how does it work? well, the way it will be working right now, you of course have the a level interrogation team that is out there. of course, first things first with the subject with abu khatallah, the medical clearance. i m sure that was taken care of. everything we heard about was that it was a very clean pickup. so once the medical is over, then the team, the interrogation team makes an engagement with the subject and starts on what we refer to usually as an operational cord, trying to get to the matters at hand. and when you say the matters at hand, are you are investigators more interested at this point in actionable intelligence and current information he may know about events that may still take place rather than what happened at the consulate? absolutely. think of it in exactly those terms, anderson. it s about national level security requirements in intelligence requirements at the national and dod level. and that would have to do with
but the roof they are proceeding under a limited amount of questioning by their interrogation team before he is read his miranda rights is a cap compromise. don t extract the full amount of intelligence, you put some on trial who may be very difficult to convict because the terrorist incidents where talking about our old and cold and far removed from america. martha: who is interrogating him? the cia. right? intelligence debriefing of somebody like this is very painstaking. you are pulling threads out one at a time. a couple of days of intensive questioning for somebody who knows at the end of it is coming a miranda warning. all he has to do is sit there. they will not do something that is not right. he could be sitting there enjoying his time on the boat.
ships will greatly compromise our right to gather intelligence from wanted terrorists. what do you think about that? jo i don t know that it s going to compromise our ability. the question is who you can get aboard the vessel, whether the high value interrogation team that was supposed to have been set up in the f.b.i., it s an interrogation group from the f.b.i., c.i.a., some from the department of defense, if they got those people aboard ship, and it doesn t matter whether he s aboard ship organ or guatanemo bay. a year ago they tried take man who it was at guantanamo bay, was brought to new york and nearly got off. he was acquitted on the murder
africa, two dramatic raids by u.s. special forces over the weekend. their targets? a pair of high level terror leaders hiding in africa, including this man known as abu al-libby. wanted for the 1998 bombings in kenya and tanzania. he was captured at his home outside of tripoli in libya. jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon this morning. where is this guy now, jennifer. reporter: he is being held on a u.s. navy ship in the mediterranean. we decided not to name the ship for security reasons. he has been held there. he is being interrogated by a lie-level cia/fbi interrogation team. he will be held for several weeks we re told. if history is any judge, the last time that the u.s. military captured a, a al qaeda leader and took him to a navy ship they questioned that leader back in
manual for attacking embassies, do you think there s any connection between him and what happened in benghazi at our embassy there? i m sure if there s any, the interrogation team will be able to get it, and i m sure the intelligence community know a lot about the individual. remember, it s because of their efforts we were able to identify him in benghazi and apprehend him. at this point there s no indication there s any link between him and benghazi. he was involved in the 1998 embassy bombing in nairobi, but if there s any, i am sure the intelligence community will be able to get it. jenna: i should say the consulate in benghazi. it s great to see you, ali. thank you. jon: good news they got that guy. a possible medical breakthrough in treating a very contagious virus. what it is and why researchers are so encouraged. dr. patti joins us with that. also, extreme weather pounding the country. a live report on what may be coming your way, especially if you live in those northeaste