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he was informant for the fbi. so there is khalifah al-akili understanding who he has been talking to. we're in the studio with lyric cabral, independent document or a filmmaker who codirected the documentary "(t)error" with david felix sector. we're joined in washington, d.c. by stephen downes executive , director of the national coalition to protect civil freedoms. he works with project salam, which published a report last year called "inventing terrorists: the lawfare of pre-emptive prosecution." he is also representing imprisoned pakistani scientist dr. aafia siddiqui. we will talk about that in a moment. stephen downes, we're at the point where khalifah al-akili realizes he is being set up by the fbi. he somehow reaches out to you. explain. >> he sent us a letter to the national coalition. we decided to respond to this because he had refutable proof he was being stopped by the fbi and did not want to participate in any kind of terrorist plot. what we decided to do, we called him -- we wanted to make sure he ha
he was informant for the fbi. so there is khalifah al-akili understanding who he has been talking to. we're in the studio with lyric cabral, independent document or a filmmaker who codirected the documentary "(t)error" with david felix sector. we're joined in washington, d.c. by stephen downes executive , director of the national coalition to protect civil freedoms. he works with project salam, which published a report last year called "inventing terrorists: the lawfare of...
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both investigations involve joint operation of the fbi and police. int task forces have down under extreme are terrorism. according to author and journalist trevor aaronson, the number of confidential informants has risen to 15,000 since 9/11. and a scathing critique aaron aaronson says, the bureau can then claim victory on the war on terror. the bureau justifies spending millions of dollars on counterterrorism efforts. david ariosto reports. >> when it comes to funding efforts to root out terrorism, the united states is virtually unmatched. america's intelligence community spent 16.6 billion billion on counterterrorism in 2014, both in the united states and around the world. provided by documents from edward snowden. using 4200 agents across the country and since the september 11th attacks the u.s. that is doubled down on security spending more than half a trillion dollars ointelligence with monitoring and disrupting violent extreme is among its top priorities. since then there's been a string of successes. in 2002, brooklyn born jose padilla was arr
both investigations involve joint operation of the fbi and police. int task forces have down under extreme are terrorism. according to author and journalist trevor aaronson, the number of confidential informants has risen to 15,000 since 9/11. and a scathing critique aaron aaronson says, the bureau can then claim victory on the war on terror. the bureau justifies spending millions of dollars on counterterrorism efforts. david ariosto reports. >> when it comes to funding efforts to root...
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and cia or within the same squad of the fbi. all these changes have been responsible for the fact the we have not had a successful attack and people don't understand that. they think it is law or don't even think about it. ac arrests by the fbi every few months in the paper but don't connect the dots to how come that happens? the reason it happens is this new approach, very farsighted measures, one that the fbi has tripwire where they get companies to make explosives to report any suspicious purchase. as a result that program applied to blow of george w. bush's home in dallas was thwarted by the fbi. another important part of this secret teams, tactical operation teams that break into offices to plant bugging devices. their use in almost every important case, terrorism organized crime it espionage, political corruption. it is unbelievable what they do. still unbelievable to me that the fbi gave me this and approved it. a week or two before the break-in at a mafia home or an embassy agents will watch the premises and see who goes
and cia or within the same squad of the fbi. all these changes have been responsible for the fact the we have not had a successful attack and people don't understand that. they think it is law or don't even think about it. ac arrests by the fbi every few months in the paper but don't connect the dots to how come that happens? the reason it happens is this new approach, very farsighted measures, one that the fbi has tripwire where they get companies to make explosives to report any suspicious...
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as a result the fbi concurs with the recommendations in the oig's report.the fbi takes very strictly our obligation to enable congress and the oig to conduct effective oversight of all of our activities. we were close with the oig staff to ensure that we are responsive to their requests him and the issues identified and promptly resolve. unit also be aware that we have a good-faith disagreement with the oig regarding what law requires with respect to providing fbi documents that have been obtained pursuant to provisions of law such as the wiretap act the bank secrecy act and those related to grand jury proceedings. we have been completely transparent with the oig and the leadership of the department of justice with respect to our legal disagreement and are presently awaiting the office of legal counsel to render an opinion as to the correct reading of the law. in the interim we are giving the oig and assumption of access to these come in these audits with respect to title three, rule six materials. senior leadership is also directed that our internal busine
as a result the fbi concurs with the recommendations in the oig's report.the fbi takes very strictly our obligation to enable congress and the oig to conduct effective oversight of all of our activities. we were close with the oig staff to ensure that we are responsive to their requests him and the issues identified and promptly resolve. unit also be aware that we have a good-faith disagreement with the oig regarding what law requires with respect to providing fbi documents that have been...
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the difference between the cia and the fbi. when i first went on the police department never trust the fbi. you cannot trust them. then i got into a business, i was going to do something engineers to this country. high contacted one engineer from russia and said i will meet you when i am in the country. he was head engineer and a nuclear submarine. a whole bunch of engineers like this. it is -- i contacted the cia office being a next cop, a wasn't a stupid. and with my binoculars i saw the first guy get out of a car. that is a cia man. we need more information on russian nuclear submarines. we got all we want. industrial counter espionage, sending back the rest of the entity spies because i know how the russians treat anybody in this country if they go back, the very first engineer i bring into this country, the state department, as that engineer i tried to get in would be an absolute gold mine for the cia. >> host: that ties into your early >> in "escape from the cia: how the cia won and lost the most important kgb spy ever to
the difference between the cia and the fbi. when i first went on the police department never trust the fbi. you cannot trust them. then i got into a business, i was going to do something engineers to this country. high contacted one engineer from russia and said i will meet you when i am in the country. he was head engineer and a nuclear submarine. a whole bunch of engineers like this. it is -- i contacted the cia office being a next cop, a wasn't a stupid. and with my binoculars i saw the...
