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It looks like this was basically an intelligence operation. what is the benefit long term for the united states here? >> i think michael kay gave a terrific run down there. these are joint operations, air force, army navy intelligence, general stanley mcchrystal put this tool together during the eight nine years he was in command. it's a phenomenal ability to intervene, seize people, destroy asset assets. i think the primary value of it was they came out with laptops,

For years. tell me why it is insidious, go. >> it appears we may have giant convergence for the scandals which makes it difficult for the president and white house to keep saying they are phony scandals. what we know about the irs-dea thing right now, this taps on concerns about surveillance of americans. dea has an intelligence operation. let's say they're looking into a drug operation of some sort. they share information with the irs which is not in itself bad because drug dealers often don't pay their taxes, but, what happens then is the irs covers up the source of the information. the defe...

Told us. martha: what an incredible story this is. the more we learn about it. jennifer, do you have any idea if that was always the plan, when they started this operation, that if indeed they killed him that he would be immediately taken to the aircraft carrier and buried at sea in this fashion. >> reporter: that's certainly what we were told, that was the plan all along. if he were killed, this was a capture or kill operation we're told, a presidential, it was an intelligence operation. a u.s. seal team was basically on loan to the cia for the operation, about 24 u.s. seals came out of the f...

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