coerced to work with the fbi.ld you tell me whether you're coerced or did you volunteer? >> i can't give you any comments about this as we speak right now. i can't confirm, i can't deny. i'm not telling you anything about the fbi. >> okay. >> the fbi has more than 15,000 informants. many of them spying on u.s. muslim communities. like the closer, the body builder and the trainer, these spice lurk in the dark corners of -- spies lurk in the dark corners of the american justice system. neighbor informing on neighbor. a nation spying on itself on orders from the fbi. .. >> sunday night. >> 140 world leaders will take the podium. >> get the full story. >> there is real disunity in the security council. >> about issues that impact your world. >> infectious diseases are a major threat to health. >> "the week ahead". sunday 8:30 eastern. only on al jazeera america. real reporting that brings you the world. >> this is a pretty dangerous trip. >> security in beirut is tight. >> more reporters. >> they don't have the resour

fbi, we opened the door good thing we did. crashed it down at least 15 fbi agents. green township local police here in cincinnati. they asked us. they never really they just told us they had a search warrant and they never gave us the whole information. they wouldn't tell us they said we'll tell you what it's about after the search. they wanted to take me his mother and his brother because we all three live in the same house. they wanted to take us in for questioning, which they did. they brought us back an hour and a half later. they were still conducting their search but when we were up there doing the interview with the fbi agents at our local police station, they asked me a bunch of questions and i said well i have a couple of questions for you. i said where is my son? what is he being charged with? and they said they were not -- because he was an adult, they were not obligated to tell me. actually they lied and said that they didn't know that they were just that the people that were handling the search warrant would tell us. they wouldn't tell us anything. >> y

he believes maybe the fbi gave money to his son, maybe the fbi led him down a path he might not otherwise have been on. what do you make of those comments? >> there are inflection points in these cases that are common. i don't have the facts but i've seen so many cases, i can give you predictions. somebody, an informant said i'm talking to somebody who's angry. son the father said the son talked about being angry. are recent conversion. kid wants to do something about it. he doesn't have money. say we won't give you the money. at that point, you don't control the operation. that kid might say, hey, i'll go someplace else. all of the sudden, the operation is difficult to understand. maybe he goes someplace you don't know about. so you step along the close this out through the course of the months. this is the informant. you sure you want to do this? you sure you want to do this? a dozen times the kid say ss yes. what do you do in this situation? i feel for the dad but when the police walk through the door, let it go, move it along so you own it or step away or risk the kid does do somethin

the fbi is taking over.t's a critical turning point. >> it was an uncomfortable situation because the alcohol, tobacco, and firearms felt a great sense of loss. it was their own men, their own agents, who were down and were gone. >> shortly thereafter they were told that we were going to be taking over the handling of the response to the events on that day, and that was crushing for them as well. >> at the time, you know, it's personal. you have some animosity. i felt a little, hey, someone is coming in and taking away what i started. it was for the best because you never know because what we went through, what we could have done. get that camera out of here. get it out of here! out of here! go, go, go! >> i need help! >> news of the shootout immediately spreads from coast-to-coast. the national press swarms into waco, looking for answers. from the start one question dominates all others. who shot first? >> when we drove up, the davidians opened fire and i'm sickened by any other assertion. >> but in a cnn p

the fbi was a tv show on abc. that was the fbi.obody even suspected the fbi was doing this kind of crazy thing, much less murder. >> that is stanley nelson director of "the black panthers: vanguard of the revolution." and kathleen cleaver. she served as communications secretary of the black panther party. the film is premiering here is sundance. we will continue with them in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> a song about bobby seale who would go on to run for mayor of oakland. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we are broadcasting from park city, utah, from the sundance film festival as we continue to look at the brand-new film premiering here called, "the black panthers: vanguard of the revolution." as we continue a conversation with the film's award-winning director stanley nelson and kathleen cleaver, former black panther communications secretary. now a law professor at emory university. kathleen cleaver, what did you understand at the time? you sir experienced the power the surveillan

