you ve got food service, people with access to luggage. i mean, they ve gone through the manifest. they don t completely know. they went to the manifest, but none of the passengers or crew members were found on any u.s. terrorism data bases. but, again, somehow a bomb got on the aircraft. we have to look at the perimeter and how it was breeched. remember, megyn, the chief of security has been fired. all of this has been circumstantial. what we have to recognize is we have to take this very seriously. these guys have figured out a way way to penetrate security. now, it looks like more than ever, that they are actually strutting their wings. they may have well recruited someone. and all the places that were mentioned, there are isis in all of those places. how the vector would have been from one of these folks to put together a weapon, a bomb, to
the intelligence contact says two palestinian bomb makers had the talent to make devices that use what s called an army switch base. one was in iraq and connected to the al-qaida guys who became isis. he then fled to yemen in 2009. we just don t know the significance of this data point tonight. catherine, thank you. you re welcome. joining us now, a member of the homeland security and intelligence committee. a c.i.a.-trained intel operative. congressman king, let me start with you. now that the united states is involved in this and seems to be suggesting that we, too,believe that this plane may have been bombed. is that your information? i cannot tell you details, but i can tell you a number of top intelligence do believe that this is a likelihood that this was a bomb of some type of
the intelligence contact says two palestinian bomb makers had the talent to make devices that use what s called an army switch base. one was in iraq and connected to the al-qaida guys who became isis. he then fled to yemen in 2009. we just don t know the significance of this data point tonight. catherine, thank you. you re welcome. joining us now, a member of the homeland security and intelligence committee. a c.i.a.-trained intel operative. congressman king, let me start with you. now that the united states is involved in this and seems to be suggesting that we, too,believe that this plane may have been bombed. is that your information? i cannot tell you details, but i can tell you a number of top intelligence do believe that this is a likelihood that this
you ve got food service, people with access to luggage. i mean, they ve gone through the manifest. they don t completely know. they went to the manifest, but none of the passengers or crew members were found on any u.s. terrorism data bases. but, again, somehow a bomb got on the aircraft. we have to look at the perimeter and how it was breeched. remember, megyn, the chief of security has been fired. all of this has been circumstantial. what we have to recognize is we have to take this very seriously. these guys have figured out a way way to penetrate security. now, it looks like more than ever, that they are actually strutting their wings. they may have well recruited someone. and all the places that were mentioned, there are isis in all of those places. how the vector would have been from one of these folks to put together a weapon, a bomb, to
was a bomb of some type of explosive on the plane. it s not definite. and i can t go into detail other than to say that obviously, from just listening to us with the very top people, you know, at all levels and many governments, the number of governments, there is a rolling consensus that there was a bomb on the plane. but, again, that s not defin fif. definitive. but that s what we re looking at. if, in fact, isis is responsible, as it s claiming, then we have isis committing the worst terrorist attacks killing nearly 230 people include ag 10-month-old baby girl, just to put a human face on it. lieutenant colonel schaffer, the question is how? how? simply but, the vector going into the aircraft is limited by only the imagination on the ground.