Administrations trying to keep his sources secret after uncovering classified government programs, including spying on americans. Will you divulge your source . No. Stahl never. Never, no. Basically, the choice the governments given me is give up everything i believe or go to jail. So im not going to talk. Hes a monster that happened to rise up in a criminal organization that was making billions of dollars. Whitaker the monster hes talking about was the head of an International Drug cartel that put more narcotics on u. S. Streets than any other in history. Known as el chapo, he became the most wanted man in the world, infamous for his James Bondlike escape from authority. The tub. Look at this. The escape hatch. What was the end of the line like for public enemy number one . Thats our story tonight. Im steve kroft. Im lesley stahl. Im morley safer. Im bob simon. Im bill whitaker. Im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. My name is karen and i have diabetic nerve pain. 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Pelley james comey, the director of the f. B. I. , says the internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable, meaning that, online, youll get mugged in ways that you never saw coming. We saw what he meant this month when jp morgan chase, the nations largest bank, admitted that its system was looted for weeks by computer criminals who stole personal information from 83 million customers. Last week on 60 minutes, we spoke to james comey about terrorism. Tonight, a surprising conversation about our lives online not only the criminal menace, but also snooping by agencies like the f. B. I. What does americas top cop think of government surveillance . Well, as we said, its a surprising conversation. James comey i believe that americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. Thats why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest. Pelley with regard to privacy and civil liberties, what guarantee are you willing to give to the American People . Comey the promise ive tried to honor my entire career that the rule of law and the design of the founders, right, the oversight of courts and the oversight of congress will be at the heart of what the f. B. I. Does, the way youd want it to be. Pelley does the f. B. I. Gather electronic surveillance that is then passed to the National Security agency . Comey thats one of those things i dont know whether i can talk about that in an open setting, so i. I better not start to go down that road with you. Pelley you have said, we shouldnt be doing anything that we cant explain. But these programs are top secret. The American People cant see them and you cant explain them. Comey right. We cant explain everything to everybody, or the bad guys will find out what our capabilities are, both nations and individuals. What i mean is i need to be able to explain it either directly to the American People or to their elected representatives, which we do extensively with congress. Pelley there is no surveillance without court order . Comey by the f. B. I. . No. We dont do electronic surveillance without a court order. Pelley you know that some people are going to roll their eyes when they hear that . Comey yeah, but we cannot read your emails or listen to your calls without going to a federal judge, making a showing of probable cause that you are a terrorist, an agent of a foreign power, or a serious criminal of some sort, and get permission for a limited period of time to intercept those communications. It is an extremely burdensome process, and i like it that way. Pelley thats a principle over which james comey is willing to sacrifice his career. He proved it in 2004 when he was Deputy Attorney general. Comey was asked to reauthorize a package of top secret warrantless surveillance targeting foreign terrorists. But comey told us significant aspects of the massive program were not lawful. He wouldnt be specific because its still top secret. This was not something you were willing to stand for . Comey no, i was the Deputy Attorney general of the United States. We were not going to authorize, reauthorize, or participate in activities that did not have a lawful basis. Pelley at the time, comey was in charge at the Justice Department because attorney general John Ashcroft was in intensive care with nearfatal pancreatitis. When comey refused to sign off, the president s chief of staff, andy card, headed to the hospital to get ashcrofts okay. You got in a car with lights and sirens and raced to the hospital to beat the president s chief of staff there . Comey yep, raced over there, ran up the stairs, got there first. Pelley what did you tell the attorney general, lying in his hospital bed . Comey not much, because he was very, very bad off. I tried to see whether he was oriented as to place and time, and it was clear to me that he wasnt. I tried to have him understand what this was about. And it wasnt clear to me that he understood what i was saying, so i sat down to wait. Pelley to wait for andy card, the president s chief of staff . Comey yeah, and thenwhite House Counsel gonzales. Pelley they spoke to attorney general ashcroft and said that the program should be reauthorized, and you were there to argue that it should not be. How did it end . Comey with the attorney general surprising me, shocking me by