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Anything actually happened, whether there was an intelligence failure, what the backup plans were, thats what well find out tomorrow. im not going to sit in judgment of the pentagon on this. i think this was a complex situation, and i think they want to have your facts in order before they briefed us, so im looking barred to tomorrows briefing. >> the timeline has changed, general dunford tried to clarify some of that the other day. but if it were our mission to go after a, doesnt that raise que...

And afghanistan. you hear about the delay in this mission. what goes through your mind? because when you served you were on similar missions. >> i think the thing thats important to consider is they were going into an area where they probably had incomplete intelligence. if they were looking for this individual who is some type of islamic state leader, you know, who is that person an interest to, to the nigerians, the americans, there are a lot of things that arent clear. if it was a setup, obvi...

That, again, goes back to the investigation. what did they know? how did the command and control take place? im not ready to blame this all on a failure of intelligence. im sure there were some other factors that were involved. and thats what general dunford said yesterday. hes going to get all the facts before he says anything to anybody. but anybody that jumps on, this is an intelligence failure, immediately, that automatically gives you some cognizant dissidence and you dont start looking at ...

Again. "the attackers had trapped the americans in a kill zone where they could envelop them in fire." the two separate ambush sites could explain why sergeant la david johnsons body was found more than a mile from the coordinates where the other dead and injured troops were evacuated by helicopter. so wed had earlier reporting that this ambush was the ruflt a massive intelligence failure on the part of the u.s. military. that is now being investigated both by the military and by the fbi. these ...

Attacked them with small arms and machine gun fire. the soldiers then got back in their trucks and retreated about a mile before they were ambushed begin. the attackers had trapped the the americans in a kill zone where they could envelope them in fire. the two separate ambush sites could explain why sergeant la davids body were found more than a mile from where the other dead and injured troops were evacuated by hospital. so we had early reporting this ambush was a result of a massive intellige...

World, so one of the things that youre starting to see is lawmakers are reigniting this debate over whether to have a new authorization for use of military force. theyve been operating on one since 2001. and that debate weve seen in the past is not something that necessarily continues and actually turns into a legislative move. its going to be interesting to see whether lawmakers are just talking about this now as they have in the past in other instances or if were actually going to see them do ...

Spoken with have started calling in the more prevailing theory, that there was something here the u.s. -- these soldiers were set up for. we dont know the extent yet. we dont know if it was villagers or just the elders or exactly what. but thats something that is still under investigation here, rachel. >> soldiers in far-flung parts of the world, particularly when they are far from support services and search and rescue resources and things like that, we know that their lives in many ways depend...

Sticking point was always how is it possible that this large number of militants were able to mass without the u.s. knowing. so i think they started from there and moved on and in the past two or three days, officials who weve spoken with started calling this the more prevailing theory. there was something more these soldiers were set up for. we dont know the extent yet, if it was villagers or elders or exactly what. that is something still under investigation. >> soldier gs in far-flung parts o...

Standpoint of what i heard, that congress knows whats going on in africa, they may just have to be reminded there are some dangerous things going on with the islamic state, al qaeda in the land of the arab maghreb and bowe bergdahl lawmaker in the area between niger, nigeria, chad and mali. >> he said about 900 u.s. troops in niger and more than 6,000 scattered throughout the continent in 53 different countries in africa. jim sciutto, there are a lot of questions about whether this was an intell...

In a way. >> you mentioned the hill. i can tell you from my perch up there its sending shock waves through the capitol, not because republicans are perplexed by the president in what they see as a disgraceful back and forth, but theres also a lot of questions the ambush has triggered. senators lindsey graham and john mccain want to know more about, was there an intelligence failure? what exactly happened that resulted in the deaths of these four americans. also, this could reignite a debate over...