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Pull the trigger. you fire. and then you forget it. it goes to where you programmed it to go. helicopter launched fire and forget. hellfire. if you are going to be killed by a hellfire missile, does it matter to you if that missile is fired from one of these or from one of these instead? what is novel about drones is not that u.s. forces can kill people from the air using targeted so-called precision-guided missiles. u.s. forces have been killing people from the air for as long as we have had the capacity to put armed things in the air. what is novel about what our government is doing now in o...

Of the video comes at the end. >> come around, get some more distance. >> roger that. clear. >> there's more individuals in there. >> there's some confusion, maybe shots from nearby. all of a sudden, they zero in on a group of guys entering a building. >> there's at least six individuals in that building with weapons. >> we can put a missile in it. >> they say, let's hit it with a hellfire missile. they're getting ready to fire that missile, and at the bottom left corner of the screen, you see a guy just kind of randomly walk into the scene. and they don't say no, no, no, no, stop, stop, stop,...

>> the president a couple of days on the daily show said as soon as information comes out, we share it with american people. all right. let's see the taken. let's see exactly what happened. let's see it with our own two eyes. since four americans died, you've got to scratch your head and say all those guys with rpgs, all those explosions, why didn't they call in a counter strike? why didn't somebody drive another drone over with a hellfire missile? we were talking earlier about the situation in libya which is a big mess. >> i will tell you, though, that in testimony before the house oversight ...

Administration's response was well, it will take several hours for the cruise missiles launched from submarines to reach that objective. so you need to tell us where bin laden will be five or six hours from now. the frustration was enormous. >> so at that moment, you wanted to kill him? >> yes. >> but you couldn't get permission. >> correct. >> you're talk about the beginning of the hellfire missile and the drone program. they tried satellites it was too far away and they came up with the drone and the hellfire missile and now you see what we're doing with the drone program. flat out incredibl...

Environment at the c.i.a. now and the way in which our country decides to either capture or kill terrorists? >> well, what happens is the administration has defaulted to a take no prisoners approach. so there's no way to interrogate people, to get intelligence -- to get out of that. which we need. >> why are we doing that? >> it's easier, it's interesting because our country, as powerful as it is, can't deal with interrogating anybody. it's easier to kill someone from 10,000 feet, you know, using a hellfire missile than it is to capture somebody and pressure that individual. >> even if you're ...