Counterterrorism. on monday we turned out the four to 12 tour and they are actually getting two weeks of training. the day squad is now undergoing that two weeks of training and they will be deployed in about a week and a half and these officers are trained in a number of different counterterrorism programs and active shooter is at the top of the list. so the idea is, i mean, in many cities throughout the world, they have to wait a long time for tactical units, swat teams to show up. the idea in new york i m assuming is that there are these roving teams already in the city ready to respond and response time then is reduced. exactly. with a critical response time, these officers fully trained and have all weapons as we are in the progress of doing that, and the process of doing that, they will be stationed throughout the city. they will be in the manhattan area on patrol and if the need were to arise, they would
Muscles as well. jon: conner joining us from our mideast bureau. thank you. jenna: bomb shell allegations involving a senior state department official in charge of federal counterterrorism programs. he s now due in court later today after he was arrested at his d.c. home for allegedly soliciting sex from a minor. doug is on that story for us. daniel rosen is his name and he s held at jail and likely to be extradited. he was arrested after he sought to arrange sex with a minor. he had been communicating on and off for several weeks with a female detective who was posing as a minor in an online exchange. police won t say who initiated the contact. spokesman for fairfax county police say the police department has a proactive child exploitation unit that makes as many as 100 arrests a year for people seeking sex with minors. we re not making overtures. we re in a number of chat rooms
And sites. we go where the kids go and so do the bad guys. rosen is the director of counterterrorism programs and policies at the state department. state department source says that dan rosen was not responsible for homeland security. he was simply one of many office directors in the counterterrorism bureau. in a 2012 youtube video, rosen is seen talking about the lure of extremism for vulnerable young people. he describes how young people can be persuaded to crossing the boundaries. now, obviously he was talking not about underage sex here but terrorism. til he conveys knowledge about the use of chat rooms to connect with vulnerable young people. the state department has strict rules of security clearances. he s on administrative leave. jenna: thank you. jon: a real life courtroom drama playing out for an oscar winning director. in a sexual assault case dating
This is a gold mine for critics who say that the post-9/11 counterterrorism programs that started under the bush duration and have largely continued under the obama administration, have gone too far. just this weekend, for instance, you were talking about the nsa, there was a panel that was appointed by president obama to review nsa programs. they suggested some modest changes, not really changing any of the big programs, knut the white house has already indicated it plans to make very few of these changes and this ruling is provides ammunition that could force them to revisit some of this, brooke. evan perez, thank you. jeff toobin, thank you for calling in. more on that, of course, throughout the rest of the day. big, big implications and consequences with that ruling. now to this, a large vote, largely important, looming tomorrow in the senate. the senate will vote on whether to take up the landmark two-year budget passed by the house late last week. here s what they need. the
He has jeopardized our national security. i disagree with the reporter. clearly, the bad guys have already changed their way. remember, these were counterterrorism programs essentially, and we have seen that bad guys overseas, terrorists who are committing and plot eight tacks on the united states and our allies, have changed the way they operate. we ve already seen that. to say that that is not harm to feel the national security of the united states or our safety is just dead wrong. and we mentioned the fisa opinion, 80 pages long, doesn t have the opinion but has documents supporting it essentially saying the government overreached, went beyond its authority, and in fact he says we can establish illegality as opposed to what i suggested to him, a judicial review and a change was made. what do you say? this is obviously why the program works. there is judicial review and judicial putback, and rightly so. this is the problem with having a 1,000-piece puzzle, taking three or four pi