i know you have talked to all kinds of intelligence on what pakistan did or didn t know at the time. but did i mean, the u.s. did not make pakistan aware of the raid at the time, correct? i mean, was there not a reason that they did that? they debated whether or not to bring pakistan in, in some way, with the intelligence. they were concerned the intelligence would leak. and don t if you go backward to that time, our relations the united states relations with pakistan have never been worse. a cia contractor had shot and killed a couple of people in a pakistani city. he was in jail for much of the planning of this operation. and, you know, relations were really not in a good place. so, there were early discussions about whether to tell the pakistanis or even to bring them into the planning and they were discounted because of correspondence of leaks. but by the way, president obama didn t tell his own wife about the operation. this was extremely tightly held. it wasn t that we di
packed in quite a lot of false claims in a rather short period with chris wallace yesterday, brooke. amongst them that the pakistanis knew where bin laden was. i talked to dozens of people who were involved in the planning of the operation, the intelligence gathering, the decision making, and they all said the pakistanis didn t know that bin laden was living in abbottabad. and it was a surprise to them that he was. they were listening to their conversations that night, as the raid went down. and then he also should applaud said something, i think, which was really unfair about how long it took to find bin laden. well, it took a long time to find him, not for a lack of trying, but bin laden was very effectively hiding. as you know, brooke, he was not using cell phones or the internet. he was communicating very infrequently with handheld messages taken by his trusted courier. and it was very hard to find him. and it took ten years. but to say that somehow it should have happened quicke
there were never less than 5 people living in it. the extent of incompetence to put it mildly was astounding if not unbelievable. roger, the pakistanis didn t want those revelations coming to light. yeah, for very clear reasons because your jaw drops when you read this text and realize the extent of incompetence on the part of the pakistani at the state and local level. but what bin laden did to a certain degree was he practiced good operational security. he maintained a very small security footprint, relied on his family for a lot of different things. that all said, when he moved into the complex in abbottabad, the fact it did not trigger anybody to say anything to anybody in office is the real big question. i believe it also reflects a cultural issue which is there are a lot of folks on the street who saw something out of the ordinary. they weren t they weren t trained. they weren t prepared to two to
strange shape, barbed wire, lack of cars and visitors, beggars belief. it also says the bin laden house was innumerated in a government house survey with the comments that it was uninhabited since august of 05. there were never less than 5 people living in it. the extent of incompetence to put it mildly was astounding if not unbelievable. roger, the pakistanis didn t want those revelations coming to light. yeah, for very clear reasons because your jaw drops when you read this text and realize the extent of incompetence on the part of the pakistani at the state and local level. but what bin laden did to a certain degree was he practiced good operational security. he maintained a very small security footprint, re lied on his family for a lot of different things. that all said, when he moved into the complex in abbottabad, the fact it did not trigger anybody to say anything to anybody in office is the real big question. i believe it also reflects a
tolerate allies that are totally unreliable. we have to reconsider what our options are and whether in fact this is a government that is reliable, just as we have a big problem in pakistan. when the pakistanis didn t find the people that hid bin laden. they arrested the person that helped us find us. that should be a bigger outrage but this administration is unwilling to confront our enemies in the middle east. greta: you use the word appease. that is a strong word. it s one historic reference going way back. do you stand by he is an appeaser? well, look at around the region. you if you were an american ally like mubarak, obama dumped you immediately.