pushing himself up on his elbows, and in very strong terms, articulating the merits of the matter. And then saying, but. But that doesnt matter, because im not the attorney general. And then he turned to me and pointed and said, theres the attorney general. And then he fell back, and they turned and left. Pelley youd won the day . Comey yeah, i didnt feel that way. Pelley how did you feel . Comey probably a little sick, and a little sense of unreality that this was happening. Pelley the next day, some in the white house tried to force the authorization through a different way, so comey wrote a letter of resignation to the president , calling the situation apocalyptic and fundamentally wrong. He left the letter on his desk, and he and f. B. I. Director Robert Mueller went to the white house to resign. Comey yeah. We stood there together, waiting to go meet the president , looking out at the rose garden, both of us knowing this was our last time there and the end of our government careers. Pelley wasnt it your responsibility to support the president . Comey no. No, my responsibility, i took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States. Pelley this was something the president wanted to go forward with. And you were standing in front of the president of the United States telling him he shouldnt do it, and if he did, youd quit. Do i have that right . Comey i dont think i expressly threatened to quit at any point. But that was understood. Pelley president bush was persuaded. The program that weve discussed, as i understand it, was in fact reauthorized, but in a modified form . It was made to conform to the law, in your estimation . Comey yes. Pelley help me understand the principle at stake here that caused you to write a letter of resignation, to rush to the attorney generals bedside, to tell the president that he couldnt have what he wanted, and to face down the president s chief of staff. What was it that motivated that . Comey the rule of law. Simple as that. Pelley we talked with comey, who is 68, at his headquarters in washington. In technology, the cutting edge cuts both ways, and comey told us hes worried now that apple and google have the power to upend the rule of law. Until now, a judge could order those companies to unlock a criminal suspects phone. But their new software makes it impossible for them to crack a code set by the user. Comey the notion that we would market devices that would allow someone to place themselves beyond the law troubles me a lot. As a country, i dont know why we would want to put people beyond the law that is, sell cars with trunks that couldnt ever be opened by Law Enforcement with a court order, or sell an apartment that could never be entered, even by Law Enforcement. Would you want to live in that neighborhood . This is a similar concern. The notion that people have devices, again, that, with court orders based on a showing of probable cause in a case involving kidnapping or Child Exploitation or terrorism, we could never open that phone . My sense is that weve gone too far when weve gone there. Pelley the f. B. I. Is spending a lot of its time online these days. This is a new cybercrime headquarters that the public hasnt seen before. We agreed to keep the location secret. They call it cywatch, and it pulls in resources from the c. I. A. , n. S. A. , and others. Comeys agents are running down leads in the theft of jp morgans data. Often in cases like that, the suspects are overseas. So the trouble is, in cyberspace, where do you put the handcuffs . Comey its too easy for those criminals to think that i can sit in my basement halfway around the world and steal everything that matters to an american. And its a freebie, because im so far away. Pelley a lot of those people are operating in countries where theyre not going to be given up to the United States russia, china, elsewhere. Comey yep, a challenge that we face, so we try to approach that two ways. One, work with all foreign nations to try and have them understand that its in nobodys interest to have criminal thugs in your country, and second, again, to look to lay hands on them if they leave those safe havens to impose a real cost on them. We want them looking over their shoulders when theyre sitting at the keyboard. Pelley when the phone rings in the middle of the night, which im sure it does, whats your first thought . Comey something has blown up. Yeah. Pelley its terrorism that concerns you the most, even after all we said about cyber crime. Comey yeah, i think thats right, because its terrorism that can have the most horrific, Immediate Impact on innocent people. Pelley in the age of terrorism, the budget of the f. B. I. Has doubled, adding capabilities like this Reference Library for bombs. Since 2003, theyve analyzed 100,000 bombs sent here from 40 nations. From blasted remains like this circuit board, they can piece together the what and the how that lead to the who. Its just some of the 21st Century Technology that is transforming the 106yearold bureau. We also saw a new virtual world, where agents are put through any nightmare that instructors can program into their goggles. Comey to their minds eye, theyre in an alley or theyre in an Apartment Building or theyre coming into a house, because the computer can create that through the Virtual Reality glasses that they