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>> that is one of the things that concerns us, how well do the design, construct and then conceal and thats one of the things that we look for. we work closely with our international partners. >> reporter: counter terrorism officials caution it is much harder to make these ieds than it is made out in the magazine but they do add this is the first time the group pulled together all the open source reporting on how to do this, put it in one place kind of like a one-stop shop for would-be terrorist...

The community how to build them themselves. >> in fact, not impossible wants to share their challenges and their solutions with anyone and everyone. >> ultimately, everything we make will be online and open source. our mantra is help one, help many.

>> and another story, general marks, were just getting more details on the yemeni special forces against the al-qaeda jamboree. i saw the youtube video, and it looks like special forces piloted the helicopter that flew yemeni commandos to the raid on that al-qaeda stronghold. we talked about the video last week and what the response would be to this. what are your thoughts on this, what seems like a successful operation? >> well, the reports that weve gotten in the open source are certainly very...

Programming community and this is an open source community. and to understand that, these are programmers who really have donated their time to build out the internet in what is known as open source or rather open ssl. very complex term. but it stands for secure socket layer. dont ask me what that is. if you want to know the answer, talk to somebody with one of those plastic pen holders in his pocket. but it created a flaw that was previously unknown and it permits people to tap in and get infor...

Feinstein, alleged that the cia searched the computers of the senates committee members, essentially spying on the committee that oversees its activities. however, with this report expected to be sent to the white house as early as thursday for review of whether it can be declassified and if so how much, we may be getting one step closer to finally telling the story of how this country may have broken some of its most cherished laws and ideals. dan borelli is an nbc news national security analys...

You wouldnt take a lazy right-hand turn 270 degrees around to what would have been a 90-degree turn in the first place. if that were true. i think the lesson in all of this, the malaysians have not released data to us for consideration to the families or the media. so what these families have done is try to go through open source means and tried to come up with their own version of the flight path. so this is a function of an investigation that is opaque. from the outside it doesnt seem very com...

Does a good job from the open source of characterizing what the company did and the full spectrum of what we signed up f for. >> you are one controversial character. youve been in the news lately even though you live part-time overseas in dubai. youve taken it on the chin. people characterized you as the contractors who were wild, wild west, guns ablazin, be damned that there were civilians around. is that fair? >> thats not an accurate characterization. its very clear what you will do, what you...

In one recent case, u.s. official provided the nsa with 200 phone numbers of 5 world leaders, despite the fact that the majority is probably available via open source. the p cs note 43 previously unknown phone numbers. do we spy on the whole world? >> we have an intelligence community and we do try to use our intelligence capabilities to understand the world. its in our interest to too so, so we can pursue our interest and identify and pursue shared interests we have with men countries around th...

Has not been claimed. the feds are interviewing his family. apparently theyre talking to everybody that knew him. no social media footprint. you have the association with the buddhist temple and budism and travel to thailand. what do you think of the profile thats emerging so far plus the reports of mental illness that we cant confirm at this time. >> i think theres so much information open source that the government isnt doing a good enough job on gathering and this butts up against snowden and...

Aides isnt talking specifically about the video weve been showing today but video thats open source, that any american and european person can see, and thats the case that secretary kerry is making to the european public today. earlier he was in lithuania talking to those foreign ministers. tomorrow hell be meeting with arab ministers saying the world must act. we all have a shared responsibility to make sure nothing like this happens again, fred. >> elise labbott joining us from paris. thank yo...