whether they were ever part or tied to the regime. and i think there was a bit of a blind spot to start out with in the cia. but as time went on, before the invasion, the collection was very clear that there was no connection. so that was all communicated then to the white house. >> so the book is called "the targeter," and you ended up being the chief, basically, zarqawi hunter. what's the job description for that? what are you doing every day when that's your job? >> so when i transitioned from being an analyst, which is the person who communicates to the policy maker to the operations side as a targeting officer, my job then was to look for zarqawi and his network and dismantle those pieces. so i think especially at the time, this is really just an operations position. so we were focused on trying to remove the chaos and a big part of that was trying to dismantle zarqawi's network. >> so one lesson of the invasion of iraq was to listen to your