Constitutional perfection . Despite a clear provision in the law he cant do that . This president faced a Service Member in peril in activity and exercised a constitutional duty and authority to recover that Service Member. In circumstances in which it was the judgment of the policy, the leading policy makers of this country, that the circumstances were not going to permit the 30day notification. Thats a very concrete response to what was a very compelling situation. I understand that youre saying that under these particular circumstances. Youre not saying that its a blanket thing. But you think under certain circumstances, the president of the United States, after he has signed a law and it has become law, can decide certain parts of it he doesnt have to comply with, without going to a court and getting a determination about his constitutional basis for doing so . There are circumstances, and this was one. One final question for you, secretary hagel. Could you please provide us assura
we have two sources, congre congressional sources saying that o that osama bin laden is dead. dead. one of one of those sources says the the u.s. has the body in afghan afghanistan and that he was shot shot in the head. now now that tells you that obviou obviously this was not a predato predator drone strike but this m this must have been an on the the ground operation. that that had a good enough locati location on him so that they co could risk putting u.s. troop troops or special operations forces forces or more likely cia op rattiv rattives on the ground to go after after bin laden. and and if this accous corre correct, that means they probabl probably went into pakistan and and took him out of pakistan back back to afghanistan. we ll we ll wait to see what the pakista pakistanies think of this. but i but i think the u.s. positi position would be to act first first and apologise later for for having violated pakist pakistani sovereignty. mit mitchell: david, i posed t