Stay updated with breaking news from Hedley plummer. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
we all know it is much more than that. along with a new transportation hub and two enormous skyscrapers going up behind me there s also a memorial to the 2,206 people killed here almost ten years ago. ten years later all over manhattan, washington, d.c., there are echoes of that terrible day. police and troops with assault riefls in the train stations, same as it was. checkpoints and road blocks pulling over trucks and vans looking for explosives and other dangerous material. same as it was. people on edge, same as it was. and not just because of the anniversary. the breaking news tonight, new developments in the potential plot targeting new york and washington. two of the three people thought to be connected to it are american citizens. susan candiotti has been working her sources. she joins us now so does fran townsend former homeland security advisor for george w. bush. on the phone, analyst peter berg again. last night we thought at least one person was a u.s. citiz ....
Nearly 2 million since the september 11th attacks. how are the tips vetted? when do officials step? rob is president of good harbor consulting. he joins us live from virginia. so what exactly does the white house investigation mean about this? well, i think, thomas, it means that this was a serious enough dropped ball, if you will, that it warranted the white house to direct the justice department and the fbi to look at the policies and procedures in place and think about in the 2005 to 2008 time frame how could someone like hedley come to their attention, or they decided there wasn t sufficient information to continue an investigation. headley is a fascinating character. one reference to him is he was a chameleon. he served a lot of different interests. part of the question is, who was he actually working for and to what end? ....
Let, a terrorist group with al-qaeda connections. a chicago man, david coleman hedley, later pleaded guilty in connection with the attacks. the washington post reports back in 2005, hedley s wife, after learning he had another wife and more children in pakistan, and the two got into a physical altercation, went to federal authorities in new york and in the course of three interview, told them hedley was involved with l.e.t. hedley was arrested for domestic assault at the time, but not prosecuted. the episode bears some similarities to the foiled christmas day airline bombing plot against northwest flight 253. in that case, you ll recall the father of the alleged bomber, 23-year-old bomber took his concerns to c.i.a. officials in nigeria. that led to the placement of abdulmutallab on one counterterrorism data bank, but not to the u.s. s no fly list. the front line in warning us about the potential existence of ....
Shootings and bombings across the city, including assaults on the building there, the iconic taj mahal hotel and at least 166 people were killed every two days and the attacks were carried out by let, a terrorist group with al-qaeda connections. and a chicago man, david kowallman hedley, later pleaded guilty in connection with the attacks and the washington post reports that back in 2005, hedley s wife, after learning he had another wife and more children in pakistan, and the two got into a physical altercation, she went to federal authorities in new york and in the case of three interviews told them that hedley was involved with them. and hedley was arrested for domestic assault at the time, but not prosecuted, jamie. jamie: the lessons that u.s. policy makers and intelligence officers will likely draw from this, what do you think? well, connecting some dots on our own here, brings to mild the foiled christmas day airline bombing plot against ....
Surprise is alaska because we just don t know who will win. joe miller s probably the front-runner, but people don t think he s been running that great of a campaign. lisa murkowski running the write-in campaign. and scott mcadams is gaining momentum. we ll not find out who wins until late on election night. 17 days and counting. desixth 2010 this sunday on meet the press. david gregory moderates a debate between colorado democratic senator michael bennett and his republican challenger ken buck. that s tomorrow on meet the press on nbc. a new report claims u.s. officials knew about plans for the 2008 mumbai attacks three years before they took place. the washington post is reporting federal agents were tipped off by the wife of an american businessman, david coleman hedley. a key figure in the attack to kill 166 people. ....