West Organized News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

mike rogers is still with us former chairman of the intelligence committee and bob baer, former cia operative. peter, this piece you ve written on cnn.com outlining all of this amazing new information, what jumped out at you the most? i think the times piece covered the high points but i think the overall tone was that this was a group that well understood it was under tremendous pressure. they were thinking of moving to afghanistan moving to iran. bin laden was advised he wanted his sons to go to qatar because of the pressure of the drone strikes. you really have a sense of an embattled organization that knew it wasn t doing well, that it hadn t got a tax on the west organized, that it kept falling through. you know the only bright spot was these ransom payments they were getting from kidnapping diplomats in pakistan. amazing how you got access to these documents. you went through them and i guess a lot of this stuff sort of jumped out at you. must have surprised you.

Bob baerIntelligence committeePeter bergenMike rodgersWasnt cutting itOsama bin ladenDrone strikesHadn tWasnt doing wellWest organizedRansom payments