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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 ...

Detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites. then from that point, we used all the tools of intelligence. i can't go into detail, but i can assure you it was signals intelligence and imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasn't done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. >> so hayden also said president obama's decision to raid bin laden's compound was courageous. but he thinks any american president would have made the same choice. let's talk about the threat of water in a very big way in memphis, t...

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 of intelligence. i can't go into detail, but it was signals intel...

War in iraq. it always starts off with intelligence, and this particular intelligence assessment we have seen in "the post" today is peculiar because six months ago the assessment was that north korea wouldn't miniaturize that warhead for two years. about a month ago, that was accelerated to early next year, about six to nine months out. now we are at zero hour where they believe that it has already been done. this came from defense intelligence agency. their principle collection process will be imagery intelligence. it's possible north korea may have done this, and they have very good intelli...