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Jon: we're just finding out about this now? >> yeah. jon: patti ann browne thank you. >> thanks. jenna: as you continue to fight the war in afghanistan a new report raising serious questions about how we're going after our known enemies. a year-and-a-half ago the united states blacklisted the deadly haqqani network. that is a deadly terrorist organization that is the designation we gave them. this pakistani-based al qaeda ally is responsible for some of our deadly attacks on our soldiers in afghanistan. the designation is designed to crack down on them in myriad of ways especially who finances...

There's another target. and there is someone who knows much more about this man than i, and that's cnn terrorist analyst. paul, you wrote a piece on this person. i believe you called him one of the most dangerous comapsders in the terrorist group al shabaab. i'm curious about that he's seriously dangerous in africa. but what about us in the u.s. how bad a guy is he to this country? >> well, al shabaab, the tir rift group said they want to launch attacks in the united states. that may actually be beyond their capability, but they said they want to kill americans across east africa. that was wha...

Government's ability to snoop. we'll talk to a cyber terrorist analyst who taught for the nsa and separate fact from fiction. we are just learning shocking information about some of the people who could decide his fate, the jury controversy next. what makes your family smile?

Today members of the u.s. congressional delegation to russia are talking about their fact-finding trip. they went to talk about the boston marathon bombing. some saying they believe the bombings could have been prevented in there had been better cooperation between russian and u.s. intelligence officials. a group of six lawmakers spent a week in the russian capital meeting with russian government and intelligence officials. an nbc news terrorist analyst. good to have you, sir. congressman dana warbalker. we we'll talk about it on the other side. >> had better relations and should have had the ...

"inspire" magazine. that is the al qaeda magazine, an online magazine, which tells interested people how to do these kind of things. we are told by the source that the man had acquired all material and was even going so far as to drill holes in a pipe bomb. he was going to use homemade ingredients in order to detonate this device and the device, had he put it together correctly, would, in fact, have worked. we're being told that he planned to target service men, men -- service men and women returning from iraq. he also intended on targeting police stations or post offices, and again,...