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Acts in the united states. >> pete, how thick is the case law on this not using the miranda warning, how many instances of this do we have that have gone through the system? >> well, it has gone all the way to the supreme court, so there's no doubt that the public safety exception exists, the government has used it before. they exercise it at the beginning and again with ab due ma tal he have. you can understand it. in a terrorism case, it makes sense. you're trying to find out are there other plots, co-c co-conspirato co-conspirators, there's public safety consideration and the courts recogni...

So it's not a highly sophisticated bomb. the tools used to build it would be readily available and it wouldn't be that difficult to do. i would like to make another point, anderson. there's been much discussing about isn't this terrorism, it's criminal. first of all, terrorism is a crime. so it's automatically a criminal case. but secondly, if it was not terrorism, the fbi would not be in charge. it would be boston pd run thing case. so it's clear the authorities are absolutely clear. this is a terrorism investigation. it's a terrorism case. and one of the politicians are worried about it soun...

Terrorism. >> the awe roar ca tragedy -- roar rah tragedy, true tragedy, is under investigation, and i don't want to get too much into the comment on that because there's a lot we still don't know. >> is there a federal presence and so torte in an -- forth in an investigation of that type? >> yes. >> reporter: but a recruitment center shooting in the summer of 2009 by carlos bledsoe who described himself as an operative for al-qaeda in yemen was not handled as a terrorism case. it was prosecuted in arkansas state court. and, as you mentioned, the fort hood massacre in november of 2009 where 13...

Move, the underwear bomber umar farouk abdulmutallab has changed his plea to guilty today. this is the second day of his trial. he faces a sentence of life in prison. pete williams now joins us. what is the reason for the change? when is involved in the evidence or in his own decision-making? >> it's all in his own mind and he has not said why. his lawyer says it is against the lawyer's advice. there were things he was trying to keep out of the trial that the judge said the jury could hear, pictures and other evidence and apparently enough was enough and he decided to plead guilty. a lot of pe...

Front islamic organizations for the muslim brotherhood set up in the united states, and now operating, infiltrating our government. this is not an opinion, this is a fact that was presented in -- in a terrorism case. >> brigitte, again, i want to drill down. i know about that case. i was a prosecutor -- in fact, we were involved in generating evidence before that case. you have not given me the name of a single individual -- you list every major aspect of our government. the cia, the fbi, the state department, name one person who you can say is infiltrated in those institutions by radical isla...