wear. Its a great way to be able to train lots of people for lots of different missions, all in a big empty room. F. B. I. let me see your hands pelley were told that the deadliest avatar is a little old lady with a handgun. Subject detained pelley we also traveled to a town that doesnt exist on any map. Its a crime scene training ground. And when we were there, the agents were using lasers to figure out from which direction shots were fired. A fog machine reveals the beam in daylight, but in this indoor town, it can be night if need be. With what the f. B. I. Can do expanding so rapidly, james comey keeps this memo right on his desk to remind him of what the bureau shouldnt do. Marked secret, its a 1963 request from f. B. I. Director j. Edgar hoover titled Martin Luther king, jr. Security matter communist. Hoover requests authority for technical surveillance of king. The approval is signed by attorney general robert kennedy. And there was no court order. It was the signature of the f. B. I. Director and the signature of the attorney general . Comey yep. And then, openended no time limit, no space restriction, no review, no oversight. Pelley and given the threats in the world today, wouldnt that make your job so much easier . Comey in a sense, but in. Also in a sense, we would give up so much that makes sure that were rooted in the rule of law that id never want to make that trade. Pelley some of the worst of the f. B. I. s history is in its investigation of dr. King. So, on comeys orders, f. B. I. Academy instructors now bring new agents here to talk about values lost in the pursuit of the man who became a monument. Character, courage, collaboration, competence. 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Hes been subpoenaed to divulge his Confidential Sources in a separate federal criminal trial. He appealed the subpoena all the way up to the supreme court, but the court turned down his petition. Now, if he doesnt name names, he could go to jail. Will you divulge your source . James risen no. Stahl never . Risen never, no. Basically, the choice the governments given me is give up everything i believe or go to jail. So, im not going to. Im not going to talk. Stahl those who know jim risen say he isnt bluffing, that hes stubborn, curmudgeonly and dogged. Sometimes you get yourself in trouble. Risen yeah, the governments been after me for quite a while now, so. Stahl well, because of what you publish, not personal, right . Risen feels personal. laughs stahl he says the current standoff with the government began in 2004 over what would become the biggest story of his career, that would win the Pulitzer Prize the topsecret warrantless wiretap program run by the National Security agency. Risen it was called no such agency. And it was this massive part of the Intelligence Community that almost no one ever wrote about. What they were supposed to do was spy on foreigners, electronic eavesdropping of foreign people overseas. Basically, what i found out about was they had suddenly turned this giant eavesdropping operation at the n. S. A. Onto the American People, in secret, and thats what the story was. Stahl were they actually listening in or just recording that metadata . Risen they were doing both. They had the content and they were getting the metadata. Stahl after 9 11, president bush authorized the n. S. A. To listen in on americans suspected of ties with al qaeda without a judicial warrant, as required by law. Risen i get these people who start telling me, in the government and elsewhere, theres this huge secret i cant tell you about. Stahl did they say they were upset about it, that it. Risen yes. They were tortured by what they knew. But they were frightened at the same time. Stahl over the next six months, he pieced the story together about the n. S. A. Surveillance program, then called the n. S. A. S Press Office for a comment. Risen i said, i need to speak right now to mike hayden, the n. S. A. Director. Stahl the head of n. S. A you say that . Risen the head of n. S. A. And i said, i cant tell you why. Its urgent. But i got to talk to him right now. And i was bluffing. But she. To my shock, she put him on the phone immediately. And so as soon as hayden got on the phone, i read him the top of the draft of the story, the first few paragraphs. And i heard this gasp . laughs and i knew i had him right there. Stahl its a conversation general mike hayden will never forget. So, what was your first reaction when you realized that the New York Times was on to the n. S. A. Story . Mike hayden well, first reaction was, this is not good news. This was a program that we relied on a great deal. It was covering al qaeda operatives inside the United States communicating with al qaeda overseas and abroad. Stahl the f. B. I. Doesnt do that . Hayden well, not the way we did it. Stahl he acknowledges the n. S. A. Program was unarguably inconsistent with the 1978 law prohibiting the agency from eavesdropping on americans without first obtaining a Court Warrant. Hayden it was warrantless, but not unwarranted. It wouldve been irresponsible for n. S. A. Not to have done this in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of 9 11. Stahl but it was eavesdropping on americans . That was the story. Hayden you know, one has to choose words carefully here, all right. We were allowed to Intercept