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Was in commission for several days. so you have to reinvent it and go back together. we talk about forensics at the crime scene. we need to get to the origin of this bomb as well as connect the debris from the crime scene and identify the bomber. shannon: what about the components tracing thoseth back looking at computer labels. can there be dna from the stamps? >> the forensic analysis is going to be essential and they are looking for some of the things they will be looking for including dna. d...

Slick bomb maker masquerading as bit of a dummy, in terms of bad spelling on the packages? or is it somebody -- >> dana: does that tell you anything? >> it really doesnt. it could easily be something to throw investigators off the track. like this is just coming from a dumb guy who likes boom sticks. the reality is, could easily be a very educated, sophisticated person with a political agenda that includes throwing it off as if theyre just some knuckle head that likes bombs. >> dana: what do you...

Very negative about that. >> harris: its hard to have your own house called out. we heard the president talking about the media and he tweeted about it today. it can sometimes be very difficult. what you are saying is it is not everybody including the media. i really appreciate your time. dave couvertier, retired fbi special agent with a whole lot of other areas he covered in terms of forensics and how we need to be. thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thank you, harris. appreciate it....

September 11th, its all been done to prevent or to catch people like this very quickly. >> bill: massive growth in our ability. it to be able to detect things like this. and of the fact that none of these bombs exploded, there is so much evidence that the experts are gathering which could lead to capture as well. >> it is very significant. >> bill: and that has been brought to our attention time and again. but you think about the number of cameras in certain locations all over this country, not ...

They might change a little bit, but will use a lot of the same tools in the same way of putting a basic pipe bomb together. so i should say we have a full team in birmingham that worked on the rudolph case, and all of the prosecutors on that team, myself included, we relied heavily on the expertise of the agents who were so good at understanding bomb components and using that knowledge to help identify the bomber. >> when it came to that eric rudolph case, was there any important lead in that ca...

There are a lot of different ways that you can put an explosive device together. and so individuals who are bombmakers tend to repeat. they might change a little bit, but will use a lot of the same tools in the same way of putting a basic pipe bomb together. so i should say we had a full team in birmingham that worked on the rudolph case, and all of the prosecutors on that team, myself included, we relied heavily on the expertise of the agents who were so good at understanding bomb components an...

You may well have 12, 15. we have to see what happens tomorrow. >> what can they find out? can they do a dna test on the back of the stamps? >> all that can be done. i mean, youre looking at hair, fiber, forensics as far as dna. they have a host of things that they can do. even on the dwieevices themselv the actual pipes, you can see on the device that theres tape, things like fingerprints get left on the inside of the tape. things like hairs get left maybe inside the envelope or even on the tap...

These individuals, demonizing them, even at a rally this evening, the crowd was chaptering, lochanting lock her up. >> couple things. let me go back first and then ill answer the question about the president. just looking at what law enforcement is now looking at, theyre looking at the packaging, which is basically all the same. it has the bubble wrap inside, the labels are basically all the same, they were all printed and typed with basically the same kind of lettering, so theyre going to go th...

Many devices were mailed, i think they were hoping that at least one or more of them would have actually exploded and kill somebody. certainly ted kaczynski did that as well. >> do you see any similarities here? >> well, certainly it looks like we have a personal cause bomber. ted kaczynski was a very amorphous kind of personal cause. he was anti-technology. here, it looks to be political. i mean, we have to look at it very carefully and see, but it seems like the targets are all political. >> a...

>> there are, and one of the things that the fbi will be looking at as they investigate this is theyre going to comb over every detail. because we have multiple crime scenes, you have a package delivered to a location, and youre going to ultimately have a location where these bombs are put together, theyre going to be looking at everything from as pam was saying, the signature to theyll get down to the level of detail in the forensics as to where the actual components came from. the degree to wh...