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Necessary. >> chris lawrence is in washington. he joins me now. chris, so explain this to me. here you've got the two top guy s in the pentagon objecting. whose decision has it been to release this information? >> reporter: that's the thing, everybody's making the decision for themselves. he's talking about you, me, government officials, people speaking on background inside the pentagon. look, we've heard details about this raid from the white house counterterrorism adviser, from cia director leon panetta. like i said, pentagon officials have spoken on background about it. even retired s.e.a.l...

joint chiefs chairmen mike mullen and defense secretary bob gates expressed strong concern for safety of the s.e.a.l.s. each of them gave a stark warning. >> from my perspective, it is time to stop talking. and we have talked far too much about this. we need to move on. it's a story that if we don't stop talking, it will never end. and it needs to. >> i'm very concerned about this. because we -- we won't to retain the capability to carry out these kinds of operations in the future. and when so much detail is available, it makes that both more difficult and riskier. now, with respect ...