i struggled to get time and attention for this issue when i was in john brennan's seat and i understand the struggle that can be. it is hard. that is why you need sommbody -- i do not think you what the person in that seat. it needs to be someone who was full time dedicated, cross government job is -- their job is to solve this problem. i am not satisfied with the amount of time and attention. in some ways, we have not organized ourselves right to give this the president and party it requires. >> -- presidenand preprecedent is required. >> there is no way that humans with the number and variety of signals can set a constant agenda on their own. therefore, in our company, we are working on solutions which set up an intelligence agenda. i support the point that you made and this way, you can cope there. >> talking to mike, there are so many dots, you cannot make sense of hem. you cannot understand them. you cannot comprehend the mall. which is what you need the system to organize that. -- you cannot comprehend them all. which is why i need the system to organize that. >>-- why you need th

that is john brennan, secretary gates, secretary clinton, leon panetta and me -- we lead all of this off with the threats that we see with a particular focus on the homeland. from the first moments, the folks on the homeland and the rest of the team, they are quite intent. they are about hour-long session that began with the intelligence briefing and going to broader policy issues. he pushes us quite hard and has only pushed as harder since 12/25 for obvious reasons. >> president obama -- president bush used to keep a list of al qaeda leaders on his desk and would check them off as you bailed one and focused on the ones we hadn't. does president obama have the same sort of intense interest in the individuals we are going after with al qaeda and the terrorism world? >> you will not be surprised -- and has added to get too deep into exactly what each of the president's think. i'm hoping to still at a job when i returned to washington. [laughter] everyone focuses on their job differently. some are more on detail, so are a broader policy. i don't the get matters all that much from my per

enunciated in the present in boxing call to prime minister brown, the preference enunciated by john brennan and others was that he should not be released. we think that was the right decision. we think the decision not to release him, we agree with that today. that is what we publicly stated prior to the release. the letter says in the event the scots make a decision we do not think they should break, what ever you do do not let him travel to leave. do not let him have a hero's welcome coming home. we also -- and i think the letter clearly states this, we asked for an independent medical examination to ensure that the medical records that having only three months to live was indeed supported independently. the preference enunciated by every level of this government was for him to continue to serve the sentence that he was serving until he died. >> could you tell me what effort the white house has made before and after these documents to try and contain any political fallout? efforts by general jones, anyone else on the security council? >> when we learned of the story, we notified relevant

i struggled to get time and attention for this issue when i was in john brennan's seat and i understand the struggle that can be. it is hard. that is why you need sommbody -- i do not think you what the person in that seat. it needs to be someone who was full time dedicated, cross government job is -- their job is to solve this problem. i am not satisfied with the amount of time and attention. in some ways, we have not organized ourselves right to give this the president and party it requires. >> -- presidenand preprecedent is required. >> there is no way that humans with the number and variety of signals can set a constant agenda on their own. therefore, in our company, we are working on solutions which set up an intelligence agenda. i support the point that you made and this way, you can cope there. >> talking to mike, there are so many dots, you cannot make sense of hem. you cannot understand them. you cannot comprehend the mall. which is what you need the system to organize that. -- you cannot comprehend them all. which is why i need the system to organize that. >>-- why you need th

i struggled to get time and attention for this issue when i was in john brennan's seat and i understand the struggle that can be. it is hard. that is why you need sommbody -- i do not think you what the person in that seat. it needs to be someone who was full time dedicated, cross government job is -- their job is to solve this problem. i am not satisfied with the amount of time and attention. in some ways, we have not organized ourselves right to give this the president and party it requires. >> -- presidenand preprecedent is required. >> there is no way that humans with the number and variety of signals can set a constant agenda on their own. therefore, in our company, we are working on solutions which set up an intelligence agenda. i support the point that you made and this way, you can cope there. >> talking to mike, there are so many dots, you cannot make sense of hem. you cannot understand them. you cannot comprehend the mall. which is what you need the system to organize that. -- you cannot comprehend them all. which is why i need the system to organize that. >>-- why you need th