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so i'd get out this year. >> did the fbi contact lewis -- the administration feared that the fbi wasn't working hard enough to prosecute you because of lewis marx. >> yes. the story was all over that he feared the fbi wouldn't go over, libby thought he wouldn't go after because lewis marx was such a close buddy of j. edgar hoover. they never met. did you know that, by the way? >> no. no. >> lewis marx never met j. edgar hoover. he's a right-wing republican and did admire j. edgar hoover so he did what he did for everybody he knew -- he would send boxes and boxes of marx's toys to give out as presents at christmas. i got when i was in vietnam -- and i was engaged to his daughter, he sent me boxes that i could give out to embassy people and vietnamese and what whatnot. he must have sent thousands of these boxes to friends and associates. so he would send lewis -- he would send j. edgar hoover boxes of toys to give out and they knew people in common. they had friends in common because of the right-wing circles that my father-in-law moved in. and he was on i think a list of friends of the f
so i'd get out this year. >> did the fbi contact lewis -- the administration feared that the fbi wasn't working hard enough to prosecute you because of lewis marx. >> yes. the story was all over that he feared the fbi wouldn't go over, libby thought he wouldn't go after because lewis marx was such a close buddy of j. edgar hoover. they never met. did you know that, by the way? >> no. no. >> lewis marx never met j. edgar hoover. he's a right-wing republican and did admire...
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and yet always in the press is the cia the fbi the immunization. and not one of these has ever been part of this, meaning something illegal and they have very good reasons for the collection of data that the nsa is engaged in. that is how they stop the plot. and of course knowing these people, seeing how they work, going out to the secret service training facility learning how they train agents. [inaudible] filling in any mistakes. the fact is that there is years since the hoover days and i think that's very important to keep in mind. we have many saying that the cia has an asset in yemen, people who are onto bomb plot, bombs that have been put on planes, even though there is no abuse, they are doing their job as they should be and yet you must weigh like that optimizing the source could result in death. it could result in an attack on the country and so this is a standard form of journalism that i just don't get that i did not see existing when i was part of "the washington post." i remember bob woodward wanted to do a story about the fact that th
and yet always in the press is the cia the fbi the immunization. and not one of these has ever been part of this, meaning something illegal and they have very good reasons for the collection of data that the nsa is engaged in. that is how they stop the plot. and of course knowing these people, seeing how they work, going out to the secret service training facility learning how they train agents. [inaudible] filling in any mistakes. the fact is that there is years since the hoover days and i...
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i called the fbi guy and he did not know about it. this is the way things were, they did not have any alarms as to notify anyone of something like this but i later interview that person after things calmed down. >> host: we often get calls on a programmer from people who think that 9/11 was an inside job. >> guest: looking at video, you have people that say this, you know, it goes back to the jfk assassination when there are all these claims that the moffatt did it that the kgb did it and there's all this supposition. but it doesn't mean that they did it. and if you look at the one commission report they show in their opinion very conclusively that one person killed jfk and they just can't fathom this how someone could be taken out by some nut which is often the case and assassins tend to be narcissistic, looking for attention and often mentally ill or borderline mentally ill. and that is how this occurs and there is no grand conspiracy in those cases. >> host: you are on with author ron kessler. >> caller: good afternoon and happy eas
i called the fbi guy and he did not know about it. this is the way things were, they did not have any alarms as to notify anyone of something like this but i later interview that person after things calmed down. >> host: we often get calls on a programmer from people who think that 9/11 was an inside job. >> guest: looking at video, you have people that say this, you know, it goes back to the jfk assassination when there are all these claims that the moffatt did it that the kgb did...
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i called the fbi guy and he did not know about it. this is the way things were, they did not have any alarms as to notify anyone of something like this but i later interview that person after things calmed down. >> host: we often get calls on a programmer from people who think that 9/11 was an inside job. >> guest: looking at video, you have people that say this, you know, it goes back to the jfk assassination when there are all these claims that the moffatt did it that the kgb did it and there's all this supposition. but it doesn't mean that they did it. and if you look at the one commission report they show in their opinion very conclusively that one person killed jfk and they just can't fathom this how someone could be taken out by some nut which is often the case and assassins tend to be narcissistic, looking for attention and often mentally ill or borderline mentally ill. and that is how this occurs and there is no grand conspiracy in those cases. >> host: you are on with author ron kessler. >> caller: good afternoon and happy eas
i called the fbi guy and he did not know about it. this is the way things were, they did not have any alarms as to notify anyone of something like this but i later interview that person after things calmed down. >> host: we often get calls on a programmer from people who think that 9/11 was an inside job. >> guest: looking at video, you have people that say this, you know, it goes back to the jfk assassination when there are all these claims that the moffatt did it that the kgb did...
