asserts executive privilege over what congress wants, that means the u.s. attorney can t act, cannot prosecute. so the you know, if it goes into court, the courts have never fully satisfied these questions. now, a couple of things, tamron. number one, it s worth noting that the guns that walked across the boarder here they allowed to go across the border have never been definitively linked to the killing of terry. some of the guns were found at the scene where he was shot but that s as far as the government s gone so far in terms of ballistics. the documents congress wants are not documents about the operation itself, how it was authorized. instead what congress now wants is documents from last year from, february to december last year that detail how the administration here, officials in washington, acted when they found out that their initial statement to congress that there were no guns walked turned out to be wrong. the committee now wants to know if there was some kind of cover-up
guys took their eyes off of bin laden and they went on that awful adventure in iraq. that really needs to be raised here because hundreds of thousands of people died and al qaeda presence was created in iraq that wasn t there and now you have an iraqi government that s much more oriented toward iran than us. they have a lot of gall and trying to take any credit for this when they filed to catch osama bin laden. we ve talked about the intelligence. in terms of the execution of the operation itself, you ve written extensively on the subject of blackwater, did it surprise you the obama administration decides to use a navy s.e.a.l.s unit and no involvement whatsoever from a private contractor of any kind? well, first of all, president obama does use blackwater. they guard cia around the world. when you want to get a mission done and get it done right and you want someone taken down that s very important to you, you call navy s.e.a.l. team six which is part of the joint speg special ope
doesn t seem to be life-threatening. cnn s paula hancocks joins us now from seoul. paula, tell us more about the operation itself, what you re hearing. reporter: well, zain, what we re hearing from the military officials is that this operation lasted roughly five hours and according to the officials, there was some 300-plus naval forces that were actually involved in this operation. so a very significant size of this operation. and to bring the ship under control within five hours, certainly those involved consider it a great success and the fact that 21 seamen that were on board that particular ship were rescued. now, just a breakdown of those that were on board. 11 of the crew members were from myanmar with south korean and also two indonesian. as you say though one injury on the side of the ship. the captain himself was shot in the stomach. military officials say he isn t