having understood the position that you've served both as a naval officer and then at the whitehouse as direc of national intelligence. tell meow you see this, how you see the wayother played out and who should we be talking about? >> yes, i think it was really done wel on all sides. the thinking about it that was so good was it a team effort with everybody playing this position, nobody trying to run anybody else's position. the intelligence community,cia, national security agency, national geo spacial agency, they practice, practice, practice, rehearsed more than intelligence. the president gave the go ahead. i give full credit to the president for making the decision to make that raid. >> charlie: tell us y it took a lot of sort of intelligence and courage on the part of the president. and what could be, go wrong and what are the ramifications of that for someone who is planning these kind of missions and soone o has to pull the trigger. >> i think what's good about this decision, contrasted to the decision of iran where you had a president president, brilliant, very smart guy insisted on r