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that is according to the reporting of the fbi today. feds say they arrested six friends from minneapolis yesterday. they're the latest americans accused of trying to join up with the islamic state fighters. investigators say these new suspects are part of avalancher group of men in minneapolis who tried to join isis and some of those other men have made it to syria. prosecutors say the suspects tried over and over to join isis, even though they knew the risks of getting caught. >> what is remarkable about this case is that nothing stopped these defendants from pursuing their goal. they never stopped plotting another way to get to syria to join isil. >> the arrests come after another bust in ohio last week. the feds say threat this man after he trained -- they arrested third man after he trained in syria. investigators say an isis cleric ordered him back to the united states to pull off a terror attack. recently the fbi director says the government has active investigations of possible home-grown terrorists in each of the 50 states. >>>
that is according to the reporting of the fbi today. feds say they arrested six friends from minneapolis yesterday. they're the latest americans accused of trying to join up with the islamic state fighters. investigators say these new suspects are part of avalancher group of men in minneapolis who tried to join isis and some of those other men have made it to syria. prosecutors say the suspects tried over and over to join isis, even though they knew the risks of getting caught. >> what...
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does anybody in the fbi think this is okay? >> we make it clear to the employees here and overseas is that it's not. >> just getting disciplinary action or time with pay tends to reinforce that. mr. horowitz does congressional action need to be taken? do we need to change laws to make it easier to fire people who are proved to have engaged in this? >> well that certainly is something congress could look at. the fbi has certain authorities the other components do it. i will add one of the things that will help address these is that the o.i.g., that they get reported, as they should to headquarters. that they get reported to the o.i.g., as they should. and we get copies of records that we need promptly so that we can look at them promptly. that would have as well. that takes no congressional action because you already have the law in the i.g. act that says it should occur but it's not occurring. >> what do we do fix that? somebody is going to have to be disciplined for not reporting it. it's not just the rank in file men and women
does anybody in the fbi think this is okay? >> we make it clear to the employees here and overseas is that it's not. >> just getting disciplinary action or time with pay tends to reinforce that. mr. horowitz does congressional action need to be taken? do we need to change laws to make it easier to fire people who are proved to have engaged in this? >> well that certainly is something congress could look at. the fbi has certain authorities the other components do it. i will add...
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the dea, and the fbi when out of the way to hide. they provided heavily redacted documents, and even told the employees to not cooperate. for example, the inspector general asked the dea to run more than 40 search terms, to search their database and identify relevant relevant information. the three terms, of the 40 that they ran included sex, prosti s, and exposure. not included work harassment, and the list goes on. why exclude the search terms that the inspector general asked for? it is not the dea possibly sponsor though the two week that out. your job is to allow the inspector general to get in there, get their fingernails dirty, and find out the truth. that is not what happened. i want to put up a slide here. when the dea finally did provide information, after significant delay, in some cases, documents were so heavily redacted, the ig could not even tell what it was about. this is the type of documentation that the ig was given by you at the dea. we want answers as to why that is. the good men and women who work at the inspecto
the dea, and the fbi when out of the way to hide. they provided heavily redacted documents, and even told the employees to not cooperate. for example, the inspector general asked the dea to run more than 40 search terms, to search their database and identify relevant relevant information. the three terms, of the 40 that they ran included sex, prosti s, and exposure. not included work harassment, and the list goes on. why exclude the search terms that the inspector general asked for? it is not...
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>> look the fbi is in a quandary over these types of cases. this guy doesn't look like the smartest guy at all, but the problem is even someone who maybe has mental problems or who is not that smart can kill people. there was a case just a few months ago with a person who had mental health issues and attacked two new york city officers with a hatchet. again, that's now -- the fbi now says that is the first isis-inspired attack in this country. it goes to show you that if they don't do something about these people they still could carry out an attack. >> good point. all right. evan thanks very much. jim sciutto, thanks to you as well. >>> let's talk about what's going on. republican congressman ed royce of california is the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. he is joining us live. mr. chairman, thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. good to be with you. >> have you already been briefed on the arrest of this kansas man, this individual 20-year-old man named john booker also known as mohammed abdullah hasan? we are show
>> look the fbi is in a quandary over these types of cases. this guy doesn't look like the smartest guy at all, but the problem is even someone who maybe has mental problems or who is not that smart can kill people. there was a case just a few months ago with a person who had mental health issues and attacked two new york city officers with a hatchet. again, that's now -- the fbi now says that is the first isis-inspired attack in this country. it goes to show you that if they don't do...
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she also reported him to the fbi. she met with agents three times and told them in detail about lashkar, about the training camps, even that gilani had bought night vision goggles. you know, this incident that happened here with the combination of the domestic assault allegation and the tip to the fbi represented a golden opportunity to find out who he was. this was a serious moment, like a hinge moment in his trajectory into terrorism. the fbi called gilani's former handler at the dea. by now, gilani had stopped working for them, but law enforcement officials say that his past as an informant caused the fbi to drop the inquiry. it was as if gilani could get away with anything. his next stop, here at the city hall in philadelphia, was to follow through on sajid mir's orders. i was looking for a record of a name change. gilani, g-i-l-a-n-i. >> he comes back the u.s. and he changes his name to david coleman headley so that he can travel more easily, more covertly. >> rotella: david was english for daood. coleman was his
she also reported him to the fbi. she met with agents three times and told them in detail about lashkar, about the training camps, even that gilani had bought night vision goggles. you know, this incident that happened here with the combination of the domestic assault allegation and the tip to the fbi represented a golden opportunity to find out who he was. this was a serious moment, like a hinge moment in his trajectory into terrorism. the fbi called gilani's former handler at the dea. by now,...
