Page 2 - Terrorism Plots News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

They're masterminds. a lot of them are basically petty crooks and criminals. they have long criminal records of petty crimes and low-level crimes before turning to jihad. >> well, that's absolutely right, but it's a skill set that's equipped them well for organizing these terrorism plots. and one of the things they find it really easy to get hold of are weapons, kalashnikovs. they have all the contacts they need from the days back when they were part of the neighborhood gang in molenbeek. they were involved in robberies in the area. so it would be very easy for them to gain hold of these kind ...

Security advisers, some of them, concluded, have embraced this theory that if this metadata collection had been in place before 9/11, it could have prevented 9/11. >> this is a nonsensical claim. what would have prevented 9/11 is if the cnn and the fbi have been sharing information that they gained by conventional means that they didn't share with each other. that's an untestable hypothesis. what we do know is that conventional law enforcement techniques and the government actually understanding the information they already possess is the way that you stop terrorism plots, not like a sort of h...

Ahead of us and our technology and laws. we should look at this. if secelebrities can create interest and tell people to look at what lawmakers and whistle blowers have said, that's important. but we can't remember that this technology is responsible for stopping more than 12 terror plots. this is important, we just have to think about the right sort of protections. sbl shaging yo shaking your head, david. go ahead. >> propublica, the investigative journalism site investigated the concern of terrorism plots. there's absolutely no evidence offered to the public or members of congress that this ...

U.s. intelligence be an active par tis paint in being able to thwart koupter terrorism plots at the same time authorities are not asking for the ugs assistance right now. the law enforcement job is being done by kenya authorities and israeli authorities right there and now. we can train them on how to take down a building, but beyond that, there's not much we can do. there's no internet. there's no american plens to speak of. >> there's no real government right now. you know, what do you do? you just hope this burns itself out fairly quickly. >> all right.

The past. heather: it puts our sources at risk as well. peter, you mentioned nsa. so i will just ask this question. what if it was edward snowden that had leaked all this information? >> well, i mean obviously that's troubling and people do know a lot more now about our intelligence collection programs. i mean obviously this is a devisive issue between civil libertarians and national security types. but the same sort of thing here, i believe that these programs are, you know, are legal, they're constitutional and they protect our national security. and as we've seen in the past, these have bro...