is subject to human bias. you re right. we don t. we think of dna evidence. we think of a lot of this evidence as absolute and foolproof. when you look at some of these individuals who are now being notified their case may be reassessed you know who do you think this is going to lead to? overturning some of these convictions? do you think they re going to get another fair shot? well poppy, this is a colossal disaster. this is not a pothole in a street. this is a sinkhole. this is a systemic failure. you can t come and put some gravel and cover this up. this is a real problem because you have other issues such as preservation of evidence. think about that. what if somebody was convicted 20 30 years ago and now they want to try to get out and maybe the hair fiber s gone? maybe it s been compromised. i think another issue you ve got to look at too, here, poppy, is this failure of the fbi to have the hair fiber specialists testify based on accurate science was confined really to
was sort of an offshoot of isis and also the fact that it happened within afghanistan? well poppy, what it tells me is that the isis franchise is growing rather than getting smaller. you know afghanistan, the resistance should be the taliban. they denied participation in this attack it was too violent for them. so the fact that people are claiming allegiance to the islamic state is bad news. and, you know you couple that poppy, with attacks in egypt and sinai, the attacks on ramadi even isis in yemen, and the idea this virus as i call it seems to be spreading rather than retreating. and, yes, they may have lost tikrit but then they pop up somewhere else. they have given up the refinery in iraq and appeared somewhere else. so this is a fight that s going to go on for years and years and is not going to be easily
majority of armenians who died a century ago were christians and on this occasion the pope felt he simply couldn t blink. do you think knowing what we know about this pope being an unconvectional pope in all ways do you think he will stand by his comments and after this backlash what we ve seen that he might step back a little bit? well poppy, this pope s pattern seems to be that when he says something that irritates a particular constituency he never backs away from that comment and he looks creative leigh for other ways to reach out to them. we ve seen that inside the church for example. last october when the vatican held a high-profile summit on the family and there were things the pope did and said that there was concern that the church had a conservative wing and he didn t back away from those initial move but he did find ways to reach out to those folks, and i expect he s going to find ways in the coming days to make clear that he sees them
kansas man s alleged plot to bomb a u.s. army base. the justice department says that alexander blair knew about john booker s plan to try and detonate what would be a suicide car bomb at ft. riley. booker was arrested as he made his final attempts to detonate the bomb. the bomb actually turned out to be a fake. it was a decoy planted by the undercover feds who thought who he thought were his co-conspirators. joining me to talk about the bob bear cnn intelligence analyst and former cia operative. when you look at this this is just another example of the lone wolf threat. the threat that homeland security secretary jeh johnson said is of such concern and that is really the toughest thing for law enforcement in this country to go after. how do you tackle something like this? i mean thank goodness there were undercover agents in this case. but there aren t always. well poppy, i think we ve gotten very lucky. these kids and they are young, go up on social media and you can see the patte
and then this in northern england, two teenager as rested age 14 and 16. suspected of preparing separate acts of terrorism. one of the teens had electronic devices that raised their terror alarm. right here in new york city two women, both u.s. citizens arrested accused of planning bomb attacks within the united states. they are being held this weekend without bond. kimberly dozier joins us now, and bob baer with us former cia operative. all of the people i mentioned are potential foreign fighters that officials say is what is giving isis increasing power and increasing force within the region. the iraqi prime minister went so far as to say if isis continues to recruit these foreign fighters effectively, no regional army will be able to defeat them. bob, is there anything that can be done to at least slow this recruitment process down? well poppy, turkey s