military operation but when we talk about nato military operations, the u.s. has got to be calling the shots. the supreme allied commander of the nato forces is an american. but the u.s. in terms of assets, the only thing we ve got involved now are predator drones. interestingly enough, some of the nato officials are saying what we re seeing is the difference between the capabilities and technological cape abilities of allies. they re saying they can t keep up with predator drones and a wax planes that the u.s. has. there s a technological gap between what the u.s. provides and the rest. rick: who will you be talking with this weekend? we re talking politics and our show expands. we just got word and you ve report that mike huckabee, former governor of arkansas and
talk to us about how that would all work. without giving away the farm. normally we use these cameras in training situations so we can get immediate feedback about what was done right and what was done wrong. we know that predator drones have live feed capability. what happened with this particular situation is these individual helmet mounted cameras are low signature analog frequent is. as such they are prone to having other we have equipment when we are going to do a job of this magnitude that distea lous any other frequency other than the ones we authorize to be used on that operation. that s how remain taken inner squad communication integrity. that being said, some of this equipment that we use to disallow other frequent is can be bullies. those helmet mounted systems are small analog frequent is. that other technology can act like a bully sometimes and i
anthony, ant gitmo the best thing that has ever happened to obama? it is fantastic. i think it is great. i think it is a great gauge to see if things are working for national security. does al-qaeda hit hate it? i don t think they like the predator drones, their leaders getting killed. so why do we keep doing those things? if we eliminate all that, we will not be taking warm showers together. i really just think we should get those things. i think we are making a mistake. welcome to the program. a big fans of yours. do you think it is right that it is a recruiting tool? i have a lot of respect for john mccain. i came across something rather disturbing in my research. it was that may ked picture of me.
technical or human intelligence, which suggested to analysts that it was difficult for him to communicate. that it s difficult for him to communicate, you can imagine it s hard for him to do things like give operational or tactical direction. clearly he had this very trusted courier and was able to do more of that than the intelligence community had expected. you know, i think there was a lot of surprise at him being in an urban area but if you look at osama bin laden and go back six years, what does he know, he knows the u.s. is increasingly using predator drones in rural areas. do you say to yourself, i d better get out of a rural area. he knows those in his organization targeted by drones typically had some electronic device. you say i d better not be using the internet or cell phones and you say if they re using these in rural areas, i want to get to an urban area and the other piece, a public dispute between u.s. and pakistan, pakistan making clear they didn t want
predator drones or drop in and do something. in a counter-terrorism battlefield and battle space, you need patience, time, patience, effort, then execution. we re learning those lesson, i think and that will be a huge after actions take away through the intelligence community and military. the special ops emphasis seems to be very much favored by obama, too, doesn t it? he took out that al qaeda operative, the administration did in somalia, same thing. the ops went in and they just took him out and lifted out again. there s also an embedded story of continuity of policy. the bush administration, obama administration. special operation, lighter forces, less mechanized military approach, and using all the various tools to continue the pursuit one administration to the other. if you date back to clinton, this has been a continuous fight for the united states, we ve gotten better at it.