CNN Declassified September 29, 2019 03:37:00
Laws giving the fbi jurisdiction to conduct investigations overseas for hostage taking, for the attempted killing of americans and prosecute it in the united states. so in august of 1992, my supervisor came by and dropped a big, dusty box and said, try to make something of this. and it was investigation of the hijacking of egyptair flight 648. this case was given to me as a matter of routine. we review all these cases to see if there might be some prosecutive potential in case the defendant is set free somewhere. the bureau wanted a contingency. can we prosecute him in the u.s. if he was relea...