Page 11 - Terrorism Cases News Today

>> same question, peter, to you. how much of a threat do these groups represent to the u.s.? >> the yemin-american of the group is writing in propaganda to show up from terrorism cases. "inspire" magazine, the magazine of al qaeda in yemen, continues to be produced and shows up in terrorism cases. you dont absolutely need somebody from the united states training with these groups. these groups are through the internet who may have direct connection in terms of training in yell. or somalia. that ...

You heard the conversation with u.s. counter terrorism officials saying these first two weeks they have seen nothing that would indicate terrorism, if you will, so indicated on that deductive logic, theyre increasingly thinking this could have been some sort of accident, catastrophic failure, or maybe even pilot suicide, something along those lines? >> i can understand why they would think that and want to come to a conclusion that its not terrorism. >> they havent come to a formal conclusion, t...

You have the entire military infrastructure in that part of the world is decayed. it doesnt work. there is nobody even manning the sites let alone manning them in the middle of the night. it would be very easy to get a jet in that air space. the problem would be hiding it once it got on the ground. so if wasnt picked up in central asia, it doesnt surprise me at all. even kazakhstan is a fairly advanced country but even their radar isnt very good. >> do you want to discuss that, mary? >> it depen...

Allies have conducted or at any time, any type of espionage activity against the united states of america, intelligence services, leaders or otherwise? >> absolutely. >> do we know of any cases of this actually happening in recent years? >> well, i dont know that i can talk openly in terms of what we know about our foreign intelligence agencies and how they operate and target people in the united states? but i think it would be naive to presume that they are not very active in trying to collect ...

Checks generally? >> theyre supposed to be very extensive. each one has a different level of things to get that clearance, these are done by contractors and whether you get a good one or not depends on who that is contracted out to and particular investigators. >> all right wh. i was an intern for three months in 1978, the fbi did a background check on me and everybody else, whatever happened to the fbi doing background checks? we dont have money or man power? >> they still do background checks ...

Checks generally? >> theyre supposed to be very extensive. each one has a different level of things to get that clearance, these are done by contractors and whether you get a good one or not depends on who that is contracted out to and particular investigators. >> all right wh. i was an intern for three months in 1978, the fbi did a background check on me and everybody else, whatever happened to the fbi doing background checks? we dont have money or man power? >> they still do background checks ...

Tsarnaev starts cooperating with investigators as he did before he was mirandized. could this be why were seeing these new developments and hearing these new details? >> i think theres probably two reasons and, yes, one is clearly at this stage this is taking the death penalty off as an option is a great bargaining chip. we should not do this as, oh, hes not going to get the death penalty, were loosening up on him. this is very common in serious cases when you want to get information out of the ...

>> eric: you think they should? >> yes, i do. its allowed under the law. i believe so. in i think in any event you ought to push it. the only thing that would happen is he would file habeas corpus petition challenging it. if the district judge agreed with him it could go up to the fifth circuit and supreme court. half could question him in the meantime. i believe it would be upheld. >> eric: you tried as a federal judge terrorist cases in court and the administration says its a standard procedur...

Constitutional rights and the tenants of this system. and we need to keep that in mind. we hear nonsense like americas a battlefield so even for u.s. citizens we can throw it all out the window from here going forward because of sudden nebulous war on terror. >> thats the debate, kelly. youve done terrorism cases. when you have senators like lindsey graham saying that the suspect should be tried as an enemy combatant and then "the new york times" comes back with an editorial -- "mr. grahams reck...

Information, but also on the response, were there lessons learned in terms of what has unfolded the last five days. but those are two important points and that should be natural. we talk about a resilient society. one of the aspects of a resilient society is we learn from mistakes made in the past. but the other aspect of this that i do, i want to make clear, this was not political. there is about to be likely a huge political debate about the use of our u.s. criminal courts for terrorism cases....