CNN The Situation Room May 21, 2014 22:05:00
Obama national security officials. >> well, it was more pronounced in 2012 which was an election year, but then there was a tremendous amount of pressure and even a draft national intelligence estimate to say basically al qaeda no longer posed a threat to the u.s. homeland. the director of the dia right now general michael flynn opposed that and eventually had it changed. it was a bitter division within intelligence community at the time. >> the national intelligence estimate, you're reporting in the "daily beast," you're saying it had concluded al qaeda really did not represent a significant ...