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What's the bigger picture, katherine? what did it reveal for us? >> well, i think what it tells us, is that there's a fundamental shift in the way that we are understanding usama bin laden and this life that he lead after 9/11. the public perception has been very much one where he was presumed to be under pressure because of the u.s. assaults in the tribal areas of pakistan. what we learned today from the compound in abbottabad pakistan. this was a command and control center, sort of a technical or a fancy way of saying he was really calling the shots from that house. he was directing operatio...

Briefing of a senior intelligence official. bring us up-to-date to wheef seen so far and anticipate in the coming days. >> thank you, kelly. i i was at the briefing and lasted 40 minutes and several major-- covering this the better part after decade i can tell you that the information now analyzed by the cia is leading to a fundamental shift in the way that we understand usama bin laden and how he operated after 9/11. specifically, and i know you've discussed this earlier on your show, this compound in abbottabad is an active control center from which he's controlling operations. and he was un...

Focusing on the pictures if you'll let me do that sure. >> reporter: talking about the dna and how they were confident it was usama bin laden. number one, there was a woman in the compound we believe his wife who identified him to the seals. number two, they had what's called facial recognition pulse, something i reported on earlier this week, when you take pictures of a video, and then you match them with known pictures of that individual. they had a 95% match on facial recognition based on photos taken at the compound and what they had there at cia and looked at specifically the size of the ...

Somebody important was living there and not to say anything about it and if anybody approached they were to inform and make sure everybody knew what was going on and that i cans the cia operation on the ground there so extraordinary and why they're so angry about it. >> kelly: the fact we were able to get that human intelligence on the ground and find out about it. and i want to point out here that the senior intelligence officials who spoke to our reporters there at the pentagon today, just moments ago, also stated that there was no indication that pakistan's government was aware that ubl was...

A lackkey. all of this goes, having looked at this for a decade. a fundamental shift the way we understand how usama bin laden operated after 9/11. what we see from the data in that compound according to a senior intelligence official is that he was not under a rock. he was not cowering. he was actively directing operations, he was actively developing operations and trying to direct the strategy of the network and when it came to the united states he became obsessed with hitting the u.s. homeland and obsessed with mass casualty attacks and obsessed with mass transit and also infrastructure. as...