i had wanted more aggressive lethal action against al qaeda and the taliban and so cofer understood that and he had confidence in my leadership skills and i'm eternally grateful he gave me the opportunity. >> rose: and then there's one incident i want to talk about before we talk about 9/11 is when you almost had osama bin laden. how close was that? >> there were multiple occasions where our human source reporting was very good, very accurate and bear in mind the c.i.a. established an office in 1996 dedicated to al qaeda to the pursuit of bin laden. so for years even before i arrived at the counterterrorism center c.i.a. had been working this. half a dozen very credible reports, for me the most obvious... the most frustrating was in the late summer of 2000 when human sources had directed us to a compound near kandahar in southern afghanistan and based on that reporting we directed a predator... we flew a predator over the compound and sure enough bin laden was there. >> rose: certain. >> absolutely. 6'4, he was in white, a security detail. it fit perfectly with the multiple human sources

obama campaign starting to make this more of an issue this secret money coming in to karl rove's cofersnd spent to hammer the president. they're putting it in the public eye and trying to make it a campaign battle. >> to your point, it's not likely this will turn into anything other than maybe a war of words with fiery letters and fiery words during an interview. nevertheless, the larger picture, the american people already concerned about, you know, these billionaires having great access, the changes that we've seen as a result of the supreme court decision. to me it seems this ad is just another cloud of suspicion over all of this big money now infiltrating politics. it's always been there but since the supreme court's decision it's taken to a whole new level. >> without a doubt. the kind of secret spending going through groups like crossroads gps, this is absolutely unprecedented. it's happening at the federal level. it's happening at the state level. and polls over and over again show that the public is absolutely disgusted by this money and we don't know where it's coming from. in

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