rendered from kenya and all no although the underground prison is officially run by the somalis u.s. intelligence personnel pay the salaries of intelligence agents and also directly interrogators prisoners it's direct evidence of an expanding u.s. operation in the country and also a continuation of bush. policies carried out by the obama administration just how many resources the us putting back and does this mean that our counterterrorism policies really are wreaking worldwide more since earlier i caught up with jeremy scahill national security reporter for the nation magazine and author of the book of blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army and i first asked him if he had any idea when he went to mogadishu and this is what he would find why i went there as part of an investigation i'm doing into u.s. targeted killing operations and my original intent in going there was to look at the way that the joint special operations command was engaged in targeted killing operations inside of somalia within a couple of days of arriving in mogadishu i received information that indica

u.s. military captures a somali citizen. u.s. officials say he's brought onboard a navy warship where intelligence officers give subject maed matter guidance to the military interrogators who question him. when they finish, the fbi steps in and starts over. to get information in a way that can be used in court. the suspect is then brought to new york. two months too late, if you ask the aclu. >> it was unnecessary, it was unwise and it was unlawful. >> but it was useful, if you believe u.s. officials. they say ahmed abdul warsame gave up useful intelligence. he was looking to become more operati operational. >> this is a somalian terrorist, captured overseas, has now been read his miranda rights. why? why? why is a man who's a known terrorist, an enemy of the united states, being afforded the protections of an american citizen. >> but democrats call the republican charge hypocrite call, considering more than 400 suspected terrorists have been tried in federal court, most under president george w. bush. >> that's right, convicted terrorist, convicted in criminal court, now serving time in prisons across america, including my home s

u.s. navy ship for months. what is this story about? >> yeah, we understand that a somali national was held by u.s. forces. he was captured by u.s. forces a couple months ago. he was detained for intelligenceed for intelligence purposes somewhere in the gulf region. there was a sealed indictment against him. now the indictment is unsealed. i have it here. he has been charged with providing support for a man whose attacks caused a lot of grief, a lot of worry for intelligence as well as the government, or lack thereof government in somalia. he is also charged with teaching and demonstrating the use of explosives after being detained overseas. he appeared in a federal court in new york on tuesday. he has been charged with those offenses. of course, we wait to hear what more he has to say about that. he has pleaded not guilty to those charges. ali. >> and a story closer to where you are now. a british tabloid is accused of hacking into a missing teen's phone messages years ago. but the really troubling part is that in doing so, they gave her parents hope that she might be alive. tell us the story. >> yeah, this is being described in the british press as a watershed moment for british journali

directly of somali intelligence agents including those that work at this prison the prison is inside the compound of what's called villa somalia which is the green zone of sorts where the u.s. backed somali government has its headquarters in mogadishu and it's housed in the basement of the national security agency where there are also some cia operatives base and inside this dungeon prison there are no windows there's no sunlight there's a bed bug infestation according to prisoners who've been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is moist thick and disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing their minds there are also reports from prisoners that there were very young boys inside of the prison some people have been held for eighteen months without charge without access to lawyers without access to the red cross in fact the red cross told me that they were not aware of the prison and that they have never been given access to it and among those being held in prison are people that were actually kidnapped snatched from neighboring kenya by kenyan intelligence officials and taken rendered by aircraft to this president mogadishu my understanding also any u.s. official

u.s. troops look for some in afghanistan and outrage over the obama administration's handling of a somali terrorist. they say the department of homeland security is warning air carriers it has new intelligence suggesting terrorists are looking to board flights with surgically implanted explosive devices. the transportation safety administration declined to be that specific, but he acknowledged the new warning. >> the information we have shared concerns information that has been obtained by the u.s. government that describes a new technique to circumvent our current screening protocols around the world or in the u.s. i'll leave it at that. >> u.s. officials are declining as of yet to tell us the exact origins of this new intelligence, though pistole says they're trying to adapt it to improved security screening efforts. >> we see this as the latest evolution of what terrorist groups were trying to do to circumvent our security layers and to perhaps defeat our societal norms. >> more on that story a bit later tonight. >>> also tonight a highly unusual terrorism apprehension and investigation is drawing criticism from leading republicans in congress. he's in federal custody tonight and charged

somali suspect triggered a new dispute today over the handling of terror cases. the "new york times" and the "washington post" reported that ahmed abdulkadir warsame was captured in april and held on a u.s. warship, where intelligence officials questioned him for two months. warsame was then flown to new york to stand trial in federal court. but senate repubulican minority leader mitch mcconnell said today he should have been sent to guantanamo and a military tribunal. >> the administration has purposefully imported a terrorist into the u.s. and is providing him all of the rights of a u.s. citizen in court. this ideological rigidity being displayed by the administration is harming the national security of the united states of america. >> sreenivasan: in turn, the senate's number-two democrat dick durbin defended the president's actions. he said mr. obama is doing exactly what his predecessor president bush did repeatedly. >> to come here and second guess the president because he's held a man for two months in military interrogation and now is being prosecuted in our criminal courts is totally unfair. unfair because the same standard was not applied to the republican president who tried hundreds of would be terroris

charges a somali man with providing interior support to the extremist group in the arabian peninsula. the man was captured by u.s. forces april 19, interrogated overseas for, quote, intelligentthe u.s. the thasan's government-appointed attorney urges the military against allowing the death penalty saying the trial would be more time consuming and expensive. south korea, abuzz with excitement today. folks cheering, as you can see as the announcement, just a couple of hours ago. the city beat out munich and others for a chance to beat host. it narrowly lost its bids for the 2010 and 2014 winter games. now watch this -- >> what is going on there? look at that. a fight erupting in afghanistan's parliament. first, you saw the shoe go flying. then the water bottle goes flying. then punches are thrown. and that's between two female lawmakers before the colleagues finally pulled them apart. now, this followed a discussion about alleged rocket attacks in pakistan. that's something pakistan denies. in montana, the governor declaring a state of emergency in seven counties because of a ruptured pipeline that caused 42,000 gallons of oil to gush into the river last week. governor disagre

somali agent described thousand hairli ed ho and paid by u.s. agents and the u.s. is interrogating prisoners, including those rendered by the kenyan government, snatched off the streets in nairobi based on u.s. intelligenceted. it goes against the president's ordered he signed in january 2009 and against leon panetta's statement to u.s. personnel the u.s. had shut down all of these secret sites. >> jeremy, during your reporting, remarkable reporting did you get pushed back from the white house? anybody in the administration or did they admit to it? >> first of all i contacted the central intelligence agency about this, and the u.s. government would only make available one official to speak with me and wouldn't be able to identify the name of that official or what entity they work for, only that they were familiar with this program and they tried to spin it and been spinning abc news and cnn, saying once or twice we've been interrogated or debriefed prisoners. we're not really rinning it. it wasn't they were trying to stop the story but spinning the story to make it sound like it's perfectly normal they're going to a bed infested prison where people never see the light of day interrogating prisoners. it's