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Former fbi, has been all over this as well. josh campbell, these packages got to these different places some by courier, some ended up in mail facilities through the u.s. postal services. what do you make of that? >> we are learning the different methods and mediums of delivery of these packages. we talked about how broad this investigation is, essentially coast to coast now, new york to los angeles to florida. each one will be looked at differently. the united states postal service, if you think about commercial shipping companies such as federal express and ups, they all have highly sophisti...

Obviously law enforcement is not going to act like that and they're going to keep looking. but so far nothing new today. >> go ahead, tony, quickly. >> quickly, okay, the question in everybody's mind is we've got ten device, why no explosion? what does that mean? that means that the 11th device could explode. the bomber could be changing his design. he's lured us into a false sense of security. let not go there. let's treat every device individually and exploit it. >> i think shimon hit it on the money, that no one should act like this whole thing is over. gentlemen, i appreciate every single ...

Far along they are and narrowing this down to a person or persons, as jonathan was saying, very much in the infancy right now. they don't have a person in mind. this is their crowd sourcing, trying to gather the tips and gather that information. with respect to the method of delivery two data points. on one hand, the united states postal service being used as a method of delivery. that gives me greater comfort knowing it is going through the postal service because since the anthrax attacks of 2001, the unabomber, the postal service has become so experienced and the capabilities plussed up that...

My hunch is they had the potential to go off. they indicate anything, i'm theorizing here, if they indicate anything, probably the work of the first time bomber, someone who set about to make these bombs to give a message, probably the first time this individual has done that. the fbi will be up to confirm that forensically. as far as the motive or that type of thing, in these cases it is important, the fact our forensics in the crime scene, it is not long ago if you remember after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks up and down the east coast in florida and new york and washington dc, people had opi...

To the perpetrator. that's only the start of the equation of course, there will be a lot of learn about that perpetrator's mind-set, his or her motives, linked to other individuals or groups, all of those questions remain to be answered as well. >> in the past there was two very notable cases of attacks via the mail i thought of, uni bomber being one, the other anth anthrax attacks. it's a form of attack people have gotten away. have we gotten better at triesing these things? >> i believe so. of course you're right, some of the other domestic terrorism attacks in recent years have involved ind...