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stopped an ambitious al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counter terrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. just like that bomb, there one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten passed airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm. good to see both of you. fran, i know you ve been reporting on this throughout t ....
al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counterterrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. you may recall that on christmas day 2009. just like that bomb, this one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten past airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm. good to see both of you. fran, i know you ve been reporting on ....
coming in at this moment about how the cia stopped an ambitious al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counterterrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. you may recall that on christmas day 2009. just like that bomb, this one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten past airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm ....
But i would probably watch a movie or i would probably watch the interview just out of curiosity. well, that s my point. look, we ve been bringing mayhem and murder to people s tv sets for a long time. it s csi on steroids. that s great. but at the end of the day, are you going to go out with a date movie for $13 to see this story? i don t think so. are you going to go to a book signing? i doubt it. ultimately it s damaged goods and people are upset because they didn t get the guilty verdict. isn t that why everybody watched this? let s say she gets the big deal. she just got convicted of lying this morning. anything she says has a big question mark after it. hollywood could get much better resolution than going, that s interesting than ever have to pay her a dime. ....
You have specialists like the seals we have specialists in the area, like csi on steroids and take it into four cuts, first three cuts will be rapid, the last cut is this longer cut, and, the first three cuts, they ll zero in, initially on anything encrypted, and obviously there is a path to0 codes and there is something sensitive there and the second is, text, on the text side will use machine language translation to zero in on code words and because we have had years of tracking al qaeda communications, this is where it pays off, to know they are finding the code word for plots and, then the video, we use software for facial recognition to identify known or suspected terrorists and, the last cut will be the longer cut which is more of the scholastic cut, and we ll look for more mundane items, that build up what we call the aq or al qaeda encyclopedia and want to know mundane things like so-and-so terrorist is right or left handed and down the road, those ....