following the unabomber investigation he returned from the fbi in 1996, retired from the fbi in 1996, and he joined charles schwab. just recently retired as senior vp of global security. max knoll ultimately became special agent supervisor of expand task force and ultimately concentrating on monday upon. he served as an fbi agent for 30 years and worked on numerous high-profile investigations including the weather underground, the pattie hearst kidnapping and the disappearance of jimmy hoffa. he rye tireetired from the fbi in 1999. terry turchie between 1994 and 1998 on an operational level. following the unabomber case he became inspector and led the task force in the hunt for olympic bomber eric rudolph. in 1999 he was named deputy assistant in the new counterterrorism division of the fbi and traveled extensively overseas to investigate international terrorism in the middle east and in the former soviet union. i should also note in the book, jim writes that terry is the only fbi agent he knows who got into a fight with a russian spy. when he wrestled a kgb agent to the ground on a b

t following the unabomber investigation he returned from the fbi in 1996, retired from the fbi in 1996nd he joined ber charles schwab.ncy. just recently retired as senior vp of global security. max noel ultimately became special agent supervisor of expand task force and ultimately concentrating on monday upon. he served as an fbi agent for 30 years and worked on numerous high-profile investigations car including the weather underground, the patty hearst kidnapping and the disappearance of jimmy hoffa. he retired from the fbi in 1999. terry turchie between 1994 and 1998 on an operational level. t nassi following the unabomber case he became inspector and led the task force in the hunt for 19 olympic bomber eric rudolph.93 in 1999 he was named deputy sa assistant in the new e counterterrorism division of thestigat fbi and traveled extensively overseas to investigate international terrorism in the middle east and in the former soviet union . i should also note in the book, jim writes that terry is the ecentl only fbi agent he knows who got into a fight with a russian spy. when he wrestled

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the fbi gave him the money to purchase those guns or the snitch took him to buy the guns had the fbi waiting. that is a setup and that is entrapment in my book. >> well we will look into all of that. mr. cornell, thank you so much for talking with me this morning. i appreciate it. >> okay. thank you, carol. i watch your show all the time. very lovely lady. >> thank you so much. i appreciate that. thank you, mr. cornell. >>> let's talk a little bit more about this alleged terror plot with susan candiotti and paul crookshaj crookshanks. paul you listened to this father. he's a loving father you can understand where he's coming from right? but your initial impression of what mr. cornell said? >> well i mean a horrible situation for him to be in. clearly he wasn't aware of this radicalization otherwise clearly he would have intervened. it seems this young kid converted to islam quite recently and became very very quickly radicalized by what he was seeing on social media, what isis were putting out there. by all accounts very impressionable young man. >> susan, they say the fbi informant.

that the fbi encouraged him and fbi led him and the fbi instigated.at is always a defense and the fbi knows that is a defense. the key is act in the manner that that defense is not applicable and not true. i am sorry? >> please finish your thought. i don't want to interrupt. >> to act within the law. the fbi can't encourage the crime. the crime has to be in the mind of the perpetrator. >> okay. >> you can meet request and facilitate but you can't plant the crime in his mind. >> thank you for your reaction on the breaking news and we have more on the developing story in belgium after the break. canned can clear introducing preferred rewards from bank of america the new banking rewards program that rewards our customers, every day. you'll get things like rewards bonuses on credit cards.... extra interest on a savings account... preferred pricing on merrill edge online trades and more... across your banking and investing get used to getting more. that's the power of more rewarding connections that's preferred rewards from bank of america. [ male announce