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and we've learned the fbi is now joining the investigation. nbc's hallie jackson has the story. >> i've got this guy on a stolen horse. >> reporter: caught on camera, a bizarre chase through the southern california desert. >> here we go. here's a deputy chasing him. >> reporter: francis pusok on horseback, san bernardino sheriff deputies on his heels. >> here we go here we go. suspect being tased. suspect being tased. >> reporter: two officers tased the 30-year-old who lies spreadeagle on the ground. then the deputies appear to punch and kick him dozens of times. others eventually joining in. the chase started with police investigating an unrelated case in apple valley. pusok ran when he saw them. it's not clear why, but his mother defended his decision. >> i'm proud of my son. because i'd run from cops too because i've seen too much happen lately. >> reporter: pusok's criminal history includes a 2006 robbery conviction. but the video captured exclusively thursday by our los angeles station knbc has shocked his family, now considering a lawsui
and we've learned the fbi is now joining the investigation. nbc's hallie jackson has the story. >> i've got this guy on a stolen horse. >> reporter: caught on camera, a bizarre chase through the southern california desert. >> here we go. here's a deputy chasing him. >> reporter: francis pusok on horseback, san bernardino sheriff deputies on his heels. >> here we go here we go. suspect being tased. suspect being tased. >> reporter: two officers tased the...
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matt: the fbi admits it gave flawed testimony that might have put innocent people on death row. brent: the calls for help from the middle of the mediterranean continue this monday. rescuers are scrambling to reach two boats in distress. matt: it's a massive search effort already underway. more than 700 people may have drowned when a migrant boat capsized. brent: european ministers are holding an emergency meeting. pressure is growing on the eu to stop the wave of desperation and death to the south. matt: we begin our coverage on the water off the coast of greece. about with nearly 100 migrants aboard smashed against the rocks -- a boat with nearly 100 migrants aboard smashed against the rocks. three died. the boat came from the direction of turkey. most aboard were syrians. the identity of the trackers -- traffickers is unknown. >> the captain left us with the boat and ran away and left us alone. >> he ran away with another boat? >> i think so. he had this small rubber boat. the guardian and r -- he got in and ran. matt: it is the latest in a string of migrant disasters in the me
matt: the fbi admits it gave flawed testimony that might have put innocent people on death row. brent: the calls for help from the middle of the mediterranean continue this monday. rescuers are scrambling to reach two boats in distress. matt: it's a massive search effort already underway. more than 700 people may have drowned when a migrant boat capsized. brent: european ministers are holding an emergency meeting. pressure is growing on the eu to stop the wave of desperation and death to the...
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you have this unit in the fbi. ing hair samples, sending it to the unit the unit sending it back their analysis and coming to testify in the trial. >> that's what they would do. >> first of au, what is hair analysis? >> sure. what they're actually doing is, let's say they find a foreign hair lying on a deceased victim. they'll send that off to the fbi, and let's say i'm the suspect. they think it's a head hair. so they're pluck a number of my head hairs and send that to the fbi. the fbi will microscopically compare the hair found on the victim with my hairs to see are they similar or not? >> and then they will send an expert to trial to say, sometimes -- >> the problem was is that sure, they may be similar, but they had no idea how many people would also have similar hair. and so -- >> they're literally sitting in a lab going like this thing looks like this thing. >> they are under the microscope, but that's not the biggest problem. the biggest problem is all they could say is two people had similar hair. instead wh
you have this unit in the fbi. ing hair samples, sending it to the unit the unit sending it back their analysis and coming to testify in the trial. >> that's what they would do. >> first of au, what is hair analysis? >> sure. what they're actually doing is, let's say they find a foreign hair lying on a deceased victim. they'll send that off to the fbi, and let's say i'm the suspect. they think it's a head hair. so they're pluck a number of my head hairs and send that to the...
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the fbi is like moses. it will bring you the promised land come help you craft e-mails, try to facilitate negotiations, but it will not deliver the money bring the money. it will do everything else which is puzzling for me. it is not difficult to understand. plausible deniability. we didn't do anything. but for the families it is so confusing. the families are trying to learn so much and don't understand the nuances and details that people in government have been working with for so many years. it's just one more thing they don't understand. the end of the day they get overwhelmed. they are so overwhelmed sometimes they shut down and let everything go over there had what they get so frustrated and confused that they cannot function anymore one of the problems we had some of the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. the fbi and the state department when you put them in a room there is nobody that has priority over the other. they are both independent agencies and can't tell each other what to d
the fbi is like moses. it will bring you the promised land come help you craft e-mails, try to facilitate negotiations, but it will not deliver the money bring the money. it will do everything else which is puzzling for me. it is not difficult to understand. plausible deniability. we didn't do anything. but for the families it is so confusing. the families are trying to learn so much and don't understand the nuances and details that people in government have been working with for so many years....
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the line. my grandfather was career fbi agent. e about the agency. >> thank you, sir. >> i care about law enforcement. but we are going to do it the right way. we are going to do it the right way. and allowing sexual harassment or misconduct to get a little slap on the wrist with two to 14 days paid leave is not acceptable. it wasn't then and it isn't now and it shouldn't be moving for. we are going to look toward other things we can do within the law to give future administrators and directors more latitude, into the inspector general i thank you for this report a we wouldn't have known about it without your good work and the good people in the agency. and so we thank you and this hearing stands adjourned. [inaudible conversations] >> the u.s. senate is about to gavel in. they will begin -- >> during the revolution while internet \40{l1}s{l0}\'40{l1}s{l0} she was considered in any by the british who threaten to take her hostage. later she would become our nation's first first lady at age 57. martha washington, this sunday night at
the line. my grandfather was career fbi agent. e about the agency. >> thank you, sir. >> i care about law enforcement. but we are going to do it the right way. we are going to do it the right way. and allowing sexual harassment or misconduct to get a little slap on the wrist with two to 14 days paid leave is not acceptable. it wasn't then and it isn't now and it shouldn't be moving for. we are going to look toward other things we can do within the law to give future administrators...
