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Fashion with another element of the terrorist network. they believe that they were boasting, if you will, with very specific information about the bomb, the airplane and the attack. they're not exactly saying why, u.s. government officials that is, that they're not dismissing that as just simply a boast as terrorist groups often claim responsibility for attacks. this message however was not a public claim of responsibility. the u.s. monitored it in classified u.s. channels. not something that the u.s. was meant to hear by isis in sinai. so very much a focus trying to figure out what all of tha...

These developments are all happen on the same day that the head of the airport security, as well as three chiefs were fired amid the discovery of lax security measures. hours after the crash an isis affiliate claimed responsibility, but egyptian and russian authorities have dismissed it. today, the group reiterated its claim but shared no new evidence. american intelligence sources say none of the passengers or crew members were linked to any terrorist network. joining us now is evan coleman, a research developer for flash point, michael kay a senior adviser for the uk ministry of defense who ...

>> do you think this underscores the need to have human intelligence on the ground? >> oh, my goodness, yes. human intelligence is critical in this environment. we cannot rely on drones or phone intercepts. knowing what is over the wall can only be done if you have penetrated the terrorist network. in this case i do believe intelligence should have been there to tell us where these guys were being -- were the taliban were actually hanging out and this is where thes can connect may have come. but the more human intelligence you have, the more you have inside the network, the betters the chances...

But not to where they could be apprehended? maybe it was an investigation where they were doing surveillance on a terrorist network. maybe perhaps there was a suspension that he travelled to syria. that does appear to be a possibility that the gunman travelled to syria. they're investigating that right now. they're not able to arrest him and move forward to a prosecution. there's a big problem because you have hundreds of extremists coming back from iraq and many of them are being detained, but some are not able to actually have charges against them because the evidence is not

Number at such and such a time and we talked for so many minutes but they wouldn't have that information. the reason it's important is because if there's a suspect number if they believe that there's a terrorist and they get access to his phone number they can then check to see whether or not that number has called any number in the united states. if that number has called any number and there by conceivably you could detect and roll up a terrorist network, so we won't have that protection anymore. if it's a matter of a few hours or a day or so, i suppose it's not a huge deal. but if it drags ...