, into professors, broke into an fbi office in media, pennsylvania. they stole every document they found an elite the press shocking details about fbi abuse and the then secret cointelpro program. , the firstr letter file i read was about a group of fbi agents who were told to enhance the paranoia and the antiwar movement and create an atmosphere that there is an fbi agent behind every mailbox. >> no one was ever caught for the fbi break-in. the identities of the media burglars made a secret until this week. today, three of them join us on the show as well as the former washington post reporter, betty medsger, who first broke the story of the still of fbi documents in 1971. this week she revealed the identities of the burglars in her new book, "the burglary: the discovery of j. edgar hoover's secret fbi." all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the death toll from arctic temperatures across the united states has reached nine. the polar vortex at record lows in number of cities on tuesday as freezing temperatures

," -- magazine "report of the primary function of the fbi has changed. renaldo he joins us -- reynaldo tariche joins us. " continues journal after this. ♪ >> i think there is a way in which we have set up this, sort of, impossible series of expectations, especially for presidents, but elected officials as a whole, that they will come in and save the day and when it does not happen, we give congress a 9% approval rating. the expectations have to be lowered. that is what is amazing about the american founding. it is not the founder said do not expect much from government. it is that government is not going to be the main driver of our liberty. civill be several -- society. the federal government exists to do certain things and if it does not do them well, other things will not be well situated. in the election of local officers and the carrying out of duties at the local and state level -- even in that there is a measure of modesty, recognizing that it is not possible for people from washington, d.c., to run a nation of 310 million people. on "humility," sunday night at 8:0

, i will never forget. >> crisis negotiator byron sage is the first fbi agent on the scene, arriving some 75 minutes after the shooting started. >> had i got there a little after 11:00, gun battle was still raging, which was significant. the average gun battle and law enforcement lasts about two seconds. this was a gun battle that had raged now for well over an hour. there was some that shot back. we're not denying that. we were not too trusting of them, and we weren't trusting them because they were continuing to shoot. >> bullets were coming out of every window in the compound. >> fbi agent bob ricks would become the face of the government regarding the standoff. when he arrives, the fbi agents are in shock. >> they had the look deft, the look of despair, the look of despondency. they had gone through a horrible day and were forcibly required to retreat from that scene. >> our top priority right from the start was to get a lid on the violence and then to bring their emotionality down. >> as the shootout rages, atf agent jim cavanaugh is already on the phone with the davidians tryin

modern day armageddon. >> yes, sir, this is the fbi command post. we have a fire at the compound at mount caramel. the entire compound is going up right now. >> it was an epic debacle in united states law enforcement history. a deadly shootout followed by a 51-day siege that ended with more than 70 people dead in a raging inferno. all caught on live television with the whole world watching. two questions rise from the ashes of this american tragedy. who shot first and who started the fires? >> it began innocently enough. in 1935 a small religious group moved to waco. an off chute of the seventh day adventist church, they eventually called themselves the branch davidians. >> pretty stable leadership for a lot of years, and they were known in town as a somewhat bizarre but benign religious group that pretty much kept to themselves. >> the davidians bought property about ten miles east of town, built a compound, and named their sanctuary mount carmel after the sacred biblical site in israel. but in the early 1980s a new member appeared who would change everything. his given name vernon

the c-span bus. join us as we hit the road for the conference tour. >> the director of the fbi spoke at the national sheriffs association conference in washington, d.c., recently. he talked about the relationship between local law enforcement and federal agencies as well as the fbi's future priorities. he spoke for about 25 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much for that introduction. thank you for giving me a chance to visit with you. you are stuck with me. i'm beginning a 10 year term, so you have nine more of these talks. i will try to keep them fresh each time. i thought it would make sense for me to talk about three things this morning. to introduce myself a bit to you and share with you what i expect from the fbi, what the fbi should expect from me, and lastly, what you should expect from the fbi. let me start by telling you how exciting it is to be back among law enforcement. the most rewarding parts of my career have always been when i am working cases with federal, state, and local enforcers. i grew up in a law enforcement family. one of my heroes was my grandfather. he wa