un informante le dijo al fbi.para familiarizarse con el edificio del congreso. al estilo rambo con largas de largo alcance asesinarÍan a cuento congresista y empleado del capitolio pudieran. ocho arrestado cuando compraba varias pistolas, rifles y cientos de municiones. estas fotografÍas fueron tomadas por un cliente de la tienda. >> lo notÉ un poco tÍmido pero nada fuera de lo comÚn. >> el fbi llegÓ a esta casa donde vivÍa con sus padres, en su computadora guarda la informaciÓn de cÓmo crear bombas y videos yihadistas. >> Él es un buen muchacho! sus mejores amigos son su gato y su mamÁ! >> su padre dice que el haberse convertido al islam no es un crimen y que no entiende los cargos de lo que lo acusan. >> el fbi no nos vienen con informaciÓn de por quÉ lo arrestaron y no sabemos a dÓnde se lo llevaron! >> el padre dijo que antes de ser arrestado su hijo fue a la mezquita y habÍa dejado una nota en la que decÍa que se iba de su casa a vivir con un amigo pero no especificÓ para dÓnde. el joven estaba en la fase fin

edgar hoover fbi building. in one of the letters he said the fbi is a joke.l not be catching us any time soon. >> the fbi, of course, had no idea about the unabomber's identity or whereabouts. and ted kaczynski took great pains to make sure he didn't leave a single clue. >> he would take files and he would file everything down after he built something so that he could ensure that he was getting rid of fingerprints. he was obsessed about leaving fingerprint evidence. >> kaczynski also planted false clues to throw investigators off the trail. >> he went to a bathroom at the bus station in missoula, montana, and he actually took hairs off the floor of the restroom. and then in subsequent bombs, he would take those hairs and put them in between layers of tape. and the whole idea was when the subsequent bombs exploded at a crime scene, we would think that hair might have something to do with the unabomber. when he was out on a run to collect information or to collect components for his bombs, he would make sure he had a disguise. he put cotton up his nose so his n

unaware the men with him are undercover fbi. he thinks they're al qaeda. >> i'm going to put everything on my body i'm going to go inside, like a real place, maybe the capitol. i'm done. my work is done in this life. >> reporter: the fbi records his every move even as he pulled into a west virginia rock quarry where they would test the bomb. watch as the fbi undercover gives khalifi a cell phone rigged to detonate an explosive that is planted outside of the car. >> i want you to place the call so you can see how it works. okay, now hit send. >> reporter: the bomb detonates. >> oh! >> reporter: not impressed, khalifi wants a bigger bomb. >> this is not strong enough, man. >> reporter: khalifi was a moroccan national living just outside of washington, d.c., when the sting operation took place in 2012. he hardly seemed the terrorist type, known on the party scene working as a local dj. but would he really have done it? critics could say this is entrapment. >> at the end of the day, all we can say is watch the tape. >> what has happ

fbi agent mike mccomas rushed to the scene. driver was standing by the highway. >> he was talking with the officers. saw a black male. he had on a baseball hat. had on glasses. >> the young man was wayne williams, about to turn 23. a self-anointed music talent scout who slept days and roamed the city at night. mccomas invited williams over to his car. >> he got in the car and i said, do you know why we're here? and he immediately said, yes, it's about the missing children. that kind of stunned me and i said, what do you know about he said, i don't think that the various news agencies are covering it adequately, do you? >> two weeks later, this headline would break the news of that night on the bridge. wayne williams would be sent to prison to serve two life sentences for murder. at first glance, he hardly looks like a serial killer. not much more than 5'1/2" feet taller barely 150 pounds. now in his 50s and growing bald. >> the bottom line is nobody ever testified or even claimed that they saw me strike another person, choke an

the fbi obviously cut him off in midstream. there does not appear to be anyone else directly involved at this time and our sources tell us that there is no indication at all that this young man was ever in any any contact directly or indirectly with isis and isil. >> again, his parents shocked, they are visibly shaken. we'll talk more about that susan, with tom fuentes. he'll talk to us about what law enforcement can do what they should be doing and the fact that they're up against kids who are radicalized in other own country, how do you combat that. with paris, we want to go back to john berman who can bring us up to date on the latest developments there. >> reporter: thanks so much mikhail los angeles new developments here in paris pointing to the possibility of a europe-wide network of jihadists tied now to these terror attacks. there's a madrid connection. investigators say amedy coulibaly and his partner drove from france to spain in late dooet. coulibaly returned days later, his partner, hayat boumeddiene is believed to

