their lives. he was there when they lost seven members of the agency in afghanistan, and so these people serve without any credit, they get a whole lot of blame and it means so much to the men and women of cia for him to be there today thanking them for what they did and he said it was his confidence in their ability to follow the leads and that they had it right because they did not have visual evidence , as yu know very well, that osama bin laden was in that compound but it was their intelligence following the lead of the courier that persuaded him it was a high enough probability and that their teams could pull it off. so it was a very important morale booster and also an important moment to pay tribute to the people who serve mostly anonymously at that agency. >> absolutely. andrea, he actually said many of you will never get headlines, you'll never get a ticker-tape parade, but understand that i and the whole of america appreciate what you're doing.