say: our current view of the situation, we need to reduce operations and activities, focus on preserving and survival while we will be focusing on defensive security, counterespy knack, striking the spy plane bases using special operations and using patient, persistent hiding as well as decreasing our presence. as you look through these letters they saw planes, they were nervous about them, they weren t sure where they were going to strike and, apparently it was impacting their operations as well. look, drone strikes are incredibly effective. they put the terrorists on the defensive. they strike fear into the hearts of these al-qaeda operatives. and so we know that they work. the problem is that sometimes you don t know what you re hitting. so, in other words they may have been able to identify that farouq and gadahn were in these locations but they didn t know who else were there. my colleagues, tom jocelyn in particular, has been looking at the question of whether they re looking a