i think one of the things we ll have to struggle with here we just had a big court case at a federal appeals level voting the metadata program of the national security agency in the united states is not authorized by the patriot act. that s one of the tools the fbi and other intelligence agencies use to look at the patterns of interaction of some of these people about whom they re concerned so we don t know if that program will go away or be authorized but it brings to a point what are the tools that you have to discriminate between someone you re watching and warning there s an imminent attack? and this they didn t go that extra step in this case and perhaps they should have. i want to ask you about reports of the al qaeda leader who said he s behind the charlie hebdo attacks. how big a blow is this? a very big blow to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al-ansi was someone who spent a lot of time. he and his son were killed in a drone attack in a port town in yemen. he was a