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Involved with some sort of drug smuggling or human trafficking? >> stolen passports are involved in a lot of other things than terrorism and generally speaking, elicit migration, drug smuggling, narcotics. this is much, much more likely to be the case here than any sort of terrorism connection, and in the absence of any other information, we should be careful in suggesting theres any terrorist connection here. >> evan kohlmann, jim tillman, thank you both, we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> than...

More than 50% more. also in sports, an injury from celebration. this one will be from a high five. but first a developing story overnight. for a second night in a row, officials have found what theyre calling dry ice bombs at los angeles international airport. one exploded, but theyre said to be relatively harmless. officials tell nbc crews recovered at least three this restricted areas including one below a plane. a similar device, a 20 ounce bolt with dry ice inside of it, exploded in the bath...

Queried, our questioner ring the providers for whether they have those business records related to a reasonable articulable suspicion of a foreign terrorist connection? >> i think jointly the fbi, and nsa are looking at the architectural framework of how we actually do this program, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of doing each one. each case, as you know from our discussions, if you leave it at the service providers you have a separate set of issues, in terms of how you actually g...

Be a judge who would say, the russians alerted us to these guys. can we keep looking at their phone stuff and a judge will say no? >> i dont see that going through. you have to show a terrorist connection. martha: that would have been helpful. >> they have not been able to show a foreign terrorist connection to this. maybe its there. but there is no prov -- there io proof even after the fact. until you have that you cannot use fisa and prism. that proves how much american citizens are being prot...

Sufficient grounds to look into ones e-mails and he was an american citizen. martha: one was an american citizen and one wasnt. from the context of this larger discussion when you are looking at this huge collection of data, it ought to be when somebody is tipped off by the russians and they say we checked them out and we are fine. wouldnt you continue to look at their phone records and internet as a matter of course because we have been alerted to them? if thats not the case -- im searching for...

United states and then once identified inside the united states that somebody is talking to somebody who is in a bad place with a bad number that indicates a terrorist connection what kind of other contacts are they having inside the united states. and i think that is entirely legitimate and in the environment and the world in which we live necessary. >> greta: well, i think as this unfolds we will weight and see there is a big difference in my mind as a dragnet where we just sort of grab everyt...

Jihaddist. the hunt for the terrorist connection. where it stands tonight. here is catherine herridge. >> fox news is told investigators are exploring links between the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev, and an extremeist group based on the older brothers travel to russia in the first half of 2012 which included chechnya and the contents of his youtube channel. videos deleted from his youtube terrorist play list included links to an extremist group, which is under the umbrella of the group. inves...

Participate in any sort of internal or interagency meeting before this attack with regard to the deteriorating security situation in libya? >> with specific security requests, they didnt come to me, i had no knowledge of them. >> for the most part, though, republicans seemed to obsess over the comments of the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice over double talk, alleged coverup and whether rice purposely underplayed the terrorist connection and underscored protests to an anti-muslim film. >> ...

The works right now. >> no. and there is not, there is just not the will within the administration. if you talk to people who are familiar with their thinking to arm the rebels, because the opposition. because theyre disparate group of people with potential terrorist connection and hay dont know enough an they would rather proceed with caution than to embrace them. so those advocating senators graham and mccain and others advocating this, you know, helping the opposition, and hoping for a simila...

Earlier that acknowledged that i should haste top add that presidents rarely read national intelligence reports. >> this was pretty important. >> this was right on the topic that was the main basis for selling the war decision. >> couldnt you argue, to play devils advocate, that the cia should still, even if the policy makers had preconceived notion, even if the cabinet members came in sayering with going to go aftered is sadd dam hussein and looking for a justification, argue that the cia shoul...