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CNN The Situation Room August 30, 2013 22:32:00

frum, contributing editor for news wooek and daily beast and fran townsend, former homeland security advisor to current bush currently serving on cia, and department of homeland security external advisory boards. there was something very disturbing in this intelligence report, the declassified version that came up today. and it says this about that august 21st chemical attack that killed more than 1,400 people. in the three days prior to the attack, we collected streams of human signals and geospatial intelligence that reveal regime activities that we assess were associated with preparations for a chemical weapons attack. if the u.s. knew for three days about what was going to happen, why didn't they warn the people there? why didn't they provide gas masks? why didn't they tell the bashar al assad regime if you do this all bets are off? >> well, it is i think the most troubling piece to the report. but it's not clear. the way it's worded, wolf, it's not clear they understood the

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