over ten years. the model airbus he had actually flown with over 6,000 flight hours. a team of german wings is in dusseldorf at this moment in time in order to support the relatives of all of those passengers on the flight list. they ll be informed at this moment in time and please bear in mind that we of course have to inform first the relatives of the passengers died before we inform you.
suspect the fbi is already involved? they could be involved already in terms of doing backgrounds from the flight m manife manifest, the flight list, working with the netherlands where the flight originated with their authorities and also in kuala lumpur, if there s any intelligence gathered there as well as the office in kiev. so it s possible to do that type of investigation without physically being at the scene. but at some point if we don t end up with the ntsb and other credible investigators from around the world at that crash site and if they don t get there in time and the site has not been adequately preserved, it s going to be a difficult investigation to try to solve in the short run. bob baer, tell us about the role of the u.s. and ore intelligence services right now trying to piece together what
go through passport control, those are more often checked, and many of those passport computers or passport control computers, are set up to automatically make an inquiry not just in the individual country s databases, but to interpol headquarters inially own, france, for whether or not the document is stolen or whether the name used on that document, there has been an arrest warrant, red notice, issued. so it s more common on the incoming flights, but not as common on the outgoing. and this is something interpol, back when i was on the executive committee of interpol from 2006 to 2009, this came up every year. it s been pushed every single year. but the majority of countries still do not make that inquiry and do that check. does the united states make that inquiry? well, my understanding is that customs of border protection does do inquiries on, you know, on the flight list of people that are going to be outbound from the united states.
their policies are a flight list bird with an injury. it it would never happen. because wrooer not having that fight. this is a great window into it and it makes me wonder if republicans were contesting it, if we were having national debates. it would be much more like the decisions around domestic policy. we re not going to have the debate. but to get back to this president, that decision you can trace back to his nobel prize-winning speech where he wrestles with the question what a just war is. in a speech accepting a peace prize before a largely-european audience, he makes a case for war. and you back away from that and think what are the politics of that? no obvious ones. so my experience was whatever else he is, whether you approve or disapprove, he s an
what s interesting about this at the end, it s one of his triumphs what he did in libya. as a result, you don t hear a lot about it because nobody has an interest in talking about what he s done well. even he says now, you know, that decision looks like a no brainer, but it was a 51-49 decision. and every decision that comes across my desk is like that. even now i can see how it could have been a mistake to go in. it was not easy to make that decision. in hindsight, everybody says it was obvious. the reason i m grateful that this is out right now is i feel like it s critically important for us to not have a partisan fight over foreign policy. i think the republicans are dysfunctional on this issue. they are deciding not to update the bush era. their policies are a flight list bird with an injury. it it would never happen. because wrooer not having that fight.