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Visiting. and its a matter of secrecy and operation security that i cant give you his travel plans and that will obviously be provided in close proximity to his aprooifl. he will be visiting a hospital? >> maam, i cant answer that question because of operational security. but as you very well know, you have the resources to determine that upon his arrival. and i cant speak to what his agenda is. what i can tell you on part of your question was what is normal perot call when the sheriff -- the sh...

Under that definition and flush out what they are doing see we can have a marker to judge. >> the last question is going to be hard for me to offer you specifics about what precisely what they are going to do because of operational security that needs to be protected. and there may be more details that the department of defense can offer you, but from here i cant be be more specific than to say special operation forces will be in syria and they will be offering some training,c;#3: advice and som...

Executive branch authorization to take this action and there is no debating that. what the president would authorization to use military force of being more çóspecific. it is not just the president, we wrote our own piece of legislation to give the bargains specific authority to counter and we did not stop there. the top foreign policy advisor and national security advisors to congress to testify under oath and in open hearings to explain to congress why they should pass it and after all of th...

Mine. and the truth is that who better can speak about stuff like operation security than people have done that, had the t-shirt and the hat. the problem with this ad for me is it goes a little bit too far. on obama absolutely accurate on the op. sec. this operation as have the previous six have been leaking sifs. giving information out highly classified nature. and what bill cowen, one of the best marines ever to serve, serious combat experience, is he talking about just that. during this raid ...

Mine. and the truth is that who better can speak about stuff like operation security than people have done that, had the t-shirt and the hat. the problem with this ad for me is it goes a little bit too far. on obama absolutely accurate on the op. sec. this operation as have the previous six have been leaking sifs. giving information out highly classified nature. and what bill cowen, one of the best marines ever to serve, serious combat experience, is he talking about just that. during this raid ...

Were serious individuals, highly motivated and highly organized and we really believe in what were saying. >> juan: now, your group, thats short for operation security. as you say, has people who are democrats and republicans. but you are a republican. you ran for mayor of virginia beach in 08. you ran for congress in 10 as a republican. is that right? >> yes, thats right. i am a republican. but im an american first, juan, as are you. and i think that democrat senator from virginia who i respect...

Were serious individuals, highly motivated and highly organized and we really believe in what were saying. >> juan: now, your group, thats short for operation security. as you say, has people who are democrats and republicans. but you are a republican. you ran for mayor of virginia beach in 08. you ran for congress in 10 as a republican. is that right? >> yes, thats right. i am a republican. but im an american first, juan, as are you. and i think that democrat senator from virginia who i respect...

>> very well. there seems to be two issues. first of all, did we hang this man out to dry? did the american people -- >> there is no question about that. we absolutely did hang him out to dry. one of the follow-up phases of the operation, once osama bin laden was identified as being the target and having been eliminated, we should have gone to the phase of extracting this doctor and his family out of pakistan for his own safety. >> what do we do now? and how -- did we blow his cover that led to ...

>> very well. there seems to be two issues. first of all, did we hang this man out to dry? did the american people -- >> there is no question about that. we absolutely did hang him out to dry. one of the follow-up phases of the operation, once osama bin laden was identified as being the target and having been eliminated, we should have gone to the phase of extracting this doctor and his family out of pakistan for his own safety. >> what do we do now? and how -- did we blow his cover that led to ...

Remain secret. when we release that information out to the public, our enemies have that information. it puts the guys who -- the brave warriors who go out and conduct these missions in greater harms way. it risks future successes and it seriously damages our collection capability. >> you quote admiral mccraven, your top special operations commander and he says operation security, maintaining secrecy is paramount and he goes on to say, too, that what about the informants that help you out? that ...