Death find the end of a chapter. But no mistake, something does still continue. We dont know what it is but we know that isis was fractured as an ideology and franchise and unlikely that one mans death will end from a stretch from philippines through russia and to the streets of european capitals but an interesting set of questions that the commanderinchief will end up answering about how this raid came about. It was literally miles away from the southern turkish border, an area where many did not imagine abu bakr albaghdadi, the leader of isis, would look for shelter. This is where al qaeda have the biggest strong hold, a place where western intelligence chiefs are concerned about the next wave of jihad but who led them to that particular location. We understand from u. S. Officials turkey was told this operation was happening perhaps already underway and the question being what piece of
information brought them to that spot. The syrian kurds who have been the u. S. Main ally on the g
raid and human intelligence and spies and informants and they are both very important especially going into an area of syria where isis is not known to have a presence. completely. and this is an area that we don t normally operate so the intelligence had to be obtained at least on the ground through partners and folks that we work with on the ground. what was important about this osama bin laden raid, yes, it was signal intelligence but the analytical corp of the intelligence community were able to piece together small bits of information of how couriers got in and out of the osama bin laden compound which led to the discovery of that compound. so it wasn t just signals intelligence, it was critically important, it wasn t just human intelligence, they had bits and pieces of sighting or identifying, it was identifying the courier route to put small pieces together. i bet when they do the forensics
sandra: the cia de classifying nearly half a million files on the osama bin laden compound. many contain evidence of his day-to-day involvement in al-qaeda operation. among the documents his 228-page personal journal. 18,000 document files, 79,000 audio files, a blooper reel of his speeches and even al-qaeda video. dr. mitchell is the author of enhanced interrogation. what is being revealed in the documents and videos? it is a treasure trove and the men who risked their lives to get it did the country a great service to get it.
let s talk about this with the panel. brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. stephen hayes editor-in-chief of the weekly standard. mollie hemingway senior editor at the federalist and michael crowley senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico. steve, a lot of bullet points from pompeo that were newsworthy. yeah, i would say that was a neat t interview without public official who doesn t give many interviews. among the things that struck me were his news that we would be seeing the rest of the documents captured in the raid on the osama bin laden compound in may of 2011. that something, as you pointed out, we ve been talking about it, and covering it. there i think there s going to be interesting documents here. even the 576 we ve seen so far, we ve learned a lot about al qaeda, its relationships, we ve learned about its work with state sponsors. we ve learned about relationships between al qaeda senior leadership and the