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

but the cia didn't tell the f.b.i. and it didn't tell the state department which would have prevented further trouble . why why didn't they tell the agency that is responsible for domestic counter-terrorism it's a big question it's not you know answered by the cia which has made he's thrown up its hands in the end and said well it could say because we made a series of multiple errors there are serious that was including most recently clarke who was counterterrorism advisor coordinator for the white house under both clinton and bush and he says he thinks the only rational explanation is that the cia. was had the notion of pride. turning to terrorists getting them to become plan informants who are all surveilling them watching them while they were in the united states well if they tried to do either of those two things the operation went grievously wrong because the it would the truth remains completely opaque but it's really quite remarkable that this this in a decade and what evidence is the that there that other countr

the director of the f.b.i. it's the day said well i think they have been they were really quite helpful the saudis they gave us a lot to which john o'neill responded. they were just shining sunshine. more seriously. much more seriously he john o'neill came an interview in the summer of two thousand and one and said that all that we're trying to find out about al qaeda all the counter to all our counter to terrorism efforts would be rewarded if. if we could track back to saudi arabia he said all the problems originated in saudi arabia he then left the f.b.i. resigned from the f.b.i. in the mid summer of two thousand and one and extraordinary as it was written by a playwright he became the senior security officer for the world trade center and he would die on nine eleven trying to rescue people from the from the soft. what were the untrue accounts that you know about nine eleven told by president bush and vice president cheney. well untruths were told very soon after the nine eleven attacks in ways that persisted

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

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

biggest crime in all of this is the thing that's the least able to be understood and examined by the f.b.i. by the department justice by anyone in washington the booklet the tiny lowest layer of the crisis that started with subprime defaulting at the homeowner borrower love all that money wasn't me where the money was made because several layers of the pyramid wall street investment firms and commercial banks investment groups decided to repackage those mortgages and create layers of them that they then result to investors here's what happens there are three defaults on mortgages. the bank that holds. sells those at ten cents on the dollar to a second bank that bank puts those together with three other defaults and three other defaults makes a second package and sells to a third bag the third bag sells six of these things for ages and bundles them and sells them to some investor with no idea what he has. they are really against those layers which is the real crime they would take a little piece of a layer of a security i don't need the way if somewhere there was a bunch of home buyers and

today the f.b.i. agents moving in surprising workers when they came to work. >> what is going on in there? >> we don't know. there are people out there. >> f.b.i. is out there? >> yes. >> did they say what they are looking for? >> no. >> even the public relations person was surprised. >> they were here when i came to work this morning. >> what are they looking for? >> you would have to ask them. >> they reported the justice department was concerned that potential buyer may move the equipment out of the country but under the loan the assets have to be operated in the united states. f.b.i. didn't shed any light on that. >> unfortunately i can't speak further on any of the details. >> reporter: f.b.i. says they are not telling us what they are looking for but they will know when they had the. they will be carrying it out in boxes or crates. we'll have pictures of that for you and expecting to have those boxes carried out sometime this afternoon. mark math sues coming out and have news for you 4:00, 5:00 a

to be put in place for that kind of training so now the f.b.i. has been called out once again for using the teachings of a man which are widely discredited it is not only wrong or potentially illegal i wonder if they're going to stop lying and actually prevent it from hosting another forum with law enforcement i certainly hope so. and we talk about the struggling economy in this country all the time more than forty six million people that are now living below the poverty line the official nine point one percent unemployment and the real you six measured sixteen point two percent unemployment the fact that large corporations continue to sit on piles of cash in offshore tax havens and take jobs elsewhere while their executives break in record profits altogether you could call this not only a bad economy but it's an employment crisis but there's one thing about it that never gets talked about and that's the underground economy that's rising because of the crisis that we're in not only where you think in terms of prostitution or selling drugs this inc

to homes in chicago as well as the office of the antiwar committee were raided and according to the f.b.i. the warrants they had were seeking evidence in support of an ongoing joint terrorism task force investigation and activities concerning the material support of terrorism now today twenty four activists have been targeted all were asked to appear a grand jury in chicago and all refused but has the f.b.i. droplet case not quite most are actually still waiting to see was going to happen to them all their personal belongings that were taken in those raids including their passports haven't been returned so how do they see it well joining me to discuss it is just an anti-war activist whose home was raided and a member of the committee to stop f.b.i. repression jess i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and i guess if we can start by going back to almost a year ago on september twenty fourth tell us what happened when your home was raided. well we hit bottom in the morning i was actually below stairs and then i left part of my daughter her down there and we all heard loud bangi

