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Perspective, what can you add by tracking this weapon? if in fact, the ukrainian military put this video of the weapon being brought back to russia, if the weapon itself crosses over into russia and disappears, is that kind of game over in terms of determining the trajectory of this, more about it? >> its not even close to game over. first there is the preattack stuff, prestrike stuff youll look at. intelligence from satellite saying did we see something in the weeks beforehand that shows missil...

About this mission? >> well, brooke, what were looking at primarily on this initial statement is that 80 folks in chad are there primarily to conduct isr technicians. i would assume those are primarily drones, unmanned aerial vehicles. there might, in fact, even be some manned aircraft which has some very significant capabilities to do not only imagery intelligence, but also what i would call imagery as well as signals intelligence which would more precisely define areas that theyre looking for ...

Era already of pre-crime where you have president obama in office, his advisers know if theres another major attack on the u.s. homeland that hes political toast. what theyve sort of done is go way overboard in trying to preempt any potential attack against the united states. what theyve done is instead of sending actual u.s. operatives on the ground which would constitute human intelligence, theyre relying 90% or more on whats called sigmant or imant. signal intelligence or imagery intelligence...

>> yes, absolutely. let me say the answer in two pieces. first, what theyre saying that were disrupted, they talked about today and yesterday, 20 incidents or 12 incidents, those are all related to other things, imagery intelligence, human intelligence tipped them off, thereby compiling how we figured out the picture. one is never successful by itself. very rarely it is ever is. we need to say, look, we have a cohesive approach to doing it and stalk about it in enough detail people understand th...

Can assure you it was signals intelligence, imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasnt done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. >> former cia director michael hayden also talking about his thoughts about the decision to attack bin ladens compound with a commando raid instead of a missile strike. well have that comments later on this hour. and then this. a remarkable rescue in nevada. this canadian couple disappear...

Communicating, he must be doing it through human beings, we need to find and follow the couriers. that was a hypothesis with which we went into this four years ago or so. >> so this is classic human intelligence? you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? >> it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of the exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainee...

Detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites. then from that point, we used all the tools of intelligence. i cant go into detail, but i can assure you it was signals intelligence and imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasnt done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. >> so hayden also said president obamas decision to raid bin ladens compound was courageous. but he thinks any american president would h...

To find and follow the couriers. that was a hypothesis with which we went into this four years ago or so. >> so this is classic human intelligence? you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? >> it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of the exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites, and then fro...

War in iraq. it always starts off with intelligence, and this particular intelligence assessment we have seen in "the post" today is peculiar because six months ago the assessment was that north korea wouldnt miniaturize that warhead for two years. about a month ago, that was accelerated to early next year, about six to nine months out. now we are at zero hour where they believe that it has already been done. this came from defense intelligence agency. their principle collection process will be ...