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has cracked the code of the u.s. military's all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. >> the iranians have countered with specific information...

military's all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bluffing. >> i would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. >> the iranians have countered with specific information saying, for example, they know t...

good evening, i'm tom foreman in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, iran goes on the attack in the drone war. the iranian government claims it has cracked the code of the u.s. military's all-important flying drones. the iranians have been dissecting the computer control system, the electronic brain on that unmanned drone they captured four months ago and now they say they have collected all sorts of presumably highly classified information about when and where that drone flew, how it was controlled and much, much more. but u.s. defense secretary leon panetta says the iranians are bl...

Scent of gary powers and the soviet union, and why is the obama administration downplaying this? there is gary power, huge back in the 1960s. >> thank goodness we have drone technology that doesn't endanger our pilots or the propaganda the iranians have would be greater but a curiosity of the obama administration, is the president almost single-handedly is responsible for killing usama bin laden, but, he seems to have been away when the drone went down. i don't understand that disconnect, myself. >> eric: one would think, just a layman would say it could be a potentially huge intelligence fail...

Government do at area 51? >> well, the base was set up for the cia in 1955 to test the u2 spy plane. it became so famous when gary powers was shot down over the soviet union in 1960. after sputnik launched, the cia began another program to spy on the soviet union called the oxcart, and that was a mach-3 spy plane. in the 1960s three times the speed of sound flying at 90,000 feet. so the base has always been a place to furb technology and -- push technology and science faster and further than any nation on earth so that we, america, could stay ahead of the game. rick: now, what everybody thinks...