giovani laporteo.ding to the president along with al qaeda militants were killed. >> thank you so very much. i want to go back to the pentagon. >> reporter: on a totally different topic senior defense officials are telling us that the iranian convoy nine ships and warships and at least three or four supply ships believed to be carrying weapons after five days of floating up and down off the yemen coast, they turned north and now appear headed back to iran heading off which could have been a pretty critical crisis if they tried to run a blockade and the u.s. military engaged iranian military there in the north arabian sea. that problem appears to be over as the iranians appear headed back towards iran. >> and just breaking and you are bringing us this news. that presumes they didn't offload what they had on there before they turned around? >> they stayed just outside of territorial waters which kept them from being attacked by saudis egyptians or if it came to that the americans. pretty shrewd. >> thank

warren weinstein and italian giovani porto. wanted to express his grief and condolences to the world. >> as a husband and as a father i cannot begin to imagine the anguish that the weinstein and laporto families are enduring. i realize there are no words that can equal their loss. i know there is nothing that i can say or do to ease their heart ache. today i want to say this. as president and as commander in chief i take full responsibility for all our counter terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. our initial assessment indicateathize operation was fully consistent under guidelines which we conduct which has been our focus for years because it is the home of al qaeda's leadership. based on the intelligence that we obtained at the time including hundreds of hours of surveillance we believed that this was an al qaeda compound that no civilians were present and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. and we do believe that the operation did take out dangerous memb

government contractor warren weinstein and italian aid worker giovani la porto. >> i simply want to say this. as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counterterrorism operations. i profoundly regret what happened on behalf of the united states government. i offer our deepest apologies to the families. >> the obama administration sains says weinstein and la porto died in the first of two counterstrikes after hundreds of mours of surveillance that determined there were no civilians present. they caution the air assaults were aimed at the al qaeda pounds, not members of the group. but killed in the strikes were two american terrorists. weinstein's widow released a statement saying we are devastated by this news and the knowledge that my husband will never safely return home. but those who took warren captive over three years ago bears the responsibility. >> that was essentially the reaction on capitol hill. >> we need all the facts for the families and so that we can make sure that nothing like this ever happens again in our efforts to keep an america

responsibility for counterterrorism operation, including the one that took the lives of warren and giovani, i regret what happened. i offer our deeper apologies to the family. >> the wine stephen family pushed the government to do more saying that after the taliban exchanged prisoners. >> no soldiers left behind. what about no citizen. the family criticized the u.s. government saying: in making the announcement. the president didn't mention the other two killed. they had been indicted in the u.s. for treason after posting videos like this online. >> we should look for targeted that epitomize western decadence. the two al qaeda separatist were not targeted and they isn't it know about the. >> it called in question the standards in reliability of the intelligence that is used to carry out the lethal force programme. >> it's a programme that independent experts say killed thousands. imcloud -- including hundreds of civilians. the president said the american people will know this it case what went wrong, and why the two civilians were killed. >>> coming up in the next 15 minutes or so - why it

responsibility for all the counter-terrorism operations including the one that took the lives of warren and giovani. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the government i offer our deepest apologise to the families. >> the wine stephen family has been pushing the government to do more for the release. saying this. >> no soldiers left behind. what about no citizens left behind. he needs to be with the family. >> the family released a statement saying that arismendy alcantara was responsible but criticized the the u.s. government saying: the president didn't mention two others who were indicted in the u.s. for treason after posting videos online. >> we should look for tarts which epitomize western decadence, depravity, immorality and aithyism. >> the two operatives were not targeted. civil liberty groups say it points to a bigger problem. >> you have claims of high confidence that there was no civilians, and on the other hand you have civilian casualties that have been acknowledged. that calls into question the standards used as well as the reliability of the intelligence that is being use

our counter-terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. i profoundly regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer or deepest apologies to the families. >> pelley: the president went on to say it was a cruel and bitter truth that deadly mistakes happen in the fog of war. david martin has learned what went wrong. >> reporter: the drone strike happened in january, but it wasn't until april that the c.i.a. realized it had killed the two hostages. american aid worker warren weinstein and italian giovanni loporto. all the safeguards president obama once promised would ensure to a near certainty no innocent civilians would be killed had failed. >> based on the intelligence that we had obtained at the time, including hundreds of hours of surveillance, we believed that this was an al qaeda compound, that no civilians were present, and that capturing these terrorists was not possible. >> those hundreds of hours never detected any sign of the hostages. but intelligence analysts did see evidence of a senior al qaeda operat