russian criminals the fbi say put them there. >>> welcome back to a second look. tonight what lies beneath. the water level at fulsome lake this year is so low it's revealed a bit of history. the town of mormon valley has been under the lake since 1955. but now parts of it are peaking up above the top of the lake. 2,500 people lived in mormon valley at the height of the gold rush. now for the first time in six decades, people can walk beside the foundations of the dairy, winery, hotels and saloons. they were once part of the sacramento valley. in 1990, ktvu's rob roth told us about another lake and another town. in that case it was lake bariesa. and the town was called monte cello. here is his report. >> reporter: lake bariesta is shrinking. the water level in this manmade lake is the lowest it has ever been. so low that the water mark from the healthier days here looks like a bathtub ring. so low that this field of clay once sat under 50 feet of water. so low that as the water recedes, remnants of a community are beginning to emerge. today people were fishing off a bridge that has been un

wood's body. >> now come 1980, we know we have a serial bomber. and so the fbi started working as a joint task force with atf and because we had bombs in the mail, with the postal inspection service. >> the task force dubs the investigation una bomb. university and airline bombings because the first four bombs were affiliated with university locations or airlines. >> from the beginning, the investigation is hampered by a lack of evidence. the unabomber's devices are relatively crude, making it difficult to trace them back to their maker. >> there wasn't a lot of evidence left. and the evidence that we could identify, matches and pieces of wood, nails, were the kinds of things you could buy at any hardware store. >> we started calling him early the junkyard bomber, because in fact he would make these bombs from scratch. he didn't go buy components and pieces of metal and that type of thing. he went out to piles of old abandoned cars, to carve off chrome to use in his bomb construction. he used scraps of wood. >> everything you find at a bomb scene, everybody single piece of evidence

. our first guest says not one of his clients has beeninterviewed by the fbi. rerepresents 41 organizations in 22 states in a federal lawsuit against the internal revenue service. joining us tonight, chief council for the american center for law and justice, jay succalow and this is out. outrageous there has not been a single point of contact between the fbi and your client who are the targets of the irs scandal. right. the victim of the scandal. here's what you have which is more ironic. we get a call from the fbi at the end of september saying they want to interview three of our clients after the first of the year. and we wait for the response and we get it in early january and the question is, will you have your clits meet with us and as we're getting ready for the response to lo and behold the information about d.o.j. attorney bosserman comes out and we find out she's a major do nay tore to the obama campaign which she has the right to but she has a pfessional obligation to step aside. not quit her job at the department of justice, just not head up this investigation. >> j

for filing a lawsuit against the fbi. i know why they're prepared to go for coming and it's a spine connection that going to be on the silver screen new book reveals how the ci day in hollywood are connected and favors being traded between a teal more on that later and shout. i am it's thursday to where i can in washington dc. i'm irritated when you're watching our tea. the weekend today with the twenty fourteen world watch list ranking of the fifty countries in which the persecution of christians for religious reasons as most of the year. according to the report in non christians killed because of their faith than doubled in twenty thirteen the report is released every year by open doors and non denominational christian group that supports persecuted christians around the world. according to list the five worst countries to practice the religion are as follows north korea takes the number one spot for the twelve year in a row the report cites no numbers on the amount of people killed. however it's as entrenched in their face quote the highest international pressure that between fif

employee of the tcf bank and a chase bank in the same area. >> we learn that through the fbi that she had been caught embezzling between $20,000 and $30,000. she was brought in by the bank investigators and had confessed but agreed to make restitution. this woman had worked at the bank before. she was listed as an associate of the male customer who was in prior to the bank rob we, and that she had been in some financial trouble in the past. >> edwards is charged with theft, but she could escape conviction if she pays the money back. detectives discover in an effort to raise more funds, edwards has a new job. she has an online website advertising her as an adult model and x-rated actress. >> it's not often we're investigating a bank robbery suspect and are an escort. with seminude photos of themselves on the internet. so that was a first for me. >> police now believe edwards plotted to rob her old bank to pay back her debt and then some. through tracking edwards' credit card purchases, detectives find proof that she bought the nun masks online and the zip ties from a local hardware sto

