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Types of helicopters, the safe houses. i would have liked them not to tell anybody they got all the computers and flash drives. it would be nice to exploit the information before they found out we knew something. the fact that we found out phone numbers from osama bin laden, it would be great to have been able to call the numbers before the world had known. bill: that is a great point. what folks bike you have found, whether it's afghanistan or pakistan or iraq, when the other side finds out that you know cell phones have been sacrificed, they ditch them. they are disposable cell phones and th...

After the other bad guys. i don't want to see any more information come out as interesting as it is. we may be seeing the repercussions already of that, bill. we had a safe house there, a football ooh lust operation, may have led to the disclosure of the cia's station chief's name there pakistan as retaliation from the isi. we have to be very, very, careful. bill: i'll give you another example. the guy responsible for the bombing in bali indonesia in 2002 was picked up in that very neighborhood. who knows who else was living down the street. >> you know we found a lot of the al-qaida bigs in m...

Authorization of covert cia operations. the allied coalition is wiped out estimateed 25% of gaddafi's forces. rebels are still losing ground. forcing lawmakers on capitol hill to ask what is next? white house correspondent mike emanuel is tracking the story. mike? >> reporter: good evening. senior white house officials are pleased, control of the air operation over libya was transferred today from the u.s. to nato. now there is great debate in washington about what else should be done to finish the job. >> as the white house continues to arm the rebels in libya, the cia has small teams on the ...

Where an agent can help you find the policy that's right for you. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? are there any boots on the ground at this time in libya? >> not that i'm aware of. >> do you know if there's any time in the future that there are going to be boots on the ground in libya? >> not as long as i'm in this job. i can't speak to any cia activities. >> well, that's the defense secretary of our country, robert gates, ruling out boots on the ground. side stepping, of course, questions about intelligence operations that are being leaked and already active ...

Is this one more layer of bureaucracy bureaucracy bureaucracy? you certainly didn't want to be sharing with some other bureaucracy. can this work in the long run? >> the job i had was director of central intelligence because it was a combination of the jobs that leon pin net that and jim clapper have now and it was essentially split in two so jim clapper is sort of a strong chairman of the board in a way. he's not an operator. whereas pineta and the other agency heads run intelligence operations. i think this setup is not ideal. frankly, liked the earlier one better. but i think this could wor...