and long rifles on the outskirts of charlotte. these people had military training. they had been to camps, they had been trained by the iranian revolutionary guard core. they had served in militias were they got combat experience. they didn t leave all that behind. they were keeping their skills sharp. in any criminal investigation, you are investigating a biker gang. they can kill somebody tomorrow, in federal investigations, you have to be patient. if you step in and you don t dig it up by the roots, the weeds just come right back. when we investigated this case, we started talking to other agencies and i found out that atf had this ready to go cigarette smuggling case. alcohol, tobacco and firearms has expended several years doing traffic stops and gathering evidence. this is much bigger than a cigarette smuggling case. this was a terrorism case. and they didn t understand what they had. i find out that the atf is about to make arrests, which would completely destroy what we h
his name is zacarias moussaoui. he is often erroneously referred to as the 20th hijacker. he was charged in part for his connection to the attack. to this day he is the only member of al qaeda charged and convicted in the united states in connection with 9/11. the reason he is the only one is that they dealt with his case like a normal terrorism case. he was charged in civilian court, convicted, sent to prison for the rest of his life. this was an extraordinarily complex terrorism case, but he was convicted in 2006 over 13 years ago now. moussaoui is multiple life sentences into his stay at our supermax prison in florence, colorado, while all the other 9/11 defendants languish still today, still untried, still not convicted, still not sentenced with no closure for their cases, no closure for the victims all
complex terrorism case, but he was convicted in 2006 over 13 years ago now. mu sow which is multiple lives sentences into his stay at our supermax prison in florence, colorado, while all the other 9/11 defendants languish still today, still untried, still not convicted, still not sentenced with no closure for their cases, no closure for the victims all because of this political fantasy that the u.s. shouldn t possibly use real courts to try these crimes. it shouldn t use real courts to get accountability of the perpetrators of that terrorist act. instead the bright idea we had as a country was toin vent a whole new tribunal system for defendants like this and that would magically be more effective somehow than real courts. well, that system has now proved itself over 18 years to not work at the basic job of putting these guys on trial. and it has cost billions of
attendees were saying that obama was a muslim and a terrorist. representatives came out against it but sounds like there were and mccain said, stop. whispers on capitol hill. this is not what we re about. donald trump is not the kind of yeah. leader or human being who s you asked two things. going to tell people, look to the second one first. the better angels of your nature. this is not who we are as a no republican was actively country. against it but they were against donald trump is just going to incent it and i do think and i it in the way that one would be worry about this, even outside of the rallies, i worry that, if it were someone from their you know, that this is going to own party, tepid, chilly spawn all sorts of stuff on the response. we will take a good look at streets of america that is going to be dangerous. that. we don t know this guy but we jennifer, last question to you, tim s talking about the will follow the process. script and knowing what the the head of th
ken delainian, to that point, come in and change your life, the next director of national base and hit these same themes what did we hear from the take your life is terrifying in intelligence. it was clear he inflated and intelligence community this week that he hit that night about as all of this unfolded? hillary clinton s emails and bob misrepresented his resume. our system, and we need to do i know you have sources in the something to rein in their one instance claimed he was a intelligence community and mueller s witch hunt and power. there s been reporting about sue immigrants are horrible. all of those people there were now, can you be a good terrorism prosecutor. gordon, who s the deputy dni who happy to hear that. prosecutor wielding that power no evidence he ever prosecuted a the versus a bad prosecutor wielding that power? should step into this position these swing states. sure. but the issue the larger terrorism case. president trump blamed the media once dan coats leav