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

this enables the f.b.i. to enhance indicators and trip wires and develop actionable intelligence to identify and prevent terrorist attacks. to more fully utilize the intelligence we receive from our domestic intelligence and law enforcement partners, they recently added a targeting unit. the targeting unit works to identify currently unknown fundraisers and/or associates. in addition they have added a strategic intelligence unit to monitor threats, financial trends, and methodologies which are keys toe identifying possible terrorist financing transactions at the earliest point. in may of this year, someone pled guilty in providing support to the f.b.i. they claimed to a f.b.i. informant they had moved money to lebanon and had high ranking contacts with hezbollah. akle told the informant, quote, she dreamed of dressing like hezbollah, carrying a gun and dying as a martyr, unquote. posing as an individual with access to investigators, the f.b.i. informant delivered $200,000 for delivery to hezbollah, both were

today the f.b.i. agents moving in surprising workers when they came to work. >> what is going on in there? >> we don't know. there are people out there. >> f.b.i. is out there? >> yes. >> did they say what they are looking for? >> no. >> even the public relations person was surprised. >> they were here when i came to work this morning. >> what are they looking for? >> you would have to ask them. >> they reported the justice department was concerned that potential buyer may move the equipment out of the country but under the loan the assets have to be operated in the united states. f.b.i. didn't shed any light on that. >> unfortunately i can't speak further on any of the details. >> reporter: f.b.i. says they are not telling us what they are looking for but they will know when they had the. they will be carrying it out in boxes or crates. we'll have pictures of that for you and expecting to have those boxes carried out sometime this afternoon. mark math sues coming out and have news for you 4:00, 5:00 a

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

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

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

dozen states have adopted legislation banning sharia law there's also been countless examples of the f.b.i. and n.y.p.d. infiltration of mosques and systematic entrapment of muslim terrorists so is this government leaders trying to stay vigilant or does it illustrate that people seem to revel in the idea of a muslim bogeyman are to correspondent honest takes a look. anti muslim sentiment in the us for we are and suspicion i repeat we are facing the rise of islam on naziism a decade after bin laden became the poster child of evil as the man behind nine eleven and even after his death hate towards the concept of islam has grown increasingly widespread not all muslims are terrorists but all terrorists all muslims who stood by the media what is the number of islamic terrorists one percent . i think it's closer to ten percent and politicians like congressman peter king who initiated a special hearing on the threat of homegrown muslim terrorists who actually radicalized in the united states prove anti muslim bias is a plenty starting with f.b.i. entrapment muslims into considering crimes they ot

but so far, i have to say the f.b.i. and c.i.a. have not been able to confirm the overall information. >> pelley: bob, is there any reason to believe that the operatives are in the country already? >> reporter: well, they could be, scott. the source information is that three al qaeda-trained terrorists may have traveled to this country last month in an effort to prepare the bomb attacks. now, they're vaguely described to us as middle eastern men in their 30s, perhaps in their 40s. the f.b.i. was given no names to work with, but agents since then have been checking immigration records and airline passenger manifests to see if they can identify any recent suspicious travelers who could match up to the missing operatives. we've been told two of the three men could be u.s. citizens, and all three are believed to have some kind of american papers for travel. but so far, no operative has been apprehended and officials have to say they don't know if any al qaeda terrorist is actually on u.s. soil. >> pelley: bob, we didn't hear anything ab

this bill is also supported by the f.b.i. association, the volunteer professional association currently representing over 20,000 active duty and retired f.b.i. special agents. mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to support this bill, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina reserves his time. the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized. mr. conyers: i begin by commending my colleague on judiciary, tray gowdy, for intro-- trey gowdy, for introducing this bill and being the sponsor of it, and i agree with everything that's been said. i'll insert my remarks. but i'd like to ask my colleague about a shooting i read about just today. it wasn't a mass killing, but some of these things are so awful. a 17-year-old young girl athlete shot mysteriously. do you see that that might be a role that we may want the f.b.i. to be able to intervene in and if

