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Also he is being interviewed in the context of being involved in this awful triple murder. so the fact that is the context and this individual has a violent history and hes coming at with you a weapon that could be deadly, its notten reasonable for the agents to have acted the way they did. >> we want to take a look at another developing part of the story. new evidence that the boston bombing is becoming a key recruiting tool for al qaeda. the terror plot is front and senter in the latest issue ...

Justice claimed it was part of an investigation into someone who leaked information to the ap about a terror plot in africa. attorney general eric holder insisted that the leak threatened lives but didnt elaborate, nor did the agency think prude prudent to get a judge involved and allow him or her to decide whether the threat to national security was significant enough to warrant a search. journalists who devote their professional lives to reporting on what our elected leaders doing and exposing...

Had broken in while the two were home alone. well, now, his lawyer says that boy is being arraigned in a juvenile courtroom, this hour. the charge, second degree murder. the court appearance could bring the first look that anyone, even his own lawyer, has had at any evidence that the police have against this young boy. 12 years old. and coming up next, news just in to cnn, were getting word that the fbi has uncovered a terror plot, a plot involving yet again jihad, but this time stolen guns and ...

And have very good reason for what they did. im going to dif government deference on that until we know more. the reason that eric holder had to recuse himself because he was investigated, he was being questioned as part of the investigation to find out -- i dont know exactly why. i assume it was because if there was any knowledge about a leak about a foiled terror plot. i do think, however, they knew it was coming and they were caught flat-footed. they could have been out beforehand or contacte...

Feels the press is simply nosing around and things it has no business doing like this particular issue and you end up with a far more polarized group of people that are even further at odds. certainly a lack of trust and a lack of any kind of feelings between these two groups at this moment. the latest on the justice department seizure of phone records. u.s. attorney general eric holder is defending the use of secret subpoenas saying the departments actions are critical to national security. n...

Interfere with the integrity of the investigation. but it sure is hard to believe that an investigation which was really pretty well known around washington and certainly to the a.p. could have been so frustrated by simply giving them a chance to go to court. thats one of the real problems here. if you dont tell them in advance, if you dont tell the journalist, if you dont tell the a.p., they have no recourse. they cant go to court and ask a judge to protect them because the secret is gone. >> n...

Questioned as part of the investigation to find out -- i dont know exactly why. i assume it was because if there was any knowledge about a leak about a foiled terror plot. i do think, however, they knew it was coming and they were caught flat-footed. they could have been out beforehand or contacted the a.p.. instead, what he was reduced to saying my deputy is going to send a letter today. >> andrea: it seems like every scandal comes back to one thing protecting president obama. allowing him to k...

Attorneys office, "regulations require us to make every reasonable effort to obtain information through alternative means before even considering a subpoena for the phone records of a member of the media. the american civil liberties union criticized the move as did chairman darrell isa. >> they had an obligation to look for every other way to get it before they, in fact, intruded on the freedom of press. >> reporter: so what is this specifically about and why would the justice department sought...

Interfere with the integrity of the investigation. but it sure is hard to believe that an investigation which was really pretty well known around washington and certainly to the a.p. could have been so frustrated by simply giving them a chance to go to court. thats one of the real problems here. if you dont tell them in advance, if you dont tell the journalist, if you dont tell the a.p., they have no recourse. they cant go to court and ask a judge to protect them because the secret is gone. >> n...

Over a two-month period back in 2010 when it had to do with a story of foiled terror plot in yemen from 2010? the ap was asked to quash that story until other details, until the government got things in order. there was a government source that gave the ap the story. so the department of justice wanted to find out who that source might be, so they went and secretly looked into the records of the employees at the associated press. >> brian: 20 reporters in particular to see if their phone logs wo...