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What a waste. obviously, syrian president bashar al-assad does not think that this is a waste and tried to put the best political spin on this bloody conflict, reshuffling his cabinet today. there were two veteran but moderate opponents included in the cabinet, holding all the key levers of power, loyalists, strong men, loyal to president assad. rick? >> rick: greg palkot on the ground. >> patti ann: a case of mistaken identity in mexico. authorities thought they captured the son of the top fugitive drug lord but appears they got the young man. >> reporter: the possible misidentification could...

Recent home sale. treasury department has called guzman the world's most powerful drug lord. both countries are conducting an intense manhunt. he has been on the run after escaping from prison in 2001. this could be embarrassing for both countries. attorney general's office the original identity information came from the united states, but the united states drug enforcement administration says this information came from mexico. >> gregg: thanks very much. >> heather: the bloodshed in syria no longer an internal conflict now threatening it's neighbors. a closer look at the spreading crisis stil...

Communicating, he must be doing it through human beings, we need to find and follow the couriers. that was a hypothesis with which we went into this four years ago or so. >> so this is classic human intelligence? you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? >> it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of the exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites, and then from that point we used all the tools ...

>> mark, thanks so much in washington. of course, we're still learning more about the raid on bin laden's compound. on cnn's "fareed zakaria: gps" today, the courier was first identified during the bush administration. >> i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. >> so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to...

Released bin laden videotapes captured in the raid on that compound. today we learned that the courier who unwittingly led the u.s. to bin laden was first identified during the bush administration. >> i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president. not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. >> so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they develope...