course, they are very interested in talking to whoever they have been in touch with. i think the best way to put it is they ve found no evidence that anyone else was cooperating with them or in any way involved in the boston marathon bombing. they re certainly exploiting all their e-mails, all of their cell phone calls, and the process of all of that has not come up with any associates or people that have thought to have conspired with them. we ve been talking about this period of time under which these high security interrogators could speak with the suspect without his being mirandized. apparently he can t communicate very well, at least verbally at this point. does that mean that this timeline gets pushed back, or does it have to close up, this window of opportunity, within like 48-plus hours? well, i think that s actually a very good question. and i think it s fair to say the law isn t completely clear on this. let s us be clear on what we re
circle of people with whom tamerlan hung out or visited? has that been established or were they merely sightings because of the unique character and physical description that you started with at the beginning of your report? reporter: well, there has been one report, which we really haven t been able to verify yet, that he did maybe meet some people of questionable character. but in general, he actually hasn t been sighted very much in the area that we would have expected to see him. for instance, the apartment building where his father keeps a residence. it s possible that the family has several residences. the parents certainly aren t staying at the apartment building now. they ve been shying away from all the media attention. we would have expected to have heard from people saying that they had seen tamerlan there, but they didn t see him on his visit last year, so that does remain a big question.
okay, aid rdrienne long, tha you for the report. as soon as dzhokhar tsarnaev is medically available, he will be questioned by the federal government s elite high-value detainee interrogation group. so how do they get inside the mind of a terrorist? my next guest spent 30 years in counterterrorism and was the co-lead of the u.s.s. cole bombing investigation. joining me now in studio, robert mcfadden, former deputy assistant director for counterintelligence operations. let s go to what s happening inside that hospital room right now, this high-value detainee is being interviewed, if he can speak, which actually remains in question. what are the first things they need to find out. just going by my background and working some cases like this before, and with an acknowledgement that i m going to have to come up with some different term that we remain in speculation territory. but in a case like this, first
because we heard from former white house counterterrorism expert richard clark this morning. let s listen to what he had to say. how do you tell when someone gets radicalized? they re normal, they re happy kids in cambridge, then something happens. a switch is flipped. how can the fbi, how can homeland security notice when that happens? what i want to know is what did the russians do when he went back to russia? they had already said they were interested in him. then he goes back to russia and spends over six months there. what did they do? did they follow him around? that s a question we need an answer to. so what are the answers to these questions? we are not a police state, and yet this was someone around whom there were red flags. yeah, and look. there certainly was information provided by russian security service to the fbi, but we have to put that into context. the russian fsb and other agencies are not always working in our best interest and we don t always share the exact
united states. i want to bring up something that richard engel and i spoke about yesterday, and that was the chatter that was on terrorist websites. talk about what you have seen. yeah, we ve seen a ton of comments being posted on top al qaeda forms. there was something like 25 separate discussion threads started on al qaeda s main discussion forums within 12 hours of this incident happening. but the people that are chatting on there, they re not saying this guy was connected to al qaeda. they re not saying this guy was part of the chechen they re basing what they re saying off of media reporting. but these are some pretty well-informed individuals. i should say these are guys some of them say they behaved poorly at the end. that once their pictures were put out there, that a true jihadist would never have behaved almost in a knee jerk reaction. and it s a reasonable question. if someone is given operational training and is carefully schooled in how to carry out an attack.