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That type of funding considers that they did not know osama bin laden was hiding less than a quarter of a mile from their version of west point. seasoned lawmakers have urged caution. listen to claire mccaskill on the issue of pakistani funding. >> weve got to be very careful about being too absolute about condemning pakistan at this point. we need the roots to our troops to pakistan. we need their airspace for our predator program thats been very effective in wiping out terrorists. so i think w...

Obama administrations between interrogation of suspects, than a lot of liberals will like. thats number one. number two, they have a stepped up predator program where theyre stepping up the pace and the operational pace. frankly, the killings of these operatives in pakistan. i think something for wider debate is is, how do we stop the shahzads out there. the truth is, git didnt do anything until he did something. >> pat buchanan, some republicans have been critical of the fact this guy was able ...

Organizing in pakistan, relative to what were seeing in united states? >> i think youve got a fragmentation of the taliban which is apparent from the ways were getting rut and opinions from what happened. but more importantly i think whats happened here, i degree to a certain extent with leon panetta, i think al qaeda is on the ropes. their real center of gravity is in yemen. but in this case, i think they were able to put together -- theres evidence that al qaeda did influence the taliban. they...

Make people a little nervous. >> well for that blow-back it seems to be heavily incompetent. are you surprised, roger, that if theyre very angry, our use of drones effectively in that region. the northwest frontier. do you think they would send back such an incompetent? >> that may be the reality of what they have to work with these days. if you play out michaels theory here. weve had such great success with the predator program and the pakistani military, in attriting that capability over there...

Back such an ind kent. >> that may be the reality of what they have to work with these days. if you play out michaels theory here. weve had such great success with the predator program and the pakistani military, in treading the capability over there. the tafant pool that they have to come back to the united states is simply as good as they would have hoped. >> even though this was a serious attempt like the attorney general said it may be a sign of the type of threat we have to deal with. it me...

It is a traditional special operations mission we conduct in a number of countries around the world. >> americans learn after the fact of much more extensive military operations outside of the vietnam border. are there more extensive operations in pakistan we will learn about in the next ten years. >> so i dont think there is an undeclared war being conducted inside pakistan. what is going on is what the cia is doing from the air, the predator program. you have small pockets of the u.s. military...

Little nervous. >> well for that blow-back it seems to be heavily incompetent. are you surprised, roger, that if theyre very angry, our use of drones effectively in that region. the northwest frontier. do you think they would send back such an incompetent? >> that may be the reality of what they have to work with these days. if you play out michaels theory here. weve had such great success with the predator program and the pakistani military, in attriting that capability over there, the talent p...