townsend and nic robertson for this. fran, you re a for tmer meland security adviser. is there any value it sounds idealistichy but learninghy alawlaki has gone from a scholar to a radicalterrorist? of course there s some interesting in understanding that. i musttwell you that has far outweighed by the threat this man represents. he s not new to intelligence and law enforcement officials. they have been tracking him for the betrte part of the last nine years. he has playedcr an increasingly operational role, as you heard from tom fuentes and i disagree with tom. look, he is a veryeal and persistent threat. he is among the leaders in the and we have a la solemn duty and obligation to protect the american people from future attacks when we know where they re coming from and he s one of those places and so he is an absolutely legitimate national security target for a caure or kill operation. this was the obama administration s call to turn him into a military target, not