to me, to our team on those helicopters. to our nation. after i directed that getting bin laden be the priority, you hunkered down even more. building on years of painstaking work. pulling together in some cases the slenderest of intelligence streams. running those threads to ground until you found that courier and you tracked him to that compound. and when i was briefed last summer, you had built the strongest intelligence case against, in terms of where bin laden was, since tora bora. in the months that followed, including all those meetings in the situation room, we did what sound intelligence demands. we pushed for more collection. we pushed for more evidence. we questioned our assumptions.