Law enforcement is blind to the plans of some terrorists because their communications are encrypted. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called telegram, available for free on any smartphone. Its the goto application for terrorist communication. Reporter elliot zweig is Deputy Director at the middle east Media Research institute. Telegram has set it up that even they themselves dont retain the information. They cannot monitor the content. Reporter and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful crack. That is a big problem. We have to grapple with it. Reporter fbi director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, Conference Center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. And to this day, i cant tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that attack. Reporter so congress is con
Law enforcement is blind to the plans of some terrorists because their communications are encrypted. Heres nancy cordes. Reporter this is where terrorists turn these days when they want to talk undetected, a messaging app, called telegram, available for free on any smartphone. Its the goto application for terrorist communication. Reporter elliot zweig is Deputy Director at the middle east Media Research institute. Telegram has set it up that even they themselves dont retain the information. They cannot monitor the content. Reporter and there are dozens of other apps just like it, featuring powerful encryption Law Enforcement cant crack. That is a big problem. We have to grapple with it. Reporter fbi director james comey revealed wednesday that one of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, Conference Center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. And to this day, i cant tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that att
Voters has him at 35 , his highest number yet in our polling and up from 22 in october. Trump leads his nearest rival, ted cruz, better than two to one. Former frontrunner ben carson lost half of his support, falling to third. Everyone else is in single digits. The poll was taken before trump called for a temporary ban on states. Garrett. At. Reporter donald trump has long professed a love for polls, and these numbers might add to his fascination. A new nbc news wall street journal poll showed 42 of republicans support trumps call to ban muslims from coming to the u. S. , 36 oppose it. Among all voters, nearly six in 10 disagree with the plan while 25 support it. I have to do whats right. Have a problem. Its a serious problem. Its got to be solved. Reporter in addition to leading our poll nationwide, republicans give trump a clear advantage on terrorism and the economy. 40 of g. O. P. Primary voters say they are very confident in trumps ability to deal with terrorism, 51 say the same a
One of the two men who tried to attack a garland, texas, Conference Center in may communicated with an overseas terrorist 109 times that morning. And to this day, i cant tell you what he said with that terrorist, 109 times the morning of that attack. Reporter so congress is considering legislation that would compel Tech Companies to unscramble and hand over suspicious and encrypted messages, but many of these Companies Operate outside of the u. S. Telegram was founded by a russian and is based in germany, and experts warn that isis is testing out its own encrypted android app, so it wont have to rely on outside companies at all. Even u. S. Tech companies have balked at the notion of new laws. They say encryption is there to protect all kinds of personal data and if they give Law Enforcement a way in, scott, eventually, hackers will find their way in, too. Nancy cordes on capitol hill. Thank you, nancy. Become the first state to ban anyone on a Government Watch list from buying a firear
Voters has him at 35 , his highest number yet in our polling and up from 22 in october. Trump leads his nearest rival, ted cruz, better than two to one. Former frontrunner ben carson lost half of his support, falling to third. Everyone else is in single digits. The poll was taken before trump called for a temporary ban on muslims entering the United States. We have more now from major garrett. Those numbers i like looking at. Reporter donald trump has long professed a love for polls, and these numbers might add to his fascination. A new nbc news wall street journal poll showed 42 of republicans support trumps call to ban muslims from coming to the u. S. , 36 oppose it. Among all voters, nearly six in 10 disagree with the plan while 25 support it. I have to do whats right. And whats right is this we have a problem. Its a serious problem. Its got to be solved. Reporter in addition to leading our poll nationwide, republicans give trump a clear advantage on terrorism and the economy. 40 of