yes, the nation s transportation security chief says he won t stop the pat downs and the search is necessary because of intel on the latest attack methods that might be used by terrorists. for more we go to the correspondent, sun safy susan. sun protection is important, but that s not what we were looking for there. creepy. we need a better hiring system. does orlando have the right idea? should we let the private security firms do this stuff? absolutely. unless you want the same people that run the post office and the dmv i mean they do a good job, so i don t see what could go wrong with the tsa. if it is privatized, them you can have competition. you can actually fire them when they grab your junk in the wrong spot or maybe too aggressively. so i think it is important. most important, andy
of attacks last year both successful and unsuccessful, identifying individual terrorists, small groups with short histories using simple attack methods, is a much more difficult task. blair cited terror suspects like the christmas day bomber umar farouk abdulmutallab and also army major nadal hasan charged in the fort hood shootings. they wouldn t call them al-qaida members but warned inspired attackers that are outside the usually complex maneuver that the u.s. has trained against. authorities say abdulmutallab used a simple bomb while hasan used a gun in a base where he worked as a soldier making all their work a little bit harder, steve. caroline, he also talked a little bit about these living abroad. he talked about how the united states could assassinate american citizens if they need to. how does that work? very interesting. the u.s. government, he said, has the authority to kill an american outside our borders if they present a direct threat. he said look, we don t target
keeping tabs on all the stories breaking across the country, all over the world. we ll bring them to you. jon: we begin with the chilling new warning that an attempted terrorist attack on the united states is certain, within the 3-6 month, that comes from top leaders in the intelligence community, speaking at a senate hearing on capitol hill yesterday. today, it s the house s turn to hear about this threat. members of the house permanent select intelligence committee now listening to testimony from the director of national intelligence, dennis blair. here s a little bit of what he s had to say this morning a violent extremist threat is evolving. we ve made com flex multi-team attacks, very difficult, for al-qaeda to pull off, but as we saw with the recent rash of attacks last year, both successful and unsuccessful, identifying individual therapist, small groups with short histories using simple attack methods is a much
al-qaeda to pull off. that is we saw with the recent rash of attacks last year both successful and unsuccessful identifying individual terrorists, smaller groups with short histories using simple attack methods is a much more difficult task. jane: also director blair has admitted this morning our intelligence acities in this country really dropped the ball in trying to prevent the failed christmas day bomber from getting into this country. we ll bring you more as it happens. there are some new concerns on iran right now. the country s state run made kra reporting a new rocket launch today. the launch coinciding with iran s national space day. a government spokesperson describes it as an experimental home built satellite carrying a payload of a mouse, two turtles and some worms. still the launch is worrying analysts. they fear the same kind of rocket could be used to deliver warheads. mike emanuel is live at the pentagon with the very latest.
hour ago, megyn. one of the basic principles here is that terrorism is like water, it takes a path of least resistance and you re dealing with a singing enemy and director blair told the panel today the al-qaeda of today will not be the al-qaeda of tomorrow. an extremist threat is evolveing, we ve made complex multi-team attacks very difficult for al-qaeda to pull off. but as we saw with the recent rash of attacks last year, both successful and unsuccessful, identifying individual terrorists, smaller groups with short histories, using simple attack methods, is a much more difficult task. reporter: well, the recruits now are identified to members of congress as people who are young, early 20s, they have a very clean record, and there s a very compressed timeline for radicalization. the example i ve been given is that an individual can make contact with a radical cleric, for example, the case of abdul the case of