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Symbol symbolic personb in this, and other al qaeda leaders out there might be re-evaluating their safety and security as a result of what occurred sunday. because they will be hunted down, too. the fight does not stop. yes. >> and in the narrative, which of those women was being used in the human shield as mr. brennan suggested? >> again, what i would say about that is to use your phrase fog of war and fog of combat and a lot of information coming in and it is still unclear. the woman i believe...

And he was killed in an operation because of the resistance that they met. >> since everyone here was getting realtime information was the decision to shoot and kill done there by that unit or was there consultation or information flowing back and forth and directed, yes, go or the the kill at that point? >> the command of the operation was run from the ground and certainly not from the white house. and at the point that i think that mr. brennan described this yesterday at the briefing or perhap...

And we want to take you live now just to check in at the white house briefing room, as we wait for this briefing to begin. we may get some new information and the latest word, certainly, on whether or not the administration plans to release these photos, possibly, of the burial of sea of osama bin laden, or possibly of him after he was killed. we also may get some new information on what they took from his compound there. we know they have some dvds and thumb drives, et cetera. so we may get som...

The burial at sea? >> yeah. i wont get into the specifics -- >> just does it exist. >> i understand, but the visual material is being reviewed and decisions about it will be made about what if any of it can be or should be released. i dont want to get into the specifics about what there is and what there isnt, but i urge you to be patient given how much information has been released and understanding why we need to review this and make the appropriate decision. i would also say, there is not as ...

They were spotted today by a national guard helicopter and air-lifted to safety. the security breach at sony was worse than originally thought, it turns out. just last week, sony confirmed that hackers had gained access to personal information from as many as 77 million playstation and curiosity media streaming accounts. now its disclosed that the breach also affected nearly 25 million sony online entertainment accounts, which makes everquest, and it went offline yesterday. no word on when ser...

Example and it went off relatively without a hitch, why would you not release a photo of bin laden? >> well, i will be candid. there are sensitivities of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of osama bin laden and in the aftermath of this firefight, and we are making an evaluation about the need to do that. because of the sensitivities involved, and we do, we review this information and make this decision with the same calculation as we do so many things which is what, you know, what we ...

But what i can say is that there are sort of three area s ths th hope that the information collected will provide insight into. and most important is any evidence of planned attacks and second would be information to lead to other high value targets or other networks that exist that maybe we dont know about or only know a little bit about, and then, you know, third and more broadly, on the al qaeda network, itself, and then in the sustaining network for bin laden in pakistan, what allowed him to...

Specifically that we dont talk about with any great detail, you know, how we get our realtime information for a varietyf of reasons. i mean, those meetings take place in the situation room for a reason. they are there for secure communications, and so, i cant get more specific than that. i think that it has been said and so i can say that leon panetta the director of the central intelligence agency was on a screen and communicating with those in the situation room and the president. so, he was p...

Led to the successful mission that occurred on sunday. and multiple detainees provided insights into the networks of people who might have been enlisted by bin laden, but reporting from detainees is a slice of information gathered by incredibly diligent professionals over the years in the intelligence community. and it is simply strange f fragility to say that some information from eight years ago that was gathered may or may not have led to a successful mission sunday is not the case. >> i was ...

Ausz real g -- it was a gun battle and my understanding is that 17 or so of them in the room were noncombatants. >> well, a number of people were unharmed and made safely secure after the operation was complete and the helicopter had to be detonate. but there was a firefight. >> do you know how many people were firing from -- >> i dont -- again, we are providing you this information as it is made available for public release. the pentagon is working on this, and will im sure continue to update t...