asked about the future of the drone campaign to iran. will the operations continue since they are flown out of afghanistan? absolutely. on wednesday, in kabul, panetta meets president hamid karzai who is coming under pressure from tehran to close the base. but the defense secretary says the afghan leader has not asked them to halt the program. panetta would not speculate about whether the u.s. u.s. sentinel drone had been failed by cyber attack or high-tech jamming device. the secretary did not agree with the assessment of nouri al-maliki in monday suggesting irainian interference would disappear once all u.s. troops have gone home. i think you have to be cautious about iran that one way or another they will try to influence what happens
involved a u.s. special operation troops sneaking into iran and trying to retrieve the drone. the sent no drone. the second plan would have that same group actually go in and destroy the drone on the ground so the technology didn t fall into iranian hands. the third option was to bomb the drone from the sky. they knew where the drone had drifted and where it had essentially landed because they had satellite imagery. in the end they decided not to do any of these three things because they thought that any sort of action might be perceived as an act of war, trace. trace: jennifer, we are also getting a better idea of what caused this thing to go down, right? that s right. we have been reporting since monday that our sources tell us that they believe that the drone essentially lost contact, broke its tether with its operator. it began floating and what is interesting about this high tech sentinel drone is it has a honing device, we re told that would normally make it fly back to its o