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Creeping up, it's the collateral damage estimate process that needs to go into the choice of this weapon system. and where it was used was a wide-open area and there were isis-type capabilities, primarily fighters, in a concentrated area. folks going into afghanistan, folks going into pakistan. the time was right. it was actionable intelligence and seemed to me that it was a good use of a low risk use of a weapons system. you don't have to put any fighters on the ground at risk to go after this target. >> we know each one of those moab bombs cost many millions of dollars. we'll get a damage as...

Against that target. and you saved a lot of lives if you wanted to try to level that location, it obviously there was actionable intelligence. it was the right weapons system to be used. they went through the collateral damage estimate process to ensure there weren't civilian casualties. we'll figure that all out when they do the bomb damage assessment. >> he did say that he authorized the military and i think that you're quite right. i don't see that much confusion in that. >> that's right. i think we're, as we say, we're pole vaulting over mouse turds here. >> okay. colonel leighton, we know...

Authorized that and he had given them permission before. but he won't -- he is not saying whether he did it. >> well that's what we call predesignated delegation authority. he did this he said secretary of defense you have the authorization to use this weapon system when he issued that weapon system to the secretary of defense. to the department of defense. yeah, i mean he authorized because he had done it. the decision to deliver that ordnance was done by the commander on the ground four star general nickelsen and it was the right target the right ordnance to be used. you saved a lot of lives...