International calls. Stahl had to be overseas. Hayden had to be overseas. And we already had reason to believe that one or both ends of the call were affiliated with al qaeda. Stahl besides, government lawyers assured him that the president s authority as commanderinchief trumped the 1978 law. In their view, the program was both legal and constitutional, though, he acknowledges, just barely. Hayden hey, i knew we were playing up against the line. Stahl so, what youre telling us is that you went into this knowing that if it came out. Hayden oh, god, yes. Stahl . Thered be questions of legality . Hayden of course, and appropriateness and abuse. Stahl thats why you didnt want it to come out . See, thats what jim risen says you didnt want to be embarrassed. Hayden let me. Let me turn it, okay . Jims going to go to jail. Why . Because jim wants to protect his sources. Were both in the same business you and me, jim and me. You have sources who remain productive only as long as you can protect them from exposure. Exposing our tactics, techniques, procedures, sources, and methods harms us as much as mr. Risen would be harmed if he were forced in court to expose his source. Stahl what followed was an allout effort by the Bush White House to kill the story. Bill keller, then executive editor of the times, was summoned to the white house for a meeting with general hayden and other top officials. Do you think that they were more worried about losing this tool to fight terrorism, or that they would be embarrassed by it because it was spying on americans . Bill keller i think both of those things concerned them. But it was a question of, if we publish this story, will it, to put it bluntly, cost lives . Stahl did they argue that, that it would cost lives . Keller yes. Theres also a context. I mean, it was not that long after 9 11, and i think all of us were affected by that. Stahl and so he decided not to run the story. Risen was livid. It was the latest runin with his editors, who he says had sided with the government on other stories of his involving National Security. What kept you from walking out . Risen i wanted to get that damn story in the paper. laughter it was the best story in my life, and i wasnt going to let anybody else write it. Stahl general hayden makes the argument that you didnt have the expertise or the knowledge to know the whole picture and to understand the whole picture. And i guess implicit in that argument is, who. Who the hell are you . Risen laughs yeah. Stahl im serious. Who elected you . Yeah. Risen the whole global war on terror has been classified. If we today had only had information that was officially authorized from the u. S. Government, we would know virtually nothing about the war on terror. Stahl he teamed up with another reporter, eric lichtblau, and together, they kept digging. Still, his editors were not persuaded and killed the story again, two months later, in december 2004. Risen the story was dead for good. I was furious, and i said to myself, im going to put that in my book. Stahl he was writing a book. And he was going to put several reports in it that his editors had killed, along with the n. S. A. Story. Jill abramson, then the times second in command, says that was a turning point. Jill abramson it would be potentially very embarrassing to the times to have this big story come out in jims book, and our readers would feel, why was this not in the New York Times . Stahl so he forced your hand . He did. Abramson in some ways, he forced our hand. Sure, he did. Stahl had you fallen under the sway of the post 9 11 concerns about safety in this country, security . Abramson i. I think that i had a bit, and i dont think i was alone. I think that the years right after 9 11 were a period when the Washington Press corps and i put myself very much in that group it wasnt our finest hour. It wasnt. Stahl by 2005, the atmosphere had changed. The iraq war had not gone well, and when no weapons of mass destruction were found, the bush administrations credibility suffered. That and the pressure of risens book led the times to put the story back in play. And then came a climactic meeting in the oval office among president bush and general hayden, bill keller, and the publisher of the times, arthur sulzberger, jr. Keller the president said, you know, if theres another attack like 9 11, were going to be called up before congress to explain how we let that happen. And you should be sitting alongside us. It was, in effect, you know, you could have blood on your hands. Stahl he was saying, if anything goes wrong, were going to blame you. Keller right. Stahl and you walk out with that on your chest. Keller yeah. Stahl despite that, the times went to press, running the story on december 16, 2005, more than a year after risen had first offered it. And it was explosive, triggering congressional hearings and an f. B. I. Investigation into who risens sources were. The administration also reached out to leslie moonves, head of cbs, whose simon and schuster division was the publisher of risens book, in an unsuccessful attempt to stop its publication. After more than two years, the f. B. I. Stopped pursuing the leak investigation into risens n. S. A. Story. Risen the bush administration, i think, decided they didnt want a constitutional showdown with the New York Times over a story