the fbi. >> this person was what's called "known to the bureau." this person had been involved in insider trading in the past and they were punished. no sooner than they came off probation, this person was engaged and involved in insider trading. >> smith: so the sec had their eyes on this person. >> right. >> smith: they had committed insider trading, been caught, been sanctioned, and then were back on the street. and so... >> so now the question is, how are we going to approach this person? >> narrator: to get khan to cooperate, an fbi agent, bj kang, was sent to atherton, california, to confront her at home. >> we try to initially do most of the talking. we tell them, "we're not just here to tell you that you're in trouble. i want to help you." make it clear to that person that, you know, this isn't going to go away. >> narrator: kang told her what the fbi knew: that she had passed valuable inside information to rajaratnam. >> the message that we want to get across is, this is a serious situation. you know, your life is never going to be the same again. >> narrator: after a two

of liberty and security. >> fbi will say we have limited resources and personnel. there are national security threats, should some liberties be compromised for the great are good. generally we are a little too willing to trade the liberty of others for what we perceive to be in our safety interest. the situation here is that the no fly list has gross and despicable consequences. people placed on the lists can also never be charged with crimes. a former air force veteran tried to fly home to visit his mother. he was prevented from doing so. before he was allowed to fly. even though he had sent the fbi a copy of his itinerary saying if they wanted to search him, they were more than happy to, they visited his terminally ill mother to search for prohibited drugs. when he flew home, he corrected signatures, when he tried to fly back they wouldn't let him. we sent the fbi a letter saying this is when he's going to fly, it you'd like to search him extra go ahead. instead he had a take a bus to mexico, a flight to south america, before getting back to his family. those stories illum

n.s.a. scandal. the curious case of the insane clown posies fans. why is the fbi intent on backing them. and we track the top stories on the web. >> it's a fascinating story. coming up, how a country increased the price of journalist visas. some think it's a move to keep reporters out of the country. what do you think. join the conversation at: crisis? >> i think it's going to >> will the president reign in the national security agency. jay carney announced friday that the president will change his plan to change the nation's intelligence gathering next friday. >> the president has been clear throughout this review process that we will not harm our national security or our ability to face global threats. the goal set here is to take measures create more transparency, introduce reforms that improve the system in a way that gives the american people more competence. >> what will the president's plan look like? we're joined from chicago by jeffrey stone, professor of law at the university of chicago, and gave the president 46 recommendations on how to change the intelligence agency in

the former head of the fbi's terrorist monitoring center. currently, he's the vice president of a government consulting company. and elizabeth, the lead attorney for ibrahim, who just won the no-fly case. and the case went on for eight years, and cost $11 million. and thank you hammed it entirely pro bono. why get involved in such a costly uphill battle case? >> because it was the right thing to do. when we found out what happened to dr. ibrahim, we saw it was an injustice done, and we thought it was our obligation as attorneys and defenders of the constitution to take this case on. >> i to the get to mr. ibrahim's case later on. but marti, talk to us about when the no fly list was created and why? >> it was created in 2003 by a presidential directive as a result of what happened at 9/11. prior to that, government agencies had watch lists. they had no interoperability and they couldn't see what was on another agency's watch list and it did not work. and local police agencies had no access whatsoever to any of those watch lists. >> how does a person get on the no fly list? you repr

begin. our first guest is not one of his has been interviewed by the fbi. he represents 41 organizations in 22 states and a federal lawsuit against the internal revenue service. joining us now is the chief counsel for the center of law and justice. it is good to have you with us. >> the victims of the scandal. here's what you have which is more ironic. we get a call from the fbi at the end of december say that they want to interview three of our clients after the first of the year. so we wait for the response call and we get it in january, early january, and the question is will you sit down and meet with us. you're getting ready for the response to that, the information about barbara boxer and comes out and we found out that she's a major donor to the obama campaign and to the dmz, which she has the right to be. and that she has a professional obligation as you pointed out earlier to step aside. but it does not have this investigation. lou: i think that we need to point out that the justice department responded one that obvious conduct was raised but they have no responsib

