will continue to engage congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the american people and to the world. reporter: a month later the director of national intelligence essentially told congress no data was being collected on americans. but now we know better. we ve learned that the u.s. government has routinely spied on al lies and collected massive amounts of data on phone calls by all of us. about two weeks ago the president announced new guidance for intelligence gathering, although the same basic framework remains. any transparency here somes to have come despite the administration. that is a broken promise. thanks, tom. cnn is your one stop shop for all things state of the union. this political programming note, our coverage begins 7:00 p.m. eastern time, tuesday night, right here on cnn.
somalia today about who they got. but right now u.s. officials aren t confirming any additional details other than they did conduct this air strike, miguel. yeah. recently the s.e.a.l.s did have to back off of a mission to get a shabaab leader there. this may be the one they re going after. somalia has quieted down. why are they still hitting and going after shabaab in this way? reporter: well, you know, it s interesting. a lot of people will tell you that al shabaab has been decimated. that that somali security forces have been able with the help of other african peace keepers to move against them and that the group is decimated. but we saw, of course, that mission that you spoke about to go after a key al shabaab leader because that leader in part had begun to link up and communicate with al qaeda. we have seen suggestions that al shabaab related militants were
shabaab took the lives in the bombing. the militant group comprised of several thousand fighters lost its grip in several cities and thought by many to be in decline. the attack at westgate changed this. in the aftermath u.s. killed two senior shabaab operatives in a drone strike in october. weeks after navy s.e.a.l.s failed to capture an al shabaab leader. traveled to minneapolis to report on tactics on soil. ronin joins us to talk about his reporting. what have you got? reporter: on september 14th terrorist attack on a bus in kenya killed five passengers. i was on assignment in nairobi during the attack and saw the devastation firsthand. al shabaab has claimed responsibility for this attack,
very hard to confirm because the government won t release specific information about it. and if you ll remember the raids we saw in somalia targeting an al shabaab leader. the capture in libya of a suspected al qaeda operative. all these things appear to suggest that the u.s. is moving a little away from drone strikes and more towards the targeted raids. an incredible interview given the perspective we haven t heard. he said he s speaking out because he wants americans to hear directly from people who were responsible for being the operatives in this case. thank you for allowing him do that. coming u, a new ad slamming the tactics of the nsa and the folks in the ad, celebrities. we ll share their message with you. plus, things are getting more twisted here. the twists and turns in this trial of a doctor in utah accused of murdering his wife, and today, his mistress and young daughter are expected to take the stand and describe the
we are finding out more this morning about the terror raids in africa that netted man an important al qaeda operative but as john sciutto reports, one of the raids does not seem to have gone as planned and it may have been thwarted by the presence of children. reporter: the westgate mile talk in nairobi kenya, left dozens destroyed and a mall destroyed and a country terrorized. attacks like this that help lead the u.s. to target ab shabaab on its home territory. it was a daring operation. late friday night, s.e.a.l.s team six, the same team that killed osama bin laden, launched from a commercial ship aiming to capture the al shabaab leader but ikrima. they haet heavier resistance than expected. the element of seeing children