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Program killed in that attack. the blast two weeks later at a ooh rain yan enrichment plant on november 30th, 2011. the explosion on november 12th not only killed the head of irans missile program, missiles that could strike israel but also killed 17 other members of irans rev new revolutionary guard. the stux attack was the first clue that the covert war had been launched. a meeting took place in mid november to hone military plans in the event that this covert war requires overt action. megyn....

Outside the pentagon asking whether war with iran has sort of already begun. has it? >> reporter: well, certainly the covert war appears to have. fox news has learned that in early november there was a meeting a high-level meeting at centcom headquarters in tampa dealing with a possible military plan, honing those plans in case the u.s. gets dragged into a military strike on irans nuclear facilities. high-level u.s. intelligence officials were present at that meeting. but if you just look back a...

Jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. jennifer. >> reporter: hi, megyn, it certainly looks like the covert war against iran has already begun and may have begun a year ago. multiple u.s. officials confirm that the drone being shown on iranian television, the sentinel, that it was the one that was lost last week. it was on a spying mission over iran, a secret spying mission that has been flown out of iran out of a western base in afghanistan for several years now. evidence of the covert war b...

Larger war in which the israelis, and possibly the americans, launch a full attack on iran." i mean, that is incredible, isnt it? >> yeah. i mean, that gets a little bit into conspiracy theorizing, because we dont even have this covert war acknowledged by the americans or the israelis, so its difficult to say what the ultimate plan is. but, certainly, there is a fear and has been for some time that if the iranians are led to retaliate in a dramatic enough way, that that could serve as where you ...

>> i think the evidence has been growing. and thats what i tried to look at in this article. we have already had over a period of many months now, going back to last summer and before, a lot of tit for tat events. a number of iranian nuclear scientists have been mysteriously killed, assassinated, even in downtown tehran, by men on motorcycles. we have seen the iranian retaliations, which may include this embassy attack against the british, just last week. there was a bomb in bahrain that explode...

Cut spending. you did not have the same level of spending. in the bush years you had the tax cuts, but also an enormous expansion of spending. >> on wars. >> fine. we have to pay for the wars, martin. thats the point. you are spending the money. the fact of the matter whether its a war or anything else, on health care, or whatever, the fact is that had expansion that led to a lot of problems we have right now today. thats both democrats and republicans in the last or so years engage in this leve...

Today about whether the u.s. is engaged in an escalating covert war with iran. these questions follow recent incidents including irans claims sunday that it shot down a highly sophisticated u.s. drone. nbc news pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski joins us live to explain. mick, the stealth itself, the drone that iran says it recovered, they said they did so and its mostly intact, correct? >> thats what theyre claiming. theyve offered no photographic evidence that they have in fact recovered ...

Civilian casualties as they do so, but one of the tradeoffs when you do that especially looking at a place like marjah which is large and you are likely to see urban combat, also, it is very hard to minimize the casualties, and at the same time protect your own force, when you are taking fire from a house, and how do you know which house to retaliate against, and how do you shield the civilians and at the same time protect your own soldiers and marines on the ground. it is pivotal. >> we will be...

Should read it. >> thank you, joanne. >> im trying to give them some money back, too, instead of flowers for charles. in other words, this was charlies dream. >> yeah. >> and we are trying to bring it to fruition. and as you know, ali, it costs $1 million to keep a soldier in the war on the battlefield for a year. we can rebuild afghanistan, food, water, education, jobs, and basic health care for $11 a person. and the afghans will fight their own battles. but people have forgotten in the united ...

Call now. the 5-year, 100,000 mile transferable powertrain warranty, from gmc. with roadside assistance and courtesy transportation, its the best coverage in america. >> i have been passionately involved with the cause of the afghans since the day the communists marched in. why is the congress saying one thing and doing another? >> tradition mostly. >> you sit at the intersection of the pentagon and the cia and the three agencies that you would need for a covert war. >> yes. joanne is being pl...