heard the fbi say it was a one way very minor communication thing, this would be a huge victory for them. they have to sit there on keyboards around the world, put this hatred out and people are going to follow it. we talked about tom costello s case in which it was indicated that the isis pledge of allegiance, it was privately posted. what kind of a challenge does that pose for anybody? it s a huge challenge. you heard that in the package some of the apps, some of the avenues, they ll automatically delete itself 10 or 15 seconds later. that s hard for the investigators when they try to uncover the messages. what do you think is the hardest part going forward? you heard don borelli earlier and he was talking about the sheer volume of what investigators have. is that really the hardest part of this? i think that s probably right, that the hardest part is just the simple noise that is
her allegiance to al baghdadi, the leader of isis, after the murders. that s very significant. a known isis blogger had called them supporters so you need to take some aftershave lotion on your face if you don t believe it s international terrorism. what the investigators of the joint terrorism task force are trying to figure out is it inspired alone by the two, are i that connected to others locally or abroad? that s the question. when you slaughter people like this and you pledge allegiance to al baghdadi, i don t know if someone is looking for an isis i.d. card. this is what it is. it s international terrorism. now, the workplace attack, i don t think it s the main attack. i think that s a revenge attack. like the nbc reporter on the ground just said, maybe someone making fun of his beard. that may not have been mean natured but he might have accepted it that way. and he wanted revenge on his workplace before, maybe the main
that might tip them off to future attacks overseas or at home. allowing them in the future also to be able to look for certain motives or certain key indicators that may be able to prevent this or be able to be spotted online before it happens. reporter: twitter and facebook promised to remove any support for terrorism, but often it s too late. by the time facebook noticed malik s support for isis the attacks were under way. tom costello, nbc news, washington. and with me in the studio is senior editor of senior and digital media content. if the attacks turn out to be isis inspired does that only add more fuel to the terror propaganda? absolutely. that would be beyond their wildest dreams. they have two people who build bombs silently with great operational security, know hough to burn and destroy cell phones, during the attack. if isis didn t direct this, which there s absolutely no evidence they didn t, in fact we
radio broadcast. there s no evidence that isis knew or directed the act. to the after math of the san diego massacre when upstate new york sheriffs are urging licensed gun owners should stay armed the in public the to protect themselves and others should an attack occur. there are still a lot of questions about motivation in the massacre, but the fact that this is being looked at as terrorism has changed the conversation for people. not that there s going to be another attack, but muslims are concerned about backlash against them. a sheriff has a strong message for gun owners. if they re comfortable with carrying a weapon, and they re proficient at it and they shoud carry it.
so, you know, it s not that unusual when you have this intense national attention on this slaughter. i mean, the whole country is reeling in the last 30 days f m from, you know, the paris attacks, the russian airliner, even the planned parenthood murders. we re all paying attention. it has a lot of intense scrutiny. from everything that you have seen and heard, from the fbi, and the other officials in san bernardino, any reason to believe more attacks are connected to this and it could be in the pipeline still? well, you know, we re just seeing a tempo of attacks that seem to be directly connected back to isis or daesh going right through. if you look at it in recent perspective, the bombing in ankara, turkey, a hundred people killed. the multiple attackers in beirut, the russian airliner, paris, now this may be inspired isis, but nevertheless, you see this tempo of attacks and that kind of encourages others to go along. so we have to be on our game.