so he shows up at the airport in 2012. customs officers notice that he s on this list, and apparently that triggered an e-mail to the customs agent who was actually assigned to this case in the joint terrorism task force in boston, but then that agent reportedly told officials that he gets hundreds, hundreds of these kinds of e-mails, doesn t remember that one in particular. does it make you stand back and say systemically there might be something wrong because if somebody is getting hundreds of these in a given day what purpose does it serve? well, that s a good question, and i don t think we can give a definitive answer yet, but the reality is we get probably 10,000 to 20,000 leads like we get from the russian government. now, they are followed up and i think it s it s encouraging that in this case that lead wasn t dropped. the fbi went out and interviewed him and did a background check in terms of online sources. they weren t able to find anything, and one of the
why shouldn t we feel okay about that? well, in fact, under the enhanced visa security program, that applies to saudi arabia after 9/11 and those countries that were considered to be major proponents of islamic terrorism, saudi arabia was not allowed to vet its own people. we vetted it. that is the united states government, dhs, homeland security, customs border patrol, cia, we did all the vetting. now, suddenly, we re sharing that vetting and we don t know all the details and you re right at that we will still have a role in the vetting. but what happens when a saudi applicant is passed by them, vetted by them, say they re okay and get a five year visa fast tracked into the united states and suddenly, new material develops that they re really hezbollah or hamas, do you think the saudies are going to tell us? here in the united states they must satisfy a security process including an interview with a customs agent. i mean, that sounds more
court, and i promise you they will review it. there were some talks that although the justice there is cannot talk about a case, they were willing, and i believe he knew it. i don t know if i convince him, and turn out later that i guess he checked it out and turned out that is what was going to happen. having said that, he must have, you know, found. it s interesting because he never responded to my constitutional violations but that s an option we are going to decide to do, you know, down the line. justify to the element of the crime that was in there, which was the intent. let s remember, let s not lose sight of this, kim. he went in with a good faith effort because customs and border protection in the u.s. told him it was okay. in america it s legal, and with a shotgun. in mexico the first thing he did was told the mexican customs agent i want to bring in my shotgun. i believe he was already in mexico but he turned, he just
court, and i promise you they will review it. there were some talks that although the justice there is cannot talk about a case, they were willing, and i believe he knew it. i don t know if i convince him, and turn out later that i guess he checked it out and turned out that is what was going to happen. having said that, he must have, you know, found. it s interesting because he never responded to my constitutional violations but that s an option we are going to decide to do, you know, down the line. justify to the element of the crime that was in there, which was the intent. let s remember, let s not lose sight of this, kim. he went in with a good faith effort because customs and border protection in the u.s. told him it was okay. in america it s legal, and with a shotgun. in mexico the first thing he did was told the mexican customs agent i want to bring in my shotgun. i believe he was already in mexico but he turned, he just
gun and heave he was on the way out of the country and the mexican government notified him, is that what happened? 80%. the other part, a u.s. customs agent told him it was legal to go to mexico with registration papers. the problem was when he came back into the states. he goes to mexico with customs and they tell him to wait and then five hours later, he was arrested for violation of article 11, paragraph h of the federal law of weapons and explosives, which has that you can import any shotgun except certain type of shotguns. for example, once a certain caliber. this particular caliber was .410, which is not this is not reserved for the exclusive use of the armed forces, and neither were the bullets, the gains, that was for the non-exclusive. the issue is the lept of the barrel, that s the problem