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Again today, that they are very aware of what happened ten years ago. on wmd. were not going to go without really hard evidence. but the real key here is the russians. with all due respect, its not the qataris and with whom theyre arming, its that the russians are blocking a ground investigation by the u.n., by not supporting us in going in on the ground. >> i dont think its just the russians, i think its appropriate cautionings, having worked on the commission that investigated the intelligence...

Mary anne bowler determine he had should be read his miranda rights, setting off a debate about the power of the judicial branch to interfere in a case of national security. >> we cant have the judiciary deciding because its on tv and it might look bad for them, to allow the public safety exemption that deemed legal by the united states supreme court, that they were going to somehow intercede in this, is a, its confusing, it is horrible, god-awful policy and dangerous to the greater community an...

To 9/11. lindsay graham said i have no idea who bears the blame, the ultimate blame i think with the administration. joining me nbc news national investigative correspondent, michael isikoff. i want to talk to you about the fbi -- failure, the fact that both the c.i.a. and the fbi eventually had tamerlan tsarnaev on their watch list. but not in coordination with one another. the fact that the russian government had to intervene. what are you hearing about how serious this intelligence coordinati...

Al qaeda factor," mitch silva director for international peace and cnn contributor, bob baer. bob, let me come to you. we have talked almost every night about this. from the point of view of the fbi, perhaps, dropping the ball. now the cia appear to have also been warned about tamerlan tsarnaev. what do you read into this? has there been a fairly catastrophic intelligence failure here? >> its systemic, absolutely. there is no other way to describe it, as a failure. immigrations didnt tell the fb...

Dzhokhar tsarnaev indicates he and his brother were self radicalized jihadists. family members believe outside influences were to blame, including a mystery friend named misha. joining me now is author of "the al qaeda factor," mitch silva director for international peace and cnn contributor, bob baer. bob, let me come to you. we have talked almost every night about this. from the point of view of the fbi, perhaps, dropping the ball. now the cia appear to have also been warned about tamerlan tsa...

Budget cuts that have reduced the number of air traffic controllers available for work. and as the fbi searched for the bomber suspects last week, national intelligence director james clapper was on capitol hill explaining how nearly $4 billion in cuts to the intelligence community could affect the nations security. >> unlike more directly observable sequestration impacts like shorter lines to the parks and longer waits at the airport will be gradual and almost invisible until, of course, we hav...

Billion in cuts to the intelligence community could affect the nations security. >> unlike more directly observable sequestration impacts like shorter lines to the parks and longer waits at the airport will be gradual and almost invisible until, of course, we have an intelligence failure. >> independent senator ang us king summed it up this way. >> we wont know what weve missed until something blows up. >> yes, sir. >> joining me now, one of the senators at that armed services committee hearing,...

Is that correct? >> thats my understanding. i can give you the detail in a classified setting, but i think the salient fact there, senator, is that the fbi text alert on him at that point was more than a year old and had expired. >> it is interesting that the secretary says the salient fact is that the investigation had already been closed into him, by the time he came back. well, salient, also troubling. lets bring in former cia operative and cnn analyst bob baer. help us make some sense of thi...

System. if anything, what we see in boston is that we have to modernize our immigration system for lots of reasons. national security reasons. economic security reasons. for all of those we need to fix it. >> you counter that with rand paul who sent a letter with harry reid saying we should not proceed until we understand the specific failures of our immigration system. both these gentlemen at least as far as the headlines could have political aspirations beyond their current jobs, maybe run for...

Intelligence failure but if, in fact, the russians did warn us about him, we could be something else here. >> let me ask you about that, juliette kayyem. that could be a big question mark once the celebration of this particular operation which has clearly been successful, once that dies down, there will be an inquest into what has gone on in the background to all this, and it has turned out the fbi did indeed interview one of these two brothers two years ago and he is somebody that they now beli...