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Telling myths this history by the fact we knew and that this is the deal. we had credible evidence, some of it is in my back, relating to the fact that i.s.i. had operative coming across the border with rating teams picks up in an article by the examiner and a reporter, independent of me, picked up on some of the parallels between the fact we had to do the raid on bin without tolling pakistan and the planning and operation dark heart plus the fact that the pakistanis were identified as not being on our team was clearly defined. so we have to lock back on this and, frankly, one of your guests, has talked about the interrogation debated. frankly, if we had done what we needed to do back in 2003 and 2004 we could have gotten the intelligence then from raiding the safe havens that we would not have needed to wait eight years. so that is where we are now. dave: given the revelations ....
So if you start to see those commonalities between the two samples you could say with a great degree of likelihood that this is in fact a match, these two people are related. right. sanjay, appreciate your expertise. thanks a lot. the dna match that the white house reported today, so far really the only proof that s been offered publicly. there are apparently photographs of bin laden s body and his burial at sea but no word yet that they are going to be made public. a lot of people would like to see some sort of evidence. a lot of people talking about that on twitter tonight. i posted that. you can join in at andersoncooper. joining me is gary berntsen, author of the book jawbreaker, former leader of the cia team that was actually searching for osama bin laden in afghanistan and tora bora. and cnn s national security adviser fran townsend who was a homeland security adviser to president george w. bush. fran, it seems like the government has been preparing for this dna testing for q ....
Relentless. these guys learn to deal with very difficult circumstances around the clock at all times. they study all skill sets for their weapons and their tactics. and importantly over here, for medical reasons as well. when you re in a small team like this, if somebody gets hurt, somebody on that team has to help take care of that person. they re highly, highly secretive. they don t like to let anybody know what they re up to. that s part of what makes them effective because they can really jump out there and strike with surprise. and many continue in intelligence work after military service. you heard the general talk about it a minute ago, the idea of them working well with intelligence forces. well, they share a lot of similar values. many of them after they leave the s.e.a.l.s or particularly s.e.a.l. team 6, many of them may go into intelligence work after that, anderson. remarkable group of people. tom, appreciate it. and again, we re trying to find out more details as each h ....
Precision operation like this. i think the military should take point on this. i think they did a great job there. and anderson, i ve got to say that somebody somehow neutralized the radar going into that site, neutralized those units in some way so they didn t react, and it was more than just what we re hearing about these two dozen s.e.a.l.s. i mean, their job is to take down the house and get bin laden. it s not to cover their back. somebody else did that some other way. and i think it s a good thing we don t know how and i understand why, but we keep that in mind, we don t know the whole story yet. and in an operation like this we really often will never know the whole story or the early story that we hear is often not what happened and then it only comes out years later. eric, you make the point that the hunt for bin laden has been going on now for years and that s.e.a.l.s have been involved in a lot of operations in the past. this was an extraordinarily personal information f ....
Authorized that attack to the intelligence community that worked on it for so many years to identify where he was. and of course, to the members of our armed services, particularly s.e.a.l. team 6 that took the extraordinary risk of going into pakistan and removing one of the world s worst characters. with that we re happy to take any questions you may have. of course i would have ordered taking out osama bin laden. of course. this is a person who had done terrible harm to america and who represented a continuing threat to a civilized people throughout the world. had i been president of the united states, i would have played the same decision the president made, which was to remove him. i acknowledged actually a year ago when this was announced that the president deserved credit for the decision he made. i continue to believe that. and certainly would have taken that action myself. ....