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The 9/11 anniversary that we know of. >> this was not a pre-planned, premeditated attack. >> we don't know yet. so we're going to continue to investigate this. >> do you take them at their word they literally didn't know or lt. colonel schaffer is you have this guy in guantanamo bay. you have these people with information tied to these attacks. you have all the coordinated shatter from the intelligence community are saying we were kind of told to sit back a little bit. how is it not coordinated? >> it is difficult to give them the benefit of the doubt here. we don't have the intelligence that ...

Program. this push button war which two things give me problems. first off. dead men tell no tales. i'm an intelligence officer and fundamentally i want to talk to these guys. maybe we will do something later with them. have to know how to get inside this network. clearly this network has reestablished itself globally. we need to be worried about. this have to get intelligence officers out there doing hard stuff. a lot of the intelligence officers are told to sit on their hands. don't do anything too provocative they're all our friends now. they are not our friends. we have been so naive. i wo...

>> attorney general colonel schaffer on to ask him that question. allen west said this is as a result of the administration's approach to the middle east. listen. >> when you look what is happening all across the middle east, and there is a parallel with jimmy carter. when you depose a leader in the middle east you have to think about the second and third order identification. who is going to fill that leadership void. history has shown when you have that type of void radical islamists are always looking to fill that gap. looking to so-called -- voice moderate take from the administration. >> ...

Information this morning about the man who may be behind the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya. intelligence sources are confident that this former guantanamo bay prisoner was involved. even led the assault that killed four americans. >> he was released from gitmo from the libyan regime back in 2007 where he was supposed to remain incarcerated. does this latest revelation lend further proof to the idea that the attacks were terror related and should there be a u.s. military response to these attacks? let's ask lt. colonel tony schaffer. he joins us live from d.c. good to see you, sir. >> g...

Schaffer. colonel, welcome here. just from a logistical point of view is it even possible to engage in the time of no-fly zone and degrading his offensive weaponry without having some boots on the ground communicating to the planes? >> realistically no, this is what colonel hunt. he and i spoke on the air. the bottom line is this. if you are doing precision strikes, we're talking about putting bombs with a laser on a target you have two things that are on your own. you check technology and your people. french and british are great allies but the bottom line we have to trust our own people. >> ...