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Address the country mere moments from now and speak from the east room. 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, nor kno...

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,...

Types of global operations, thats a real mind set change. the war was not an agnostic video game. it was a personal game where you know youre responsible not only for the lives of americans, but for going up against an adversary that youve got to kill or capture. >> august, 2004, i think we did 18 raids. 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 t...

Intelligence go all out and recruit to be a spy.

About an intelligence organization that slowly gets involved in executing these types of global operations, thats a real mindset change. the war was not an agnostic video game. it was a personal game where you know youre responsible not only for the lives of americans, but for going up against an adversary that youve got to kill or capture. >> august 2004, i think we did 18 raids that month. two years later, 2006, same month in iraq, also, we did 300 raids. our ability to collect intelligence, a...

>> 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

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...

C.i.a. and the joint intelligence go all out and recruit to be a spy. every several weeks, theyd convince him to go to work for them. balowie finds his way into pakistan. very likely, someone suspected

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.