arabian peninsula. i think it is a successful operation by all standards. it is and, again, i want to reiterate. it s tough to ever use the word success when you know somebody has lost their life. the trump administration s characterization of sunday s seal team raid in yemen is evolving as more questions have been raised about that operation. u.s. military officials told reuters trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation on the ground without sufficient intelligence, ground support, or adequate backup preparations. one of the three u.s. officials said on-the-ground surveillance of the compound was minimal at best. quoting again the decision was made to leave it to the incoming administration partly in the hope that more and better intelligence could be collected, that official said. in response to reuters reporting, centcom pointed to its previous statements and said when we ask for authorization, we believe there s a chance of successful operations based on
forecasters predict the eye of the storm will pass over arkansas today and into southern missouri sometime too night. parts of indiana could get close to seven inches of rain over the next five days. down graded to a tropical depression isaac will bring rain to some states suffering from severe drought. the national weather service is expecting isaac to break up over the weekend. the pentagon is saying it may take legal action against the former navy seal who wrote a book about the raid where osama bin laden was killed. the author was a member of the elite seal team raid that raided the compound in pakistan last year. he violated an agreement he signed not to divulge classified information. the book titled no easy day is expected to be released next week. now back to on the record.
i have to ask this question. why haven t we captured him. i kind of leaned forward and said because he s hiding. turns out he was hiding in almost plain sight of the pakistanis under the circumstances that i personally believe make it almost impossible to believe their high functioning highly skilled intelligence agents did not know the terror master mind was under their noses. we will talk about that and give you the detailed account of the seal team raid that killed him. first meet who heroes both nave reveals lieutenant commander eric griton who fought in iraq and afghanistan. holder of the bronze star and other medals. griet ton runs a wounded veteran aesz organization. former maif knee seal benjamin smith also a dially decorated combat veteran who served in iraq and middle east and around
deference to clandestined operations. i would not have revealed, for example the successful seal team raid against the isis minister of finance or that we got a treasure trove of documents there either. why don t we stop talking about what we are doing to destroy the enemy and just get on with it. in some ways you have got to get the american people behind us. at least if we have some success and see some point to some of this. anyway. i think killing usama bin laden made the point. well, it s been a while. it s been four years. and we get sort of the fact that we have some success at least sends some message to the american people and there is a finance person out there. well, the question is how soon you tell your adversaries what is you have got and how you have succeeded. i would like to see what documents are released during the remainder of the obama presidency compared to what documents are released after january the 20th, 2017. that would be the most interesting compa