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>> colonel leighton, do we know what kind of mental health checks are done on, i mean, we know that pilots are certainly heavily scrutinized. you're in the military, the flights that followed him, the f-15s. they go through rigorous testing. what about these ground agents? are there protocols to change that and make it more rigorous for everybody working at the parp airport? i am trying to understand, how on earth can a man like this, in this position, get access to that and do what he did. >> absolutely, christi. the problem is there are no protocol for people like ground service agents or mo...

Ran surveillance operations in chicago back in the '80s when most of our resources were dedicated to following mafia members. i could tell you, i had a squad of 28 ground agents each with undercover vehicles and assortments of equipment and vehicles photography equipment night vision goggles, and eight full-time pilots and to follow one mafia member took the entire squad. so when you're talking in this country of having hundreds if not thousands of isis want to bes that need watching because you don't really know what's going on inside their head and at what moment they might break bad is easi...

Traffic even if they say i'm going to texas to do an attack. somebody has to report that. the fbi and intelligence agencies just aren't tracking the tens of thousands of postings to anything actually but specifically attacks. >> you know tom, i was amazed to read the numbers. that for every one person under surveillance it takes 30 agents. why so many? >> because i ran surveillance squad in chicago for two years. at the time mostly following organized crime figures who were looking out for surveillance. that's what it takes. i had a squad of 30. and to put 24-hour coverage on somebody for a we...

The dni, which is supposed to draw all of thieves entities together, his office says that he believes that every agency involved in collecting and sharing prior to the attack took all of the appropriate steps. so, let me ask you this. jonathan, if they took all of the appropriate steps how could they have missed what this guy was up to? >> well those are great words coming from what i call a senior executive, and that's typical. obviously the system missed some things. the ground agents are the heros in this show. but typically these executives in the political movement, they are still infight...

In what happened here. >> the two awaiting agents took defensive postures with ivy who was about 20-yards away. each believing the silhouette pointing the weapon was a bad guy they started firing. >> it is amazing that we have gone this many years without seeing more incidents like this. >> it is unclear who tripped the sensor that alerted the agents but it has been definitively established that no one other than the agents was at the scene when the gun fire ehe runed. >> you as a representative of these agents have concerns about is the fact there are so many new agents with a lack of experie...