anguish that the weinstein and laporto families are enduring. i realize there are no words that can equal their loss. i know there is nothing that i can say or do to ease their heart ache. today i want to say this. as president and as commander in chief i take full responsibility for all our counter terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. our initial assessment indicateathize operation was fully consistent under guidelines which we conduct which has been our focus for years because it is the home of al qaeda s leadership. based on the intelligence that we obtained at the time including hundreds of hours of surveillance we believed that this was an al qaeda compound that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. and we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous members of al qaeda. president obama announced two americans who have become high level members of al qaeda have