had been captured. sounds like the kind of classified intelligence that might come from the cia? think again. this, and other sensitive information on the taliban and al qaeda, was, in fact, gathered by private military contractors, who passed it on to u.s. military intelligence for possible use in targeting. according to a source, who provided cnn with a series of documents detailing the operations. the multimillion dollar military program, which used in part retired cia officers and former military commandos, is now under pentagon investigation to determine if they and dod officials may have violated the law by running an unapproved intelligence operation. >> this is something i need to know more about, but we do have reviews and investigations going on to find out what the story is here, find out what the facts are, and if it's necessary to make some changes, i'll do that. >> reporter: the taliban meeting