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Information. all of this remains to be proven in a court of law, but nonetheless the hacker says two men at mit told him they tried to help manning. they gave him encryption software. at least one of them did. now, defense secretary robert gates is offering the real bottom line here. the clue about how he thinks this may have all happened, how one person in the u.s. military could have downloaded tens of thousands of classified documents. >> had he tried to do this or had whoever did this tried ...

Into bps crippled well in the gulf of mexico in a bid to seal it permanently, and were hearing that the knowledge of whether it worked will be -- come to us in about hours, not days. final tests being completed today to allow that to happen. all right. i want to tell you a little bit about the wikileaks investigation. were going to talk to barbara starr in just a moment, but the man who tipped off the federal government about the wikileaks suspect in custody, a u.s. army private called bradley...

The army private charged with leaking classified material to the web site wikileaks may have had some outside help. they say private manning wouldnt have know how to send out the encryption software to those documents. retired army general barrett mccaffrey joins us live. good morning, general. >> good morning, alex. the london newspapers are saying there are hundreds of names of informants that have been identified, so theyre going to scramble, theyre going to try to get out to these villages, ...

Mistaken that you reported isis has something approaching a 24-hour computer help desk for all their electronic means they use to communicate beyond the reach of law enforcement? >> thats what weve been told, that this is a development that isis has been working on for probably the past several nts no, ramping the capability up. we should emphasize that intelligence officials say they dont yet know how the plotters kept in touch. but one official says he would be shocked if they didnt use some m...

All their electronic means they use to communicate beyond the reach of law enforcement? >> thats what weve been told, that this is a development that isis has been working on for probably the past several months, ramping the capability up. we should emphasize that intelligence officials say they dont yet know how the plotters kept in touch. but one official says he would be shocked if they didnt use some method of communication that the police couldnt monitor. thats been a question here, why wer...

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American officials say the strongest defense against an isis attack in the u.s. is good intelligence. but the fbi says its getting harder to monitor terrorism suspects. a problem the fbi director calls going dark. nbc justice correspondent pete williams explains. >> reporter: though u.s. intelligence officials say they dont yet know how the plotters kept in touch, one senior official says hed be shocked if they didnt use some method of communication that the police cannot monitor. counterterrori...

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