like the n. S. A. Story. And so i think they decided to drop that investigation and then come after me on my book. Stahl they came after him about this chapter detailing a botched c. I. A. Operation called merlin involving Irans Nuclear weapons program. Well, it was classified information. Risen it was classified information, but i believed that the government was trying to cover up an embarrassment and it was not for National Security reasons. Stahl risen was subpoenaed in 2008 to divulge his sources on merlin. But when president obama was elected, he thought it would all be over. Risen now, everythings going to be fine. Stahl he had talked about transparency and protecting whistleblowers in the campaign. Risen yes. And i was shocked. They said, no, no, no, we want to keep this going, and they subpoenaed me again. Stahl what shocks him even more is that the Obama Administration has prosecuted more government leakers than all previous president s combined, and his Justice Department has seized the records of phone calls made by more than 100 a. P. Reporters and investigated a fox news correspondent under the espionage act. Risen in my case, its come out that they got my travel records, my credit reports, my credit card data, my phone records. Stahl from a Court Warrant . Risen no. Stahl from what . Risen its secret. They wont say how they got it. Stahl so, do you think that jim risen should be compelled to divulge his sources . Hayden i am, like america, conflicted, okay . Stahl really . Hayden i am. I am. Youre talking about ruining lives over things about which people are acting on principle, so id be very careful about it. Stahl so you would not be pursuing jim if you had the decision to make . Hayden frankly, lesley, i dont understand the necessity to pursue jim. Stahl youre shocking me that the former head of the n. S. A. Is saying that its coming down too hard. Hayden im conflicted. I know the damage that is done, and i do. But i also know the free press necessity in a free society. And it actually might be that i think, no, hes wrong. That was a mistake. That was a terrible thing to do. America will suffer because of that story. But then i have to think about, so how do i redress that . And if the method of redressing that actually harms the broad freedom of the press, thats still wrong. The government needs to be Strong Enough to keep me safe, but i dont want it so strong that it threatens my liberties. Stahl thats the crux of the dilemma. For his part, risen argues that what he revealed was not a government secret as much as a program he thought was illegal. Risen we werent revealing to anybody the fact that the United States listened to terrorist phone calls. Everybody knew that. The terrorists have known that forever. What we were revealing was that the u. S. Government was violating its own laws. Stahl did you think that the whole program. Did you think it was useless . Risen no, i didnt think it was useless. I thought that if we are going to fight a global war on terror, we should follow the rule of law in the United States. Stahl risen remains at the New York Times, still covering National Security. And hes written a new book. He could be called to testify about his Confidential Sources as early as january. Welcome to the cbs sports update presented by pacific life. Im james brown with scores from around the nfl. Today tom brady throws four scores for the firstplace pats. 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Under tom corbett, weve fallen from 9th to 47th in job creation. And on september 25th, pennsylvanias credit is downgraded for the fifth time in two years. Why would we give tom corbett four more years . Whitaker in the bloodsoaked world of International Drug cartels, for the top cops of u. S. Law enforcement, Joaquin Guzman was public enemy number one, a title not bestowed on anyone since the gangster era of al capone and john dillinger. He earned that status by putting more narcotics on american streets than anyone in history. Guzman, known by the nickname el chapo spanish for shorty gained an outsized reputation. He bribed his way out of a mexican prison in 2001, and for the next 13 years, he used money, violence and geewhiz escapes worthy of a james bond villain to avoid capture. A myth grew that he was untouchable. But tonight, we will show you how, in february, chapo was finally caught. After the death of osama bin laden, el chapo became the most wanted man in the world. So, getting him was a big deal for you . Derek maltz absolutely. In my world, it was like winning the super bowl, winning the world series. This was the actual trophy. Whitaker he was number one . Maltz absolutely. This fight against drugs. Whitaker derek maltz was in charge of the d. E. A. S Special Operations division tasked with finding chapo. What put him at the top of the list . Maltz making billions of dollars, having a reach around the world in asia, in australia, in africa, in europe putting poison on the streets not just in the United States, but all over the world. Whitaker jim dinkins was head of Homeland Security investigations. He pursued el chapo for more than a decade. Jim dinkins hes a monster that happened to rise up in a criminal organization that was making billions of dollars. Whitaker a monster . Dinkins a monster. Whitaker until both men retired in recent