their infancy when they are small. this was going on sort of behind your back. i take it you were not aware of what was going on? correct. who tipped you off that the irs and the fec were talking about you? we wouldn t know about any of this if it wasn t for the investigation of the ways and means and oversight committee. is there anything wrong for the fec and irs to talk to each other? any problem with that? two things that are concerning. first, you had don mcbegan on here, commissioner at the fec. the fec, if they are going to seek out in an investigatory wa and talk to other agencies about pending investigations, they are supposed to seek approval from their commissioners. they didn t do that. the second thing is, if you look at the entire e mame mail string, the last instance was in february of 2009, references conversations that took place between lois lerner and the individual at the fec. some of that was take place before we were an approved
stream. they just believe that they could not properly protect the officials in yemen. it was clear that this was the intercepted communication which we have reported for the last 48 hours. we were sitting on that information for a while as were other news immediamedia includi new york times. the fact that it was a communication from al zawahiri in al qaeda central to wuhayshi, the most seriously threatening operational branch of al qaeda. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. and it was that interception, a large threat against western interests believed to be not only the united states but the brits, the french and others have evacuated. the brits evacuated everyone from their embassy in yes, mame. and they believe that they were fortifying those embassies, those posts, consulates, that could be well defended, baghdad and kabul, reopened. but that these others not only in the muslim world but others,
produce mass casualties. there are so many people along that finish line, that whoever planted these bombs wanted to kill and mame lots of people. there are certainly a lot of unanswered questions tonight. definitely it was terrorism. we don t know if it was home-grown or foreign but it was terrorism and intended to hurt a lot of people and, indeed it did. i imagine when the bombs went off everybody just running? is that it? the nonrunners, spectators took off running? it was kind of interesting where i was. the atmosphere after the boston marathon is so full. it s joyous, the weather was beautiful today. people were just having fun, laughing, meeting up with family members. and when these two explosions went off, it was almost like a hush fell across the city. you know, everybody just stopped and said what was that? yeah, the people who were on
produce mass casualties. there are so many people along that finish line, that whoever planted these bombs wanted to kill and mame lots of people. there are certainly a lot of unanswered questions tonight. definitely it was terrorism. we don t know if it was home-grown or foreign but it was terrorism and intended to hurt a lot of people and, indeed it did. i imagine when the bombs went off everybody just running? is that it? the nonrunners, spectators took off running? it was kind of interesting where i was. the atmosphere after the boston marathon is so full. it s joyous, the weather was beautiful today. people were just having fun, laughing, meeting up with family members. and when these two explosions went off, it was almost like a hush fell across the city. you know, everybody just stopped and said what was that? yeah, the people who were on
knowledge of the device that was put together here. it was designed, it was put in a place, it was designed to inflict the maximum damage with zero concern for human life. children were hurt, men and women were hurt, innocent people, law enforcement were hurt, as well. it really does make me angry, as it does you. it was a low-level device used to actually, you know, mame, hurt, not necessarily kill. if in fact it is true there were other devices, i understood there was one over the glass bridge going to hotels, one potentially underneath the bandstand, typically, as was said, when there s an explosion like this, people rush in to help and, bang, there another one. was that going to be the one under the bandstand, if in fact that is true? the bottom line there will be a tremendous amount of footage from the people that were there, but also in the stores. it s a very highly videoed area. i m sure they will get some i