can you just explain the difficulty investigations like this can be, how long they can take, or sort of what s happening right now? well, i mean, they can take time. i remember back in 2002 during the d.c. sniper which ironically was october of 2002. right around this time of year. it does take time. but there s an awful lot of pressure to find out very quickly or at least as quickly as possible who s responsible so that you don t wind up in this case with anyone actually being killed because right now we re very fortunate. they found so far six devices, i believe. none of which went off. that doesn t mean there are not more out there. so there s a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure that they identify this person as quickly as possible. mary ellen, you profiled the unibomber, ted kaczynski. looking at how this individual or individuals sent these packages, is there anything you can tell in terms of what kind of a person it could be behind this? well, it would all be very
was october of 2002. right around this time of year. it does take time. but there s an awful lot of pressure to find out very quickly or at least as quickly as possible who s responsible so that you don t wind up in this case with anyone actually being killed because right now we re very fortunate. they found so far six devices, i believe. none of which went off. that doesn t mean there are not more out there. so there s a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure that they identify this person as quickly as possible. mary ellen, you profiled the unabomber, ted kaczynski. looking at how this individual or individuals sent these packages, is there anything you can tell in terms of what kind of a person it could be behind this? well, it would all be very preliminary, but what becomes important is taking a look at all of those devices to see, number one, if they are forensically linked, and then number two, how are those devices put together?
they are saying they don t know where he has been. the way they were able to track him down, this car they had been following, they tracked to the parking lot of a hotel. that s where they were watching is and hoping to make contact, have some some sort of a peaceful resolution in the words of police chief brian manley there. he is now dead after detonating that bomb. let s bring in cnn law enforcement analyst special agent james gagliano. you were listening to this along with us. he drove off. they don t know why. ultimately this is what led to him detonating a bomb on the side of the road. what stood out to you in what they reveal? sure, erica. and what an incredible two days of law enforcement. nineteen days of terror reminiscent of the d.c. sniper, three weeks in october of 2002. my takeaways. great investigative work by the
since my fingerprints were on the infamous weapons of mass destruction national intelligence estimate in october of 2002. but believe me, the intelligence community is learning organization and we profited from that bad experience and have built in all kinds of safeguards and checks and balances to ensure that that sort of thing doesn t happen again. so, yes, you can point to something we did 15 years ago, but that s not necessarily relevant in this particular case. the way this investigation unfolded in the house intelligence committee, how much does it undermine or, in your opinion, does it undermine the credibility of this report? do you think we can trust anything in this report? well, unfortunately and this is kind of sad for me is that the credibility of the committee is basically about zero because they re so partisan. i ve been around, anderson, since those two committees were stood up. the hpsci in 1976 and the senate intelligence committee a year later. so i ve watche
i didn t tell my story, though, i told stories of three women, i interviewed a psychologist and an author who had written a book on the subject, and after the article ran, it was october of 2002 i got calls from women asking me why i didn t think to interview them. i think up until that time i thought it was just me, and i m like, maybe, you know, maybe there is a book here. but i m a different woman now, different writer, and it s taken these many years for it to come to fruition and i think this is a book i probably needed when i was 15. push from friends. push from friends. i m going to sask you some o the other people that wrote essays for you. regina, your essay is beautiful, it s well done. girls need their dads in their lives for so many reasons. there are certain things about life and relationships that only a father can teach his daughter. when he s not available to her, she ends up learning by trial