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Chemical stockpile and release deadly gas. >> if there is a wildly disagreement in the intelligence community, how normal is that on something as important as this? >> believe it or not, it actually fairly normal. it doesn't come to a surprise to officials who have been speaking to cnn. they point to bin laden operation where there was no uniformity whether he was at that compound. they say different agencies are looking at different pieces. the nsa is looking at the communications, the cia may look at the ground intelligence, military officials intelligence officials here may look at satellit...

Are? and if it comes down to a u.s. air strike, they have to be assured that they aren't going to hit an actual chemical stockpile and release some of that deadly gas into the areas. >> if there's this wildly sort of wide disagreement in the intelligence community, how normal is that on something as important as this? >> reporter: believe it or not, it's actually fairly normal. it doesn't come as a surprise tosome of the intelligence officials who have been speaking with cnn. they point to osama bin laden operation where there was not uniformity on whether bin laden was actually at that compou...

It's clear from listening to the secretary of state we are going to something. my question to you, david, what do you hear about our on ground intelligence within syria in terms of targeting the origins of the gas attacks where they were launched from? what do we hit? >> mike, we've been looking at -- the u.s. has been looking at this problem now for more than a year. this is one area where they really have devoted resources. i think before the u.s. strike, you'll see a rollout of presentations from the u.s. intelligence committee about what the u.s. does know. i think this you going to be -- ...

>> going rogue. >> i don't think this is nsa gone rogue. bureaucratic agency making mistakes which is troubling. this is a great conversation to have. we should be having more oversight in this agency. dianne feinstein is saying we need more information and we need more oversight. that's great. but your right to privacy, our right to privacy also needs to be balanced against my right and your right to be protected against a terrorist attack. and i think we have got enough information now. these a good degat to be had. enough information now. a lot of it classified, true. to know what does work...

We afford to not use drones but can we afford to -- i've got myself mixed up in my own question. if we don't use drones we open ourselves up to attacks. >> right. >> but if we do use drones we end up being the greatest people as a test for al dade da. >> seems like a no-win situation. >> so i think drones can be a very powerful weapon against al qaeda. there's something that gives the u.s. a great advantage. the problem is in a place like yemen, the achilles heel of the united states is that he just doesn't have good on the ground intelligence. drones work and they're a great piece of technolo...