moving through airports and train stations and over the highways and at a time when we are more on edge than usual, we count on the intelligence leaders to show confidence in the security net, and now we are asking, are they really showing the confidence? reporter: at a time when the travel volume is at the highest and the tensions over security run white hot, there are fresh concerns over what the u.s. intelligence community knows and how it communicates. i was a little surprised that you didn t know about london, director. well, i m sorry, i didn t. reporter: in an abc news interview, director of national intelligence james clapper is caught unaware of the terror raid in britain. that is attributed to staff not briefing him. janet napolitano was asked by candy crowley why the director of national intelligence was caught in a disconnect? well, let s be fair. i knew. john brennan knew.
continue to have terrorists get through our our net. our security net. and i think the other thing to underscore here is that it s all unfortunate because this is also occurring at a time of wikileaks. i think wikileaks is going to make some government agencies less likely to share information with each other than they were before. so i think doubly we have to focus here. there s no doubt that frotecting information is important. there s no doubt that we want to make sure we re not letting classified secrets loose into the wrong hands. but i think this is another example of how even basic facts that should be well known to the very top levels of our government agencies responsible for international security, sometimes that information is not filtering through. so, you know, i give, you know, respect and deference to mr. clapper here. i i imagine this was a mistake on his part. hopefully just one. but i do think this is another example of the general lack of information-sharing that
the olympic opening ceremony just four days away but with the near billion-dollar security operations in full effect nbc s jim maceda is live in british columbia. what s the latest? reporter: canadian officials say these games, security for these games, at least, won t be as much in your face as some previous olympics but there is an almost $1 billion security net that will see more canadian forces deployed here than at any time since world war ii. royal cap aidian mounted police are looking down whole neighborhoods, close circuit cameras are hot and on the looko lookout. they scan the harbor foot by foot. so far officials say there is no specific threat targeting the winter games. certainly the terrorist attack, the threat, the seismic event, those are all terrible
do. i hear in the film merrill streep is great as kim jung un. review of scandals finds major failures in the security net around the white house. there is always room for improvement and in this case i believe based on the recommend algzs that there a number of things we can and should do to improve the way they conduct business. no more rapport. stephen colbert as an all-star send off. if this is your first time tuning into the colbert report, i have terrible news. we begin with breaking news. the fbi named north korea in the