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Enemies are, and i'd like to take just a quick moment to talk about what we're doing, how dangerous we are to make sure that they don't actually get any of the things that you're mentioning and bringing them to our, our country. >> well, we have a hot of intelligence focus -- lot of intelligence focused on that, and can we're doing everything we can in terms of collecting intelligence, but also we want portals here in the united states. say that people pass through and so on. even the containers that come into the united states. we only actually check about 3% of those in many any detail. so t...

Cracked down because of this incident, and you can no longer burn to a cd and blackberries and ipads and that equipment was not allowed in to a facility but you had to at some point take information out of a skiff and it was done on a cd so that --. all that's good, but it does not help us now they have another 200,000 documents they can dump open the interpret. how does it change the game? if you have troops in afghanistan and the documents hit the web does it change the game plan if you are a general? >> depends on the document. that is a great question. it depends on the documents. for exam...

100,000 u.s. troops, mostly in the south. that's three times more than just a year ago. more troops, more casualties. it's compelling math. the other reason is that u.s. and nato forces unfllike in previous offenses, they're going for the jugular this time. they're going for the key staging areas, whether it's kandahar or zari, these are places where the taliban are staging, where they're xle collecting intelligence. they're not going to give the places up easily. that means huge resistance and more casualties as well. >> jim, i know you were just embedded for a few days. certainly you came ac...

On the taliban and al qaeda, is there anything wrong with that? the u.s. military may be benefiting intelligence gained by private contractors, but defense secretary, robert gates, has ordered a review of the pentagon's information operation, as they're called, giving officials 15 days to report back. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. she's been digging in to this story for us. barbara, what's this all about? >> well, wolf, it all sounds like a spy novel, a former cia officer, once involved in iran contra, former military commandos, all collecting intelligence on behalf...

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