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They want him under a different set of rules and john brennan says he personally briefed on the night of his arrest. >> rather than second guessing on the ground with a 500 mile screwdriver from washington to detroit, i think they have to have confidence in the knowledge and experience of these professionals. >> reporter: in response to brennans comments about abdulmutallab, a spokesman for senate republican leader mitch mcconnell says, quote, during a brief call from the white house, senator mc...

Republicans on christmas night about the arrest and that none of them raised objections. >> im tiring of politicians using international security issues such as terrorism as a political football. they are going out there and they are downknowing of the facts and making charges and allegations that are not anchored in reality. >> officials say abdulmutallab is part of a new group of terrorists trained by splinter groups and harder to track than a centrallenmy with a tight chain of command. secret...

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Splinter groups in iraq. they werent even able to do it with splinter groups in afghanistan. and so it shows that while they were a worldwide organization that command and control structure that they wanted to have was something that was frequently lacking. >> why do you think this came out now, jack? >> well i think part of the reason it came out now is because the intelligence community wants to put it out. the white house wants to put it out. they want to show what it is they were doing. it a...

Right now nobody is taking responsibility for these attacks. the gunmen were killed in a gunfight with the tunisian military. but tunisia itself has had quite a problem with islamic extremists in the past. about 3,000 of their citizens have joined the islamic state or are believed to have joined the islamic state. just this month, 30 militants were arrested in tunisia, some of whom had just returned from syria, plotting spectacular attacks. as you know, thomas, this was the place where the arab ...

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Main al qaeda. the central organization. >> right. >> but these splinter groups, mainly located in yemen now, as well as in somalia and a couple of other places, have been increasingly attempting to fill that vacuum. and that is the main focus of american intelligence and american drone strikes with the cooperation of officials in yemen. >> hold on there, andrea. lets go right now to evan colman, our nbc terrorism analyst. he joins us by phone. evan, again, back to that question when weve been l...

Afghanistan, general david petraeus, then following that, of course, the head of the cia. but at the time, he no longer had the operation ability with al qaeda. main al qaeda. the central organization. >> right. >> but these splinter groups, mainly located in yemen now, as well as in somalia and a couple of other places, have been increasingly attempting to fill that vacuum. and that is the main focus of american intelligence and american drone strikes with the cooperation of officials in yemen....

Its job under petraeus followed by the work of leon panetta. >> it is in the cia, but you have to have leadership there. what the president has got in john brennan is someone with the authority and focus to follow there. theres been an effort in the white house to demolish these leaders as they emerge to use unprecedented drone attacks and its been successful. you can see that in the intelligence they picked up around bin laden. they were trying to keep low cover. not coming out into the open. i...

Qaeda in the arabian peninsula that doesnt take its instructions from bin laden. the attempted bombing of cargo planes. and of course a year ago the attempt to blow up a plane coming into detroit with the so called underwear bomber. al qaeda central is still a threat. had been to an al qaeda training camp and was getting direction from the core leadership of al qaeda. but thats an exception and the kind of threat we have looked at here in the u.s. over the last several months and years as not so...