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Talk to us about how that would all work. >> without giving away the farm. normally we use these cameras in training situations so we can get immediate feedback about what was done right and what was done wrong. we know that predator drones have live feed capability. what happened with this particular situation is these individual helmet mounted cameras are low signature analog frequent is. as such they are prone to having other -- we have equipment when we are going to do a job of this magnitude that distea lous any other frequency other than the ones we authorize to be used on that operation...

>> anthony, ant gitmo the best thing that has ever happened to obama? >> it is fantastic. i think it is great. i think it is a great gauge to see if things are working for national security. does al-qaeda hit -- hate it? i don't think they like the predator drones, their leaders getting killed. so why do we keep doing those things? if we eliminate all that, we will not be taking warm showers together. i really just think we should get those things. >> i think we are making a mistake. welcome to the program. a big fans of yours. do you think it is right that it is a recruiting tool? >> i have a...

Technical or human intelligence, which suggested to analysts that it was difficult for him to communicate. that it's difficult for him to communicate, you can imagine it's hard for him to do things like give operational or tactical direction. clearly he had this very trusted courier and was able to do more of that than the intelligence community had expected. you know, i think there was a lot of surprise at him being in an urban area but if you look at osama bin laden and go back six years, what does he know, he knows the u.s. is increasingly using predator drones in rural areas. do you say to...

Predator drones or drop in and do something. in a counter-terrorism battlefield and battle space, you need patience, time, patience, effort, then execution. we're learning those lesson, i think and that will be a huge after actions take away through the intelligence community and military. >> the special ops emphasis seems to be very much favored by obama, too, doesn't it? he took out that al qaeda operative, the administration did in somalia, same thing. the ops went in and they just took him out and lifted out again. >> there's also an embedded story of continuity of policy. the bush adminis...

Was he at the same time participating and directing it from cia headquarters? >> reporter: the person directing the operation is the person that is running -- that runs that special forces -- the special forces operation. i want to back up to march 29th. you've given a great time line. i'll be honest, lawrence, we've gotten a couple other briefings even in the last few hours. essentially they're doing debriefings of the men who participated in this capture and kill of bin laden. so the story continues town fold. march 29th, the president is offered an array of plans at how to go after bin lade...