what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conversations with him earlier this year. so this was a fairly elaborate sting operation that lasted until today when they actually sold him what he thought was some explosive material. they said not a lot of it was the real thing because they were obviously trying to trick him, but it lasted until today when they actually took him down. did he ever have any connection to real people at al qaeda? they say the federal authorities say he did not. there is no indication according to a law enforcement official that cnn spoke with today, no indication that he has any kind of connection with a foreign terrorist o
grade, if you will, how well our intelligence operations are going? do we is it a b? we have a lot we need to do, or at an a level? i don t want to hear a c, that s for sure. i think, in fact, certainly in the last several years what you ve seen is the gathering of intelligence has become much better. look at the bin laden raid as a great example of the use of intelligence of informants the u.s. had on the ground all the way up to spy satellites with imagery and stealthy drones monitoring the compound. all that information is pulled together and crunched by supercomputers to basically help track and trace the terrorist and their terrorist networks and understand really how terrorist networks operate. if you can take out various nodes of those networks, say the financiers, the gun runners, that would at least push off or delay the attacks if not reduce the attacks overall. the book is counterstrike.
raul grialva. the house is not going to move on immigration according to the leadership of the democratic party until the senate does. is senator graham right that immigration is dead in the senate until the border with mexico is closed? i think that s grasping at straws and a convenient way not to deal with reform. i think it s a mistake. i think we can chew gum and walk at the same time. the security issues need to be dealt with, everybody knows that. the gun runners and the smugglers and everybody else knows it. but you also deal with it with comprehensive reform by knowing who s here, why they are here and should they be here? part of that process has to be part of immigration reform. if you don t do the essential human part of the undocumented in this country, sealing the border, pretending everything is secure is not the answer.
appeal. it has a racial connotation and i believe in law and order. i m against the drug are you against drug runners, are you, joan? i don t think you are. are you kidding me? are you calling me wallace? that s ridiculous. don t call me george wallace, that s not fair. i didn t. i said it sounded like john wallace. law and order has an old ring. sounds to me like you might be for the gun runners if you say i m george wallace. we re all for law and order. are we for, nationally you know how these things can spread from border to border. are we favor of giving law enforcement almost unparalleled freedom in going up and shaking people down, saying, well, it s reasonable suspicion? i m not for that, ed. i am what i am for is this sp arizona has to deal with a problem that s escalating and only getting worse. they are desperate measures. i will say this, ed. i think we do need comprehensive immigration reform. we have to get control of our
have been a year ago, but the point being if we don t do comprehensive reform at the federal level you give the opportunity for the arpaios of the world to begin to dictate immigration reform for this country. what s your opinion of him? what s your opinion of joe ar pie wroyou? my opinion of him has been the same since he started on his rant against immigrants. his issue is basically a racial issue, and he has turned it into a profitable, political opportunity for him. and finally, congressman, what do you say to those residents of arizona who are very concerned about undocumented workers and the operations of bringing people across the border illegally? how should that be remedied if it s not this law? i think you need to target. you need to target the human, the drug, and the gun runners. you target them, you destroy their organizations, and you don t spend as much important