opposite. first of all, this painstaking, never giving up effort by the intel community that results in a lead that s given to leon panetta on august 27, 2010. his people in the pakistan-afghan counterterrorism department tell him that they have found, they think may be a courier to bin laden to a mysterious compound. on september 10, 1 day short of the ninth anniversary of 9/11, the cia briefs the president. it starts dozens of briefings and meetings in a situation room and throughout the administration of the course of eight months. then they bring the military in and they plan it. it was a perfect case study of the intel community, the political community, and the military wing of the government all working together. forgetting about turf, forgetting about ego. i would think he would say one
during the obama administration hears boss, we think this fortress, this street story house in pakistan is a place where that guy could be, and it took 247 days before they said okay, let s go do it. he said at the end of that meeting he said you new york try to get more information before we pull the trigger on this. well, this is what i d call a history thriller and we take you inside the 247 days. it went on for a long time before that for nine years to try to get a lead on where bin laden even was, but as you say then the cia director leon panetta on august 27, 2,010 year and he said we praised a guy we think might be his career to that compound, what you re seeing there, everybody thought he was in a cave somer whether
subject from afghanistan. they can read those polls, too. but on the other hand, you know, these are legitimate subjects. in the generally talks about the job numbers going down to louisiana today, and the fact that more than 50 of our fellow americans were killed whether down in the gulf coast or in the northeast, and of course you have the texas and the abortion law, supreme court. those are all legitimate subjects. would the white house rather than talking about them than afghanistan absolutely. bill: let s talk about your book. the sub text is the 247-day hunt to bring the mastermind of 9/11 to justice. in the 247 days, chris, you have 8 1/2 months. the book begins these guys come to leon panetta, august 27, 2010. bin laden isn t taken out until may 1, 2011. what did you learn during that eight months that either gave them that pause or eventually
journalism and that should worry us all. we learned the feds authorized the search while investigating the leak of confidential national security information and that warrant indicated james rosen may have broken the law by doing his job as a journalist. doug is live in d.c. doug? the new york times reported the justice department alerted news corp, the parent company of fox news, on august 27, 2010 it seized the telephone records of a fox news reporter. today news corp issued a statement that rate and wore weeding. i while we don t take issue that they sent a notice, we do not have a record of ever having received it. that response comes after a flurry of calls from capitol hill for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the matter and the attorney general s admission he signed off on the search warrant two weeks after testifying that the potential prosecution of the press is not something that he had ever been involved in.