the fbi is looking for a potential person of interest.te man in his 40s possibly in a 2000 or older model white pickup truck. and a new twitter friend of mine. thanks very much for doing that. let's talk about some of the things that investigators are still attempting to find out. we don't know for sure whether this is a hate crime. we don't know yet what kind of power was in the explosion, we don't know what the motive was. and one question i would like to ask you is whether or not authorities are actually now calling it a bombing. >> i talked to the fbi this morning and i had some e-mails back and forth with them, as well. and i asked are we wrong to say this is an attempted bombing? and the fbi said no you can call this an attempted bombing, but they're just not sure who the target was or what the target was or the motive behind the target. you can call it an attempted bombing. >> and so, other than the naacp and this barbershop, is there anything else in the building? and are the fbi investigators looking at any other potential target

shortly after the fbi arrested him and charged him with attempting to kill a u.s. government officer, it's important to note officials say he did not pose a threat to the

my work is done in this life. >> the fbi records his every move.omb. watch as the fbi undercover gives him a cell phone rigged to detonate an explosive that is planted outside of the car. >> i want you to place the call so you can see how it works. now hit send. okay. now hit send. >> the bomb detonates. >> oh! >> reporter: not impressed el-khalifi wants a bigger bomb. >> this is not strong enough, man. >> reporter: amine el-khalifi was a moroccan national living outside of washington, d.c. when the sting operation took place in 2012. he hardly seemed the terrorist type, known on the party scene working as a local deejay but would he have really done it? >> critics would say it is entrapment. >> at the end of the day all we can say is watch that tape. >> he was arrested two blocks from the u.s. capitol on february 17, 2012. he had a machine gun and attempting to put on what he thought was a suicide vest. he pled guilty and is serving 30 years in jail. pierre thomas, abc news, washington. >>> other european countries are on edge after last week's te

he served as special agent in the fbi focusing on domestic terrorism. he left the agency of reporting deficiencies in counter terrorism operations to congress. thank you for having me. >> what is your concern about these. >> my concern is that the government is enganging in a type of sting operation that is less about identifying and mitigating real threats and more about creating cases that they can then use for political purposes to log their programs and to justify more intrusive. >> doesn't the fbi and other law enforcement, don't they use stings all the time. >> they do. the way that they have used stings over the last several years since 9/11 particularly in terrorism cases has changed significantly from the undercover operations. >> does it lead -- do you believe it leads people down a path they wouldn't go otherwise? is it entrapment. >> well, entrapment as a legal matter is a very narrowly categorized plead. so what becomes important is whether these people could have done what the government ultimately -- what the government ultimately induces

frankly, the fbi hates these cases. once they've started the investigation, they can't walk away from it. they own it. if they do walk away from it and this guy does go do that and kills people why aren't they investigating. so they really had to see it through. is he all talk and just mouthing off. every step of the way in recorded conversations he keeps saying i want to do this. finally culminating with the purchase of the two weapons. at that points fbi says that's it. >> once he becomes a danger. then potentially there's a danger even if some informant pretending to be sympathetic to isis was talking to him. >> exactly. they want the investigation to avoid the entrapment claim, that he intended to do this. even if they helped him a little bit, this is his plan this is what he wants to do. he went into the gun shop and purchased those weapons. >> at that point it's over. thanks tom. don't go too far away. we're following the breaking news out of belgium of several suspected terrorists killed in a raid by federal poli

the fbi arrests a ohio man who plots to bomb the u.s. capitol and claims to be a member of isis. we will speak to his father. >> and also a man who claims to take responsibility for the mas massacre at charlie heb due. >>> and a man claims to be a accomplice of coulibaly and he may have driven him to the kosher grocery. >>> and also a master mind extremist may have taken part in the attacks four years ago. >>> and extremeists show a boy claiming to have shot two men who claim to be rushsian spies. is it real? we will look at it. >> and we have a number of things to get to the night. an ohio man is in custody, and he claims to be be in alignment with isis, and we have cnn correspondent pamela brown who is in washington. >> don, the fbi says that christopher lee cornell from cincinnati, ohio, was in the final stages of carrying out if attack of detonating bombs on u.s. lawmakers as ran out. fbi has been keep ging an eye on him after a kon fi the den shall informant alerted them about the controversial post ss he put on social media. and he also said that he wanted to murder u.s. of

