location like syria where we have very little intelligence on the ground. i give the defense department tremendous credit. it finally will be made public, what type of sources we have. we have very few people actually able to operate on the ground there. so this was a significant victory for the defense department, for the u.s. military, and i giveth them enormous credit of. bill: did it take this long to kill him because it was difficult to isolate him or did it take this long for us to commit to this operation. somebody likey had john, there had to be a commitment to kill him. we do have restrictions that i think sometimes go too far, that