now, a lot of what looks like the same sort of thing-- covert action-- is done by jsoc. now, they say when they do it, it's not covert action; it's a military operation. so the president does not by law have to approve every operation, and the intelligence committees are not notified. >> narrator: then, in afghanistan, a story circulated that rumsfeld wanted to use jsoc forces on a new battlefield: iraq. >> schroen: you could see changes being made in the us military staffing in afghanistan, that the green beret units-- the 5th special forces group, for the most of it-- were being pulled out to refit and get ready for iraq. and it was clear that the kind of guys that i think a lot of us believed were essential us military personnel with special operations capabilities were being pulled away. >> scheuer: by 2002, in the springtime, it was almost taken for granted that we were going to go to war with iraq. >> narrator: the president needed a convincing reason for war with saddam hussein. george tenet and the cia said they had no evidence saddam had helped al qaeda, but sec

jsoc operations are just as secretive as the cia in many ways. i'm not sure we will learn more how the operations are conducted. >> during the president's campaign, then senator's campaign in 2008 that he pledged to shut down guantanamo bay. he said he would do it the first year as president. clearly that hasn't hpd. what do we expect to hear in terms of executive orders to move closer to that? >> we told redoubling of efforts. we will see what that means. the appointment of somebody. one thing we are looking at here, it is another high will have level state department official giving this brief. we have had that before and it didn't get very far a lot of people were looking for somebody at a higher level in the white house who would be charged with closing guantanamo and getting detainees overseas. we will see who the president appoints. if in the names somebody by name today. >> no one has replaced him. mike, we appreciate it. thank you very much. . other news to share with you making headlines. we turn to oklahoma where sadly funerals for the