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Osama bin laden is being hailed as a swift and decisive show of power by both president obama and his military commanders, to many it came as a surprise. but insiders say there was plenty of handwriting on the wall about the covert operation. the president and the cia were preparing for something big. michael hersh is the chief correspondent for the "national journal" and joins me to discuss this covert side of story. this is the kind of stuff we love, hindsight's 20/20, what we can tell about what happened. good morning. in this article you posted online in the "atlantic monthly," you write w...

About operations that he hoped to put out there? was it all more sort of theoretical in terms of what he just aspired to accomplish? >> you know, right now it's not clear how far along those attack missions are. what has been coming out is that they were planning on attacking trains, not just plane attacks in the u.s. and, you know, various other sort of attacks. trains is basically all the details that are coming out now. there's really not a lot that has been leaked to the press. these are tightly guarded pieces of information that u.s. officials have. but they're just slowly laebing to jour...

Criticized bush are not so eager to criticize obama. but what you have here is a program where they're taking very few detainees, they are killing a lot of people, by their own account some 1,200 militants as they describe them, but there's also collateral damage, which is the euphemism for killing innocents. that's happening to some degree. you know, as one person in the story said to me, you know, why is it that detention practices are so controversial when killing people is not. we haven't seen much of a discussion about this policy of obama's. but it is very much a take no prisoners approa...

Orleans. we're going to keep you up to date with the latest details throughout this morning. u.s. officials have revealed they're examining a massive stash of pornography that was seized from osama bin laden's compound. now, it's not clear whether those materials belong to bin laden himself. the discovery has some officials questioning whether the images were used to send out some secret sort of terror messages. john hudson is a senior write we are the atlantic wire. good morning. >> good morning. >> okay. first up, in terms of the pr out here, i mean, is the u.s. apparently hoping this will...