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This is all 50 states and ways that are very hard to see. the joint terrorism task forces that we have set up all around this country are in some way mores important today than they were at 9/11 because of the nature of this threat. >> mike barnicle you spoke privately to a former fbi director a few years ago, and you asked him just what came in what the incoming was like. he talked about just getting incoming 24 hours a day and said if you read what i read -- >> at 3:30, hurricane katrina in th...

Investigating. they havent made any arrests. >> the director said about a month and a half ago in the largest secure video conference held by the fbi homeland security with all of the joint terrorism task forces in the country, every fbi office every fusion center in that conference he said the fbi has 1,000 counterterrorism investigations ongoing. each case that has one person minimum. that means theres more than 1,000 maybe as high as five thousand individuals the fbi is trying to monitor and ...

A silly, raunchy comedy like this one. sony wants to send a message here and make some money at the same time. >> what does law enforcement say about the film being released now? >> law enforcement is basically saying look, theaters can do whatever they want to do. they want to make sure they take the necessary precautions, as you mentioned in the intro, we know that the fbi has sent out basically a bulletin to all the field offices asking the cybertask forces to team up with the joint terrorism...

Are a safe haven for terrorists. the organizations can grow and thrive. if anything was learned in the lessons of afghanistan we have to be there now. >> not only that but the failed state where they set up shop in somalia and libya, i was in egypt, their muslim brotherhood is closely tied to al qaeda. people think its another political party its not. it is affiliated with al qaeda. >> casey, you know that. how come the president didnt know that when he was supporting them in egypt. what is happ...

Field office here in the city. if theyre looking at this third suspect they want to question and they have to cross state lines, thats easier under the auspices of an fbi investigation or a federal investigation. number three, a short time ago, u spoke to a former member of one of the joint terrorism task forces in one of the larger american cities. by putting it under the auspices of the fbi, that was another data point that terrorism has not been ruled out in this case because if it had simply...

Preventing terrorism incidents particularly after 9/11. if you think about where we were on 9/11, there were 16 people on the no-fly list on 9/11. now there are 20,000. on 9/11 there was no tsa. on 9/11 there was no department of homeland security which is the second largest government department. on 9/11 the fbi and cia barely spoke to each other. on 9/11 there were very few joint terrorism task forces. there is a huge effort. in fact boston is sort of exceptional. it is the first time the jiha...

>> i dont know if there is a brief way to explain the relationship with local and federal authorities with this information sharing but for example in new york, youve got special task forces set up after 9/11 to make sure that authorities in new york have as much information as possible. one would have made the assumption that something of this degree, especially if you heard from russia about this individual, that would have been at least something that could be shared. >> there are dozens of t...

Snowed. >> the whole point of these joint terrorism task forces are to coordinate and communicate information, and if the customs and border patrol agent may have had that on the task force and didnt share it with the fbi agent i would be very concerned about that. remember, this guy is on the radar screen, you know, because of a russian intelligence lead. hes put on the radar screen, hes interviewed, and then he travels to russia and the fbi doesnt even know about this travel. dhs, department o...

That he had come back into the country after his visit. they told the boston joint terrorism task force which is another organization that was built after 9/11, there is actually something like 120 of these terrorism task forces throughout the country. they are supposed to look into that, and communicate and find out whether the national counterterrorism center, yet another agency that was built after 9/11, you know, is concerned and then they are supposed to pulse the community and hopefully th...

Have to make sure those dots are connected. we are going to be having hearings in early may at the homeland security committee to ask those questions. we do not know if thoses were connected. and -- >> let me stop you there. >> its a dangerous world. >> the russian task force presented to the u.s. counterterrorism group evidence nine months before the attack that said this guy is a jihaddist. it was shared with one individual at the u.s. and customs protection assigned to the boston joint terror...