one of these threats, it s going to require them to go through that sort of process and analysis, very time consuming but very important and then what they do is disseminate it to state and local authorities who look to see if they can gather any information to corroborate or refute the intelligence being disseminated. fran, what do you make of the fact that bin laden was hiding in this compound living a, you know, his normal life as you can live in one spot and apparently unable to move from there, and yet, you know, the mythology around it was he was in a cave someplace, he had kizny disease, probably needed dialysis. you were part of an administration that eventually said you know what? he s on the run. and we re not worried about him anymore. we re after al qaeda. so how did that folklore get out there? well, part of that was there was very little intelligence,