Accounts on twitter and you tube to determine if there is any kind of vulnerability. Clearly in this case there was and it is still unclear exactly how whoever these people are got into that account, krystle. Jim thanks so much. And joining us now is terrorism analyst. From flash point Global Partners evan thank you for joining us. So what do we know about the attack . Cyber caliphate, weve known about them for months. They are using a sphere phishing attack which means they send out emails in Cyber Command and get their credentials and stealing their twitter and you tube credentials. This wont end up with the military falling apart. This is not going to end up with classified information falling into the wrong hands. The folks did tweet out some of the things they picked up but these were unclassified documents. So in terms of what kind of threat do they represent . It is special embarrassing but nobody is going to lose their life over this. And the folks it is disturbing to see prois
Pipe bombs around the building and shoot people as they fled. The 20yearold came to the fbis attention several months ago for alarming social media posts, talking about violent jihad. The fbi says cornell told an informant he had contacts overseas he had aligned himself with isis and believed lawmakers were his enemy. A criminal complaint says cornell did not think he would receive authorization to conduct a terrorist attack in the United States. But wanted to wage jihad on his own, writing, i believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves. He researched the targeted government buildings and the construction of pipe bombs. Wednesday, cornell purchased two m15s and 600 rounds of ammunition. From this gun store in cincinnati. Before fbi agents arrested him in the parking lot. Wkrc obtained this image of his arrest from a customer inside a nearby store. The Gun Store Owner, who had been cooperating with authorities, d
Gitmo. The taliban have been engaged in terror tactics. There are a significant number of american and military personnel in afghanistan that are in harms way. The taliban is a Center Dangerous organization. Bill Leland Vittert leads our coverage. Reporter it continues to be a tough week for this white house when it comes to National Security matters. They cant seem to catch a break. This is the latest installment of bad news for the white house. The five Prisoners Released in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl were called a taliban generals. Intelligence intercepts said one of them called his old buddies in pakistan or afghanistan. Something the pentagon, though, says they can deal with. We have a good Security Partnership with qatar and we are comfortable at the state department we can mitigate any threats posed by these individuals in terms of terrorist activity. Reporter the pentagon says so far none of these men have returned to the battlefield per se. But you can imagine the grilling the
Fictional characters. Im chuck todd joining me this morning are former White House Press secretary to president obama, robert gibbs. The cook political reports walker. Former chief speech writer for george w. Bush and columnist, michael gerson. Welcome to sunday its meet the press. This is meet the press with chuck todd. Its been a battle that has raged since isis shocked the world with its cult of violence and death. What should president obama call this enemy . Hes refused to use the terms islamist or radical islam. Insisting that were not at war with islam. But with some perversion of a great religion. Conservatives argue that in doing so mr. Obama is failing to recognize the true face of the enemy. So we wondered in this debate about semantics and security is there precedent for the president s position . We went back to the videotape and heres what we found. The terrorists do not speak for over a billion muslims who reject their hateful ideology. All is not the true face of islam.
Things remain extremely tense in france, where just this morning 10,000 troops were mobilized to safeguard the company. The Prime Minister says the terrorists had likely had one or more accomplices. Still wanted Hayat Boumeddiene. Shes wanted in the murder of a policewoman in and then she went to syria. A french official says she stayed at the holt with another person and crossed into syria on the 8th of january. New video has surfaced purportedly showing coulibaly pledges allegiance to al qaeda, sgloond all calling for sympathizers in the west to rise up and attack Soldiers Police and troops. It prompted a new bulletin from police in new york city where last night the empire building went dark for five minutes in a show of solidarity with france. In paris, the biggest demonstration ever in that city. More than 1 Million People participated, and another 2 million throughout the country. Among the crowd, 40 World Leaders who linked arms and marched s. I singing the National Anthem sayin