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if you are both, the fbi and the d.e.a. sincere about rooting out this problem and finding solutions, then you need to allow the inspector general to look at the information. why do you continue to prohibit him from seeing that information? why do you hold it back? why not do all 45 search terms? why did you only do three? so i really got to question your sincerity about getting out and rooting out this problem if you don't even know the extent of the problem. you don't even know the extent of the cases because you won't even allow the inspector general and his staff to actually look at the cases that are there. you're limth the inspector from doing their job. which is to help you, help us help them. help the rest of the agency. that's -- i need you to both explain that answer to me, and then i'll yield to the ranking member. go ahead. >> moving forward, because there's a number of things that i put in place after cartagena and you should know that the other incidents i learned about after cartagena, but they had already be
if you are both, the fbi and the d.e.a. sincere about rooting out this problem and finding solutions, then you need to allow the inspector general to look at the information. why do you continue to prohibit him from seeing that information? why do you hold it back? why not do all 45 search terms? why did you only do three? so i really got to question your sincerity about getting out and rooting out this problem if you don't even know the extent of the problem. you don't even know the extent of...
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but tells you about the tough position that fbi agents are in. trying to help the family during a hostage-taking they are trying to guide them if they're getting an offer to pay a ransom and in this instance, what the fbi told the reporter the possibility came up within we were seeking to protect the family. we weren't authorizing it, we weren't approving it but what we did is say look we're going to check this out for you to let you know if we know he's a known criminal -- >> the guy delivering the money. >> exactly right. and we'll provide you with other intelligence what that was is not entirely clear, and the family went ahead. and as you point out, the ransom was paid in 2012 quite some time ago, and weinstein was not released. >> and the government has said what about what it did? >> well, the government's saying that its policy remains in intact. it does not condone the payment of ransom because it believes it would put at risk other u.s. citizens. criminals will seek to kidnap them because they know this is a source of financing. so the g
but tells you about the tough position that fbi agents are in. trying to help the family during a hostage-taking they are trying to guide them if they're getting an offer to pay a ransom and in this instance, what the fbi told the reporter the possibility came up within we were seeking to protect the family. we weren't authorizing it, we weren't approving it but what we did is say look we're going to check this out for you to let you know if we know he's a known criminal -- >> the guy...
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kiet do tess us the fbi admits nearly every examiner in an elite fbi forensic unit overstated evidence in a period spanning two decades. >> reporter: this affects five cases in california. three inmates are right now sitting on death row. the fbi has been using this hair comparison technique using a microscope and only their eyes to compare samples of hair taken from crime scenes. the samples taken from departments. the agency says this method is flawed and hundreds of people may have been broncly convict -- wrongly convict the. >> cleveland wright spent almost half his life in prison. he was convict ford a 1979 murder. the case was based on flawed fbi hair analysis. >> i didn't know too much about law when i got arrested and locked up. but i just knew i was innocent. >> reporter: a new report by the innocence project and national association of criminal defense lawyers found from the 1970s through 1999, 25 of 29 fbi forensic examiners had errors in their testimony impacting 257 cases. the report also found that of the 18 people executed, 12 of them had errors in their cases either in
kiet do tess us the fbi admits nearly every examiner in an elite fbi forensic unit overstated evidence in a period spanning two decades. >> reporter: this affects five cases in california. three inmates are right now sitting on death row. the fbi has been using this hair comparison technique using a microscope and only their eyes to compare samples of hair taken from crime scenes. the samples taken from departments. the agency says this method is flawed and hundreds of people may have...
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. >> reporter: the fbi says this 23-year-old american had returned to the u.s. wanting to do something big. including going to a texas military base to kill american soldiers execution style. allegedly inspired by isis, abdirahman sheik mohamud left columbus ohio with a one-way airline ticket to greece. but during a layover in turkey, he disappeared, slipping into syria. the fbi says, once there, he joined an al qaeda affiliate, training in weapons, breaking into houses, explosives and hand to hand combat. perhaps most disturbing, prosecutors claim, a cleric in syria directed him to return to the united states and carry out an act of terrorism. >> the benefit of being american is, he has good paper. that means, he's able to travel. he has a u.s. passport. that is gold. law enforcement has been concerned about this travel pattern for quite awhile. >> reporter: mohamud returned to the u.s. in june and authorities had been tracking him for months. the fbi believes he had been completely radicalized, expressing support for isis. even downloading images to his facebo
. >> reporter: the fbi says this 23-year-old american had returned to the u.s. wanting to do something big. including going to a texas military base to kill american soldiers execution style. allegedly inspired by isis, abdirahman sheik mohamud left columbus ohio with a one-way airline ticket to greece. but during a layover in turkey, he disappeared, slipping into syria. the fbi says, once there, he joined an al qaeda affiliate, training in weapons, breaking into houses, explosives and...
