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Tom, can you explain how border officials interact with terrorism task forces? are they part of the task force? >> yes, jake. theyre absolutely part of the task force. theyre sitting side by side with every other member of the task force which would be obviously the fbi agents, but also state police, city police, county police, other federal agencies from dhs, the state department, every one of these concerned agencies and the u.s. attorneys office specifically will have representatives that are...

>> we have to determine whether -- some of the things that they did, at least in some of the activities that were reported by friends and neighbors, they were very, very good at staying covert, and they picked an area they knew well. they were certainly home grown. they had lived in the area for ten years. >> if someone gets investigated by the fbi for radicalization or suspension of that, does their name enter some data base, stay on a bdatabase that would stir p some kind of an alert? if they ...

Dogs, the police presence at public gathers, yes. i do. bill: this is a national debate that begins anew now. john ashcroft was the attorney general under president george w. bush. ceo of the ashcroft group and with me from his home state. sir, thank you for your time today. im curious for you to reflect, you were there in the beginning days 12 years ago. how far have we come? or how far do we still need to go? >> well, first of all, we have come a long way. with the coordinated efforts, things ...

Were in your hometown. normally we only talk about this stuff by way of satellite but you have a massive amount of experience when it comes to what the fbi is doing now. >> right. bill: how are they doing now in trying to solve this? >> theyre doing a great job, bill. the bottom line is its not just the fbi, its the talents of all the agencies, local, federal and the fbi and what theyre doing right now based on the cooperation with the joint terrorism task forces they are taking all the pieces o...

Available, its not that difficult to get this kind of material. >> very available, and its going to be hard to single out a certain group or individual that may have put that together. as far as designating this as terrorism, that would have happened the instant they know this was a bomb, an explosive device put together, a deliberate act, not a manhole cover or infrastructure explosion. as soon as they know its an explosive device, its terrorism. >> does that make it a federal jurisdiction now ...

Wounded in the attack at army post back in 2009. a judge recently delayed the shooting suspects court-martial until next month. and catherine is live in washington. a lost disconnects here, cat. >>reporter: that is right. the f.b.i. initially thought major nidal malik hasan was a communication specialist, and as a result the f.b.i. did not send out a warning fearing he could read it. the washington joint terrorism task force decided thought to interview the superiors because they feared hurting ...

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Doing it. it let the newark police know it was doing it. two members of that police department were liaison officials with the nypd during this entire time. the former police chief of newark said yes, the nypd informed me of what they were doing. now, the question is -- did he tell the politicians and the f.b.i. what was going on? but, you know, the f.b.i. and the nypd worked together all the time on something called the joint terrorism task forces. so this is just kind of mistifying. im stresse...

Committee. congressman, i want to ask you now that al-qaeda has said they will retaliatement that they will turn americas happiness into tears, and sadness, what is your reaction? what can we expect? >> jamie, i think we ought to expect this type of reaction from al-qaeda. and they have suffered a massive military defeat, a propaganda defeat, a leadership defeat. and as a result of that, they have to try something, they have to try spectacular, have to do something to show their followers and to...

>> al-qaida is going to be off its game. they will recoup quickly enough. we have to move quickly to take advantage of this temporary confusion with al-qaida. we have to be on our guard, they have suffered a massive defeat and al-qaida is going to want to avenge this as quickly as they possible can. i know the intelligence agencies in our country, the local police, the joint terrorism task forces, f.b.i., all of them they are looking at any possible, any possible attack that al-qaida could be ma...