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

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

we learned today that not only is the f.b.i. investigating but the treasury department is also. if this is any indication of how stimulus money is used, we need to reject the further stimulus that the president is proposing now. >> reporter: these are just a few of the tea party souvenirs offered outside the home where the breakfast was held. slogans such as, change, hope you like it and obama drove my karma into a ditch are on everything from bumper stickers to t-shirts. the woman who put together this event organized the first local bay area patriots. she says she has 1800 members so far. michele bachmann is to a private meeting in hillsborough later today, then off to orange county tonight. back to you. >> thank you. >>> a new poll shows california's republican voters are bucking the national trend of the presidential race. 28% of republicans surveyed in california prefer mitt romney, 20% like governor rick perry. nationally governor rick perry is the front-runner. sarah palin comes in third. she is not officially in the race. the poll also shows president barack obama has a

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

and here in the bay area, the f.b.i. is also investigate the hacking of the bart police union site. the bart police still struggling with how to handle these weekly protests, and in fact, bart police officials are considering filing restraining orders against some of the folks they have arrested week after week. >> i don't have any specific information about that. i do know that in the past, individuals who harass a transit system employee, you know, on a repeated basis, that there are court remedies to make sure that they don't continually come to bart stations. >> is those of you who have is legitimate media credentials with you, we will go through them right now. everybody with official media credentials. >> reporter: last week, police ended up detaining some journalists along with the activists, some of whom were obviously working for mainstream media organizations. today bart police said they're going provide a police line to shelter credential carrying journalists from arrest. so far it hasn't been necessary. as i mentioned, here at the civic center bart they've just gone down

sergeants and counterterrorism and they send this information on suspicious mall patrons to the f.b.i. do you see this as a result of a post nine eleven mentality toward security in america that people have just come to accept you know i remember a lot of what is the most troubling you know the model. security compromising said is that we've become inert to you know just the idea that of course it makes sense so people are going to be spying on one another and that a places like malls we're going to have stepped up irrespective of any actual threats or any any reason to believe that you know the next nine eleven is going to happen on a rollercoaster in the mall of america that it makes sense to have heightened security everywhere. you know it's troubling but it's i also don't think it's surprising in a lot of ways the united states we are glad you had been one of the lacking in countries throughout throughout europe as well as the rest of the world and putting these types of things in place it doesn't make it good but it does kind of make it understandable so do you think it's necessa

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

some of them use the same credit card there's no question that that first of all had the cia and the f.b.i. been talking to each other. had proper use of databases been made all of these people would have been swept up no question about it for good at the end right there steve thank you very much for your time thank you. back in touch one thousand miles from the north pole. the. on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. twenty years after the u.s.s.r. collapsed. life is still going strong. and the world's a statue of lenin presides over and goes. to sleep it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of. the close up special edition on our key. to coast. reviewing terror laws british police may lose the power to randomly stop and search suspects as the government is put under pressure to revise controversial laws. italy prepares for a life of a stare and he has the government sits down to prove a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. the u.s. in romania seal a deal paving the way for america to bu

and san diego. >>> the f.b.i. is saying little this morning about a raid at the us headquarters of solyndra. agents searched their records yesterday and carried away a truck full of boxes. it came a week after the company declared bankruptcy and they are scrutinizing a $3535 million federal loan to the -- $535 million loan. there is word that the company may be sold and be moved out of the country. the department of energy is concerned because the language of loans says they must stay in new york. a job fair will be held in newark for people laid off by the bankruptcy. it will take place at aloni college campus. they will be radio to career counseling, educational resources and stress counseling. >>> new york stock exchange is filled with heavy hearts marking the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. hillary clinton who was new york senator rang the opening bell. >> jane king is live at the stock exchange. jane, good morning. >> good morning. and rudy guliani was mayor, prior commission, greg kelly ringing

some of them use the same credit card there's no question that that first of all had the cia and the f.b.i. been talking to each other and had proper use of databases been made all of these people would have been swept up no question about it or get at the end or right there steve thank you very much for your time thank you. decades back and talk. one thousand miles from the north pole. the r.c. cheap is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on the polar go to for twenty years after the us was ours collapse the soviet way of life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a ghost town near the summit heritage has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the stone age. the closeups special edition on our. table he prepares for a life of a stereo as a government sits down to prove a range of major tax hikes and spending cuts while downplaying fresh outrage over its own lavish budget. the u.s. and romania seal a deal paving a way for america to build new military bases in a former communist state it brings to fruition and. bush era missi