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know that more than a year ago about hamass plan to attack? at where the warnings are actually ignored? tonight on laura coates live. you know, when i actually first heard about the story i had to actually read it twice because i thought there is no way that this is right. is it? are you telling me, all of us, that its possible that israel was aware that hamas planned to attack israel? let me just change the word here because aware seems to make it feel like it was just an inkling, tha...

Disrupt an organization, the adversary is so committed, i mean, they believe that what they do is inspired by a holy book, that theyll just go on and plot another attack. so the business really became dismantlement, how do we destroy it. thats a people business. how do you find the operators, financiers, trainers, et cetera and how can you know where theyre going to be tomorrow so you can pick them up. the explosion of intelligence at cia after 9/11 is hard to imagine. you have a small group of ...

Two years later, 2006, in iraq, also, we did 300 raids. >> our ability to collect intelligence, act on intelligence and then collect on intelligence had taken home an industrial size and speed to it. >> so it was that evolution, in particular, with the cia in ways that we just couldnt have imagined. its absolutely critical, as it turns out, in being able to meet this thread. >> you definitely need to know what your moral center is and how you define that for yourself in being able to do that job...

>> alec station was a collection of people who had backgrounds in everything from analysis to operations. when you think about the cia, theres two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alec station was the fusion of analysis ...

Theres two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alex station was the fusion of analysis and operations. we pushed the analysts and the operations people together so the operations people knew everything the analysts were thi...

>> tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who have worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. the american people do not see their work, nor know their names, but tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work.

We will hear from the president of the united states a few moments from now. it will be a confirmation of a huge development. >> good evening. tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. ♪ >> tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who have worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. the american people do not see their work, no...

Theres two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alec station was the fusion of analysis and operations. we pushed the analysts and the operations people together so the operations people knew everything the analysts were thi...

And were not always looking for the sexy payoff immediately. trying to keep track of all the threads of various threats and which ones are real and which ones arent real and what connects to what, people say why didnt you connect the dots. well, because the whole page is black. >> to pull a story out of all of this information, but theres no one single intelligence looking at all this information, its a lot of different brains looking, so the more that you can bring people together and you know,...

>> youre projecting force, intelligence and assets across that border. and thats what post-represented. thats where the enemy was. >> jim matthews was the chief of base, of the c.i.a. base down there. she was there to have her fingers on the pulse of the information that was coming through the base. she never announceuated that, so to speak. in such stark terms. but my sense was she was there to target and kill senior al-qaida leaders. i asked her, do you think were going to get him? she smiled ...