they helped commit murders, trained as suicide fighters and took pictures to help plan attacks. now a cnn exclusive report. three isis members are speaking from prison. they say they regret everything they ve done. a secret jail in northern iraq. around 1,000 men are being held here. all are accused of supporting isis. kurdish authorities allowed this exclusive access. three of the captives agree to speak to us. they insist freely and without coercion about the important and very different roles they played in a recent large-scale isis attack. lat ahmed was one of the fighters who stormed kirkuk on
korea s reclusive government. our reporter from pyongyang this week, he was able to speak to a political analyst with close ties to kim jung-un s regime in the cnn exclusive report. reporter: north korea s propaganda machine turns out plenty of fiery rhettic. high level officials fiercely distrust international media. rarely giving interviews. a member of north korea s inner circle speaking to cnn. the deputy director of a north korean think-tank with close ties to the highest levels of government. no topic was off limits. south korea s national in tee jens s jens intelligence service that kim jung-un ordered 15 officials. he calls allegations the supreme leader is killing off opponents. baseless, groundless, but does
i want to bring you part two of a cnn exclusive report on the mysterious death of alfred wright. he s the father of two who vanished last november in texas. his family was found after the local authorities there gave up. just stopped searching for him. the local sheriff told them there were no signs of foul play, but there were some serious signs that were mysterious on his body. the family says so many things do not adds up here. here s debra and some of the images you may find disturbing. reporter: alfred wright s body was found 150 yards from where sheriff s depths had originally set up their search command post. how was he so close? and we didn t find him? it s not like he was miles away. he was right there.
entirely different. you know, there s been a serious debate on whether or not the collection of all this metadata has stopped terrorist attack. you hear arguments, diane feinstein chair of the senate intelligence committee, she says it s worthwhile. and the chair of the house intelligence committee, he says it s very important. they both are virtually on the same page when it comes to this specific issue about the collection, for preventing another major terrorist attack. whether it s stopped one so far, that is a subject of some significant debate. i think there are one or two cases that they did have some impact. i suspect we re going to hear more about this in the coming days. all right. we ll do the report on it. thank you. tune into wolf. he s on twice. 1:00 in the afternoon and then again for the situation room later on at 5:00 eastern time. wolf blitzer. checking other top stories we re following. a scathing new senate report
true. we could have stopped and detected. and perhaps we should have. but when a plane is burning and it s out of control and there are 304 people on there that we also want to save, it got lost in the mix. it s unfortunate, it s tragic, but from their perspective, that s the argument that they re going to be making in front of as danny points out an emotionally charged jury. and, look. two extraordinarily sympathetic parties here. 16-year-old girl and a group of first responder heroes. not an easy decision without question. thank you to you both. danny and joey, stick around. more to come for the two of you. a new report that the nsa is using secret radio technology to tap into computers all around the world. computers that, get this, aren t even connected to the internet. how do they do this? and should they be doing this? we re going to head to washington to tap into wolf blitzer next. mine was earned orbiting the moon in 1971.