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Broke the story and here's what eli lake explained. >> i would say it was not a telephone conference call in that sense. it was a remote conference, where people are in and it's -- it is something like a teleconference. >> something like a teleconference? so we wanted to find out exactly what that means. how does al qaeda talk? and we wanted to figure it out. tom foreman did it and has an "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: when al qaeda leaders in far flung corners of the earth need to talk with each other, they don't pick up the phone. security analysts say they jump on the internet using...

To us. sophisticated encryption software and legal system, is there anything the government can do at all to stop them? >> i think there are a lot of government can and should do. there are technical responses to making use of the new cyber command where we focus for many years on the vulnerability that we face on cyber crimes, but we have some capability we should be using on our own against people like this for exactly this kind of purpose. >> julie: if wikileaks doesn't agree to stop publishing more classified documents aren't they compromising national security? >> yes, they are. the admin...

>> the hacker who says he tip off the army to wikileaks suspect bradley manning now says at least two m.i.t. students may be involved. barbara starr joins us live from the pentagon this morning. this is an interesting connection. how much do we know about it? >> reporter: well, information really just emerging. good morning, john and kiran. adrian lamo, the former computer hacker who did tip off federal authorities to private 1st class manning now says two men at m.i. 26 t., the massachusetts institution of technology in the boston area were involved in this, they had communications with manni...

Lamo says two men from the massachusetts institute of technology in the boston area say they helped manning and one claiming to have allegedly taught manning, the private, how to use encryption software, and now the investigation clearly expanding into the civilian arena, the fbi and justice department looking at this potential boston leak. they will look at the civilian side of this, and the military will focus on private first class bradley manning. defense secretary robert gates still says in his view that this hurts troops in the field, that all of these leaked documents give a road map to...

This widening investigation now, adrian lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to private manning, the main suspect according to the pentagon in this case, lamo says there are two men at m.i. 2679, tm.i.t who say they helped manning use encryption software which may have been used in this matter of the leaked documents. lamo is refusing to identify the men at m.i.t. he has one has already threatened him but this is a real indicator of the widening of this investigation. now civil authorities, the fbi called in to it. defense secretary robert gates continues to talk...