tough question, whether or not to release the final images showing the terror leader s body. reporter: cia director leon panetta gave lawmakers a briefing about the bin laden raid. they gave him advice about the death photos. it was important for the united states to release the picture of his body to confirm that he is dead. reporter: pinetta agreed. we got bin laden and i think we have to reveal to the rest of the world the fact that we were able to get him. reporter: it s not the cia director s call. it s president obama s. he doesn t want to spoil his big success by rushing out what the white house calls gruesome shots. i ll be candid that there are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of osama bin laden. reporter: more arguments against release. the dna match was reported perfect, better proof than a picture. the streets in the muslim world are quiet. why insight trouble? in pakistan, the government insisted again no a
indication he wanted to do that and therefore his killing was appropriate. reporter: u.s. officials say they re already getting usable information from the computers and hard drives and five cell phones seized at bin laden s mansion and flown back to the u.s. cia is putting out an urgent call for more arabic translators, working 24/7 to get al qaeda secrets. hoping to find the names of bin laden s big donors and the details of any attacks or after-death repriceals okayed by bin laden. homeland security officials testified, no special alerts so far. that could change. it could change tonight. it could change tomorrow. reporter: analysts say bin laden s followers don t need a death photo to remind them al qaeda lives on. and they say this could be an image of bin laden s success oran war al awlaki. he s fiery. he s facebook-savvy and based in yemen and born in new mexico. anwar al awlaki is american, but at or near the top of america s hit-list. i m steve handelsman, ne
not to release the final images showing the terror leader s body. for more on that, we go to nbc s steve handelsman. reporter: cia director leon panetta gave lawmakers the briefing and they gave him advice about the death photos. it was important for the united states to release the picture of his body to confirm that he is dead. reporter: pa net ta agreed. we got bin laden and i think we have to reveal to the rest of the world that we were able to get him. reporter: but it s not the cia director s call. it s president obama s he doesn t want to rush out gruesome shots. there are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of osama bin laden. reporter: more arguments against release. the dna match was reported perfect, better proof than a picture. and the streets in the muslim world are quiet. why incite trouble? in pakistan, the government insisted no authority knew this was bin laden s mansion and the white house installed no pu
military operation that killed osama bin laden, the obama administration is now facing a very tough question, whether or not to release the final images showing the terror leader s body. for more on that, we go to nbc s steve handelsman. reporter: cia director leon panetta gave lawmakers the briefing and they gave him advice about the death photos. it was important for the united states to release the picture of his body to confirm that he is dead. reporter: pa net ta agreed. we got bin laden and i think we have to reveal to the rest of the world that we were able to get him. reporter: but it s not the cia director s call. it s president obama s he doesn t want to rush out gruesome shots. there are sensitivities here in terms of the appropriateness of releasing photographs of osama bin laden. reporter: more arguments against release. the dna match was reported perfect, better proof than a picture. and the streets in the muslim world are quiet. why incite trouble
enough to know the real him, the person by his side during his last moments of life. she sat down today with d. with debra weiner. no one was closer to the governor then the woman who worked by his side for 30 years. she was with him when he died. what were your last words to him? i love you. i said it a thousand times. especially yesterday. three days ago, he did say that to me. in life, she was confidante, the gatekeeper, and family to this man, who never married or had children. even in death, it was lady and the governor. we canceled our passover seder and i stayed. thank god i was with him, holding his hand. it was just the two of you? yes. yesterday afternoon, she connected the governor to his trusted inner circle. i said, one of you all say goodbye to him now? i put the phone to his ear and they all said farewell. on the first without the governor, lady wants the public to know something that the man who could make headlines for his temper was