Dec 31 Watch CIA Hunts for Answers After Deadly Afghanistan Attack The director of the Central Intelligence Agency reported Thursday that seven CIA employees were killed in an attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. Jeffrey Brown reports, and then Ray Suarez speaks with a Washington Post reporter who covers… Continue watching
Dec 30 Wednesday’s Headlines: U.S. Had Prior Intelligence on ‘Nigerian’ Plot The United States had a variety of information that could have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, but failed to share it properly among its intelligence agencies, according to multiple… Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch Exploring Congressional Role in Air Travel Security A new debate is growing in Congress over what role the legislative branch should take in preventing terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Gwen Ifill speaks with members of the Homeland Security Committee to dissect the politics of national security. Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 9/11 Commission Staff Consider Still-Needed Security Upgrades Jeffrey Brown talks to three people involved with the 9/11 Commission about the latest security failures that allowed a potential terrorist to board a Detroit-bound flight on Christmas Day eight years after the Sept.11 attacks. Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch Dutch: Reports Appear to Confirm al-Qaida Role in Bomb Plot The Dutch interior ministry said Wednesday that initial findings appear to confirm al-Qaida's claim of responsibility in the Christmas Day airliner bombing attempt. Ray Suarez reports on the day's updates. Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch Christmas Scare Renews Questions Over Travel Security, Privacy Gwen Ifill speaks with transportation and homeland security experts about striking the right balance between providing safety in air travel and accommodating the privacy needs of passengers. Continue watching
Dec 29 Which Watch List Was the Christmas Day Bomber On? By Hari Sreenivasan Margaret Warner stops by the Rundown to share some of her reporting on how and where the security system seems to have broken down around the attempted attack on a Detroit-bound passenger jet on Christmas Day. Continue reading
Dec 29 Details Continue to Emerge on Terror Suspect, Botched Airline Plot New details continue to emerge over the botched Christmas Day plot to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight bound for Detroit. The dangerous explosive allegedly concealed by 23-year-old Nigerian student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab could have blown a hole in the… Continue reading
Dec 29 Watch Yemen’s Ties to Terrorism a Lingering Threat Yemen has taken center stage in recent weeks for being a base of operations for Islamic extremists. Washington Post reporter Sudarsan Raghavan speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the nation's ties to terrorism. Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch Obama Sharpens Criticism of Bomb Plot’s ‘Human and Systemic Failures’ President Obama criticized "human and systemic failures" that allowed an attempted bombing of a flight bound for Detroit. Margaret Warner reports and speaks with Jeffrey Brown about the latest developments. Continue watching