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Intelligence. what nay want to be careful and what they will be careful about di doing is connecting these dots too quickly. it may turn out that april 15th was very important. they dont want to jump on that until they str a lot more information and can see all the information to draw more final conclusions. >> lets close here at the time of oklahoma city we had barely anybody on the anti-terrorism interest. weve been fighting dual wars. we have a graduating class, military, civilian, intelligen...

Better. that will move the investigation forward at a rate we never would have seen in 1995, or with timothy mcveigh or going forward in 2011. >> it wasnt just the boston marathon. it was patriots day. do you think that the date might play in the investigation? >> the date, april 15th, tax day, patriots day, the marathon, please be individual dots that investigators will think about. they will be careful to, the media, i include myself in that, now, we want to connect those dots very quickly and...

Two bombs closely and nar enough apart that would affect different groups of spectators. all of this points to someone that thought this out and was determined to do some horrific damage and they did. >> whether youre trying to figure out whether this is foreign or domestic based, how much do you start by looking at the calendar. todays date, the meaning of todays date. other important dates that are right around this comiining up. in it >> its factor. the fbi, the cia, the boston police departm...

Of those dots are collected, that you very slowly and methodically start to connect them slowly. so, it may very well be that april 15th had some consequence here. it could turn out it had nothing to do with it. this was simply the boston marathon or simply an attack of opportunity. a factor, do we know if its positive or points in one point or another? not less than 24 hours later. no, we really dont. >> you talk about the dots that need to be connected. and one of the conversations that was ha...

Loners to cause mayhem here in the united states just came out as well. so thats the information we have. its all speculation beyond that. >> thank you very much, brian levin, for coming on with that. brian has a good sense of the different groups and we dont know how it all connects here to reality. its just these are the various forces of the world. michael? >> yeah. chris, this is still -- this is a step by step process now. i agree with brians main thrust which is its too early to say. start...

Getting a picture -- this is exactly what you were talking about, amanda. this is a picture sent to 7 of a fire. that looks like quite the fire. quite the fire at the jfk library, as amanda mentioned that started shortly after these explosions. we dont know if its related. so were not trying to connect the dots here but its very interesting this is happening and certainly if, in fact, this is just unrelated, just yet another complication for boston fire departments to handle because i would imag...

Again with the fbi lead domestically. the cia is trying to empty all of its traps internationally. all of the stations are getting urgent alerts to talk to their contacts and sources to see if they can learn anything. they are looking at all previous reporting on cables to see if there is any mention of boston or names of suspicion or marathons or anything like that to see if they can connect some dots. and then of course at the scene you will see one of the amazing hallmarks of american law enf...

Whistle-blower lawsuit potentially worth $200 million to the federal treasury. but a former department of justice official says that republicans trying to connect these dots are off base. >> the term quid pro quo it makes me smile because its such a loaded term. you have settlements in government litigation, you have settlements in private litigation and i think that the use of the word quid pro quo here is to try to suggest that something in appropriate happened when i think in fact you have al...

It doesnt always follow the evidentiary tale. someone trying to run a red light 20 minutes away, they are sweaty and nervous. >> after the fact, its clear why it happened. were in the earliest hours and thats when you have to be careful not to connect the dots that shouldnt be connected. >> or people talk and all of a sudden this guy is bragging in a week or two and hes caught that way. thats how human frailty works. all right. thanks so much for coming on tonig tonight. katy tur. sorry. whats n...

Others in the film, he has gotten too close to the cia. the national security state, as we know, is an enormous powerful entity. the film tries to connect those dots and show this is not an action. >> should government be able to keep some classified secrets? >> yeah, thats not an argument. no sane person is going to disagree with that. but thats not whats happening here. 1.7 billion e-mails every day are listened to by the national security state. six whistleblowers are being charged under espi...