and there s a letter, greg that he s writing about surveillance and e-mail. he says we should assume that the enemy can see these emails and only send through e-mail information that can bring no harm if the enemy reads it. they should not trust it juz just because it s encrypted. the enemy can monitor all e-mail traffic through the mujaheddin. computer science is not our science, we not the ones who invented it. there s a lot of material in this trove that reveals his real concern about security in a number of ways. one of the backs he had in the stack was about trying to find counter measures anti-aircraft capabilities for guerrilla movements which clearly looks like he was trying to figure out some way to combat the success of the cia s drone program in pakistan. a lot of the letters like you said are urging you know, to be careful in how you communicate finding new ways to communicate, using multiple methods of communication. that one of those letters that went out right a mo
transition from being dependent totally on fossil fuels into moving into renewable energies. so much the better. not just for the environment. and that we see clearly with the oil spill and tragedy of it. but for our economy in the future. congresswoman lois capps, i know you ll be all over this. thank you very much. our thoughts are with you and everyone else out there on that beautiful coastline which we know so well. thank you. this morning, u.s. intelligence agencies released a declassified trove of documents recovered from computers seized by s.e.a.l. team six during that raid on osama bin laden s pakistan compound. the declassified material includes more than 100 translated letters and messages. a list of the english language reading materials on bin laden s digital files, and extensive information on france, including that nation s economy. joining me now, greg miller national security correspondent for the washington post, and dan benjamin director of the center for int
former coordinator for counterterrorism at the state department. thank you both. greg, you ve been going through the documents for the last couple of hours. what are the most important things that you ve seen so far? i don t think there s any new bombshell or plot that these documents disclose. there are some really interesting items including some messages that bin laden was sending out to his followers even right up until a month before he was killed in that raid in abbottabad. and you referenced the sort of bin laden bookshelf. his list of books that he except in that compound that he was going through. when you look through the titles reveals his obsession with understanding u.s. institutions and like the federal reserve, like the military and trying to find vulnerabilityies in those institutions. interestingly, dan benjamin he talks about the islamic state, attack strategy and says you should ask them to avoid insisting on the formation of an