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Detailing isis' growing strength and its ambitions to take territory across iraq. those ambitions now a surprise, what was a surprise was how the iraqi military melted away and failed to defend vital territory. their victory laps have become daily events. isis militants parading through iraqi cities they have overrun, driving american-supplied humvees and trucks they have stolen. with the u.s. trained iraqi military being overpowered, president obama said he's now including options including military action. his first step planning to deploy the aircraft carrier u.s.s. george h.w. bush to the ...

There's been a lot of talk about whether this was a surprise and clearly there were intelligence warnings out there for a number of months and about specific targets, baghdad and mosul. the one thing that i'm told that has been surprising was how quickly the iraqi military melted away. that is one thing that was is surprise. >> this is the u.s. intelligence community. >> yes. >> suggesting they knew weeks and weeks ago that isis was planning on moving in, not only to mosul but to baghdad itself? >> that they issued multiple reports about the territory inside iraq and recently in the last coupl...

>> you don't want iran to get involved, the south separated by the sunnis in the north many supporting isis. on the other hand, they actually overlap here. neither the u.s. or iran wants iraq to collapse. they want to empower the shias. >> let me get barbara's quick reaction. barbara, do you get the sense over there that the u.s. military was surprised by the collapse of the iraqi in the north around mosul and what is going on around baghdad? >> yeah. i think that the pentagon, like the rest of the intelligence committee, surprised about the speed. not surprised that it happened. the warnings ...

We have a big problem comtemplating amnesty that he may have solid the data already. >> 1.7 million documents, is that possible? >> it is entirely possible. i don't underestimate how severe the intelligence problem is here. it is hard to stickulate. my instinct anyone who does this to the united states doesn't deserve amnesty to us. if we need to go through an expensive procedure to do the way we do things. i wouldn't give this guy air to broeth. >> we don't know where the documents are right now. he would have to account for that, right? and who in turn has seen them already. >> exactly. it m...

It's kind of standard operating procedure. >> when you were the director of national intelligence, let's say you went to paris, you went to rome, you went to madrid, did you have a cell phone that was -- included all your personal information? >> even as a diplomat, people were surveilling me. as director of national intelligence, i was capable of taking a lot of precautions. >> you just assumed that even friendly countries wanted to know what was going on. >> the basic assumption is that the adversarial countries who are capable of spying and eavesdropping globally just as we are were engaged...