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Operation to take out adeer mohammed was put together in less than 48 hours and the problem, of course, is that they found children on the objectives, decided to withdraw and pull back off the beach. they had come in from ships and they went back out to ships. greta? >> greta: yeah, ollie, in terms of the second one in somalia, it was just ill-conceived? did we go too soon? >> well, look it. we have got lousy humit. >> bill: by that you mean human intelligence? >> exactly. human intelligence has been almost nonexistent through much of this war. the drone killings that we have pursued so vigoro...

Undercover agent and turned over to the cia. >> so, all of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags in the u.s. wasn't calibrated to detect that. >> reporter: officials consider the drone killings a tactical victory and u.s. embassy in yemen remains closed except for emergency business. and the threat from al qaeda remains very real and serious. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> it is to be expected while we are sounding all the alarms and this is incredibly serious and need to take it seriously, an anonymous leader in yemen claiming all recent u.s. terror a...

The bomb discovered by an undercover agent and turned over to the cia. >> so, all of our explosive detection equipment which screens over a million checked bags in the u.s. wasn't calibrated to detect that. >> reporter: officials consider the drone killings a tactical victory and u.s. embassy in yemen remains closed except for emergency business. and the threat from al qaeda remains very real and serious. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> it is to be expected while we are sounding all the alarms and this is incredibly serious and need to take it seriously, an anonymous leader in yemen claimin...

Just one piece of a larger disturbing trend towards centralized presidential power with virtually no oversight or transparency. your thoughts on that? >> well, the problem both with guantanamo and with targeted killing is we have rule of law violations and also we have national security problems continuing when we keep guantanamo open and use targeted drone killings as a centerpiece of our foreign policy. so let's talk about guantanamo. the military commissions are dogged today by the same issues that hang as a cloud over them from their beginning. skresy, including skresy about the use of tor...

First time in history. >> but on other key policy questions, the obama administration has cut access to government information. and it now spending over $11 billion on secrecy, be an all-time high. the president has instructed his lawyers to defend some of the broadest determinations of secrecy powers. foek, t for example, the drone program. a recent freedom of information request asks how it's used to kill suspected terrorists, butt administration argues it shouldn't have to say whether the program exists. as their lawyers put it in court, the government can, quote, neither confirm nor deny t...