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Address the country mere moments from now and speak from the east room. it will be a confirmation of a huge development. >> good evening. tonight, i can report to the american people and to the world that the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. ♪ >> tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who have worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. the american people do not see their work, nor know their names, but tonight, they feel

And we're not always looking for the sexy payoff immediately. trying to keep track of all the threads of various threats and which ones are real and which ones aren't real and what connects to what, people say why didn't you connect the dots. well, because the whole page is black. >> to pull a story out of all of this information, but there's no one single intelligence looking at all this information, it's a lot of different brains looking, so the more that you can bring people together and you know, share what's important, the better it works. at that time, the people who had really deep expe...

Types of global operations, that's a real mind set change. the war was not an agnostic video game. it was a personal game where you know you're responsible not only for the lives of americans, but for going up against an adversary that you've got to kill or capture. >> august, 2004, i think we did 18 raids. 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...

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About an intelligence organization that slowly gets involved in executing these types of global operations, that's a real mindset change. the war was not an agnostic video game. it was a personal game where you know you're responsible not only for the lives of americans, but for going up against an adversary that you've got to kill or capture. >> august 2004, i think we did 18 raids that month. two years later, 2006, same month 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 t...