protest that evolved into an attack when the president of libya had been on right before her and had said they d already arrested 50 people, that they were extremists, that they were people with ties to al-qaeda, that some of them had come from mali, and that they that it had been a premeditated attack. her answer to that in particular was really unsatisfactory. she basically said that she thought our intelligence reporting was superior, and when you think that the president of the country is telling you that it s a terrorist attack, you would think that would cause you to at least pause and think about what your other intelligence was saying. greta: do you think once she appeared on the five sunday shows, was she appearing as a spokesperson for the government to inform the american people or
i agree completely. like many other people who have lived in the white house national security information environment, diplomatic cables, intelligence reporting. a lot of live information comes in. it s the duty of the people on deck there to get it to the national security advisor and chief of staff and it s their job to get it to the president and others. there is no excuse to ignore this information stream and by all accounts including sworn testimony before the congress, accurate information was coming in that has nothing to do with video, it did have something to do with al-qaeda and they said otherwise. gregg: the days and weeks ahead we suspect we ll be hear a lot more that will be shocking. thank you very much. patti ann: we are awaiting mitt romney s arrival in ohio. he is expected to speak within the hour. we ll bring it to you. .reach one customer at a time? whatever your business challenge,
nuclear health storm. revelations of a hijacker. and hundreds of detentions of innocent civilians jim miklaszewski has been reviewing the documents. let s start with osama bin laden and what he was up to. we know from intelligence reporting that osama bin laden was surprised in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that those two planes brought both of those world trade center towers down to the ground. shortly after as they launched the invasion of afghanistan, he was more interested in saving his own skin. he and many of his followers holed up in the mountains in the northeast section of afghanistan, which was under heavy bombardment. and some attacks by some militias that were working with the u.s. military and the cia in
intelligence reporting as he termed it, that there were radical islamic elements perhaps having some influence in the rebels that the united states is now reaching out to. of course, secretary clinton meeting yesterday in lon dpornt second time with a represent tuv of that organization. so a very fluid situation. obviously, the president rejects the notion that what has happened over the course of the last 11 days with this military action represents an obama doctrine. the president says this is no cookie cutter approach. it is a case by case development in the middle east but he says we could be in for a bumpy ride with all of the unrest and all of the volatility in the region, richard. mike viqueira, thank you. now for the latest on the heavy fighting that vic was talking about going on in critical cities across northern libya. jim maceda is live in tripoli. what is the latest? we understand that the no-fly zone, the control over that is being passed over to nato and differences
on intelligence reporting for quite sometime but certainly those of us who have been in government for many year before this were worried about the fact that the political repression in egypt was creating no alternative to save the muslim brother hood. and in fact one of our talking points with president mubarak had all been that he was creating the danger of instability. if there was failure it was probably less on the side of intelligence and more on the side of were we strongly enough pushing president mubarak on political reform over the last few years or were we more focused on other issues in the region? how much of the responsibility of political repressi repression, torture, unemployment, deprivation in egypt lies at the u.s. having been mubarak s bankroll for all