months, dinkins and maltz helped coordinate the u. S. Hunt for chapo his real name, Joaquin Guzman. Incredibly, guzman was on the Forbes Magazine list of billionaires. He was also known to be one of the most violent drug traffickers in the world. As his Sinaloa Cartel fought to dominate the drug trade, the war between the cartels turned the Southern Side of the u. S. Mexico border into one of the most dangerous places on earth. Maltz thousands of people electrocuted, beheaded, chopping off limbs, throwing people in acid. He committed some ruthless crimes in mexico. Whitaker hes in custody now and doesnt look quite so ferocious cowed, his head bowed. But until he was apprehended by Mexican Marines, Joaquin Guzman, the illiterate son of a farmer, ran a multinational criminal empire. Dinkins they had not only transportation they had manufacturing, they had domestic and local distribution channels. Maltz very sophisticated with narco subs, with shipping vessels, with 747s, with private vessels, with tractor trailers, rail cars. The drug cartel was run like a. You know, a fortune 500 company. Dinkins he employed some very sophisticated counterintelligence operations to make sure that, if Law Enforcement was to get in close, they would never actually get to him. Whitaker chapo devised ingenious smuggling methods. Marijuana. Whitaker he packed drugs into fake cucumbers and bananas, and mixed them with shipments of real produce. But the thing he worked hardest on was making sure he could always get away. Chapo was the first mexican drug trafficker to hire architects and engineers to build elaborate tunnels, complete with railways, to ferry drugs under the u. S. Mexico border. And he spent millions adapting them to use as escape routes from his many hideouts. This is very tight, very hot, very close. We went down into a labyrinth of interlocking tunnels with the Mexican Marines who chased him. Unbelievable. This was one of the ways chapo was able to elude capture time and time again. The americans thought he was being tipped off by corrupt mexican officials. But the mexicans bristled at the accusation they could not be trusted. So, there were suspicions on both sides of the border . Maltz absolutely, yes. Whitaker so, what was different this time . Maltz the u. S. Government and the Mexican Government basically said, enough is enough. And we actually, you know, rolled up our sleeves, got in a room, argued a little bit, put all the intelligence on the table, shared it with the mexicans, and ultimately grabbed chapo. Whitaker it started with a routine smuggling probe by Homeland Security investigators at the Border Crossing in nogales, arizona. A wiretap unexpectedly led to a phone linked to one of chapos men. U. S. Agents followed that thread for more than two years. Dinkins worked it from phone to phone, device to device, person to person, until they actually had wired out the communication structure. And the communication structure was the key. It was a very clear picture to us on what was happening and how he was running this business. Whitaker several u. S. Law enforcement agencies the d. E. A. , the marshals, Homeland Security, and the f. B. I. Were all pursuing guzman separately. But this time, they decided to streamline their efforts and funnel everything through the d. E. A. Maltz and we had one voice in how we were going to pursue. Sharing intelligence with the mexican officials. Whitaker was that significant, that important, to have that one voice . Maltz absolutely. You cant do a job against chapo guzman unless youre working together. Whitaker and tomas zeron was that voice on the mexican side. Attencion whitaker zeron is chief of the Investigative Agency of the prosecutor general of the republic, mexicos version of the f. B. I. The main u. S. Assistance was surveillance wire tapping, phone surveillance, and that sort of thing . Tomas zeron translated i will just tell you, they help us with technology, because theyre really good in technology, and that will encapsulate everything. Whitaker zeron, in turn, tapped the Mexican Marines to execute the plan. They are elite special forces, highlytrained and known for using deadly force. We watched one of their training sessions, an assault on a mock up of a cartel hideout. And we traveled with the marines to sinaloa, a remote state on the pacific coast, and to its capital, culiacan, chapos base of operations where his cartel still rules. It was here in culiacan, on february 12, after weeks of secret surveillance, the marines started to move on the cartel, rounding up chapos henchmen, who started to talk. Maltz there was a lot of Close Associates of chapo that were arrested over these periods of time. And there was information developed that was provided to the mexicans. So it wasnt just Technical Information bank information, surveillance information, documents, telephone information. Whitaker based on intelligence collected on both sides of the border, marines raided a series of cartel safe houses on february 17. They seized more than three tons of crystal meth and cocaine, automatic weapons and ammunition, a rocket launcher, and a diamondencrusted pistol with the initials of Joaquin Guzman. They also arrested one of chapos top lieutenants, a man called the nose. And he flipped quickly he told them where chapo was hiding and how he