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Men in greater danger? >> i dont think it was unwittingly. the captors were thinking they had unlimited time. youre saying we have multiple options here, and typically you have intelligence coming into the white house situation room over the course of weeks and months describing that these peoples lives are at risk. im sure the white house is saying there is intelligence suggesting these men are going to die unless we take a risky move. you dont have a good hand, but youve got to play it. >> rep...

Connection with the fatal terror attack, which is surprising. >> even though we did stage ourselves because we had to be on the lookout of the report that was vague, thats an intelligence failure in itself. the department of defendant nof having standby on 9/11 to support all places around the world that could be attacked during the arab spring and 9/11 and so forth. thats an intelligence failure as well. >> how long did you spend with giving testimony behind closed doors? >> separate. actually,...

Own government that we swore to defend. >> reporter: contrary to the reports main finding, the contractors say there was an intelligence failure. they were directly warned in late august a strike was likely, though no assets were available on the september 11th anniversary. >> thats a fact because nobody showed up. in fact nobody showed up to even get us out of libya. >> reporter: the contractors say valuable time was lost because of the cias base chief. >> obviously theres an agenda that needs ...

They had some signs of the weapons systems moving across the border before the plane went down. we learned today that those pro-russian rebels took down 12 aircraft in recent weeks, not just three or four as u.s. officials had said. i just wonder if this is not an intelligence failure, because they had the intelligence. i suppose its how did you use it. is this a policy failure that something wasnt done before to warn airlines to try to target some of these weapons systems, to prevent this from ...

So yeah, i think there was a little bit of -- i dont think it was an intelligence failure so much as maybe a systemic failure in the air traffic control system. >> how to react to it and make sure the flights are safe. >> i would have immediately stopped the flights over that area as soon as i saw that 21,000 feet. >> bob, i wonder, a lot of the most interesting evidence has come from these intercepted phone calls by ukrainian intelligence and today, you have another one. its almost i think as i...

Celebrating because weve seen grieving parents and grieving families. >> hamas is celebrate, not the parents. and we regret the loss of life. any innocent loss of life. we are not targeting. 1.5 million people in gaza. if israel were targeting it with 2,000 air strikes, how many civilians do you think would be killed? this happens in war, even when you are doing your best to avoid civilian casualties. we didnt want to be in this position. hamas continues to fire rockets at israel and strike at t...

For a new prayer mat and goat porn? >> that was actually an interesting thing. they say that its possible that he had access to a lot of information on the computers at the annex which to me means it was premeditated and, again, possibly the intelligence failure that led up to it. >> sure. either they should have left him on that boat for, i dont know a year or so to continue to interrogate him or bring him to gitmo. once he hit land he lawyered up, stopped cooperating. how much information that...

To having no wmd stocks before the war, for the reasons you gave, saddam chose not to have those weapons. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> those are stunning statements. >> it was a terrible mistake. the cia had said we would find stockpiles that we didnt find. it was a disaster. >> you believed it was true at the time? >> yes, so did they. they shouldnt have. i mean there were a lot of people in the agency, in the community, that knew some of this information wasnt, you know, as solid as...

The war, for the reasons you gave, saddam chose not to have those weapons. is that correct? >> that is correct. >> those are stunning statements. >> it was a terrible mistake. the cia had said we would find stockpiles that we didnt find. it was a disaster. >> you believed it was true at the time? >> yes, so did they. they shouldnt have. i mean there were a lot of people in the agency, in the community, that knew some of this information wasnt, you know, as solid as it was being presented to me. ...

Asked whether american recruits are now among the isis fighters this, video is from yesterday just west of baghdad, the senior intelligence official said its a given adding that the best estimate is that 10,000 fighters between iraq and syria and of that 3,000 have come from other countries, many carrying u.s. or european passports. the head of the powerful house intelligence committee telling reporters today the administration was warned. >> i argued this is a result of an indecision -- which i...