0 the control of central command. tony. two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin laden s body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? yeah. his body was left at the site. as for the time being, it is correct, this was a mission long planned, months in planning as i mentioned to jen, but, look, you have to build enough context around the individual s pattern of life, and you have to factor in external factors that you don t get to control like the weather. so lots of things go into make a decision about when you execute a raid of this complexity and this danger, and there were a lot of factors that had to line up to be just right. you have to, you know, make sure that you
independent that we did into the strike, done by the air force ig who had the authority to conduct another investigation into the conduct. he didn t find that. then the two commanders involved, central command, special operations command down in tampa. they also reviewed the investigation and strike itself and determined that these were really procedural problems. nobody wants to see civilian harm, and we work very hard to avoid that, but we re not perfect, and i think it s important to keep in context what was happening on the 29th of august. we had just lost, as you said, 13 members, to a real isis threat. a real isis attack, and just a few days after that we were going to leave afghanistan forever, and we were getting tangible, credible threats from isis to attack our troops at the airport as well as in afghanistan. there was a crunch of time, there were procedural break downs. not everything went the way it was supposed to go, and we have acknowledged that quite publicly. just beca
we know gabby was last seen at that restaurant in jackson, merry piglets. where they had an argument so vociferous it left the waitress shaken. that was august 27th. we know august 29th, brian laundrie was spotted by another woman hitch hiking. she picked him up in the jackson area. so that puts the likely date of death between august 27th, after the argument in the restaurant in jackson, and presumably the 29th of august, when he was picked up alone hitch hiking. it certainly makes it possible that the time of death or likely the time of death was before brian laundrie showed back up in florida. i want to read a statement from the laundrie family. it says gabby petito s death a lot such a young age is a tragedy while brian laundrie is currently charged with the unauthorized use of a debit
independently cnn confirmed that she was in a restaurant with brian, and it was the merry piglets, a tex-mex restaurant in jackson hole. she said that triggered her and she remembered that and called the fbi. gabby was crying, brian was going out of the restaurant and coming in, very angry at the host he hostess, back and forth and back and forth. that s the visualization we have. that was on the 27th. on the 29th of august, we know that brian hitchhiked two times toward jackson hole and back from jackson hole to the camping ground where the van was. to both people who picked him up, he related a similar story and said, i ve been camping by myself by the river, and my girlfriend was at our van. she was working on her blog, but
congress by those top u.s. defense officials, because we have to remember that for weeks after this drone strike that killed ten civilians, that the u.s. military was defending this strike. you know, we heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark am iy, tmilley, it w righteous strike three days after that drone strike. it was fascinating to learn this time line that within hours they knew there were civilians. and within days they knew that they had made this terrible mistake. for the family who was the supposed isis facilitator carrying explosives in his car and posed an imminent threat to the u.s. forces that were in the final days of this evacuation, this mass evacuation at the airport, they are a broken people. ten members of their family were killed on the 29th of august,