matthew, what does it say about president obama s being so intricately involved in this operation with this opportunity presented? i think you put it perfectly earlier when you said it was a gutsy call. when we locate d zakawri in ira the call was to drop bombs on that house. opt rateors were 20 minutes away and we weren t willing to wait 20 minutes to take the risk of being able to take him alive. the other problem with bombing a house we haven t discussed is you lose intelligence that way. some type of media is lost and destroyed in that process and you can get future targets and stop future attacks by exploiting that media. michael, what about that? we do have his disk. absolutely. 40 minutes we were in that building scraping out every bit of information. that s a huge plus, being able to put boots on the ground is very, very important. i have been through in white house meetings and previous administrations, in many different presidencies, where we passed on opportunities jus
i think you put it perfectly earlier when you said it was a gutsy call. when we locate ed d zakawri in iraq the call was to drop bombs on that house. opt rateors were 20 minutes away and we weren t willing to wait 20 minutes to take the risk of being able to take him alive. the other problem with bombing a house we haven t discussed is you lose intelligence that way. some type of media is lost and destroyed in that process and you can get future targets and stop future attacks by exploiting that media. michael, what about that? we do have his disk. absolutely. 40 minutes we were in that building scraping out every bit of information. that s a huge plus, being able to put boots on the ground is very, very important. i have been through in white house meetings and previous administrations, in many different presidencies, where we passed on opportunities just like this one. this was uniquely gutsy call by the president.