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Nonetheless, its a big pr problem. now theyre saying its an intelligence problem which alexander had been saying before. they continually need to push back. i would be surprised if alexander isnt asked to say, in what way have they changed things? because when you look at kind of the broad overview of what we know, lots of folks have said, well, it seems like terrorists would already know we were monitoring phone calls and that we have a way of figuring out who theyre calling and for how long an...

Intelligence problem. >> it would be an intelligence problem. >> bret: thats what stephanie cutter tried to say. >> thats what clapper said and thats what petraeus said and rice said and the under-secretary kennedy said yesterday. but you know there are examples of specific instances that you just cited, where individuals say you know what? we thought right from the start this was highly suspicious. in addition to which they could link the individual who had been at guantanamo who then became th...

today the world is asking what happens next. im wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our special -- our viewers through our special coverage of kim jong ils death. were covering all the angles of this developing story. we have reporters across the world from beijing to the pentagon, to london, to the white house and beyond. instability in the region is a major worry right now. stan grant is in beijing and is joining us now live. stan, just a couple of hours ago we learned nor...

>> well, it says that our intelligence services really have their work cut out for them. in fairness, however, the facts are that we did find bin laden, that we led a successful operation through navy s.e.a.l.s without american casualties. and as a result, there is, i think, renewed confidence that some people are doing a lot of things right in our intelligence services. the point im making is that we are not going to be able to comprehensively handle every intelligence problem, but we must cent...

They seemed to at about 10:00 a.m. eastern time today. >> rachel, you are more than primetimes leading authority on this subject. thank you very much for joining me tonight, and were going to see you at the top of the hour when you come back with your coverage. >> thanks, lawrence. ahead in this news hour, the missteps of the obama administration today. the presidents cia chief telling congress that it seemed likely mubarak was stilling down. does the u.s. have a major intelligence problem ins...

Really doesnt matter what they said tonight because this is just -- this is just the preface to them leaving. weve got to hear from the military to know if they really have split from mubarak the way they seemed to at about 10:00 a.m. eastern time today. >> rachel, you are more than primetimes leading authority on this subject. thank you very much for joining me tonight, and were going to see you at the top of the hour when you come back with your coverage. >> thanks, lawrence. ahead in this n...

>> rachel, you are more than primetimes leading authority on this subject. thank you very much for joining me tonight, and were going to see you at the top of the hour when you come back with your coverage. >> thanks, lawrence. ahead in this news hour, the missteps of the obama administration today. the presidents cia chief telling congress that it seemed likely mubarak was stilling down. does the u.s. have a major intelligence problem inside egypt? hey tough guy, that cold needs alka-seltzer ...

Grew after the 9/11 attacks. we know it grew very fast with inefficiencies, but we also believe we thwarted attacks. they are trying to see what they can cut back on. redundancies, absolutely. there are a lot of them in the intelligence community. some are good, some are planned. you want to have competing points of view on a specific intelligence problem. but if spending is out of control, that is something defense secretary robert gates has really tried to get moving on because a lot of the in...

Difference in terms of the miranda warnings hall though there is a public -- although there is a public safety exemption. i dont believe it is sufficient for the president to give speeches saying we are at war. the president has 20 lead us in the fight. and we saw the counter terrorism extremists pert talking about luck as if it was success. it is not a success. i think clearly you have a situation here where the administration is unwilling initially time and time again to say yes, this is a vas...

Difference in terms of the miranda warnings hall though there is a public -- although there is a public safety exemption. i dont believe it is sufficient for the president to give speeches saying we are at war. the president has 20 lead us in the fight. and we saw the counter terrorism extremists pert talking about luck as if it was success. it is not a success. i think clearly you have a situation here where the administration is unwilling initially time and time again to say yes, this is a vas...