talking about the concerns of the commandos who conducted the raid and the concerns of their families. you will be riveted by what you are about to hear, eliot. a week ago sunday in the situation room we all agreed that we would not release any operational detail effort to take out bin laden. that all fell apart on monday. the next day. the one thing i would tell you, though, is that i think there has been a consistent and effective effort to protect the identities of those who participated in the raid. and i think that has to continue. we are very concerned about the security of our families of your families and our troops. and also these elite units that are engaged in things like that. and without getting into any details and i would tell you that when i met with the team last thursday, they expressed a concern about that. reporter: now, look, there is always concern about the security of u.s. troops and their families, but make no mistake, these commandos are co
anytime soon, but it seems all the indications seem to be pointing to the fact that the rebels are gaining ground, they re doing well in misrata or at least have made progress in and around misrata. in other cities as well. so i think there s this general sense there s a momentum building behind the rebels and that s what is certainly giving this city anyway cause for a certain amount of celebration. nbc s lee cowan live for us in benghazi. the taliban launch what is it calls a revenge attack for the killing of osama bin laden. a pair of suicide bombers targeted a paramilitary training center in pakistan killing at least 80 people. 66 of them recruits for the pakistani army. peter alexander is live in islamabad. what more can you tell us about how they were able to orchestrate this attack? reporter: we ve seen too many similar attacks like this in iraq and afghanistan and now again here in pakistan. this happened in the northwest region. this is alongside the tribal are
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republicans on. the problem is this is not someone in the obama inner circle. does he have a comfort level. other shuffling going around. jim jones likely to leave his national security advisor. tom donnell is not going to be the chief of staff, even though he s talked about it. there s a lot that has to happen. in the short term, they re going to have pete rouse be the brains. you could have, i m told, a many as half a dozen major retirements after this election. retirements from what? retirements from the senate, you have to take forced retirements. forced retirements. but someone like chris dodd, byron dorgen meeting. if chris jones leave, does tom donland go over there? there s a tough calculation. where the white house has made mistakes is they re too insular. the more ips lar than we were in
advocates for the poor. and the evidence against u.s. soldiers accused of murder. it s threatening to explode worldwide and the pentagon may be scrambling down to avoid an international embarrassment. we re following up on the shocking allegations that troops in afghanistan killed for sport. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. up first this hour, this coming in to the situation room, republicans going to extraordinary new links to try to play the ethics card against democrats with five weeks to go before the congressional election, the gop members of the house ethics committee are standing together and speaking out about the charges of charlie ran gal and maxine waters. let s go to dana bash to find out what s going on. what is going on. something that s going on is really, really rare, wolf. deliberations that are normally going on in secret and tend to go on in a bipartisan way in the ethics committee have spilled to the open and specifically differences