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know that more than a year ago about hamas's plan to attack? at where the warnings are actually ignored? tonight on laura coates live. you know, when i actually first heard about the story i had to actually read it twice because i thought there is no way that this is right. is it? are you telling me, all of us, that it's possible that israel was aware that hamas planned to attack israel? let me just change the word here because aware seems to make it feel like it was just an inkling, that they may have had a hint something maybe coming. but the new york times is reporting, tonight, t...

Disrupt an organization, the adversary is so committed, i mean, they believe that what they do is inspired by a holy book, that they'll just go on and plot another attack. so the business really became dismantlement, how do we destroy it. that's a people business. how do you find the operators, financiers, trainers, et cetera and how can you know where they're going to be tomorrow so you can pick them up. the explosion of intelligence at cia after 9/11 is hard to imagine. you have a small group of people in alec station who are looking at the problem pre-9/11, they had limited resources. after...

Two years later, 2006, in iraq, also, we did 300 raids. >> our ability to collect intelligence, act on intelligence and then collect on intelligence had taken home an industrial size and speed to it. >> so it was that evolution, in particular, with the cia in ways that we just couldn't have imagined. it's absolutely critical, as it turns out, in being able to meet this thread. >> you definitely need to know what your moral center is and how you define that for yourself in being able to do that job. i worked in a center where my

>> alec station was a collection of people who had backgrounds in everything from analysis to operations. when you think about the cia, there's two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alec station was the fusion of analysis and operations. we pushed the analysts and the operations people together so the operations people ...

There's two different cultures there. one is an analytic culture, people who try to assess things, figure out what is actually happening somewhere and project ahead, and an operational culture that is people who go out and collect intelligence, develop human spies, handle them, run them, if you will. the unique thing about alex station was the fusion of analysis and operations. we pushed the analysts and the operations people together so the operations people knew everything the analysts were thinking and the analysts knew everything the operations people were doing. >> the people i worked wit...