ways in the fight against al qaeda. and that help has was assistance in general in the gathering of intelligence and information that led to the successful operation sunday. i m not aware and i believe we have said that we have been quite clear about our knowledge about the existence of this compound and about the communications we did not have with the pakistani intelligence about this operation. they also say in a statement that many houses in that region occupied by have high boundary walls as parts of a culture of privacy. so high walls in that region obviously is this your cultural understanding of the region that high walls i think this is a unique property within the region. but he clearly successfully hid
that happened in that briefing. so we want to continue to move forward with the bin laden story. you heard about the treasure controversy of information that was lifted from bin laden s compound that is now tea rising at cia head quarters in langley, virginia. so we are happy to be joined by the democratic congressman from maryland. we want to ask him what his experience was when he was at the cia discussing this with them today and what he might have learned about the information that we may be able to glean from what we understand is laptops and electronics and a thumb drive. thank you very much. we appreciate you standing by. talk to me about what you learned at the characteristics a about what s been called a treasure controversy of info. there is a lot of information that is there. it s been analyzed as we speak.
doing its. it seemed to go to relatively without a hitch. i ll be candid. there are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of usama bin laden and we are making decision about the need to do that because of the sensitivities involved. we review this information and make the decision with the same calculation which we do with so many things. what we are trying to accomplish and does it serve in any way harm our interests. and that is not just domestic, but globally. do you explain sensitivities. because of the gruesome photographs? it s fair to say it s a grusome photograph. it s certainly possible that it s an issue that we are taking into consideration is it could
occurred sunday. and multiple detainees provided insights into the networks of people who might have been close to bin laden. but reporting from detainees was just a slice of the information gathered by incredibly diligent professionals over the years in the intelligence community. and it s simply strange to suggest that a piece of information that may or may not have been gathered 8 years ago somehow directly led to a successful mission on sunday. that many just not the case. i wasn t suggesting it. others have. did anything come out of last night s dinner that would show there is movement towards a specific agreement on the debt ceiling and deficit reduction? not that i m aware of. martha: they are discussing the debt ceiling. there is a lot of breaking news
afghanistan, i m told, just in the same way that bin laden s body was taken to afghanistan after the raid before taken onto the uss carl vincent. those hard drives are being looked at and transferred very quickly back to langley where hundreds of analysts are shifting through the information provided. we understand they are under a great deal of pressure to move kwaoeubg lee on the intelligence, analyze it. see if any of it is actionable. i have a quote from a u.s. official that is quite stunning in terms of how they want to use the information before, quote, the cockroaches scat he shall. you can expect a number of al-qaida types heading back over the border into al-qaida. martha: that is fascinating information especially that there were no guards at that compound. jennifer thank you very much. let s go to jay karen me at the white house as he begins thinkss