task force, and now msa security president of investigations. we ll get right to it. you ran terror investigations at the bureau. there were times that information you developed was shared with the british. if it ended up in the british tabloids, i m guessing you would have been upset too. yeah, leland, first of all, thanks for having me. yes, i can completely understand why the brits and manchester pd are upset. the mayor was almost he was livid. yes, yes. we re day three, day four out from the attack. names, addresses, locations, detailed information about the bomb and its components. now you re looking at a negative impact on decisions they have to make. you know, now people may be fleeing, evidence may be disappearing. and that s not a good thing. leland: you know, the president has talked a lot about leaks. he says he s going to get to the bottom of this and find the leakers. right.
the suicide bomber himself. officials say he was in libya in the days leading up to the attack, and also in europe. here s more. reporter: manchester police have made a total of eight arrests, calling them significant, and said it s provided important leads into a possible terror network that may have supported the 22-year-old suicide bomber salman abedi. authorities believe he spent three weeks in libya and passed through a german airport on his way back to england. friday he was spotted at a shopping center buying the bag believed to carry the bomb. the bomb is said to have contained hydrogen peroxide, and could have been made on a kitchen table, not highly sophisticated. his brother arrested tuesday, and another brother and father taken into custody yesterday, where the 18-year-old confessed to the plot, saying both he and
it s up to 10 years in jail for leaking classified information, even unclassified information, and lying about leaking information can earn you a few years as well. clearly this isn t a deterrent, though, to people who have clearances, who had access to this information, to turn around and leak it. a deterrent is going to be open up these investigations, and run them into the ground and find some accountability. that s going to be deterrent. otherwise you know, law enforcement, intel community at times will leverage the press. they help with the investigation. but not at this particular point in this particular case. manchester, again, four days away, and we have pretty much all everything initially leaked out regarding people, places, and the bomb leland: as you and i were talking earlier, at some level it helps to have a broad net to
president talking about? what are the brits talking about? what leaks are concerning? one of the presidents is upset, he s at nato meeting in brussels, and his british counterpart, theresa may, the british prime minister, is very upset, raising the question whether the united kingdom will share information with the united states. what they re specifically concerned about is that there were leaks of the name of the bomber, and also videos, pictures, that showed some of the key elements of the bomb. just why did that matter? because a lot of this was leaked here in america by intelligence services that had gotten it from the brits just as the british police, british law enforcement, were raiding various apartments, were trying to roll up the network of people involved in this savage attack in manchester, and to the degree that the name of the people, or some of the components were