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the fbi and the justice department have most of that hair analysis testimony by fbi lab examiners andt has led to the exoneration of five previously convicted defendants so far. >>> in the span of '87 days, 172 million-gallons of crude oil flowed into the water after the deep water horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers. transocean, which operated the rig, agreed to pay the u.s. $1.4 billion. the administrator says more than $5 billion has been paid out to people and businesses harmed by the spill. >>> the academy of country music celebrated its 50th anniversary with a star-studded show at at&t stadium in texas. luke bryan was named entertainer of the year. miranda lambert won album of the year for platinum and also female vocalist of the year. jason aldean took male vocalist of the year. allen jackson -- alan jackson paid tribute to the victims of the oklahoma city bombing. >>> in less than two hours, 30,000 people are expected to take their mark for the boston marathon. last year an american man won the race for the first time since 1983. allison? >> we are still tracking very
the fbi and the justice department have most of that hair analysis testimony by fbi lab examiners andt has led to the exoneration of five previously convicted defendants so far. >>> in the span of '87 days, 172 million-gallons of crude oil flowed into the water after the deep water horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers. transocean, which operated the rig, agreed to pay the u.s. $1.4 billion. the administrator says more than $5 billion has been paid out to people and businesses...
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number two, the fbi said they would help us negotiate. they said to write these letters to describe how much we miss them. but as diane pointed out, this just angered the captors. in france and other countries those ransom notes went to the -- went through the government. i think they assumed the same would happen here which you did. -- which it didn't. diane: it would have been helpful to know if the government wasn't going to help us, tell us. in the beginning, that we cannot do this. be honest about what they were able to do and what they were willing to do. unfortunately, that was just not the case. mort: at the very least, designate someone from the government to be a late -- to be a liaison. does the brits do that? diane: yes, and the french have a unit for that. mort: let's take questions from the floor. david: john and diane put their finger on two things here. one is the government's willingness to negotiate. but if you are not going to do that, why there is a need for support so that at least the families have appropriate support
number two, the fbi said they would help us negotiate. they said to write these letters to describe how much we miss them. but as diane pointed out, this just angered the captors. in france and other countries those ransom notes went to the -- went through the government. i think they assumed the same would happen here which you did. -- which it didn't. diane: it would have been helpful to know if the government wasn't going to help us, tell us. in the beginning, that we cannot do this. be...
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. >> reporter: roni patterson said she knew the fbi was watching her neighbor. she didn't know what for until friday morning. >> today they just went, in you know, and brought her out. and that's when we see the counterterrorism body wear and stuff like that. oh, okay. >> those inside said they had nothing to say. outside neighbors said plenty. >> you think that you know the people that is around you on your block. >> you never know who you're living next to. >> reporter: more than a half dozen people on north tenth street said they were grateful for the fbi's work. eugene smith is thomas' next-door neighbor. he said his well wishes are with thomas' family. >> i hope that she get a grip on herself, you know. i hope she have a change of life, you know, and live out her life in the right way. >> reporter: now, one of the things we needily noticed out here was the awning on thomas' house. she was arrested for helping or aiding terrorists. this is the only house on the street that is hanging american flags. with the investigators, i'm mitch blacher, nbc 10 news. >>>
. >> reporter: roni patterson said she knew the fbi was watching her neighbor. she didn't know what for until friday morning. >> today they just went, in you know, and brought her out. and that's when we see the counterterrorism body wear and stuff like that. oh, okay. >> those inside said they had nothing to say. outside neighbors said plenty. >> you think that you know the people that is around you on your block. >> you never know who you're living next to....
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they'll send that off to the fbi, and let's say i'm the suspect.ll plumb a number of my head hairs and they'll send that to the fbi. they will microscopically compare the hair found on the victim with my hairs to see are they similar or not? >> and then they will send an expert to trial to say, sometimes -- >> the problem was is that sure, they may be similar, but they had no idea how many people would also have similar hair. and so -- >> they're literally sitting in a lab going this thing looks like this thing. >> they are under the microscope, but that's not the biggest problem. the biggest problem is all they could say is two people had similar hair. instead what they would say is the chances of the hair coming from anyone else are 1 in 10,000. >> based on -- >> base odd nothing. numbers taken out of the hip pocket. >> really? that bad? >> that bad. >> other than dna where we have the vast databases there were no databases for lair at all. they did this for 25, 35 years, not only did they do it without any databases, but supervisors and manageme
they'll send that off to the fbi, and let's say i'm the suspect.ll plumb a number of my head hairs and they'll send that to the fbi. they will microscopically compare the hair found on the victim with my hairs to see are they similar or not? >> and then they will send an expert to trial to say, sometimes -- >> the problem was is that sure, they may be similar, but they had no idea how many people would also have similar hair. and so -- >> they're literally sitting in a lab...
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, it is unsigned. >> reporter: on friday the fbi confirmed the note was in david burke's hand writing. >> were david burke still alive we and the united states district attorney's office believe we have more than sufficient probable cause to have charged him with the crimes of crimes on board an aircraft. >> reporter: how did burke get his firearm. a pacific southwest airline official had advised him the fbi agent had been allowed to bypass security screening as a familiar airline employee and therefor was not screened for weapons or destructiontive devices. >>> the crash of flight 1771 did bring about some changes in the airline industry. as a result of that accident, federal law now requires that airlines immediately seize the credentials of any employee who is fired or who quits and airline employees now have to go through the same security screening as everyone else. the national transportation safety board noted that u.s. airlines locked bullet-proofed cockpit doors. >>> when we come back on a second look. >> those erratic altitude changes definitely say to me there was a struggl
, it is unsigned. >> reporter: on friday the fbi confirmed the note was in david burke's hand writing. >> were david burke still alive we and the united states district attorney's office believe we have more than sufficient probable cause to have charged him with the crimes of crimes on board an aircraft. >> reporter: how did burke get his firearm. a pacific southwest airline official had advised him the fbi agent had been allowed to bypass security screening as a familiar...
