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>> well they're talking about some of these asymmetric threats. that is something that is a technology or a weapon system that is is supposed to take advantage of a vulnerability that we may have. for instance if this ship were to deploy someplace like the persian gulf, the iranians for instance use a couple of techniques. one is, they have swarming boats. you could send a bunch of small boats with missiles on them at one large, high value target such as a major capital ship. and then it would overwhelm its defenses and you would be able to perhaps incapacitate it or sink it. we also, drones, ...

Miley, that is the performance that is lighting up social media this morning. miley cyrus channels her inner michelle bachmann as she takes a twip at the republican party and the government shutdown. >> good morning, everyone. 8:00 on the east coast. this is "new day sunday." there's a lot to get to in the u.s. and around the world. starting with the big terror get. he's a high value target. a senior al qaeda leader in u.s. custody this morning. >> yeah, american commandos snatched the man off the streets of tripoli, libya, apparently in broad daylight earlier on new day we talked to a man w...

Increased camera presence in places like boston, atlanta, san francisco, like we have very much in new york and washington, d.c.? >> well, i think that's up to the people of boston and atlanta. that's really their choice. of course, in new york, it is widely covered with cameras. i think the high value target at cities obviously there is a real value benefit, but you have privacy and civil liberty concerns there as well. but what i like to see is a difference, you know, this is a wake-up call that the state and locals have to be part of this process. they were shut out by the federal governmen...

But in the case of drones, how do we know what's going on if there isn't any kind of disclosure anyway? >> the disclosure, of course, is internal. all these things are discussed. there are gradations of intelligence. they have to have a high degree of confidence they have a high value target. the decisions are made at the highest possible level, so the buck doesn't go anywhere. it's right there and it's very important to remember that as we discuss what happens next, how the guidelines will be established and who makes the decision. >> just on that point, colonel jack, you're saying the buck s...

Pakistan. and you write, an embassy asks drones or diplomacy. the strains in the u.s./pakistani relationship became acute after the may 2nd, 2011 attack on abbottbad that killed osama bin laden. so did the intraembassy dispute about drones. the ambassador is said to have supported high value target strikes on named individuals and imminent threat strikes to stop, say, a car bomb, but he questioned the cost to benefit ratio for some so-called signature strikes, where the name of the target isn't known. sometimes these strikes produce a bonanza, as in the june 2011 signature attack that killed o...