. >>> for 18 years a mass murderer successfully eluded the fbi. ♪ >> he was wanted for the murder ofis entire family. ♪ [ gunshot ] ♪ [ gunshots ] ♪ ♪ this is how art and science led to his capture. >>> the list family lived in this large victorian home in the quiet affluent town of westfield, new jersey. john list was a 46-year-old accountant. he and his wife helen had been married for almost 20 years. they had three children, 16-year-old patricia, 15-year-old john and 13-year-old freddy. john list's elderly mother alma also lived with the family in her own separate apartment on the third floor. the list children attended local schools and were all active and popular. john list was a devout lutheran and taught sunday school. in the fall of 1971, the list house stood empty. the family was away visiting a sick relative. but when a month went by with no signs of activity, neighbors grew suspicious and decided to call the police. >> they felt that something was wrong and asked us to check the house, which we did. >> when police arrived, they entered the house through an unlocked window.

the fbi revealing late today an alleged homegrown plot. authorities say an ohio man, inspired by isis and al qaeda, bought two m-15 assault rifles and a huge stock of ammunition. they say he was headed to the nation's capitol, where he was allegedly taking aim at members of congress. let's get right to pierre thomas who is working his sources on this. pierre? >> reporter: david, tonight, the fbi has arrested what it claims is an al qaeda isis wannabe, hell bent on violence. the plan? an all-out assault on the u.s. capitol and members of congress. the weapons, m-15s. the suspect, identified at christopher lee cornell of cincinnati ohio. arrested this morning after buying two m-15s assault rifles like this. and 600 rounds of ammunition. >> as soon as the purchase was over and he left the door several agents came out and tackled him here in the parking lot and took him down. >> reporter: according to the fbi, cornell, who is only 20 years old, took the final steps today to travel to the nation's capitol. the fbi locked in on cornell after a c

the fbi and local. >> i am going to take it over to the person in charge of the fbi here.he city of boston is open and it will be open tomorrow but it will not be business as usual. the fbi is taking the lead in e this investigation. ifs asserting federal i jurisdiction. it is the joint terrorism task force. >> we have the continuing coverage of the boston marathon. b blocks and blocks of the city are cordoned off. it is a debris field filled with shattered glass and abandoned belongings by the thousands. a crime scene drenched in human blood. k just as fast and are proven to taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. hello... i'm an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it's out there somewhere spreading the word about america's favorite potatoes: heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart association's go red for women campaign. if you see it i hope

what is the fbi helps the french with? >> well they'll coordinate with any information that we might have. so every little scrap of information they can come up on these individuals, the fbi will be able to go in and say well we can tell you who they're associated with. we can tell you where they've traveled. any small, little piece of information will help both the french and us candidly and other law enforcement agencies across europe to start nailing down how big is this? is it just the three people? they did it on their own, they did all their own surveillance and their own targets. >> that's hard to believe. >> hard to believe for me. i look at this and see there are more individuals involved and how big that is i don't know. and i'm certain they don't know yet and all of that information will be used. every little piece of information they can find if it's a vehicle, if it's a phone number and if it's an email address, all of that they'll -- the fbi can help run down and magnify both the speed of which the french can

