you re a cia, former cia analyst. you have to piece things like this together. what do we know about the possible motives. we looked at the past. why people have tried to hijack planes or pick them up or crash those planes. what are the possible motivations as investigators look for what one could be? well, right away, they re going to suspect it has something to do with islamic fundamentalism. there is a large al qaeda presence in malaysia which has never gone away after 9/11. there is been a lot of rumors out there that al qaeda was trying to or did recruit a malaysian air pilot. those weren t substantiated. the cia will be doing its own database searches. so will the national security agency. more than that, you can count on it, everybody in the cia stationed in the world will be out there going to its sources. it doesn t matter where they are and asking them what they know. this is a horribly frustrating
absolutely. and i think i ll use the word targeted very carefully. if you and i do a google search and information comes up and we just grab one file and we go work on it, that s the one we targeted. that s the one we went after. there may have been groups that came up in searches, database searches, but no groups as far as we ve got any evidence at all on were ever withheld for weeks, months or years the way the tea party groups were. and that s really when we use the term targeted, we re not talking about a name coming up in a search. we re talking about unreasonable delay as we saw with tea party groups for as much as 27 months. well, we know we didn t see those kind of complaints from the other people who were applying. exactly. so we ll be watching. darrell issa, thank you very much. good luck on the birth. thank you.
investigative guidelines for agents, especially those investigating terror suspects, and one of the big changes there was agents could go around and investigate things without clear evidence or suggestion of evidence of a crime. they have a suspicion and can do assessments of that situation. in 2011, president obama revised those guidelines one more time, he actually expanded them in a lot of ways, now they can include database searches. they actually pulled back a little on how the assessments could deal with religious communities and mosques and set up this new committee to oversee that. it was part of a white house effort, a broader white house effort, to really build closer ties and cooperation with the islamic community in the united states around these issues. they wanted not to be seen as an adversarial relationship, and there was a backlash in the years prior surrounding that. but striking that balance between how much we should be basically like the soviets or