it mean for intelligence in the middle east? what is going on? >> it's critically important that we support the war fighters. intelligence is our first line of defense. we node tow support our war fighters, the guys and gals fighting right now in places like afghanistan. you want your assets, since they are limited, we don't have unlimited number of intelligence officers, you want them in the places that provide the greatest threat. i would say our greatest counterterrorism threat to the united states is probably coming from al-qaida in the a rabe began peninsula in yemen. you want folks looking at that. you don't want to create a blind spot to al-qaida in iraq which is causing trouble for the government there. we have a war in afghanistan, the al-qaida in the arabian peninsula, other ace round the world. hopefully the folks inside the intelligence apparatus are looking at where we have intelligence holes that we need to plug with our intelligence officers and they are doing that. jenna: it's interesting to talk