and the fbi is coming after you. then all of a sudden you're a thing and so that's kind of the process that we might be dealing with here. >> as we deal with this cultural evolution, tom, let me put this last question to you. the parents, pointing the finger at the fbi, you gave him the money, you entrapped him, we didn't know anything. they're pointing the finger at the fbi. what about pointing the finger back at them. this kid is on social media going through his own evolution towards islam, his understanding of it even by their own reckoning was not mainstream. what about the parents? what about the level of awareness? how much blame and responsibility is there in. >> that's a good question chris. when somebody is 18 years old and you know they should be pretty much more independent. he could have gone away kids that age -- >> but he didn't. >> but they're not going to babysit him 24/7. and i think this happens over and over. that kids get on the internet they get radicalized and the parents just don't track them

saturday january 24th -- >> southwest 2492. >> southwest 2492 is here. >> sir, this is fbi. i need to confirm that flight deck is secure. over. >> affirmative, flight deck is secured. >> reporter: southwest 2492 and delta 1156 both intercepted by f-16s and diverted to atlanta after bomb threats posted on twitter by so federal authorities tell us they believe this is the work of holksters and involves a five-year maximum prison term and a quarter-million-dollar fine and the fbi is working the case. >> tom costello, thanks. >>> the latest isis hostage deadline is looming with two lives in the balance. the terrorist group claimed it would kill a japanese journalist and jordanian military pilot if this demand wasn't met. it wants a jordanian prison -- jordan said it is willing to give her up in exchange for its pilot. no word though so far on whether isis will accept this deal. >>> we now know the cause of a devastating fire that killed four children and their grandparents at a mansion in annapolis maryland, last week. fire officials say it was the family christmas tree ignited.

fbi director and former chief of kourcht terrorism. welcome, sir. this video is a rare glimpse into what goes on in these kinds of undercover operations and the fact that we were able to witness very clearly the ambitions of the homegrown radical and what he hoped to accomplish there. chilling. >> yeah it's chilling, unfortunately, it's not uncommon anymore. this one that played out more recently and this one are examples of several kinds of cases like this where people have intentions to commit acts of terrorism and we're able to prevent them through these kinds of operations. it's easy afterward to minimize and look at people and say they didn't have much in the way of capability or much in the way of ability. but you look at some of the very bad terrorist incidents, look at what happened in paris and you see what a few dedicated fanatical people who gain access to weapons, which is not that difficult to do, the kind of havoc they can cause on their own. it doesn't take a 9/11 plot to be a very -- create a very serious terrorist inci

that's what the fbi is up against. if you want to work with the fbi stuff like that looks exciting on tv. this former fbi agent would tell you it's a lot of desk jockeying. it's not just high-profile hacking line sony and the movie "the interview." the bad guys do seem to be winning. >> the fbi has a difficult time recruiting people with those skills, different lifestyle for the most part. >> no kidding [ laughing and screaming ] >> reporter: spontaneous nerf gun wars? not in the fbi office. they use real ones which really hurt. dogs at work? only the bomb-sniffing ones. how many people want to work for the fbi? show of hands. [ laughter ] >> reporter: okay. tough sell. at the offices of if-we a successful startup building social media apps, workers would have to give up all the perks associated with high- tech, a big full kitchen, free snacks, free meals. >> it keeps everybody happy. keeps them productive and working and it's easy. we like to make everyone's life easy so they can grab a snack and keep at it. >> report

turned over by them to the fbi that that company and the other companies who have claimed that the fbi investigation was faulty only have 20% of the evidence in this case. they don't have access to the other 80% that the fbi does which is classified and which involves sources and methods being conducted throughout the world. in fact, they took it one step further and said the executives from these companies are being reckless and irresponsible in making these accusations that the investigation was not correctly done. >> do you think, pamela that we will find out why -- what the evidence is that the fbi has or are we not going to be privy to that? >> as tom said a lot of the evidence the more incriminating evidence is classified. so it would have to be declassified. there is a possibility that the fbi will come out and reveal a little bit more. i don't think we're going to hear about any big revelations, though as far as the smoking gun, if you will and how they know it's north korea. i think it won't be as big as that. but we know the director of the fbi will be speaking at fordham uni

