into iowa and minneapolis could get from 6" to 10" of snow prompting conditions with the winter storm warning in effect so if you are not dr

have detonated. it was a fake supplied by f.b.i. agents as part of a demonstration. >> he demonstrated a determination to commit violent jihad. >> reporter: he first came under scrutiny because of a tip from someone concerned about him. investigators say he was under surveillance since 2009 when he made contact with someone in the northwest frontier of pakistan, a known haven for terrorists, he also wrote several articles for jihaddist magazines. agents worked with him for months, going so far as testing explosives in a deserted area. >> this was very serious in terms of the -- how far he progressed and how serious the intent was. the only missing thing was that he happened to get hooked up with undercover agents. >> reporter: officials say mouhamed was acting alone with no guidance from terrorist organizations. u.s. citizens or residents orchestrated several attacks in the past year, here in times square connecticut resident if i sal facade tried to detonate a car bomb but it was discovered before it exploded. mouhamed was enrolled

you have the ireland bailout and tkpwraoebg extra bailout and f.b.i. looking into hedge funds and banking regulation all pointing to the fact that markets and traders want to get away from those more riskier assets. it is a likelihood to move into the safe havens which is why we're seek the move in the dollar and we will probably see moves in gold and other metal prices and commodities are starting to fall. equity markets are starting to fall and some are more risky currencies are on the way down. our cliche that we say markets hate uncertainty and you couldn't get more uncertainty at the moment. >> let's talk about this because the australian airline qantas is putting the jumbo jets back in the skies after grounding them over engine problems. the carrier says it is comfortable with returning the aircraft to service despite those safety scares. we have the details. >> the a-380 is airbus's hope for the future carrying as many as 800 passengers. they claim it will transform aviation. but earlier this month the safety of the jet was in question after an

are once again asking the public that might have interest or might have knowledge '06 any corruption in this department to contact the f.b.i. >> now in total 9 people were arrested in separate indictments including 3 prince george's police officers and two different indictments, police sergeant richard del ape r. kong chin kim and sin symptom inc. they seized more than 3 1/2 million dollars in confiscated property including several liquor stores and bank casualties. more could be on the way. roosevelt leftwich, abc 2 news. >> thanks a lot resee. >> back just three days after a highly publicized investigation outgoing prince george's county executive jack johnson is back at work. johnson and his wife leslie were charged with witness tampering and destruction of evidence. he is on home detention and only allowed out for work, court, and meetings with attorneys, johnson said he is working on next year's budget and that. >>> mayor stephanie rawlings blake is preparation to face potential challengers, she is filling in for the mayor who stepped down on corruption charges, otis raleigh is set to challenge her, baltimore circuit

f.b.i. to start actually monitoring his emails in i think it was mid 2009. was it as some have reported that his parents said something to authorities? >> well, there are some reports that his father had contacted the department of homeland security. and there's nothing in the affidavits that referred to that. what we do know is that he was on a no-fly list. he had tried in june of this year to leave oregon and fly and find a fishing job in alaska. he wasn't allowed to. at that time f.b.i. officials interviewed him and learned that he apparently, according to the affidavit, that he intended to obtain money from the fishing job. his prime goal was to travel to yemen afterwards. snacks let me interrupt you because we're almost out of time. i know this is the point of real debate which is from the affidavits, where is the balance between elements of the plot that were supposed to be his idea and what the f.b.i. undercover agents who eventually befriended him, what they suggested. >> well, according to f.b.i. officials, they gave him several other options along the way. they had be