down of her life that she never recovered from and she wasn t really mad at hillary clinton until very, very recently when she heard the tapes and saw the documents which were brought to her attention by the reporters who dug them up. and she realized that and came to the conclusion that she had been wronged by hillary clinton and felt the need to speak out about it and that s why she talked to me earlier this week. and, josh, did she say anything her own lawyer the person who represented her in this particular case as well? did she think that he or she did a good job defending her? yeah, her actual memories as a 12-year-old child going through this traumatic event are spotty. that kind of contributed to why she it s been 40 years since she sort of came out and told her own story. she does remember being so exasperated by the legal process that she eventually said, you know, just let this end, do whatever you have to do. she told her mother i want to go on with my childhood and
victim said she s ready to stand up. when i heard the tape i was pretty upset and i went back to the room and talking to my two cousins and i cried a little bit, i ain t going to lie. this stuff has got me pretty down. i m going to stand up to her. i m going to stand up for what i got to stand up for. josh roggen security correspondent for policy at the daily beast talked to the victim and provided the tapes for us and we re joined by ben ferguson and mark lamont hill. josh, first to you, bring us up to date on this woman, on this victim. how did her life turn out? after her attack she spent five days in a coma and months recovering from a beating and over a decade in therapy and she fought drug abuse and her drug problem led to prison. she s cleaned up her life now, 52 years old, never married, no children, on disability, unemployed. she doesn t blame the events totally other situation but they contributed to the spiraling
most damaging for a candidate because it s hard to relate to someone and most people say, i couldn t do this. i could not defend a rapist and then laugh about the victory knowing there s a 12-year-old victim. and not only that ripping on the 12-year-old child saying, well, this 12-year-old was somehow responsible because she went after, you know, older men as hillary wrote in those documents to the court. i think that s very damaging towards her personal character. i want to break it down into two things. i don t think she was laughing at the victim, i do think she was laughing at the integrity of the polygraph and she said there goes my faith in polygraphs which are frankly not even admitted in a court of law these days. look, we all know, defense lawyers, it s a tough job. josh, is the real problem her reputation her reputation over something she did when she was 27 years old or is this going to be looked at within the context of other work and other efforts she s made on behalf
outfront, we have new details tonight about planned terror attacks on america. u.s. officials have discovered an electronic meeting between more than 20 al qaeda top leaders and they did that by following the internet trail of an al qaeda courier. now, this is according to reporting by the daily beast. you ll recall it was that meeting of al qaeda leaders that prompted the obama administration to issue an unprecedented terror alert ordering the closing of nearly two dozen american embassies in the mideast and north africa. josh roggen is the reporter that broke the story. josh, let me start with this, when you hear the word courier and al qaeda you think of the capture of osama bin laden, a physical courier driving the car that they were able to follow, so we ve heard about this before. but this is an electronic trail, that s how they were able to find this. how do they do it? so, here s what happened, after a seven-hour internet conference between all of these leaders, the details
and obviously the embassies have reopened, including the american embassy in yemen. is this an all-clear or given all the information that they have, do they think there s another attack in the works? right. on this conference call they vaguely discussed a threat and said some teams that were in place. there was a date around that threat. now that date has come and gone. the consulate in lahore, pakistan, remains closed. what we know is that the overall threat from al qaeda remains, the specific threat may have passed. we know they re out there and they re trying to plan attacks and we have to be vigilant at all times. josh, thank you very much. josh roggen breaking it with eli lake. how and where was the accused boston marathon bomber shot? we have new details tonight for you. and the secretary of state hillary clinton, put four officials on administrative leave following the american attack on the embassy in benghazi, guess what? they re being brought back to their jobs. wh