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>> same question, peter, to you. how much of a threat do these groups represent to the u.s.? >> the yemin-american of the group is writing in propaganda to show up from terrorism cases. "inspire" magazine, the magazine of al qaeda in yemen, continues to be produced and shows up in terrorism cases. you don't absolutely need somebody from the united states training with these groups. these groups are through the internet who may have direct connection in terms of training in yell. or somalia. that happens, too. >> peter bergen, thanks very much. bob barrett, thanks to you. barbara starr, excelle...

You heard the conversation with u.s. counter terrorism officials saying these first two weeks they have seen nothing that would indicate terrorism, if you will, so indicated on that deductive logic, they're increasingly thinking this could have been some sort of accident, catastrophic failure, or maybe even pilot suicide, something along those lines? >> i can understand why they would think that and want to come to a conclusion that it's not terrorism. >> they haven't come to a formal conclusion, this is what they're thinking. >> what they're thinking isn't as important as what the person comm...

You have the entire military infrastructure in that part of the world is decayed. it doesn't work. there is nobody even manning the sites let alone manning them in the middle of the night. it would be very easy to get a jet in that air space. the problem would be hiding it once it got on the ground. so if wasn't picked up in central asia, it doesn't surprise me at all. even kazakhstan is a fairly advanced country but even their radar isn't very good. >> do you want to discuss that, mary? >> it depends. i'm reluctant to pick on other countries of the world because i'm remembering back to septem...

Allies have conducted or at any time, any type of espionage activity against the united states of america, intelligence services, leaders or otherwise? >> absolutely. >> do we know of any cases of this actually happening in recent years? >> well, i don't know that i can talk openly in terms of what we know about our foreign intelligence agencies and how they operate and target people in the united states? but i think it would be naive to presume that they are not very active in trying to collect on us even though we are allies. it does happen. at the same time, i have a concern about this pote...

Checks generally? >> they're supposed to be very extensive. each one has a different level of things to get that clearance, these are done by contractors and whether you get a good one or not depends on who that is contracted out to and particular investigators. >> all right wh. i was an intern for three months in 1978, the fbi did a background check on me and everybody else, whatever happened to the fbi doing background checks? we don't have money or man power? >> they still do background checks for certain positions this the government. white house level positions and other position that's r...