Landlord Invites Media Into Killers' Home
VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, an official statement or response received by us stopping the people as you can see behind me, the people are still going into the home. And you can tell that some the people by what they are wearing. These are no longer solely member of the media. There is a woman with a dog walking through the house.</s>BLACKWELL: So it is now, just neighbors, walking in, just because they are curious. But no response. I can see a police car across the street.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I saw some FBI agents here after the fact.</s>BLACKWELL: FBI agents, but nobody has made any effort to shutdown the scene or shut off access or to move anybody off of the property. And probably 10 feet from me is Doyle Miller, who is the owner of the unit, and he is answering questions, and conducted interviews inside of the home. So as I said earlier to Anderson, if there is any law enforcement officer who wanted us off of the property they could turn on any television in the world and see that we are here.</s>ELAM: He said that he was not given any directive to stop people from going in there either -- Wolf?</s>WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: And it is amazing. And if the landlord has a moment to come over to the camera and explain his decision to allow everyone in, we would love to hear from him, if you can get a hold of him after he is done with the other interviews. We'd be very anxious to hear about that. And standby, both of you, if you will, Victor and Stephanie. I want to bring in the CNN legal analyst, Paul Callan; and law enforcement analyst, Jonathan Gilliam. Paul, first, have you ever seen anything like this before, a major crime, 21 people injured and 14 people murder, and now within a couple of days the home is exposed to the news media as it has been?</s>PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: No, I have never seen anything like this, and I think it indicates the shocking degree of negligence and really recklessness by law enforcement authorities here. Apparently, they have decided because both of the suspects in this mass murder are dead, the investigation, the criminal investigation is over. But let's say hypothetically that maybe there is another person who was involved who was involved in bomb making in that apartment, you have a contaminated crime scene now. And any criminal defense lawyer or any criminal prosecutor can tell you this that it is not unusual when you go back to the crime scene months later to find additional evidence, and that is why where you have a mass murder, the crime scene is locked down so that forensics can get in and thoroughly examine it, and find evidence as it becomes available. To see this crime scene rummaged as it is, I am shocked by this.</s>BLITZER: Yeah, a lot of people are. How about you, Jonathan?</s>JONATHAN GILLIAM, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Yes, I agree with Paul. This is the biggest visible screw-up in history that has occurred, that a terrorist incident just happened and the reporters are going through and looking at I.D.s and pictures. All of that should be evidentiary. It is all evidentiary. And the carpet. How do we know if there is any DNA in the carpet? I don't see any fingerprint powder anywhere in the apartment. Wolf, if these people were really bent on killing, they could have bombs implanted in the walls for goodness sakes. I just -- I have never -- I was talking to Harry Houck a second ago, and he was shaking watching this. I've never seen anything like it. I'm speechless.</s>CALLAN: You know, Wolf --</s>BLITZER: It is pretty amazing. Go ahead, Paul.</s>CALLAN: I have tried numerous murder cases as a prosecutor and defense attorney, and I can tell you, never have I seen something like this. And of course, if it turns out that there are other people involved in this crime, this is the absolute destruction of any case that they would have against them. But I am more concerned about leads that might be hidden in that debris that will now be destroyed as a result of the contamination. It is a really a shocking abandonment of responsibility by the law enforcement here.</s>BLITZER: And as you know, Jonathan, they are concerned, law enforcement, that these two individuals, the husband and the wife, may not have necessarily acted alone. And they could have been part of the larger cell. And normally, after an incident, a mass murder like this, that house would be sealed off for a long, long time.</s>GILLIAM: Wolf --</s>CALLAN: Absolutely. And --</s>GILLIAM: Wolf, when a cell exists, look at how many pipe bombs were in the bags. I would almost guarantee you that the people, who were going to be carrying out the attacks, they didn't buy the parts for the bombs, and that is telling me that the potential for somebody else involved is there. I -- this, is it is not just destruction of the crime scene, it is the elimination of pieces of the puzzle that could have potentially led to other people involved. It is just eliminated.</s>CALLAN: And you know, Wolf, what they have done here is to turn a crime scene in a terrorist mass murder into a garage sale. That is what it looks like as the cameras are going through the house.</s>BLITZER: It is very shocking. I have certainly never seen anything like this in the years I have been covering the horrible crimes and terror incidents and the mass murders. But we will continue the follow the latest development, and I assume that the law enforcement authorities, local, county, state or federal -- and the FBI is now the lead investigatory agency in the terror attack -- and I assume they are not happy about that decision to allow the landlord, or for whatever, reason to a landlord to allow all of the media in. We will hope to speak to the landlord and we hope that he comes over to our cameras. Guys, thanks very much. Still ahead, the ISIS link to this massacre in California. Our panel coming up will talk about the so-called pledge of allegiance by the female attacker, Farook's wife, Tashfeen Malik.