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Hakimullah mehsud. his death represents one of the highest level counterterrorism victories since the death of osama bin laden. joining us with his thoughts on what this could mean for the war on terror, we have lieutenant colonel ralph peters. this is a big get. >> you're one of the few human beings for whom i would give up a beautiful autumn saturday. it's good for us, great for pakistan. good for us because this guy was responsible, he was a mastermind behind the killing of seven cia agents in eastern afghanistan and dramatized in zero dark thirty. he was behind the failed times square bomb...

Blow up the new york stock exchange. >> it was data mining that allowed them to uncover the plot. they got a hold of khalid, sends a report via e-mail to yemen which says how about this for a bomb plot against the new york stock exchange. the f.b.i. is watching. they never mention the new york stock exchange bomb plot because they didn't want to reveal our electronic surveillance. yesterday in congress they say this is what we did. this is how we did it. they're using it as an example of we've got to collect the data to stop this stuff from happening. >>steve: stuart varney, we're going to be ...

Why the records from 20 phone lines and associated press bureaus in d.c. and new york and hartford and congress and all these reporters' personal phones and everything all ended up in the hands of the justice department even though we supposedly have a free press in this country. when it was reported a year ago that a plot to blow up a u.s.-bound plane had been thwarted in yemen with be one of the details that the ap reported at the time was that the actual bomb from that plot not only hadn't been detonated on that plane, but the actual bomb had ended up in american hand. it was at the fbi bom...

These reporters' personal phones and everything all ended up in the hands of the justice department even though we supposedly have a free press in this country. and reporters are supposed to be able to talk to people without the government spying on them while they work. when it was reported a year ago that a plot to blow up a u.s.-bound plane had been thwarted in yemen with be one of the details that the ap reported at the time was that the actual bomb from that plot not only hadn't been detonated on that plane, but the actual bomb had ended up in american hands. it was at the fbi bomb lab at...

Secret, as you would expect it. the united states, learning that there is this threat of a bomb going to be put on a plane from the uk to the united states, alerts security officials. air marshals, tsa, people who would be concerned about transportation in the air. >> we try to harden ourselves as a target. >> we do that, and that you can't hide. and when increased security measures are taken and orders are given out publicly, not classified orders, to increase surveillance of air marshals and things like that, that's when reporters start digging. what's going on, why are there suddenly all th...