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of defense dollars, the drone program. not everyone supports using aerial vehicles to hunt down terror suspects. james rosen tells us from the state department the policy could be a problem for the president s pick to run the c cia. from the first u.s. drone attack outside yemen, second ago, through six known strikes this year including the one that took out the taliban commander, the dep te a eight others in pakistan. the u.s. war on terror grown reliant on the unmanned vehicles that are prepared for flight an armed with the hell fire missiles. i believe john brennan taking over at c.i.a. will ensure that the drone program will comet. the administration has been and brennan particular, selling us on the fact that drones is the magic weapon. bret: reporter: president bam banal herted the drones from
chairman of the homeland security committee, also with us this morning, cnn national security contributor frances townsend, former bush homeland security adviser. congressman king, give me some more details of this plot as you know this and the man at the center of the plot whom we haven t heard much information about. soledad i really can t give you all the details. this is an ongoing operation. it was an unmetallic device, i can tell you it involves a number of countries and that at no time did the bomb ever make it on to the plane but as far as even the country it originated from, all of that for various reasons is not being disclosed but it is ongoing, involved sophisticated intelligence and it s something where i don t think the government expected it to be coming out yesterday because it s ongoing and the device is being tested by the fbi, and as you raise the issue about whether or not our current level of detection is enough to be able to find this type of device. t