what the visa program is, because it generates bill yns of dollars of business in the united states, and also generates about 1 million jobs in the united states. the problem with the visa waiver program is information. it is not on our side of the pond, but the other side. when you have a visa wafer into another country, you are ent entering a contract that you will do information sharing at a level that makes you feel okay about the information that you are receiving regarding the travelers. anybody who takes part in the visa waiver program has to fill out the electronic survey online and that is run against the terrorist database, and it is not so much the system, but we are getting information from other countries, and the other countries need to step up the game as far as how they ga ether information and where they put it, and entering it in interpol is one of the recommendation of the task force report, and doing things like that would really help. the visa waiver program is a g
right now it s possible to travel through 26 countries without getting your passport checked. a perk that is now being questioned because of the ongoing terror threats. with me now, olivia sterns who has more information on this. good morning. good morning, jose. let s start with the problem. first of all, several of these suspects including this alleged mastermind, abdelhamid abaaoud were known to the authorities and traveling freely in between the european union and isis-controlled territory either in iraq and syria with european union passports. now france is calling for two things. first of all, they want all european union citizens to be treated as foreigners when they re coming and going through external borders. so that means starting to be treated the way americans are when they come to france and actually have their passport verified against a terrorist database. currently i m a french citizen. when i come in through the french border patrol, they basically look at me and wa
since sunday. the u.s. government is going through it with a fine tooth comb. our terrorist database against the passenger manifest. there s a report that one person is being checked, but again, i think it s too early to say how far there was enough there regarding terrorism that we have to take the terrorism possibility very seriously. what do you think? i mean, you re an expert in this, what do you think? first of all, i think that one thing that should be considered more is whether or not the pilots, whether there s a pilot suicide or something within the cockpit. for a plane to go off course or go down without any signal communication is really unusual. or perhaps the cockpit was taken over or it could have been an electrical accident. it s too early to tell. somehow this seems to be beyond the ordinary, and especially
which analyzes threats against domestic targets. the day after the fort hood attack the national counter terrorism center entered the attack at fort hood as, in the worldwide incident terrorist database as terrorist attack. that was the day after. reporter: the chairman of the house homeland security committee this morning says, the fbi refused to provide a witness who could explain the apparent failure to exchange information between the fbi and the local cops in boston about the fbi s investigation of the older brother, tamerlan tsarnaev there on the right. unfortunately the fbi has refused to appear and continues to refuse this committee s appropriate requests for information and documents crucial to our investigation into what happened in boston. reporter: asked for an explanation an fbi spokesman this morning told fox there is an ongoing prosecution of dzhokhar tsarnaev. we have the initial court
helping them out with prosecutions, but they did not give those new names to the individuals who run the terrorist database in this country. so they were able to fly. and of the hundreds of thousands of individuals on this list, while the inspector general was doing this audit, they told the justice department about it and the justice department tried to figure out and track down all of these individuals and they realized that two of them have left the country and they re not exactly sure where they are. so let s quote from the inspector general report that we obtained first today. in july 2012, the u.s. marshal service stated that it was unable to locate two former federal witness security program participants identified as known or suspected terrorists, and that, through its investigative efforts, it has concluded that one individual was and the other individual was believed to be residing outside the united states. in another part of the summary of the report, the inspector general