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Avenues to go through prosecution. so these are really tough issues because they go right to the heart of the constitution and right to current day events that have everyone on edge. andrea? >> kelly, thank you very much. roger cressey, let's talk about shahzad's links to pakistan. because there's more and more indication. they don't have hard evidence, obviously, but more and more indication that he was not a lone wolf. >> i think that's right, andrea p p the fact he's admitted to going to a training camp in waziristan, that's not some outward bound boy scout event. what we still don't know, ...

So you've got to integrate all the data from all the airlines and bring it into a central place where it can be matched against all the data from the u.s. government officials. and anybody who's worked with building a complicated i.t. system knows it's very complicated and takes time. i will say this, andrea. we should have had security flight years ago. i have to say, the airlines fought it because they didn't want to bear the expense of reconfiguring the system to get -- to move the data from the airlines to tsa. that's why we've had so much delay. >> speaking for people who fly all the time...

Both of those guys only five or six years older than obey is at 71. i think that had obey thinking, gosh, what do i really want to do with my life? what am i doing here? he was first elected in 1969 to take the seat by melvin laird who went on to become defense secretary in the nixon administration. that gives you just an idea of four decades, more than four decades he's been a player in washington. >> and it would take david rogers to really get to the bottom. he's such a sup pesh reporter. congress members, they're people, too. not always just politics. people are affected by these changes, ...

Andrea? >> the chairman of the committee, joe lieberman, kelly, also suggested that he thinks it's time to strip the -- to strip someone who's under such a watch list of their citizenship. we heard john mccain saying earlier today that there should not have been the mirandizing. so there's going to be a lot of focus on what some critics of the administration are going to be saying, republicans are raising a whole lot of issues. >> reporter: all about how you would then -- if someone is a naturalized citizen as was the case in the times square incident, could you pull away the citizenship to de...

Andrea, that there's some perfect way of knowing people who have evil in their hearts. but the fact is until somebody says something or does something or acts in a way that becomes visible, we can't know what's in people's heads. so in this case you have a person who had no record. an american citizen. they're entitled to buy a weapon. nothing that apparently came to anybody's attention until the weekend. unfortunately, this is the kind of perfect mold for terrorists. that is why they're recruiting people who are -- you know, have clean records, are american citizens, have lived in america. be...