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Targeted. >> it was sort of like it is two separate incidents. the other gadahn was killed in a separate mission. essentially this was one of those -- they stumbled upon this other al qaeda operative. so look the way the white house is presenting this they are presenting this as a way of we need to investigate and figure out what went wrong. i think that is also you are going to have immediate reaction from those on capitol hill. this is, again, going to spark the debate about the limits of the ...

Qaeda compound. what ones the u.s. government had been monitoring for hundreds of hours, the white house says. we now know that the january drone strike killed two innocent civilians, including american hostage warren winestein. lets bring in jim sciutto. a u.s. official with knowledge says the cia inspector general will conduct a review of the strikes. all of this has to raise questions about the quality of the intelligence. >> this was a spectacular intelligence failure. one have two strikes. ...

Perfect storm of mistakes in this case. bad intelligence in effect not only killing an american hostage, and italian hostage, but killing two american terror suspects or members of al qaeda without running the legal traps necessary to kill an american. this is a real intelligence failure here. in light of all the other questions about this program, civilian casualties on the ground reaction of host nations, do you see this as a watershed event for the u.s. drone program? >> thanks jim. absolutel...

This has been a devastating thing that it ended this way. were very very sad and our sympathies go out to mrs. weinstein and her daughters. >> that was warren weinsteins neighbor meredith mccain. weinstein was one of two hostages, one american one italian mistakely killed. this is the first time this has ever happened. medal of honor recipient, colonel jack jacobs and correspondent for the new york times whos written extensively about the u.s. drone program. mark, first to you.

About this operation but the integrity of the drone program as a whole. it was in this mountainous border region between pakistan and afghanistan that a u.s. drone strike killed two western hostages held by al qaeda including one american warren weinstein, abducted in pakistan in 2011. the al qaeda compound had been under surveillance for hundreds of hours. what the u.s. did not know was that weinstein and the italian giovanni lo porto were being held and hidden inside. >> i again appeal to you ...

Sources tell cnn it was a drone strike. the white house says two american al qaeda on if i was are also dead one was hit in the strike that killed the hostages the other in a later, separate attack. its all raising new questions about americas drone program, intelligence failures and the timing of this announcement. we have lindsey graham and angus king to talk with us. our correspondents and analysts are standing by with all of the breaking news. first, though to our chief national security c...

This was a cia operation, perhaps there needs to be better visibility on how those two agencies de-conflict their missions. generally, it is the cia that carries out operations in pakistan. so there is some sort of geographic divisions among them. but im not hearing any serious considerations that they have to overhaul the drone program. there was no rescue attempt considered for the case of mr. winestein or the italian, because according to a d.o.d. official i spoke to they had no real intellig...

Program. send in the drones and youre the guy. >> my folks are the folks that make this happen. its a great opportunity. >> youre the air force drone department located? our base is in nevada outside of las vegas in the air force base. >> you control drones that fly over where? >> we fly our planes over multiple areas of operation around the world. predominately in the africa command, central command and european command theaters. half the globe. we fly our airplanes. drone thats not a great wor...

Peter berg another major development. an al qaeda leader in yemen was supposedly targeted by u.s. drone air strike. this is a release put out by aqap. this is a guy named ibrahim el rabaish. he was a gitmo detainee. released 2006 i believe. what is going on over there? >> well, the leadership of this group actually is made up of guantanamo detainees. they were released from guantanamo. they went to saudi arabia. they went through a rehabilitation program that has some success, but obviously not ...

All over the world running fbi international operations and being on the board of interpol. we preach were the united states stand for the rule of law. except when we dont want to and do things we want to do. second problem with the drone attacks is for every one of these guys with take out we have taken out innocent men, women and children causing entire villages extended families and regions to hate us and that reduces their cooperation with us and with their host government. theres a down sid...