so part of this book tells the story of jsoc operations. i don't ming well the powerful, chris. my sources are guys doing the operation, mid level guys to lower level guys that are a part of this apparatus. and there are books that are published that are based on the leaks from the white house. my book tells the story of the foot soldiers in these wars, and also tells the story of the civilians who live on the other side of our missiles or the other side of the night raids. try to tell a story that was multidimensional and had both the cia jsoc perspective as well as the civilians who are caught in this in yemen, somalia and elsewhere. >> jsoc is the joint special operations command. it is a huge conduit for pursuing the policy of the obama battlefield. i want to start in 2009. omar farouk abdulmutallab. he tries to blow up a plane. he isn't successful, ends up setting himself on fire. he details his relationship with the american born yemeni cleric am war al awlaki, including a trip to yemen. awlaki becomes the first american citizen put on the kill list. tell us about awlaki.

and that john brenneman who at the time was the senior terrorism investigator believed that jsoc or they have intentionally killed him, perhaps on faulty intelligence that he was 21 years old or that he was simply a relative of anwar al awlaki. so brenneman ordered a review. and i asked the former senior official what happened to the review and he said i don't know. i asked the national security council spokesperson around she told me we won't talk about it. >> i want to talk more about this and talk about where counterterrorism goes from here right after we take this break. so i can't afford to have germy surfaces. but after one day's use, dishcloths can redeposit millions of germs. so ditch your dishcloth and switch to a fresh sheet of new bounty duratowel. look! a fresh sheet of bounty duratowel leaves this surface cleaner than a germy dishcloth, as this black light reveals. it's durable, cloth-like and it's 3 times cleaner. so ditch your dishcloth and switch to new bounty duratowel. the durable, cloth-like picker-upper. [ male announcer ] the first look is only the beginning. ♪ ♪ th

in a place like yemen, jsoc runs a drone program.encies that's why there are steps you can have their own separate killed as they going after. it would be much better if the cia and jsoc work with operating our night in the military around the operation, let the cia provide intelligence. he doesn't seem to be with have been in a very effective way. i've been back and forth for the past 10 years and the four americans killed have been in yemen obviously. it's still a little wary giving some of the people i talk to when i am 90 amen, how some of these people are dying because according to what we now, only one individual, only 10 were all lucky who was killed in september 2011 was the only individual in the u.s. countless. the other three individuals killed in november 2002, summer hot in the same strike that killed anwar al-awlaki and anwar al-awlaki 16 girls son, an individual named abdallah or al-awlaki, they were not intended targets and yet they are all dead. i want to spend a little bit of time in a few minutes that i have left t