declassifying the mission and is conducting a review to determine why the intelligence was apparently flawed. the white house also announcing a separate strike killed this american, adam gadahn, who became a prominent al-qaeda media adviser as well. jonathan chancellor is vice president at the foundation for defense of democracies, talking a little bit about this news today. this is rare that we get this sort of statement from the president on, quote-unquote, drone strikes. not using that exact term. what do you make of the statement the timing of it? >> well, it is very rare. obviously the president didn't mention drone strikes per se. this is part of the parlance coming out of the white house. nevertheless, we were aware of the fact that ahmed farouq, this high value target, had been struck back in january. it's interesting that it took this many months to get to the point where they were able to come out and perhaps confirm the fact that these hostages had been killed. i think there's probably going to be some international fallout. you have a president that now needs to go to the prime minister of italy to explain