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And tonight, ISIS is vowing more attacks, but the White House says so far there is no specific or credible threat
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to the US. Former CBS News correspondent John Miller is the deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism at
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the New York City Police Department. John, good evening. I think the question people want to know is could an attack
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like what happened in Paris happen here? Here meaning uh the US, it certainly could. Here meaning New York. uh we
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spent the last two years redeveloping, redesigning uh the field piece of our counterterrorism program to address just
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this. So now um we have basically 1,500 police officers in uniform in cars with long semi-automatic rifles and heavy
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vests that are on patrol all the time. I don't think any other city um in the world has a tactical capability on that
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level and we've done that because we've been watching this. We watched Charlie Abdo. We watched this. We watched the
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Mumbai attack and we we've reassessed it. I mean the question is are they coming here? They've been here ISIS has
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been here in the month of June. Nora, I think uh we had uh well between April and the end of June, we had uh a
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pressure cooker bomb plot inspired by ISIS targeting police that was interdicted through good intelligence
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and undercover work. We had a second plot that involved a plan to behead somebody in New York and to use pressure
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cooker bombs at the Fourth of July celebrations among the things they were talking about doing. Um and a couple of
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attacks on FBI agents and police officers in the course of breaking up those plots. So it's um it's not a
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wakeup call. Uh it's been happening here. I mean Paris is set to host hundreds of world leaders in two weeks.
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It's a big global chime climate change summit that's there. How could attacks with this level of coordination and
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lethality go virtually undetected? Nora, I think what you're seeing here is what
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FBI Director Jim Comey calls going dark. And that is that in the in in kind of the the the time following the Snowden
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debate about privacy and uh about uh government overreaching and all of those allegations uh a series of apps have
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come out that are encrypted that have messages that self-destruct set to a timer that can hold group chats that are
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completely protected from surveillance for up to 200 people. And the terrorists have found these apps and they're using
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it. And Nora, what I'm talking about is you can walk in the door with a court order from a federal judge, hand it over
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to the company and say, "We need to see what's inside here." Just like we did in
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Mumbai, just like we did after 9/11, and they'll tell you, "We can't see what's inside. We designed it to be
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uncrackable." That's a real challenge and scary. John Miller, thank you so much. Thanks.