rules were particularly useful in allowing us to arrest him before the plane took off. attorney general, can i ask you a question? there are local reports in colorado suggesting this case may be related to the azazi case. have you found any of that and there was talk about extensive travel, mr. shahzad s extensive travel overseas. are you looking into whether he may have had some sort of military training or contacts with known terrorists? we re examining a whole variety of things in connection with the questions that are being put to him and the questions that he is answering. we want to know as much as we can about his background, where he s gone, what he s done and so all of those things are being explored. no comment on that. i don t have any basis to to believe that there s any connection. do you believe the suspect came to the u.s. with the intent of doing this? i wouldn t want to comment on that. as i said, the investigation is
it does. and the department of justice and our partners in the national security community have no higher priority than disrupting those attempts and bringing those who plot them to justice. in this case, that is exactly what the dedicated agents and prosecutors from the department in various law enforcement agencies have achieved through exemplary investigative efforts. over the last two days men and women from the fbi and national security division and nypd and hs and state and local partners to track the evidence in this case. the quick action from fbi agents was critical to alerting customs and border patrol agents who arrested him last night at jfk airport as he was attempted to flee the country. fbi agents have been able to glean additional evidence from searching shahzad s car and home. they continue to work with their state and local counterparts in new york, connecticut, and other jurisdictions to gather evidence and intelligence related to this
time, he was on the no-fly list. and last thing to you, sir, oftentimes this issue i m going to ask you about gets politicized a bit, but the idea of mirandizing a suspect in a case like this. you heard eric holder he wasn t read his miranda rights initially. we were getting a lot of information from him. we read him his miranda rights and we continued to get information. what s your take on if and when a suspect of this nature, a possible terrorist, should be mirandized and how it could jeopardize a case? well, seems to be working for us. we are a nation of laws. we celebrate that we operate under the rule of law, under miranda that if he wants to talk to you, fine, after you advise him of his rights and he wants a lawyer, you give him that lawyer. it would appear in this case he gave information voluntarily initially, when advised of his rights, he continued to give information. i think if i m not mistaken the detroit bombing incident had similar chain of events. all right, wel
that s what happened in madrid and london and in new york. zazi was a major example of that. but you re right, the indictments last week, there has been a series of people pleading guilty. homegrown terrorism is a tremendous threat to us, because we have done a good job of keeping foreign terrorists out. they re adapting, though. one way they are adapting is by taking homegrown islamic extremists and bringing them overseas, training them and sending them back here. that s what happened in london and what is happening here. we don t know if it happened in this incident but it happened in the zazi case. eric: sorry to interrupt you but it happened before. 1983, al-jarari, palestinian who they say admitted to being a member of a mosque. there he is. he put three car bombs in new york city parked one on fifth avenue a few blocks from times square. that was 1973. thankfully, those didn t go off. he was caught and he was
get through with some passage of legislation. is determination enough to reshape policy with a different congress? i think it will. first of all, they re not envisioning a different congress just yet, although they do know that they could take a real hit in the midterms. they expect to lose certainly some senate and house seats. they re hoping they don t actually lose the majorities in both the house and the senate and the midterms. but in terms of i would say in particular immigration, their hope isn t so much to actually achieve it, although they say they d like to, but to be seen as achieving it, rally their his spannic base, very important to the democratic party, seen as trying to take action. if you look at this big troika that the president is tackling health reform, financial reform, immigration reform do you think this sets up this president as the president to change history in a way no other president has? he tackles big issues on a daily basis. that s certainly th