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Damage estimates, understanding what weapon selection selection will be required, looking at all of the intelligence that leads up to what is called the pid, the positive identification of the target, image intelligence from a drone which is doing pol, pattern of life, its listening to communications such as cell phones, and the really important one, one of the majorfactors in this erroneous drone strike, is the human intelligence component. one of the factors your reporter alluded to in terms o...

Such as cell phones, and the really important one which i think is one of the major factors in this erroneous drone strike, is the humint which is the human intelligence component. and one of the factors your reporter alluded to in terms of still having the ability to launch these drone strikes, one of the factors we should be really be asking the us chain of command, is the level of human intelligence that is now available given that all us forces, as far as were aware, have left the country. b...

General what is the process for which strikes are approved. >> thank you. >> if you are tracking a target, you very track through communications intelligence, human intelligence or signals, you cast that to commanders on the ground, those guiding the drone going forward. when you look at a drone strike, those drones could read a license plate on a car, that is how good the optics are. my concern that just a couple days av isis-k strike, that killed 13 great americans in wounded over 20, i think ...

Meaning they were given permission to fire against the targets based on a signature of pattern of suspected militant activity versus actually knowing who was in the vehicle. that is very dangerous. this is very atypical operation. typically over the horizon strikes, require a lot of proof of life, intelligence that takes place over course of days or weeks, even months. this was a situation where the military was in a defense sieve posture. they had to act fast from what they believed to be an im...

You know, a 40-year-old lieutenant colonel controlling the surveillance and the attack. they thought they had it right. they totally misinterpreted what they were seeing, and we didnt in that city in violent conditions, hundreds of thousands of people trying to get out of there, we didnt have any eyes on the ground to corroborate. again, it was a tragedy. it was a mistake during a chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of people out of kabul. >> one more thing, general, and then i want to go ba...

No longer that human intelligence. >> well, theres no question. but even with great human intelligence on the ground, even whether we had our afghan allies coordinating with us you do have mistakes in judgment and in the interpretation of data. you know, there were tens and tens of thousands of people killed by the taliban or by the afghan army fighting the taliban or by the u.s. fighting the haqqani network. it was a violent, chaotic 20-year war. and its going to get tougher for us to monitor a...

About the over the horizon counterterrorism? >> weve always known you cant write terrorism from afar. we know from strikes from the u.s. but they rely on civil intelligence and human intelligence and having assets on the ground. the right person and right target and effectively conduct counterterrorism operations. afghanistan left with no u.s. embassy, no intelligence on the ground. its hard to effectively conduct the operations that are efficient and effective in avoid these challenges. arthel:...

Permission to deliver water at a particular location. who knows the particulars, but, you meant matily, its the limits what you can do when you dont have human intelligence on the ground and frankly what were we relying on for intelligence at that moment the taliban who had told us that isis k was there devout enemy as a result could have given us indicatio another strike was imminent which does create you are general civility you cant fault the department of defense for urgency to say our marin...

Families, do you think, im wondering why did it take the pentagon so much longer than some of the journalistic outfits to reach this same conclusion. >> i think its the plain fact they do not have people on the ground anymore. this will be new type of warfare that america conducts in afghanistan because of what has unfolded in that country. the intelligence that they were using. yes, they said they were using some human intelligence but they were using over head air surveillance, drones, monitor...

Reports of imminent threat to our forces in and around kabul. typically theyre signals based, but also other human intelligence as well. we have a variety of sources for that intelligence. we believe that the strike we took couple days prior had an effect on quieting down. got a key attack planner. we believe that disrupted some of their plans. additionally, we did things to make it harder for them to get to us. for example, we closed the gates. the gates as we know are a point we are vulnerable...