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Chemical weapons used. >> reporter: in a classified briefing to congress, intelligence officials said it's not clear what happened. but cnn has learned new details about how the cia is trying to figure out exactly what did happen here. u.s. intelligence operatives are now talking to rebels and defectors to see what they know. in maryland, these are being interviewed. they tell cnn military analysts are looking at the symptoms and conditions, along with reports from syrian doctors, to see if the symptoms of suffocation, and convulsions match a potential chemical attack. intelligence analysts ar...

So i know there are cases they are really on top. but like this woman saying it being shaky? >> it can be shaky. you are talking about lack of supervision and quality of agents. agents should be hired that are experienced, maybe former law enforcement or military, but you are not going to get those level of people for the rate of pay you are paying them. you have to bring in proper supervision and supervisors that are going to make sure. >> neil: more will get a better? >> you have to set up the level of quality. >> neil: what about the level of education? >> i don't even know if you need to b...

Dangerous? what is the right military posture for u.s. forces in the region? what do we need them to do? our conversations about defense and the military right now are mostly about budgets and numbers. as important as those are we need to talk more about objectives, strategy and policies since the attack in benghazi could represent a kind of a normal in our dangerous world. the defense department needs to answer these questions. i might add in the defense authorization bill we added authorization for a thousand additional marines to be used to protect our installations, our diplomatic installa...

Corn an nbc analymsnbc analyst the author of "47 percent." has susan rice, the ambassador to the united nations, when she went on "meet the press" five days after the assault on the consulate, was she speaking on the level with the best intel she had? >> amazingly enough, because she has been attacked so stridently for her comments, she was stating almost word for word the talking points the cia had prepared the previous day, september 15. i know that because i was given by a senior intelligence official a copy of those talking points, and they included the phrase that she got hammered for abo...

The ambassador. doherty was a beloved men of the seal -- member of the seal community who served in both iraq and afghanistan, a complete pro according to those who knew him. yesterday we learned from senior administration officials that one of the two security officers, possibly doherty, made it out of the building safely ask and then went back into the burning building to try to save the ambassador. elsewhere, the u.s. navy has positioned two burke class guided missile destroyers off the coast of libya, the uss la doone and the uss mcfall. neither have helicopter assets attached but can supp...