herridge works intelligence for us and is live tonight in washington. catherine? shepard seemed to be focused on this evening specifically for investigators based on a conversation i had earlier is the simultaneous nature of the attacks and then also the size and scope of the number of individuals involved. so we have simultaneous nature. we have at least six sites. you have to count on, i was told, approximately two to three individuals per site. 1 to 2 to execute and at least another or a second for preattack surveillance and to case the operation and the existing security. in addition, you have to consider the reporting of suicide bombers, that means at least one bomb maker was involved and to transport the bombers who the site. thirdly, you have to consider the concert hall.
that s five dead, catherine, you mental as many as two dozen vlvedded in the planning or execution of which. catherine, it is before this moment it wooivel very hard to imagine that two dozen people could get together, plan and execute such a thing underkisk watchful eye of a city at it highest terror alert after an attack that happened in just january. unknown which group was behind it, shepard. but all of the evidence5e points to significant premeditation, significant planning as well as a support network and a support structure in france. in addition, regardless hough was responsible, it really flies in the face of this sort of characterization of the current terrorist groups like isis as effectively focused on very regional issues. and what i mean by that in very plain terms is that they are focused on getting territory where they are and holding that territory and
and i don t think that from what we have gotten from french authorities they don t know. this simplicity of the dispatch is unknown number of terrorists still on the run. you know, i said earlier, shep, when we first had the news and i was reacting more as an emotional dad than as a reporter that i thought it was france s 9/11. the more catherine herridge and you report the scope of this, these coordinated attacks, we i don t know. is it four locations now? they figure a couple of dozen of these attackers. six locations. six locations. so how recommendation first of all, i got a text from bernie kerik former police commissioner dear friend of mine what a collosal failure of intelligence that something of this magnitude. this is a major, major operation involving, perhaps, scores of terrorists. how could it be that that could be coordinated and no one in the vaunted french intelligence service even picked up a whisper? no one in the cia picking up
outlining the government s use of drones. it claims the attack on anwar al awlaki was legal because he was the leader of an enemy force and the right to due process does not always apply if it s too big a burden for the government. let me repeat. the right to due process does not apply if it s too big a burden for the government. so they can just kill you if it s too hard to arrest you. catherine her around herridge is live in d.c. these are astonishing findings. i don t know how they do this. what is interesting about the report it does lay out in black and white the things you have been talking about at length on your show, specific specifically with rise of islamic roots, the report found no indication that
after the bombings happened. tamerlan tsarnaev and his brother, dzhokar tsarnaev, are the sole suspects of the attacks at the boston marathon finish line, killing three people and injured more than 200 others. tamerlan tsarnaev died days after the attack during a gun battle with police. his brother faces the death penalty. catherine her around has more herridge is live. what we understand from lawmakers who have been briefed-is places some blame on the russian government in 2011 russian officials warned the fbi and then the cia that tamerlan tsarnaev was a follower of radical is lamb and was preparing to travel to dagestan to meet with extremist groups but only after the bombing that russia provided the fbi with