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Information and internet access. the president's top spokesman says it was not an intelligence operation. >> when you have a program like that in a nonpermissive environment, ie a place like cuba, you're discreet about how you implement it so that you protect the practitioners, but that does not make it covert. >> we are going to take another look tonight at the testimony of a key obama administration insider about the benghazi terror attacks. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge talks of what role politics play in the infamous white house talking points. >> in his opening state...

The committee pushed him to explain why the al qaeda reference was dropped. >> how does mentioning al qaeda disclose classified sources? >> what i was told, chairman, is that the only way we knew that was from classified sources. >> i'm just not following that logic. again, i came out next day and said -- had the hallmarks of an al qaeda attack. i don't think i was disclosing classified sources in doing it. >> reporter: in the process of defending himself, morrell contradicted administration statements right after the attack that no one knew who was responsible, and he further discredited this...

Because he thought it was unprofessional to embarrass hillary clinton's state department which knew about the warnings and did not act. ultimately leading to the deaths of four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. republicans pushed morrell to explain the contradictions. >> you take out everything that's even related to -- to warnings and a bunch of other stuff, too, and direct oor petraeus is concerned because he wanted more information about warnings in there, so i don't -- that doesn't make sense to me. >> i simply saw this as a way for cia to pound its chest and say, look, we war...