let s start with the photos. here s one where the white house wasn t speaking with one voice. it s kind of interesting. according to my sources inside the administration, there was always a sense the president himself was really leaning towards not releasing these photographs. and the most interesting piece of information i got was this was always going to be a decision that he made in concert with his national security team. in particular, his secretary of defense, his secretary of state. as a republican said to me who served in a previous administration, he said, when your secretary of defense says to you, do not release these photographs because it could put our men and women at risk, it s the right decision not to release the photographs. and a senior administration official told me last night, he said, look, there s no doubt osama bin laden is dead. we ve got the dna, he said,
for many of the isi leader, this is part of their ideology too. they are radical jihaddists. the military is infiltrated with people like that. president musharraf that you had on was an ally of ours but he lives in a difficult word. this is the less of you two evils we face in pakistan. for people like move, when they apiece the radicals, they are setting the stage for their own destruction. that s what we have to impress on them. and the taliban network, what s the story on this group? 2324 goes back to the war against the soviets that isa helped create the taliban leader, there s no doubt theism sa supports these people. it s part of their way of keeping pressure on the afghan border, keeping pressure on the indian boarder to protect pakistan. but this is almost an impossible situation. i mean, no matter how you characterize it, if they are
for many of the isi leader, this is part of their ideology too. they are radical jihaddists. the military is infiltrated with people like that. president musharraf that you had on was an ally of ours but he lives in a difficult word. this is the less of you two evils we face in pakistan. for people like move, when they apiece the radicals, they are setting the stage for their own destruction. that s what we have to impress on them. and the taliban network, what s the story on this group? 2324 goes back to the war against the soviets that isa helped create the taliban leader, there s no doubt theism sa supports these people. it s part of their way of keeping pressure on the afghan border, keeping pressure on the indian boarder to protect pakistan. but this is almost an impossible situation. i mean, no matter how you characterize it, if they are protecting the people or killing
against releasing pictures of bin laden s body. citing both national security and american values. the white house press secretary, jay carney, was grilled at length by reporters about the decision earlier in the day. he in turn read to them from a transcript of an interview the president gave earlier in the day in which the president was asked how u.s. forces knew that they got their target. he said when they landed, we had very strong confirmation at that point it was him. photographs had been taken. facial analysis indicated that, in fact, it was him. we 00 yet done the dna testing. but at that point we were 95% sure. question why didn t you release them? the president we discussed this internally. keep in mind that we are absolutely certain that this was him. we have done dna sampling and testing. so there is no doubt that we killed osama bin laden. it is important for us to make
here. we have talked to a number of senators, house members, democrats, republicans, who say they believe it s the right thing not to release this because of a number of reasons. listen to what kay bailey hutchinson also said. a doubt ter is going to doubt a picture as much as they doubt dna evidence and every other verification that we have given. so i don t see any point in the picture that will certainly be there. reporter: so, again, i ve talked to republicans who disagree with the president on a lot of things today as well as democrats. but most interesting coming from republicans, they believe the president made the right decision, the correct decision, and not releasing these because of the nature of them but also because of the fact that they are worried about inciting other violence. now, there is some debate going on, whether the