. >> delong: george tenet calls me one morning and said, "we've got our target." i said, "okay, we're good, i'm going down to the uav room." >> narrator: the unmanned aerial vehicle room was in tampa, florida. a drone was flying over yemen. the target was in an suv. >> i got a vehicle moving out. >> are the vehicles moving right now? >> delong: i'm sitting back like this, looking at the wall and talking to george tenet. and he goes, "you going to make the call?" and i said, "i'll make the call." he says, "this suv over here is the one that has ali in it." i said, "okay, fine. you know, shoot 'em." >> you are clear to engage it. >> delong: they lined it up and shot it. >> score. roll it in. ( gunfire ) oh! hey! >> good shot. >> delong: it's a pretty good- sized explosive. in an suv, you can imagine a big explosion. ( gunfire and explosion ) so we knew everybody in the vehicle was dead. ( gunfire and explosion ) >> an attack in yemen this week killed a top al qaeda leader. >> the us government officials called the attack highly successful. >> priest: the cia had fir

director george tenet suggests they base their presentation on the national intelligence estimate, whichnownst to powell is a deeply flawed document. still, he is wary. >> we went into a room, he slammed the door shut. he said, sit down. and he sat down. we were the only two people in the room. he looked at me and he said, this bull [ bleep ] of contacts with al qaeda has got to be taken out. it's bull [ bleep ]. and i said, i agree with you. let's take it out. done. within a half hour, tenet comes in and explosively tells about this high-level al qaeda operative who's been interrogated and admitted to these contacts. whoa. and we put it back in. >> that would be the dubious confession extracted from ibin al sheikh al libi the result of torture by the egyptians. >> both of us convinced ourselves that if the intelligence community believed what we were presenting, then we had to believe it. because they were the experts. >> i wrote part of the speech, and what i saw over the course of weeks, up until the night before he gave that speech, and in fact into the early morning, 1:00, 2:00 a.m.

bush did not like the intelligence was fashioned by george tenet and the u.s.gence community and studied exhaustively by a colin powell and it was supported by the congress of the united states for senator john kerry senator john jay rockefeller and agreed to by the allies that there should be a regime change passed by a democratic house and democratic senate president of the united states and the idea that it has become a theme against president bush is unfortunate and a result of the fact a narrative has been promoted in much of the media that factually is not the case. with iraq, i don't know. we do know that saddam hussein is gone. the butcher of baghdad to use chemical weapons on kurds come on his own people, his neighbors. we know he killed hundreds of thousands of people, the masquerades in that country were heartbreaking to see. that countries still have ethnic divisions and we know they have elected a prime minister and that they have a parliament and people were proud and later they jumped in and now participate. is it a tough part of the world? you b

qaeda up, tried to tell them about the threat, illuminate the terrorist threat to america, when george tenethe same thing, dick cheney, wolfowitz, rumsfeld and others pushed them aside. iraq was the big threat. iraq is what they were after. they didn't have concern with al qaeda. >> finally, colonel, can we do a better job of protecting our embassies and our consulates around the world? is it money? does money make a difference? >> money does make a difference. the congress has been stingy. it's not wanted to give money to madeleine albright, secretary powell, though he got more than she did it's not wanted to do this. the commission pointed out the deficiencies around the world. we haven't fixed them yet. >> it's about talking points. there is, i don't believe, a cover up. colonel lawrence wilkerson, great to have you with us tonight. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> that's "the ed show" i'll see you back here tomorrow night at 5:00 eastern time. remember, next saturday, we'll have a volunteer on this program who has been dealing with cancer and does not have insurance. so we can make