tea welcome back to the second half of outfront where we start with stories we focus on reporting from the front lines. i want to begin in boston where the marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev wants to add another attorney to his legal team. not just any lawyer. he wants to add a man named david brock. this is according to the boston herald. he is a death penalty specialist who helped keep an al qaeda plane hijacker and susan smith, the mother who stramd her two children into her car and let it roll into a lake, off death row. taxpayers would food the bill as well as defending tsarnaev which could be nearly three quarters of a million dollars, according to the report on defender services. there is a big showdown on capitol hill. something democrats and republicans are needing to tray to defuse a nuclear option. an actual missile it is not although many americans wouldn t be sad to see them go.
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someone like anwr al awlaki, who s more dangerous? who do we actually need to go and find? is it al awlaki who has ties to the ft. od shooter, who at least was inspiring to the christmas day bomber sorry, to the times square bomber and had also had ties with the christmas day plane hijacker? well, there s no doubt about the fact that symbolically bin laden is still in a class by himself. but i do think you make an important point. over the years we have eliminated or incapacitated the operational leaders, and now, of course, we see replacement leaders coming up. taking out that level of leadership is a critical part of the strategy because they are the most experienced planners, they are the people who have schemes and train and launch the atcks.ke so while we d all like to get bin laden, the fact is getting these operational leaders is a critical part of success. and al awlaki is on the internet.
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