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this had actually transpired? >> yeah. so this has really all gone down in the last few weeks. the fbi immediately scrambled to try to locate, investigate, assess the backgrounds of all the different individuals who had come into the country through the work of this facilitation network. the u.s. also broke up the smuggling network and turkey at the behest of the united states detained the isis linked smuggler involved in this group and that allowed the u.s. pretty quickly to determine that this person was really more like an independent contractor. he was not a member of isis. he was somebody who had personal sympathies with the group which gave them confidence pretty early on that this was more of a human smuggling case than it was a potential terrorism case. so for some officials that we spoke to, this whole episode is really evidence of the system working the way it should. the u.s. received additional intelligence about a group of migrants inside the united states. they investigated. and they determined that they likely did not present a counterterrorism threat. but for some counterterrorism and intelligence officials we

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