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Power vacuum left behind, how is central command postured to prevent terrorist organizations from gaining strength in the region? >> senator, probably details would be best left to the classified session later this afternoon. i will tell you that i have today headquarters that has ability to look into afghanistan, albeit limitd and with ability to fuse intelligence to look at isis-k and al qaeda, we are refining that, best practices on that, we have a way forward. i've told the committee before, it is very hard to do this, it is not impossible to do this. >> looking forward to seeing those det...

0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, senator. >> but you didn't address the issue, you made, it was your plan, you acknowledged it was you...

>> absolutely. the real shame, you had a situation where there was information available, that there was some type of japanese attack being planned, but the precise nature of the attack wasn't known. the precise manner, timing of the attack, that also wasn't known, and that was a significant failure. and also the fact they didn't fuse intelligence with operational information, such as the radar picture, that prevented a great deal of activity as well, and really caused the surprise to be a complete surprise. >> the former defense secretary leon panetta speaks of a cyber pearl harbor threat to ...

involvement in iraq. we want to take you now live to baghdad, where you are looking at live pictures of the casing of the colors ceremony in the iraqi capital. it has been almost nine years since the u.s. invaded that country. and in that time, at least 128,000 iraqis have been killed in conflict situations. more than 4400 u.s. troops have also died. and now at this very moment,ed american military command in the country is closing a chapter in the history of both iraq and the u.s. armed forces with this somber ceremony. it is such a big contrast to the explosions that marked the beg...