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Information. all of this remains to be proven in a court of law, but nonetheless the hacker says two men at mit told him they tried to help manning. they gave him encryption software. at least one of them did. now, defense secretary robert gates is offering the real bottom line here. the clue about how he thinks this may have all happened, how one person in the u.s. military could have downloaded tens of thousands of classified documents. >> had he tried to do this or had whoever did this tried to do it at a rear headquarters overseas or pretty much anywhere here in the u.s., we have controls ...

Into bp's crippled well in the gulf of mexico in a bid to seal it permanently, and we're hearing that the knowledge of whether it worked will be -- come to us in about hours, not days. final tests being completed today to allow that to happen. all right. i want to tell you a little bit about the wikileaks investigation. we're going to talk to barbara starr in just a moment, but the man who tipped off the federal government about the wikileaks suspect in custody, a u.s. army private called bradley manning, he now says that two m.i.t. students claim to have given manning the encryption softwar...

The army private charged with leaking classified material to the web site wikileaks may have had some outside help. they say private manning wouldn't have know how to send out the encryption software to those documents. retired army general barrett mccaffrey joins us live. good morning, general. >> good morning, alex. the london newspapers are saying there are hundreds of names of informants that have been identified, so they're going to scramble, they're going to try to get out to these villages, and you couldn't put a witness protection program together that quickly. and by the way, the tali...

Mistaken that you reported isis has something approaching a 24-hour computer help desk for all their electronic means they use to communicate beyond the reach of law enforcement? >> that's what we've been told, that this is a development that isis has been working on for probably the past several nts no, ramping the capability up. we should emphasize that intelligence officials say they don't yet know how the plotters kept in touch. but one official says he would be shocked if they didn't use some method of communication that the police couldn't monitor. that's been a question here, why weren'...

All their electronic means they use to communicate beyond the reach of law enforcement? >> that's what we've been told, that this is a development that isis has been working on for probably the past several months, ramping the capability up. we should emphasize that intelligence officials say they don't yet know how the plotters kept in touch. but one official says he would be shocked if they didn't use some method of communication that the police couldn't monitor. that's been a question here, why weren't the french authorities better aware that this was going to happen. but when you're talkin...