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The special operations forces were pulled out of there late last week because, truthfully we don't have any intelligence to give them. it wasn't the fact that they weren't generating intelligence but when you take the country teams out of the embassy of the company, targets can't be passed to the shooters. that's why they basically left. >> general, i have the brothers and sisters on the military side people from the intel side philip mudd say figure you are going to go somewhere, make yemen the last place on your list to go. because this will be the most dangerous place in the world. what doe...

About the behind-the-scenes tension in that regard? >> it's really interesting, dana. the leaks came from the highest level. they were statements on the record from the white house, from the secretary of state, from the senior defense officials saying this would not involve ground troops, it would not involve entering air space. they were going to be standoff operations involving mostly tomahawks and then mostly u.s. navy. if you look at any military observer, anybody who's watched the last 12 years of war in this country knows what it means when certain forces move into position. having navy ...

About the behind-the-scenes tension in that regard? >> well, it's really interesting, dana. the leaks really came from the highest level. they were statements on the record from the white house, from the secretary of state, from the senior defense officials, saying that this would not involve ground troops, it would not involve entering air space. there were going to be standoff operations involving mostly tomahawks and the u.s. navy. that, and then if you look, any military observer, anybody who's watched the last 12 years of war in this country knows what it means when certain forces move in...

About the behind-the-scenes tension in that regard? >> it's really interesting, dana. the leaks came from the highest level. they were statements on the record from the white house, from the secretary of state, from the senior defense officials saying this would not involve ground troops, it would not involve entering air space. they were going to be standoff operations involving mostly tomahawks and then mostly u.s. navy. if you look at any military observer, anybody who's watched the last 12 years of war in this country knows what it means when certain forces move into position. having navy ...