fingerprints. if you see the iranian boat that went up to the side of the second tanker, the japanese vessel they were in broad daylight removing a mine from that tanker. now, it s unclear exactly what time of day that was, but that was don t knowing that there were satellites with also night vision on them excuse me, drones with night vision video capability. so the iranians are not exactly hiding their tracks, even though publicly they are forcefully denying any involvement. neil: jennifer griffin, great reporting as usual. i appreciate it. jennifer griffin on this ongoing situation, if you notice a motor boat going close to one of a tanker, of course it reminds you of the uss cole attack back in 2000. former uss cole commander is with us right now. commander, you must have been struck by a little deja vu
synagogue, the deadliest attack on a jewish community inside the u.s. the suspect, a 46-year-old white man yelling anti-semitic slurs. in 2013-2017, there were 113 attacks and 66 people killed by far right groups and individuals in western europe and north america. in 2013, there was one death related to right wing extremism. in 2017, there were 17 deaths. i want to read you this. this was posted friday by a high profile former fbi agent who investigated events surrounding 9/11, the uss cole attack. by every metric, right wing extremism is the most serious
she testified that her supervisor jose rodriguez who made the decision to destroy the videotape of the interrogation that included waterboarding and did this on his own authority. he did it without consulting the c.i.a. director at the time. and they did it because they were concerned that the c.i.a. officers were visible on the tapes and they could leak. i know from my own reporting that to this day, jose rodriguez has stood by that decision. haspel corrected a senior senator on the committee today dianne feinstein confirming that there are 92 or were 92 videotapes of the interrogations but they only applied to a single detainee. he was one of the senior al-qaeda operatives who was captured in the first wave of 9/11. he was the mastermind behind the uss cole attack. that is one of the seminole attacks before 9/11. republicans this morning made
president talking about guantanamo bay and not shutting it down. yeah, you know, i was really disappointed. i mean, this is nothing but lip service to a base. however it is very significant and very important. it is a failure of moral leadership and a failure to correct that that flawed system that we have down in guantanamo bay. imagine you have at least a few people who basically confessed on camera before they were apprehended about 13 or 14 years ago of the role and the biggest mass murder, biggest terrorism act in the 21st century, 9/11 and we still cannot prosecute them. they are still in a pretrial phase. a person that we know he is a mastermind of the uss cole attack, to murder 17 sailors, still waiting a trial in guantanamo bay. so there is a failure in that system and yesterday we just heard the president reaffirming
in the history of this country. if you look at what happened, number one, i would have had much stronger immigration policies. i m not saying i would have prevented it but i would have had a chance. i m pretty good at this stuff. but i would have had much stronger immigration policies in effect. if you were president you wouldn t allow student visa. [inaudible] i would have had a much tougher you wouldn t allow those going for. but alisyn, they knew an attack was coming. georgia tenant the cia director knew in advance there would be an attack. and he said to to the president and he said so to everybody else that would listen and that came out. the other thing is is the fbi, the nsc and the cia were not talking to each other. jeb bush fired back at trump during an interview with fox news. bush defended his brother s anti terror policies and argued the former president did keep america safe. his view of history is just