, including our ambassador, were massacred in benghazi. weeks later, the fbi shows up to investigate a trampled crime scene. now, i don't know about you, but i still haven't seen anyone prosecuted or even in custody, but president obama's going to get to the bottom of it. >> we will not waiver in our commitment to see that justice is done for this terrible act, and make no mistake, justice will be done. >> eight months ago, we find out the internal revenue service is targeting the president's political opponents in the midst of a close presidential election. accountability was supposed to be swift and certain. >> if, in fact, irs personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous, and there's no place for it. and, you know, they have to be held fully accountable. >> right. i know criminal justice, and i would expect the fbi to be the agency investigating the irs. but then, i would be wrong. take a listen to what robert mueller, the then head of the fbi, had to say. >> can you tell me how m

president obama will make in the nsa scandal. the insane clown pos espans. why is the fbi so intent on tracking it. and janet tavoni is tracking, what's trending jana? >> antonio it's a facinating story. i'll tell you, over $180 to over $7,000, some think it's a move to keep reporters out of the country. more coming up. and what do you think? join the conversation on twitter @ajconsiderthis. and our twitter and google plus pages. the inquiry had recommended better rail maintenance and supervis >> will the president rein in the national security agency, the president will share his plan to change the nation's intelligence gathering next friday. >> the president's been clear, throughout this review process, that we will not harm our national security or our ability to face global threats. the goal the president i think has set here is to take measures that create more transparency, introduce reforms that improve the system in a way that gives the american people more confidence. >> so just what will the president's plan look like? we are joined from chicago by jeffrey stone, professor of

. first the tea party had to take on the irs and now they are taking on the fbi. that is because the fbi will not file criminal charges over the irs targeted scandal. investigators did not find the political bias or enemy hunting that would violate the criminal law. the tea party is furious and one leader will go on the record in a few minutes. first back to carl. irs not criminal according to the fbi? >> that is not accurate. read that story carefully. the fbi first of all does not have a habit of commenting on on going investigations. they just don't. you notice in the "wall street journal" piece, it is law enforcement officials. they don't say officials at the bureau. they don't say fbi agents. they say law enforcement officials. that's broad enough to cover the u.s. attorney's office, the department of justice, the department of justice criminal division. last week, literally within the last week, five days ago, the new director of the fbi said this is an on going investigation. it is important to us. i doubt within a matter of days what he said was an important on going investig

conversations] >> fbi director james comey wildlife deliver the keynote speech for the national sheriff's association. director comey is expected to deliver remarks on the relationship between local law enforcement and federal agencies. this is live coverage on c-span2 this is expected to get underway in just a moment. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> and we're live this morning here in washington, d.c. for remarks from fbi director james comey. he is the keynote speaker at the national sheriffs association and major county sheriffs association winter conference. director comey is expected to talk about the relationship between local law enforcement and federal agencies. should again get underway in just a moment here. this is live on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. please rise for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, wit

the newsroom, i'm carolyn tyler >> thank you. >> tonight an arrest in a arson attack. the fbi said it has the man who torched the chinese consulate in san francisco it happened last week. the whole thing caught on video. ab we are live about what we know about the man facing charges >> what little we do know raises more questions than answers we know he has no criminal history. his answer to the question and fbi interviews is that, well, strange. to say the least. this afternoon, federal agents met with officials about developments in the case in future security measures. this morning the fbi briefed reporters on arrest the criminal complaint gave insight into the investigation. fbi agents reviewed video from the security camera that shows a minivan and a man carrying large objects moments later a large fireball explodes the blast destroyed the main entrance. two days later the fbi made an arrest. >> last friday law enforcement arrested a 39-year-old from daily city, california in connection with the fire. >> the criminal complaint says he called daily city police friday saying he set

this is the world he exists in. and he's online a lot. >> mike rogers is a former fbi agent, chairman of the house intelligence committee. for him to suggest that snowden may have been an agent working for russian intelligence from the very beginning, he must have some inkling of evidence to back that up, i suspect? >> yeah, that's why i think it's important -- this is someone with a very important title who's making these allegations. and he talked about clues, unspecified clues. i called his office to see if i could get him to explain a little bit more and he didn't want to discuss it. he wouldn't comment further. but what he is saying is not only denied by snowden, it also is contradicted by several investigations, the fbi's been investigating and the nsa's been investigating. and the cia has been investigating. they've all been looking for the possibility that snowden's working with foreign governments. and at the moment, none of them have found evidence. >> were you surprised that dianne feinstein sort of said, i can't rule that out?

