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That someone who has gone to pakistan, trained in a terrorist camp, comes back, makes repeated calls back and forth to pakistan, we should have some intelligence that this person may be a threat to us as a society. >> all right. >> thats what was lacking. >> roger, let me ask you one thing that obviously i think we may be able to agree on, that is that the airline screwed up. >> yes. >> what happened there. i mean, that obviously was a great breach, they allowed somebody on a no-fly list to get ...

Thats when it became serious. do i think its part of a broader trend? no, i dont. theres several dozen cases of americans investigated for ties to islamic extremist sin past years. you have to pay attention to it but be careful not to overstate it. >> are the agencies in charge of protecting us prepared to look for terror suspects who have these western appearances as in the case of colleen and jamie, or do they pretty under a profile of what a terrorist looks like or should in some peoples mind...

Its not like theyre not trying. its just theyre limited by their own ability and the ability of the taliban to blend into the local population and use that population to protect it. if the pakistani government and the pakistani intelligence service now has decided to go on the offensive for good, we could have real benefits over the long term here. >> if you talk to u.s. officials theyll tell you they think the senior leadership of al qaeda has been terribly undermined in its ability to plan and...

Additional time. >> eric: terrorism would as well. but is one more severe increase than the other. >> greg: it is weird. one should be enough. it should be -- it is like if youre terrorist, how could there be room for something else. >> kimberly: you have to reflect the record. he committed a hate crime, so then he doesnt hit in the criminal justice system and the terror database and the watch list, and thats very important to have the relevant information. >> dana: i was going to ask if it matt...

They see that he was in touch with some people they were interested in. he himself was never on a watch list or terror database. >> thats a pretty large arsenal that they had. >> yes. >> this is not -- you would not suspect he would have the type of money, amount of money he made, decent middle class income. this suggested he must have had some resources to purchase all of this ammunition and have the weapons that he had. what do we know about where these weapons came from? >> he bought the hand...

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This after the boston bombing. despite this, tamerlan and his mother were added to the u.s. terror database in 2011. lawmakers are questioning whether the intelligence community should have been better prepared for a possible attack. >> to me, there was enough smoke there that you know whether or not there was fire, there was enough smoke that that investigation should have been kept more active. >> its a failure to share information and missing obvious warning signs, were going back to the pre-...

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