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Suggested peter, maybe jim or kimberly they would only let him out in the middle of the night when it was dark outside, more difficult for a satellite or plane or drone to spot them. but they would keep them inside during daylight hours. >> what we know from bowe bergdahl told his debriefers afterwards he was often held in basements for weeks at a time so perhaps the same thing was done with weinstein. >> they never let him out even at night, is that what you think? >> this area of north waziris...

Target from a drone, youre looking through a very narrow straw. there are other forms of intelligence. phil lived the world of human intelligence in addition to signals intelligence. what we really want to do is you want to close gaps and you can only do that through complimentary systems and clearly there was high confidence that they were going to strike known targets in that facility. but its very difficult unless you can see through a wall or you have is a source that has exited that buildin...

There are a whole host of legal traps youre supposed to run through if an american air strike or drone strike is going to kill an american. how could such an intelligence failure happen in not one but two drone strikes and have so many -- so much -- i hate to use the term collateral damage but thats what you have here. >> well i think its actually pretty easy. the only way youre going to know whats inside of those buildings is to have a source inside of those buildings who also happens to have s...

I thought the statement from the weinsteins was articulate and beautiful and spot on. you know they said the ultimate responsibility lies with the kid nal kiddal -- kidnappers. i think thats true. theres a second responsibility. thats to pakistan. the pakistani military has allowed these militants to have this safe haven for years. i was held there. bowe bergdahl was held there for five years. the united states has provided pakistan with $15 billion in military aid. yet, the problem continues. >...

To move this program from the cia to the department of defense. guess what -- here we are two years later, and that hasnt happened. i have a feeling that the people in the building behind me are going to want to ask the question why has that not happened. because lets be clear, what happened in january was a massive intelligence failure. a massive intelligence failure. and thats why these people died needlessly. >> yeah. i think thats going to be a major battle coming up as youre pointing out wh...

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. ...

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...

The attack on the westgate fall. they still have the ability to hit these so-called soft targets. >> theres still pockets of activity. theres still a long way to go for the african union. this is also the problem of how do you police an entire community when you can have anywhere between one and five people, in this case five or six people, take over an entire facility. people are going to talk about intelligence failure, how do you not find this kind of al qaeda cell. my answers going to be, im...

How did he slip through the cracks when the security services knew so much about him, repeatedly denied him the ability to travel and were in contact with him and his family reportedly up to 12 different times? how did he manage to evade their surveillance and get overseas and become the man who was known as jihadi john. >> just to follow-up on that point, you talk about british authorities having tracked him for some time. is there a sense among some people that they let him slip through the cr...

Overseas and be trained and come back. in this case france it could be american and thats where we want to stop. >> is there any sense that there was intelligence failure in france and missed a clue and i know they were going back and looking at everything. the sense that you think they missed something there? they did. >> we always do a postmortem after the fact. i think that again, these are so hard to detect and so hard to stop. thats what keeps counterterrorism officials and people like myse...