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On the taliban and al qaeda, is there anything wrong with that? the u.s. military may be benefiting intelligence gained by private contractors, but defense secretary, robert gates, has ordered a review of the pentagon's information operation, as they're called, giving officials 15 days to report back. let's bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. she's been digging in to this story for us. barbara, what's this all about? >> well, wolf, it all sounds like a spy novel, a former cia officer, once involved in iran contra, former military commandos, all collecting intelligence on behalf...

Had been captured. sounds like the kind of classified intelligence that might come from the cia? think again. this, and other sensitive information on the taliban and al qaeda, was, in fact, gathered by private military contractors, who passed it on to u.s. military intelligence for possible use in targeting. according to a source, who provided cnn with a series of documents detailing the operations. the multimillion dollar military program, which used in part retired cia officers and former military commandos, is now under pentagon investigation to determine if they and dod officials may have...

In the pictures you can see that the president is sitting there stone-faced directing his team. you can see hillary clinton with her hand over her mouth, and then the vice president joe biden fingering his rosary beads in some of the tense moments as a top counterterrorism official called tense moments. and they were using military commandos was a risky situation and gutsy move by the president as described by one official. they could have used b-2 bombers to drop 3,2,000 bombs, but they wanted navy s.e.a.l.s because they wanted real evidence, dna evidence that osama bin laden had been in fact...

It has been happening for a while. it needs to be addressed, soon. >> sean: tommy and james have been fishing on falcon lake over 30 years. they say the piracy is the newest way the cartels are taking over the lake. they say they see the lake used as a drug trafficking highway each and everyday. >> i believe from one town to the other they would be safer traveling the lake than a highway. >> sean: a powerful and deadly mexican cartel made up of mostly former military commandos. they operate throughout northern mexico and along the border. which were showed the safe house on the mexican side ov...