officer, currently with the blaze, susan crawford, professor at the core dough zoe school of law. thanks for being here. susan, i could tell during my conversation with the congressman, you were nodding but i couldn t tell whether you were nodding in agreement or whether you were nodding in disagreement? just interested in what the congressman has to say st. is a moment of great misery and pain and also great importance for the country and we try to figure out what to do so, i m interested. buck what are investigators focusing on now? i work for the nypd intelligence division, i know you said i was in the cia counterterrorism sent were, i work for both and that included my time during the nicele shahzad care the times square bomb in 2010. they have him in custody, one suspect dead here, they have to look at the connections, connections not just overseas, as the congressman pointed out, very important to get a sense of whether there were external directors here, people giving trai
cnn california apparently, locals are being evacuated and now new fears. look at this. mudslides. we re live on the ground that. is ahead. you thought the anger at the airport was bad? wait until you see what is going on overseas. that s next in reporter rule let. first, as the year winds down, reporters are looking back at how the biggest stories unfolded, including the times square bomb plot. remember that? take a look. i m susan candiotti. it was mayday, dinnertime everything went haywire. that s when a street vendor noticed a and the bomb squad was able to diffuse the contraption
and that, they say is what would have happened if faisal shahzad s attempts had been successful. jennifer griffin has more at the pentagon. reporter: three separate intelligence officials confirm to fox news that they are very concerned about new intelligence that they have gathered in which the pakistan taliban reportedly has sent an operative on route to the u.s. to carry out a time square-style attack. they are coming from the tribal areas, the border of pakistan, afghanistan, it s the same area where the failed times square bomber was trained. the new intelligence suggests this attacker wants to carry out the times square-style attack because it failed in the past. its not clear whether the attacker is already inside the u.s. the times square attack was the first time the pakistan taliban had attempted a strike in the west and the state department named them to its terror list in september. i m told there are five
all right. sorry about that. we ll try and bring that sound bite in its completion as soon as we can. meantime, chad meyers is with us to give us an idea of some of the options of how to stop this leak. all right. looks like we re going to hear from chad later as well. we re having a technical problem here. let s move on across the seas now to pakistan. pakistan is reportedly holding a man who admits that he helped suspect faisal shahzad coordinate the times square bomb plot. the washington post quotes officials who say the man has ties to the pakistani taliban. the u.s. has said the group is behind the attempted car bombing. here in the u.s., three pakistanis are in custody after agents carried out raids in four states. one was on new york s long island. another in watertown, massachusetts. investigators say the suspect helped finance the bomb blplot.
a man who ran a therapy program to cure gays caught coming back from a trip with a gay escort. he s now resigned from the therapy program. and no more field trips. commentary tonight from michael musto. that is next, first tonight s worst persons of the world. cited for marijuana possession in march, a man in texas, police pulled him over for driving with a suspended listen, and and the court paperwork in pot possession charge in which was allegedly wrapped some pot. runner-up, brian killmead of cluster fox and friends, do media outlets like the new york times aid and abet terrorists some say they do that including helping the times square bomber to plan his attack without being detected.