white. >> in this fbi interview, the seller said ray paid him in cash, mostly 20s. >> he paid that guy $2,000 in 20s, that would be a lot of money. >> there's another dot connected to the bank of alton. >> reporter: detective john light thinks that money came from the robbery. if so, enough to keep ray on the run for another year. >> $30,000 back in 1967 was a lot of money. >> but james earl ray claims the money came from the mysterious raoul. never a last name. >> he just called that name raoul. that's the only name they called him. >> ray got an alabama driver's license under his alias, eric starvo galt. he registered the mustang under the same name. with this new license plate and his new identity, ray left for mexico. this is james earl ray that fall in puerto vallarta where he spent much of his time with a prostitute. by mid-november, ray on the right moved on to los angeles and settled into a low-rent hotel on hollywood boulevard. he took dancing lessons and bar tending lessons, but perhaps more significantly, he did this. >> i had plastic surgery on my nose. it had been mashed t

those involved in a break-in at an fbi field office are coming out of the shadows. the story tonight from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: bonnie raines spent years developing child care centers, john raines, retired university professor, keith forsyth engineer and teacher. all hiding a secret for more than four decades. the parts they played at a daring break-in at an fbi office outside philadelphia. stealing thousands of files that exposed fbi dirty tricks against the anti-war and civil rights movements. >> we called ourselves the citizens commission to investigate the fbi. we were going to investigate the investigators. >> reporter: they tell their stories in a new book by former "washington post" reporter betty medicine -- medsger, who wrote some of the first accounts of the documents they stole. >> these files opened the door into the secrets of the fbi. >> reporter: and they tell nbc's michael isikoff how they did it. bonnie raines got a look inside the fbi office by posing as a college student working on a paper. careful to leave no trace behind while meet

the end of this of whining crying with one four cents as its main focus however it seems the fbi as priorities might be shifting away from putting criminals behind bars while combing through the pages of fbi documents after successfully filing a freedom of information act request washington based national security lawyer khalil planning and notice a change in the agency's fact sheets that was sent out this summer the primary function of the fbi used to be yet one parsnip this but these days national security is the agency is named bob gets the fbi says this change in priorities has been going on since the september eleventh attacks on the world trade center. fbi spokesman paul dress and told foreign policy magazine match of the agency's website and missions have won reflected this deviation from its original goal was. critics say the fbi is d prioritizing the enforcement substantially in fact according to a two thousand ten inspector general's report that in two thousand one hundred thousand eyeing the fbi and doubled its number of agents focus on counterterrorism and national secur

. >> fbi director james coming to talked aboutomey the relationship between law enforcement and local agencies. he was speaking to the national sheriff's association winter conference. [applause] >> thank you so much for that introduction. thank you for giving me a chance to visit with you. you are stuck with me. i'm beginning a 10 year term, so you have nine more of these talks. i will try to keep them fresh each time. i thought it would make sense for me to talk about three things this morning. to introduce myself a bit to you and share with you what i expect from the fbi, what the fbi should expect from me, and lastly, what you should expect from the fbi. let me start by telling you how exciting it is to be back among law enforcement. the most rewarding parts of my career have always been when i am working cases with federal, state, and local enforcers. i grew up in a law enforcement family. one of my heroes was my grandfather. kid in sixth grade when his dad was killed in new york. he was the oldest and his family , so he dropped out of school in sixth grade to support his family.

