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Is our relationship going to be with them and the pakistan military? >> this is going to be a tough patch. i hope the isi would acknowledge this was an intelligence failure, that he should not have been hiding there, and i think they will also take account of the number of terrorist groups that said they are going to respond not to the united states initially but pakistan, and hopefully they will realize we have a common enemy in the terrorist groups, and it will give the pakistanis more intent ...

A growing group of united states officials demanding answers from pakistan on what it knew of osama bin ladens luxury get away. osama bin laden was living a few hundred yards from the pakistani equivalent west point. their main military academy. the pakistani program says the whole world, not pakistan alone, is responsible for the intelligence failure. pakistans foreign secretary said they alerted the united states intelligence to this location years ago. with us now from san diego is journalist...

They were gone. but that is likely because many of the guards may have been in on it. dozens are unaccounted for. the governor of kandahar immediately took the blame for the intelligence failure saying this is really our fault. i hope it wont happen in the future. so do u.s. soldiers and marines who find it incredibly frustrating to have rounded up all these taliban fighters, only to have to face them in battle again. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. and the u.s. is calling on the violent...

Intelligence director said the brotherhood was a secular group. and leon panetta said mubarak would be gone tonight. he wasnt gone that night. are we having issues with intelligence failure right now? >> by and large, our intelligence folks have done a good job. there were some serious misstatements, i think along the way. >> sean: recently, congressman chris lee resigned. theres reports that you had spoken to him, you heard allegations that he might be involved in some behavior that would not b...

Intelligence director said the brotherhood was a secular group. and leon panetta said mubarak would be gone tonight. he wasnt gone that night. are we having issues with intelligence failure right now? >> by and large, our intelligence folks have done a good job. there were some serious misstatements, i think along the way. >> sean: recently, congressman chris lee resigned. theres reports that you had spoken to him, you heard allegations that he might be involved in some behavior that would not b...

Much. joining me from washington, john negroponte, ambassador to iraq, and paul wolfowitz, president of the world bank. let me turn to you first, mr. negativeboro. what is happening with intelligence? we seem to have no idea about tunisia. we had even less idea about what would happen in egypt. today we have this farcical side of the director of the cia basically informing us that he believed mubarak was stepping down when he didnt. >> well, i dont think these things are that easy to forecast. y...

Senator there saying that its unlike tunisia, there wasnt much information about what was happening in egypt. did the intelligence department drop the ball on what was looming in egypt? i mean by all accounts and weve had experts talking about this, the date of january 25th was highly publicized all over the internet what was going to take place. >> well, i find the statement sort of remarkable. this is like someone who lives in california claiming that to know more about earthquakes weve known ...

>> and senator, finally, have you heard any reports, there are reports in germany that theres the possibility of mubarak eventually going to germany and i was told specifically baden-baden. have you heard anything about that in conversations? >> no, i havent not heard anything about that. >> i guess the bottom line, would you call this an intelligence failure? >> i would -- i would call it a big intelligence wakeup. we now know that new thoughts are sweeping through regions. certainly the middle...

Do. >> a lot of people say it was all over the internet. you could tell something was happening. >> yeah, no question, you could. and weve had a lot of signals of the economic problems, unemployment, so on. what we didnt have, maybe we were too much mired in the past. we didnt have the feeling that any demonstration could unseat one of these great leaders. that it would actually have that impact. i think tunisians were absolutely flabbergasted. and that was a signal to the egyptian people. they ...

Of the economic problems, unemployment, so on. what we didnt have, maybe we were too much mired in the past. we didnt have the feeling that any demonstration could unseat one of these great leaders. that it would actually have that impact. i think tin unisians were absolutely flabbergasted. and that was a signal to the egyptian people. they never even thought of it when they started this thick. >> they surprised themselves and us? and do you think it hurt the initial reaction not having any kind...