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Just been as stunned as the rest of us. and perhaps one of the strangest elements of all of this deals with the internet rant i mentioned earlier. this man's online diatribe that begins with the line "if you are reading this, you are no doubt asking yourself why did this have to happen?" and we were. rick leventhal our senior correspondent in the new york newsroom on that internet posting. >> it's really something, shepard. he rales against the government closings of air force bases. the.com bust of the 1990s andnd the effects 9/11 had on his business but most anger directed at the internal re...

Definition, the act of an insane person. the software engineer crashing his plane into an office building that houses federal offices setting off a raging fire. they identified the pilot as andrew joseph stackiii. officials now investigating what appears to be obvious that the pilot crashes his plane on purpose in an effort to blow up the irs offices. at one point in his note mr. stack describing more than 30 years with battles with the irs. he expressed anger at bailouts at the expense of the middle class, mr. stack concluding nothing changes unless there's a body count. elsewhere on the web ...

But what we know is that the federal officials tell us this is joseph andrew stack who flew the plane into the building, and they said that the plane is owned by him, and his house has been set on fire. and, now they say that he has left this suicide note on this website which ends with the words "well, mr. big brother irs man, let's try something different. take my pound of flesh and sleep well." does fact that he is maybe targeting the irs and flown this plane into the building of a local building that houses the irs make it a federal crime? >> yes, it is a federal crime, and the fbi would b...

Homeland security, but a federal law enforcement official who identified the person flying the plane as joseph andrew stack, and according to this official they believe they owned the blane that crashed into the building, a piper aircraft and he owned the house that was burning in the austin area and it appears he was the one that set it on fire. when we asked, was this suicide, this official said "it looks like it." let me also tell you, ali, that we've heard from the white house travel pool that president obama was briefed on this situation by his counterterrorism adviser john brennan, altho...

That i want to interrupt for a second of joseph andrew stack, 53-year-old, who is believed to be the pilot who flew that small plane into the building in austin. back to the news conference. >> we have great security at the federal buildings. again, private aircraft, and this can happen. it is vulnerability, a weakness that we hope that the terrorists don't exploit. if a small aircraft can do that kind of damage, a larger aircraft like a gulfstream could do greater damage. so this is something on the -- i'm on the homeland security committee, and something we will obviously take a look at in t...