but that dbate is trning out to be the potential ieberg that cld undercut t obama adnistration's efforts toget past th past. mark? >> for ational security reporters, it ki of feels like the nnth year of the bush ainistration. we're ju continuing to look back. and there'sa few thngs happening. fit of all, thee was the news over th past week tat the c.i.. had the ecret program, that lee --leon panetta, the c..a. director, learned about itnd when he heard abt it went tocapitol hillnd held emergency meetings and said i caneled this program and you hen't been told bout it for eight years. gwen: maybe he sould have reought in retrospect. >> a lot of drama. and that part of it of course adding to the dramawas that at the earl period vice president cheney advisedhe agency not to notfy congres as it came out, and we'e still tryi to learn the parameters of this program, but i seemed like it was a progm to assassinate senior al qaeda leaders whereve they may be arou the globe. of course, a we know and as i has been reported for years, the agency has been killing al qaed leaders. ty just haven't bee