joins us now live, congressman king, the would be suicide bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i m in a position, i really can t tell you very much at all. i ve been briefed on this and as far as i know this has not been in any way declassified the cia. this could interfire with operations overseas. i really cannot comment on any of those details. i know it s out there, i know it s being reported and i also was had a briefing this afternoon with top officials and there s a really great concern that this got out. this is my understanding that a major investigation is going to be launched because of this. are there any new details that you can say? i don t believe so, anderson. i late to do this to you, i mean yet i did say to you that i was told and i could say yesterday that the bomber, the alleged bomber was no longer of any concern to us and now i guess a different interpretation can be put on that and everyone was reading in
extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia or the administration. it s really to me unfortunate that this has gotten out because this could interfere with operations overseas. i m sorry to do this i can t comment on any of the details. i know what s out there. i know it s being reported. i also was at a briefing this afternoon with top officials. the
according to the new york times but also the information that helped the cia carry out a drone strike against the top al qaeda operative. now, we don t have the name or nationality of the double agent and this of course is a highly sensitive situation. so we want to be careful about what we say, but some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect. even in a patdown. undoubtedly could have brought down a plane according to a senior american official. the congressman peter king of new york is the chairman of the committee and again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king, the would be bomber is a double agent. what can you tell us about him? i can t tell you very much at all. i have been briefed on this and this is not declassified by the cia o
sensitive situation, so we want to be careful about what we say. some extraordinary details have already been leaked out to a number of publications. the new york times reports the bomb itself was sewn into underwear so that it would have been difficult to detect even in a patdown and undoubtedly could have brought down a plane, according to a senior american official. congressman peter king of new york is chairman of the house security committee. again, there s a lot that cannot be discussed. so we re leaving it up to the experts to tell us what they can. congressman king joins us now. congressman king, the would be bomber is actually a double agent. what can you tell us about it and about him? i really can t tell you much at all. i ve been briefed on this, and as far as i know, this hasn t been any way declassified by the cia and the administration. it s really to me unfortunate this has gotten out. this could really interfere with operations overseas. i can t comment o