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National security analysts and tom used to be the fbi former assistant director. tom, first to you and then fran, same question, what do you make of this? >> well, this is, you know, not uncommon. back in 2006, the canadians uncovered a plot later referred to as the toronto 18, and it was a collaborative investigation in canada between their intelligence service and the royal canadian mounted police and the fbi and at the time i was still running international operations at the fbi. we provided assistance to them, phone record checks and people traveling around, you know, with connections to t...

That people involved in this plot under surveillance for some time, they decided to make the arrest. brooke, we should point out that as of now there are no links to the boston marathon bombings. and no links to an earlier plot we learned of in algeria earlier this year where two canadians were also implicated. right now, this seems to be a plot that rcnp here in canada are uncovering. they'll give us more details in a few minutes. i should also say, brooke, this was apparently extensive help from u.s. intelligence and authorities. brooke? >> how long had authorities been watching these suspec...

Then end up for lack of a better term bugging, whether residences or cell phones and listen to each and everything done in those homes, on computers, on cell phones and they think that is the best way to elicit evidence and keep the public safe without making premature arrests without having the evidence they need. we have a trial open in canada, which was a situation, jake, canadian authorities went into a home and were trying to set up bombs with circuit boards and they had gone to this home, replaced the real circuit boards with dummy boards and didn't -- and let the -- you know, the allege...