weapons of mass dres destruction. >> we're giving you facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence. >> reporter: but that was not true and later the same officials who hush for the thanks to rollin sises they too had been led astray. >> i'm not the investigator of the intelligence community. but if i was, we would be having very long meetings about this. >> reporter: such finger pointing and the inherent secrecy of intelligence working make it streeply difficult to get the facts straight. >> i think the way that i would describe is that everybody did. >> reporter: and in that environment, figuring out whom to hold accountable can also require some pretty good gathering of intelligence. anderson? >> tom, thanks very much. plenty to talk about tonight with former chief of staff bill daley and cnn politics anchor john king. >> bill, in taking issue with the findings over the hackings that the president-elect pointed out it came from the same people