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Security issue. it would be hard to believe that that had not come up ott a national security meeting, given the fact that there was a counterterror operation going on in yemen? >> i think we can be quite confident that the president knew all about the operation that was involved here and that is the source of the government's stated concern about the leak. but yesterday, attorney general holder said the president was not told about the decision to subpoena the a.p.'s documents here. he said there would be no reason to tell the white house about it. since it was a criminal investigation and th...

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...

His operation into something more like a policing operation or a counterterror operation. going in with small groups of police or commandos at night. going house-to-house, targeted raids on specific individuals that they picked up because they've been scanning all of their photos and videos they take of any demonstrations. that's the kind of thing we might be seeing. what we are not going to see is any stepping down or stepping aside of either moammar gadhafi or his regime. that's not in the cards. >> that would be the most shocking thing of all. thank you, jim meceda. take good care over ther...

Declassify all these documents. without be a good idea? >> kimberly: i'm glad that was the first question. it's fascinating and there are a lot of people calling for it, saying let's go complete transparency, declassify the documents, end. all other so there isn't this leaking this and leaking that. bits and pieces out. show the whole framework and exactly what happened and who did what. maybe that's what the american people need at this point instead of like drip from the faucet coming down. put it all out there, and then we will know. >> dana: what do you think, brian? >> brian: a legal expe...