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domestic agency suggests like the fbi and n.s.a. under criticism for confidential employments, undercover stings and spying moern communications. the public demands a robust response but pushes back when it invades privacy. something na former leader of c.i.a. james woolsey says does not make sense. he says the fight against terrorism needs to get tougher. >> n.s.a. is a valuable collector of intelligence. you don't defeat people taking off other people's heads, crucifying them and forming mass movements, without penetrating them by spies, electronics or otherwise. and finding out what they are planning to do. you can't kill them with growns. you have to capture and interrogate them. >> what about the surveillance in the united states. >> i don't think there was anything going on. i know of people who have complained and want to change the law. as far as oversight from the congress and particularly tribunal that reviews the request by n.s.a. to look into something where there's probable cause, i don't think the u.s. government is br
domestic agency suggests like the fbi and n.s.a. under criticism for confidential employments, undercover stings and spying moern communications. the public demands a robust response but pushes back when it invades privacy. something na former leader of c.i.a. james woolsey says does not make sense. he says the fight against terrorism needs to get tougher. >> n.s.a. is a valuable collector of intelligence. you don't defeat people taking off other people's heads, crucifying them and...
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it's against american policy but a new report says the fbi encouraged the family of a hostage to pay ransom, what they're saying about the allegations. good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. protests over freddy gray's death are spreading to cities across the u.s. hundreds of demonstrators demanded answers. in washington not far from the white house protesters gathered on pennsylvania avenue. demonstrators were out in houston, boston and as can you see in these pictures, minneapolis. it all began in baltimore where a city curfew has been in effect for over an hour. telling people to go home. >> let's go home. i'm interested in people going home. let's go home. let's go home. let's go home. let's go home. >> paul beban is not far from where elijah cummings was doing his work there. paul what are you seeing there now? it seems very quiet. >> reporter: it has quieted down quite a bit antonio. that was just half an hour ago not long after congressman cummings was here telling the freem hispeople from his home district to go home. after what had been a peaceful and som
it's against american policy but a new report says the fbi encouraged the family of a hostage to pay ransom, what they're saying about the allegations. good evening i'm antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. protests over freddy gray's death are spreading to cities across the u.s. hundreds of demonstrators demanded answers. in washington not far from the white house protesters gathered on pennsylvania avenue. demonstrators were out in houston, boston and as can you see in these pictures,...
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the fbi is very cautious and we are going to work very slowly. when there is an opportunity for something to happen, we get an e-mail from the kidnapper discussing your income in the kitchen with them and it's going to work very consciously it is not going to want you to have as much hope and optimism and see some type of her eyes and as the families will. they have a cultural understanding. they just didn't understand what they were dealing with in the region. .. >> someone came out. he had information of a prisoner, came out. he had information. in some cases somebody goes into to something and the person he comes out and he says i've seen westerners. we had some cases of syrian prisoners been released escaping, seen westerners. unfortunately, a lot of this wasn't real-time. most of the time it's like a hollywood movie. they slipped through our fingers. we have been in the location a week or two ago. we didn't have definitive real-time information until the hostages began being released. when you talk about fbi it's a law enforcement thing for t
the fbi is very cautious and we are going to work very slowly. when there is an opportunity for something to happen, we get an e-mail from the kidnapper discussing your income in the kitchen with them and it's going to work very consciously it is not going to want you to have as much hope and optimism and see some type of her eyes and as the families will. they have a cultural understanding. they just didn't understand what they were dealing with in the region. .. >> someone came out. he...
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it's been noted the fbi has certain authorities the other three deny. one of the things that would help address these is that the oig, they get reported as they should to headquarters. that they get reported to the oig as they should and that we get cop miss of records that we need. promptly so that we can look at them proptly. that would help as well and it takes no congressal action because you have the law in act that says that should occur, but it's not. >> what do we do to fix that? somebody's going to have to be disciplined for not reporting it. t not just the rank and file. men and women who are engaged in misconduct that need discipline. it's their sue per yors that are covering it up and obstructing. is that not correct? >> it's certainly argued that if a employee fails to report to headquarters what the policy requires, which all law enforcement agencies cases in the department, that's the policy. that is a violation -- >> we are also see inging, you want disclosure from the folks that you're investigating. we're starting to see lots of redakt
it's been noted the fbi has certain authorities the other three deny. one of the things that would help address these is that the oig, they get reported as they should to headquarters. that they get reported to the oig as they should and that we get cop miss of records that we need. promptly so that we can look at them proptly. that would help as well and it takes no congressal action because you have the law in act that says that should occur, but it's not. >> what do we do to fix that?...
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they know the fbi agents are across the street watching the embassy. the second time, they did not drug the guard. betty says to the captain, get undressed. he says, we are just pretending. but they need to be relisted -- look realistic now. she takes all of her clothes off, and she is wearing only pearls. [laughter] the door opens, the guard shines a flashlight on her. that he is standing there, stark naked, pearls. "oh, i'm so sorry." he goes back out. she throws on his lip. charles once her to get dressed. she was the kind of girl who went shopping without underclothes on. if a girlfriend remarked, you should wear underwear. she said, i don't have time for things like that. she starts working on the safe. she cannot get it open. now they will have to try another time. the georgia cracker will have to be enlisted again. he worked with her but they know they will have to go in another time. the next time, the georgia cracker is in and opens the safe. they get out the codebooks. they give them the codebooks. he hands them to cynthia. he drops out the w
they know the fbi agents are across the street watching the embassy. the second time, they did not drug the guard. betty says to the captain, get undressed. he says, we are just pretending. but they need to be relisted -- look realistic now. she takes all of her clothes off, and she is wearing only pearls. [laughter] the door opens, the guard shines a flashlight on her. that he is standing there, stark naked, pearls. "oh, i'm so sorry." he goes back out. she throws on his lip. charles...
