>> they absolutely do. what you want to do is make sure that you maintain operational security. you want to make sure that all kinds of operational issues that could become part of a present or a future operation are kept under wraps so that we could have the element of surprise, we could have the maximum effectiveness possible of our weapons systems and we can achieve the goals that we need to achieve. if you start talking about things that are part of these operations and you do it in an unauthorized manner or in a manner that is inconsistent with operational security principles, you risk spilling the beans and that's a real problem. >> ramin, as you look at the president saying ten minutes beforehand i called this off, do you have concerns that it got to that point, that the strike was coming and what the iranian response could have been? >> absolutely. pulling the trigger on the first step of what could easily be a