ago, put information like date of birth, you know, over time if an analyst wants to look up whatever the u.s. government knows about someone that was vaguely suspicious years ago, they can go to the tide list. let s separate out a watch list and a list that simply is a compilation of identity information about suspected people. so then, with, let s say this tide list, which we knew tamerlan tsarnaev and his mother was on, what is the red flag let s say for anyone on the list what is the red flag for investigators to say something is not right here? i would say violence, something that suggests the person is about to commit a crime or contemplating committing a crime. you re asking the right question now, and we re three minutes into it. that s the problem with the conversation across america the past few days. the question is, even if this person s name were tripped and you went to talk to him what is he going to tell you? i m going to visit my family. you re going to ask him maybe
what a waste. obviously, syrian president bashar al-assad does not think that this is a waste and tried to put the best political spin on this bloody conflict, reshuffling his cabinet today. there were two veteran but moderate opponents included in the cabinet, holding all the key levers of power, loyalists, strong men, loyal to president assad. rick? rick: greg palkot on the ground. patti ann: a case of mistaken identity in mexico. authorities thought they captured the son of the top fugitive drug lord but appears they got the young man. reporter: the possible misidentification could be embarrassing for the u.s. and mexico. in a cat-and-mouse game playing with mexico s top fugitive drug lord, joachim guzman and the attorney general s office said the original identity information came from the united states. but the united states drug
recent home sale. treasury department has called guzman the world s most powerful drug lord. both countries are conducting an intense manhunt. he has been on the run after escaping from prison in 2001. this could be embarrassing for both countries. attorney general s office the original identity information came from the united states, but the united states drug enforcement administration says this information came from mexico. gregg: thanks very much. heather: the bloodshed in syria no longer an internal conflict now threatening it s neighbors. a closer look at the spreading crisis still ahead. gregg: eric holder on the hot seat. he is facing a potential contempt of congress vote over fast and furious operation. we re going talking live in just
communicating, he must be doing it through human beings, we need to find and follow the couriers. that was a hypothesis with which we went into this four years ago or so. so this is classic human intelligence? you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of the exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites, and then from that point we used all the tools of intelligence. i can t go into detail, but it was signals intelligence and imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. this wasn t done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. this is classic analytic work. tell us for a moment about
mark, thanks so much in washington. of course, we re still learning more about the raid on bin laden s compound. on cnn s fareed zakaria: gps today, the courier was first identified during the bush administration. i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of this exercise was partial identity information that came out of