planned to escape. Several weeks later, the marines took us to the place where they were told chapo was hiding. This nondescript house in the midst of a middle class neighborhood was a fortress. They had to ram their way through a reinforced steel door. It took you eight minutes to get in the door . Si, ocho minutos. Whitaker when they got inside, el chapo was nowhere to be found. But they did find this. The tub. Look at this. The escape hatch. The bathtub was equipped with a hydraulic lift. Its been turned off. Very steep. He couldnt have done this quickly. But underneath is the entranceway to a hidden tunnel. While marines were battering down the front door, they say guzman, startled, barefoot and in his underwear, clambered down these stairs and escaped through this tunnel with his bodyguard and two women. This was part of a maze of tunnels connected to the city sewers of culiacan and, it turns out, to six other safehouses, all equipped with hydraulically controlled bathtub escape hatches. Our guide told us that, even though they had a tenminute head start, he could hear the fugitives splashing through the water. But they were too far ahead to catch. When the marines emerged from this spillway by the river, el chapo had vanished. So, what did you think when he got away, once again, in culiacan . Maltz i never believed that he would ever be captured. Whitaker really . Maltz i thought he was gone again. I thought he may have been tipped off. Dinkins but the Mexican Marines just were relentless. And they went from house through the tunnels. From tunnels to house from house. And they just kept on going. Whitaker chapo and his wife, a onetime beauty queen, their twin toddlers, a nanny, a cook and his most trusted bodyguard were desperately trying to shake the marines off their trail. They ditched their phones and got new numbers. Dinkins hes a man on the run. You need money, you need food, you need weapons. And he was also very interested in knowing who had been arrested, im sure, and what was going on. So it was very hard for him to go into isolation, complete isolation. Whitaker how is he communicating at this point . Dinkins im sure multiple different ways, but the ways that. You know, that were the most vulnerable is back on cell phones, so. Whitaker so, hes. Hes back using the cell phones . Dinkins back using cell phones, and you cant. Now, youre on the run, so how they going to know to. To call. What number to call . You have to tell them, all right, well, i got a new phone number. Here it is. Well, you just told us, too. Whitaker five days later, the americans traced the phone of chapos bodyguard to the resort city of mazatlan, 136 miles away, and to this beachfront building. They shared that intelligence with the mexicans. At exactly 6 40 a. M. On february 22, the marines crashed through the door of number 401. When he saw the red beads of their laser sights speckled on his chest, the bodyguard threw down his rifle and threw up his hands. Next, the marines burst through the door of the master bedroom, where chapos wife stood naked by the bed. A marine pushed past her and kicked in the bathroom door. There was somebody behind it. It was el chapo. Back in mexico city, tomas zeron and his team were listening in real time as the highstakes drama of chapos capture unfolded. Was there cheering . Was there highfiving . Zeron of course. It was a jubilee. We felt, at that point, that we were all one, that we were all doing something to have a good mexico. Dinkins we did not ever anticipate that hed be captured alive. We thought hed fight to the death. Whitaker are you surprised that he didnt . Dinkins i was surprised. Maltz i was shocked. Whitaker shocked . Maltz absolutely shocked whitaker what shocked you more, that he was captured, or that he was captured without a shot . Maltz both. Captured without a shot was pretty amazing. Whitaker the oncemighty drug lord who terrorized mexico and outfoxed his pursuers for 13 years was defeated. Processed like any common criminal, guzman was finger printed, mug shots taken. Then, he was paraded before the press like a trophy and loaded onto a helicopter. Looking dazed, scared, and docile, el chapo was flown to altiplano prison, mexicos supermax. Law enforcement officials vow he will never escape again. The Sinaloa Cartel is still in business. Its still deeply involved in drug trafficking. So guzman is now gone but has anything really changed . Zeron the cartel continues, but even though it continues, we have made detentions after we detained guzman. We are not going to leave sinaloa, and we are going to stay there until we dismantle the cartel completely. Dinkins we know that, when you take out bin laden, that the threat of terrorism did not end. Nor will the threat of drugs end by taking out el chapo. But it was still worth every bit of effort to take that man off, because it sends a signal that you are touchable. For a look at bill whitakers career as a cbs news correspondent, go to 60minutesovertime. Com. Kid hey dad, who was that man . Dad hes our broker. He helps looks after all our money. Kid do you pay him . Dad of course. Kid how much . Dad i dont know exactly. Kid what if youre not happy . Does he have to pay you back . Dad nope. Kid why not . Dad it doesnt work that way. Kid why not . 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