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all counterterrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. i regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government i offer deepest apologies to the pamfamilies. the warren weinstein pushed the president to do more to gain his release, saying this. >> no soldiers left behind what about a citizens. he needs to be with his family he deserves to come home. >> after hearing the news of his death, the family released a statement saying al qaeda what is responsible but wept on to criticize the u.s. government saying: in making the announcement the president didn't speak about the other two lead al qaeda leaders, and another indicted in the u.s. for treason after voting videos online. >> we should look for target epitomizing western decka dance immorality and aithies. >> reporter: the white house said the al qaeda operatives were not targeted and did not know about the hostages. civil liberties say it points to a bigger problem. >> on the one hand you have claims of high confidence and on the other hand you have fill jan casualties that ha

what we did not know tragically is that al qaeda was hiding the presence of warren and giovani in this same compound. it's a bitter truth that in our fight against terrorists specifically mistakes sometimes deadly mistakes can occur. but, one of the things that sets america apart from many other nations, one of the things that makes us exceptional is our willingness to confront squarely our imperfections and to learn from our mistakes. already, i have directed a full review of what happened, we'll identify the lessons that can be learned from this tragedy, and any changes that should be made. we will do our utmost to insure it is not repeated. and we'll continue to do everything we can to prevent the loss of innocent lives, just innocent americans, but all innocent lives in our counter terrorism operations. today we join their families and friends in honoring warren and giovani, two humanitarian who came from different countries but who were united by a spirit of service. for warren he lived the ideas of our country, serving with the peace corps and later with the united states agency

our counterterrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. i regret what happened. on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deepest apologies for the families. it is a cruel and bitter truth that in the fog of war generally and our fight against terrorists specifically mistakes sometimes deadly mistakes can occur. >> a "new york times" article posted tonight describes in chilling detail how u.s. counterterrorism forces discovered the deadly mistake. the first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was when officers from the central intelligence agency saw that six bodies had been pulled from the smoldering rubble instead of four. when six bodies were taken from the wreckage it was a clearly signal that the spy agency had made a deadly mistake. it took weeks, but the extent of the disaster to be revealed that the two additional bodies were those of an american and an italian hostage. david corn the price, the inevitable price of drone warfare. >> it is. collateral damages. a lot of people have been killed a lot of afghan ci

american hostage as you pointed out warren weinstein but also an italian hostage held by al qaeda giovani laporto. the two men were killed in a drone strike carried out by the cia. we're told, greta that happened back in january. many the among questions we had not only for the president but also for the press secretary josh earnst, for the record the president didn't take questions but josh did. why the delay? why did it take so long to tell the american people when in effect they didn't know for several weeks after the strike that weinstein and laporto were part of the scrims victims of the drone strike. a situation the white house is going to review further. >> you said they didn't know several weetion. several months out. several weeks would have brought us in late february. why didn't they tell us in late february. >> that's a great question. the way josh earnst laid it out the white house press secretary was this way. they actually reviewed what happened and didn't know until several weeks after that it was possible, repeat it was possible that weinstein and laporto were victims in

of the surveillance of the al qaeda compound, two very innocent aid workers warren weinstein and giovanyo porto were killed in a drone strike. intelligence analysts never detected any signs of hostages but did detect a senior al qaeda operative. that seems to make it more unlikely that there were hostages in the compound. it now appears the hostages were used as shields for the senior leader who apparently thought as long as they were nearby he was safe from drone strikes. that leader turned out to be an american, long-time al qaeda operative who once hatched a plot. shortly later another drone strike killed another american, again, without the cia realizing it. he played a leading role in al qaeda propaganda videos. gadahn grew up on this remote goat farm. he converted to islam when he was 17. shortly after being kicked out of the center in 1997 gadahn guest the country for pakistan and joined al qaeda. his father phillip seemed dumb founded when he talked to cbs news in 2004. >> i didn't imagine that he would be involved in anything they think he might be. >> reporter: the white house

a separate individual killed was giovani laporta. he was an italian individual.. >> as president and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all our counter-terrorism operat including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and giovani. i pro foundly regret what happened on behalf of the united states government, i offer our deepest apologies to the families. >> today the white house also announced that adam gadan, the prominent american al qaeda member a spokesperson for the group was also killed in a separate strike that took place this past january within the last 30 minutes we now heard from the family of warren winestein, his wife saying there are no words to do justice to the disappointment and heartbreak we're going through. we do not understand all of the facts surrounding warren's deat and they add those who took warren captive over three years ago, bear ultimate re >> thank you, peter alexander. >>> another startling revelation about the secret service. the secret service took more than a year to replace an alarm system that st