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Vehicle. thats according to three sources speaking with cnn. it was the military that was in charge of the strike, and its unclear whether the cia knew that the military had decided to pull the trigger. a miscommunication adding to the intelligence failure of this operation that led to the deaths of ten people from a single family, that the top u.s. general had called a righteous strike. on friday, the head of central command, general frank mckenzie, which oversaw the war in afghanistan, admitte...

Him and nine others. now its unclear if the cia knew that the military had planned on carrying out any sort of air strike but it is clear that there was some sort of miscommunication. what was interesting yesterday, when we heard the head of central command, general mckenzie admitting this was a terrible mistake, he did not admit that this was a complete and utter failure. essentially saying that some parts of this intelligence operation were good. he said that there were 60 pieces of intelligen...

Vehicle. that cia alert was too late. seconds later the missile, which the pentagon thought was targeting an isis-k terrorist hauling explosives, struck the court yard of a family home killing seven children, an afghan aid worker and two other adults. alex, walk us through this warning and how it gives us a fuller picture of what went wrong. this is just not the way its supposed to go. terrible. >> it adds a miscommunication to what was already an abject intelligence failure in the targeting of ...

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Received, talk about complexities of the u.s. with nobody on the ground able to make outreach other than this statement, something that general mckenzie acknowledged, they dont have a presence to be able to communicate with survivors and relatives of those that were killed. >> this is a big issue, and it is proven by the strike itself, the lack of intelligence. general mckenzie mentioned a white toyota corolla. anyone thats been to kabul knows thats all over the streets of kabul. someone cant te...

. >> sean: senator cruz joins us now. i am glad you called him out on that lie. never did i think we would abandon americans behind enemy lines when we had months and months observing and watching with our intelligence community. this is not an intelligence failure. i was told by many sources, telling them they are on the march. we could have safely extracted and withdrawn every american and every afghan ally and all of our military equipment. this is beyond incompetence. your thoughts? >> well,...

Intelligence, we have to be specific on what we mean when we say intelligence failure. the u.s. made a precise attack, it was very precise. we have superior hardware. we have superior surveillance capabilities, however, this was a targeting failure. we dont have the same kind of assets on the ground to verify if our targets are actually the right targets. we have seen this again over the past two decades. now we dont have the military footprint or diplomatic footprint to verify this. the questio...

Avoid accountability but its interesting. secretary blinken is no stranger to congressional hearings, having appeared in his previous capacity under the previous obama administration a number of times. im not holding my breath. but i will say when he comes under oath, the questions he needs to be asked is what did you know, when did you know it and why did you make the decisions? i can tell you based on intel that we had, this was knocked in intelligence failure based on my time in the white hou...

>> today, afghanistans taliban leaders deny any involvement by osama bin laden. but have david bloom alluded to earlier, intelligence officials and others are telling nbc tonight, they are 90% sure that bin laden is involved. and tom, if that proves to be the case, theres no doubt in anyones mind that the u.s. will retaliate. >> but the question is, how do they find osama bin laden? and who do the retaliate against? >> they cannot find osama bin laden. they have not been able to. he is number on...

Group that he was targeting america again. >> i think this is a dilemma for the united states now. i think the only thing is they have to revise their policies to look at as what is happening. why for example, the anti-american sentiment is very high in the middle east and the muslim world. >> how could this happen? only from a massive intelligence failure. but in this case, at least there will be some evidence. >> the good news is that the hijacking for airplanes is a very complicated operation...