much rain we received and where a winter weather warn something already in effect. >>> a major fbi raid at a south bay tattoo parlor. what investigators uncovered and how many people were involved. >>> parents in the south bay speaking out after a school counselor was arrested for selling marijuana. the trouble that two students got into that led to the counsel lir's arrest -- counselor's arrest. >>> it was a morning of wet roads and cloudy skies as the bay area woke up to some much- needed rain. luckily, there were no major collisions because of the slick highways but chp did respond to several minor accidents. drivers say with the first rain in a while, you have to be extra cautious. >> always leave several seconds in front of you because there's lot of grease on the roads that will be lifting up the pavement. hopefully, everyone can get to work safely. >> today's rain comes after nearly two months of bone-dry weather that triggered a drought emergency. mark tamayo is here with how much the bay area received overnight and this morning. mark? >> this system really got a lot of attentio

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state of emergency there. >>> fans of the band insane clown posse calls themselves gugillos the fbi calls them a gang. they are suing claiming they are being persecuted and prosecuted because of their face paint and tattoos. it is the craziest first-amendment fight you have ever seen. hello and welcome. it is friday, january the 10th. i'm ashleigh banfield. this is "legal view." >>> you have seen the gridlock. you have seen and heard the outrage. we have read the e-mails and witnessed an almost two-hour long news conference replete with regrets and recripple nations. today, the chris christie bridge traffic scandal, not only is it winding down, it is become mortgage serious than ever. today, there is a class action lawsuit that's been levied, a contempt citation, against an ex-official and 900 pages of documents from a state legislative committee, documents you can bet are going to be cross-checked against every sill i believe against the new york governor in his remarkable appearance. our joe johns has been following all these developments. what are we expecting to see and what are

. in the newsroom, i'm carolyn tyler >> thank you. >> tonight an arrest in a arson attack. the fbi said it has the man who torched the chinese consulate in san francisco it happened last week. the whole thing caught on video. ab we are live about what we know about the man facing charges >> what little we do know raises more questions than answers we know he has no criminal history. his answer to the question and fbi interviews is that, well, strange. to say the least. this afternoon, federal agents met with officials about developments in the case in future security measures. this morning the fbi briefed reporters on arrest the criminal complaint gave insight into the investigation. fbi agents reviewed video from the security camera that shows a minivan and a man carrying large objects moments later a large fireball explodes the blast destroyed the main entrance. two days later the fbi made an arrest. >> last friday law enforcement arrested a 39-year-old from daily city, california in connection with the fire. >> the criminal complaint says he called daily city police friday sayin

whether fbi agents should be so quick to, you know, protect somebody who is presumed innocent, of course, but just tactics were pretty wild. this was the trial started in, like, october 15th of '07. headlines like this every day in the new york tabloids. agent of death. i mean, like, they basically convicted him. but the star witness, one of the star witnesses was linda. the woman i told you. it was alleged that by these reporters, now onen the left you see jerry. one of the problem of the most famous and the greatest contemporary reporter on organized crime. he had a column called "gangland" for years. he had played himself in the sopranos. you know. so but each and whatever. on the right mike. and a lot of these -- i'm half italian. half of my book is accurate. jerry -- at the height of the war. the war was waged from 91 to 93. they wrote about it and knew that she was going to be one of the star witnesses. she lies and they end the trial. look now the headline. two weeks later, talk about a reversal of fortune. mob tape frees g-man. say that celebrated at sparks steak house ove

, the fbi in germany interviews every survivor of the attack at the consulate. not one of them mentioned a protest. they all said it was a terrorist attack and named al-qaeda affiliates involved. >> but deeper, because the cia knew within three or four days they had the video to show -- >> no, within 24 hours it was reported as a terrorist attackme attackmeattack. and here is my question, how could the president say days later it was a protest caused by video. remember when greg said he almost threw up, his heart was broken. he was stunned when susan rice said there was no evidence of a terrorist attack, this was a protest caused by video. why didn't somebody at the cia who knew better pick up the phone and call the white house and tell the president quit lying about benghazi? there is so much to be unearthed yet. >> all right, so they knew within 24 hours there was no protest going on, then susan rice did the five sunday shows, and then the president goes before the united nations. then we have the cover-up, before, during and after. and after the narrative emerges directly co