where fbi -- the fbi has arrested a man for allegedly plotting an attack on the u.s. capitol in the name of isis. >> our justice correspondent pamela brown has all the details from washington. >> reporter: the fbi says 20-year-old christopher lee cornell was in the final stages of carrying out his attack of detonating bombs at the u.s. capitol and opening fire on u.s. lawmakers. fbi officials have been keeping an eye on him for several months after he told an informant he had been in contact with people overseas and the complaint says that he allegedly said i believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the islamic state here and plan operations ourselves. this was a communication between cornell and the confidential informant, an operative in this case. the fbi says from there he began to research how to make pipe bombs and wednesday he bought semiautomatic rifles. his father did speak to cnn, saying he had no knowledge of this and was shocked by the allegations. pamela brown, cnn, washington. >>> next up here on cnn officials spotted the fuselag

he is a civil rights attorney who specializes in cases dealing with police and fbi misconduct.s also an advisory board member of the civil liberties defense center. welcome all of you to democracy now! eric, let's begin with you. how does it feel to be free? >> there is no definition to that. there is no way to express that. definitely, not the english language. >> explain how critical the information was that had you released. >> i think that is pretty obvious. to tie the truth, i think ben could address that with more clarity. >> ben rosenfeld, can you talk about what has taken place in this case? here you have eric mcdavid was supposed to serve 19 years in prison, being released a decade early. why? >> 11 years early, actually. this is about an egregious case of entrapment as i've seen in my entire legal career. i should point out what they have done to eric's a thousand fold on muslims in this country. it is important to raise public awareness. in eric's case, a number of documents were turned over after the case was long concluded and supporters started going through those

his post on social media helped fbi end his plans. cbs correspondent susan mcginnes is in washington with the very latest good morning. >> reporter: good morning. fbi has apparently been watching this 20 year-old ohio man chris dover cornell since the summer when he first started posting on line on twitter, his support for terror groups and also started making threats against members of the congress but when it appears that cornell was starting to put the a plan into action to attack the u.s. capitol the authorities made their move. fbi officials say they stopped 20 year-old christopher cornell as he was taking final steps to travel to washington and execute his plan. according to the criminal complaint his plan was to kill employees and then officers working in and around the u.s. capitol. cornell's plot was foiled outside this gun range in southwestern ohio. while he allegedly bought two semiautomatic rifles and 600 round of ammunition police were waiting outside to arrest him. >> by that time agents had come across the parking lot

the fbi sting operation never seen before targeting a wannabe terrorist. exclusive. >> like a real place. maybe the capitol. >> as details emerge about the foiled terror plot in washington. >>> later superstar snubs them oscar nominations and who did not get named. the controversy outrage and accusations aimed at the academy awards. it is friday, january 16th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >> it is friday. >> and. >> happy friday everyone. saw you loosening your tie. i thought you were -- >> i was straightening. >> i thought it was going to come off for friday. >> i loosen it at the end of the show the end of a hard day's work. i haven't worked hard yet. good morning, everybody. i'm t.j. holmes and it is friday but we have a nervous europe right now. we have to start with this terrorism news. france is hunting for accomplices of the paris terrorists but now belgium police staged a raid near the border with germany that is getting a lot of attention. >> they say they prevented would have been a major attack. alexander marquardt is th

government and in particular with the fbi, the fbi's office in paris, for more than a decade. >> verytion. nick i know that the video we've seen of what happened at the magazine yesterday is so compelling but i'm also told there's a whole lot of other closed circuit tv video authorities are going through right now trying to find some more clues. you're there in europe. paris, like london like other major cities in europe they are totally wired, aren't they with video cameras? >> yeah. one of the issues, though with video cameras you need people to watch them if you're going to prevent something in real time. the u.k. perhaps has the highest number of surveillance cameras than any other city any other country in europe. but where they do come in if you don't have enough people watching them to prevent an incident like this certainly you can use it as in a chain of evidence afterwards. the material would be useful in a court case if these people can be brought to court. it's certainly going to be useful in terms of figuring out exactly how they got in the building and some of the detail