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back with us is the fbi assistant director shawn henry and jim cavanaugh. we're beginning to hear from the sur vooirvivors and the victims. does he deserve the death penalty? "the boston globe" did a poll back in 2013. 57% said he deserves life in prison without parole. because this is a federal case, that's why the death penalty is on the table. how might this play into the jury as they now move on to phase two? >> right. good question, abby because judy is going to play up the evil tamerlan. just look at the photographs of him. he's bigger. he's wider. he's stronger. he has the big glasses. he's the guy running the show. that's what she used to paint the whole trial. if she can get it in and i'll leave it up to the great attorneys there, will she be able to bring in tamerlan's triple murder? he was a suspect in a triple murder where people were killed in the boston suburbs. vicious, vicious murder. dzhokhar is a two-bit weasel and she's going to paint him that way. this guy's life is over for all sense of the word. he may exist breathing and his heart beat
back with us is the fbi assistant director shawn henry and jim cavanaugh. we're beginning to hear from the sur vooirvivors and the victims. does he deserve the death penalty? "the boston globe" did a poll back in 2013. 57% said he deserves life in prison without parole. because this is a federal case, that's why the death penalty is on the table. how might this play into the jury as they now move on to phase two? >> right. good question, abby because judy is going to play up the...
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it's a review of the fbi lab in washington that is opening eyes across the country and now it could reopendreds of criminal cases. 95% of cases looked at so far included flawed testimony that includes 32 death penalty cases. this weekend the fbi acknowledged mistakes and jericka duncan has details. >> reporter: before dna testing became prevalent the fbi relies heavily on visual analysis of evidence, sometimes building occasions on microscopic analysis of hair. but in 2012, federal officials launched an investigation after the "washington post" reported that flawed presentic hair matches might have led to the convictions of hundreds of people. a in a full report coming out tomorrow, the innocence project and the national association of criminal defense lawyers will say that from the 1970s through 1999, 25 of 29 fbi forensic examiners made errors in their testimony impacting 257 cases. the reports will says, out of 18 executions, 12 of them had errors in either testimony or lab reports. innocence project cofounder peter neufeld says this could mean hundreds of appeals nationwide. >> the fir
it's a review of the fbi lab in washington that is opening eyes across the country and now it could reopendreds of criminal cases. 95% of cases looked at so far included flawed testimony that includes 32 death penalty cases. this weekend the fbi acknowledged mistakes and jericka duncan has details. >> reporter: before dna testing became prevalent the fbi relies heavily on visual analysis of evidence, sometimes building occasions on microscopic analysis of hair. but in 2012, federal...
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the line. my grandfather was a career fbi agent. i care about the agency. >> thank you, sir. >> i care about law enforcement in this nation. but we're going to do it the right way. we're going to do it the right way. and allowing sexual harassment or misconduct to get a little slap on the wrist with 2 to 14 days' paid leave is not acceptable. it wasn't then. it isn't now. and it shouldn't be moving forward. we're going to look toward other things we can do within law to give future administrators and directors more latitude. and to the inspector general i thank you for this report. we wouldn't have known about it without your good work and the good people within your agency. so we thank you and this hearing stands adjourned. >>> the new hampshire republican party's first in the nation leadership summit is live on c-span today. and it continues tomorrow with speeches from declared and potential republican presidential candidates. tomorrow morning remarks from senators rand paul, ted cruz, and lindsey graham and also speeches from wisc
the line. my grandfather was a career fbi agent. i care about the agency. >> thank you, sir. >> i care about law enforcement in this nation. but we're going to do it the right way. we're going to do it the right way. and allowing sexual harassment or misconduct to get a little slap on the wrist with 2 to 14 days' paid leave is not acceptable. it wasn't then. it isn't now. and it shouldn't be moving forward. we're going to look toward other things we can do within law to give future...
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the fbi is going to want this sooner or later. he said, john you drive across the potomac every night. put it in the poetomac. i said, i can't do that. we turned it over, give the rest of the stuff, or what i thought was the rest of the stuff, to pat gray in two envelopes. he's called over by ehrlichman. and he says, this stuff should never see the light of day. it should be kept in whatever secure file you have. and then the white house can say, we turned everything over to the fbi. much later, we learned that pat gray, on his own initiative, i was there, i don't know if anything was said to him. he destroys all that data. two envelopes, puts it in a burn bag, and burns it with christmas wrappings in his open in connecticut. this is clearly obstruction of justice, but he didn't get nailed for it, because he claimed, again he had been told. to the best of our knowledge none of it related to the watergate break-in. there was a stack of cables from the state department, i gave to david young, there was one in there that showed that h
the fbi is going to want this sooner or later. he said, john you drive across the potomac every night. put it in the poetomac. i said, i can't do that. we turned it over, give the rest of the stuff, or what i thought was the rest of the stuff, to pat gray in two envelopes. he's called over by ehrlichman. and he says, this stuff should never see the light of day. it should be kept in whatever secure file you have. and then the white house can say, we turned everything over to the fbi. much...