taken up arms against the united states of america. chris: in those cases they said it wasn t enough. they had to voluntar waive their citizenship. it wasn t like they came and said they no longer want to be citizens. people actually do that. but the passport is part of a tool that the terrorist groups have now. it is probably the main reason why the terrorists in pakistan wanted to use shahzad, he had an american passport. we got to stop that. chris: congressman king, i want to go back to you and to this interesting conversation i just had about eric holder s statements with john brennan in which he defended holder who is saying that it is still reasonable to consider holding a trial for ksm and the other 9/11 codefendants in new york city. your reaction? unbrennajohn brennan is defg
shahzad. three attacks in the last three months, hassan, abdulmutallab and now shahzad. i was critical of the mutallab incident on christmas day. as far as this one, chris, the evidence isn t in yet as to what was available. based on what we have seen, i don t know if we could have stopped him, shahzad, before he got to times square or have to wait until all the dots out put out there. one criticism is what happened in the last hours of the investigation beginning sometime on monday afternoon, high administration sources were leaking out the most confidential classified information which compromised this investigation and put lives at risk and probably caused shahzad to escape and make it undetected to the airport. they were putting out information i never heard of in a case of this magnitude and it was coming from the administration and coming from washington and i know that troops on o the ground in new york were very concerned about
shahzad. three attacks in the last three months, hassan, abdulmutallab and now shahzad. i was critical of the mutallab incident on christmas day. as far as this one, chris, the evidence isn t in yet as to what was available. based on what we have seen, i don t know if we could have stopped him, shahzad, before he got to times square or have to wait until all the dots out put out there. one criticism is what happened in the last hours of the investigation beginning sometime on monday afternoon, high administration sources were leaking out the most confidential classified information which compromised this investigation and put lives at risk and probably caused shahzad to escape and make it undetected to the airport. they were putting out information i never heard of in a case of this magnitude and it was coming from the administration and coming from washington and i know that troops on o the ground in new york were very concerned about
tell us he was integralr integy involved with the pakistani tal taliban. they were individuals operating on behalf of a larger organization and to try to carry out those attacks on behalf of 24 agenda. abdulmutallab was a singleton on the plane but had the links back in al-qaeda. shahzad in times square had links back but he drove that vehicle to times square alone. chris: how long did authorities question shahzad under the public safety exception, the so-called ticking time bomb exception before they read him his miranda rights? he was debriefed and interrogated for several hours under the public safety exception. he was read his miranda rights then and waived those rights to counsel. the questioning continued. we are continuing to get important information from him and the investigation is ongoing. we have been told three to four hours. is that, correct?
similar to al-qaeda. they plan together and plot together. almost indishable. this is something that we are looking at in terms of the investigation and understanding exactly who mr. shahzad worked with and the extent of his training as well as his interaction with the individuals whether here in the united states. chris: do we believe that he was trained and funded by the pakistani taliban? we believe that he was. did he meet with the top like mashed and their. he had extensive interaction with the ttp and this is something that we are looking at carefully, understanding the extent of the interaction and the extent of the direction and guidance that was given to him. chris: do we believe this was a response to the u.s. drone attacks in pakistan? the ttp has been working with al-qaeda for a number of years. they have targeted u.s. interests and pakistani