lisa monaco, who served as president obama's homeland security adviser, told charlie rose she was briefed on the operation before she left office. >> the white house was presented in the wayneing weeks of the obama administration, a broad proposal, so not a single raid, a single operation on a single target, a broad proposal for increased military operations in yemen. >> reporter: of all the branches of al qaeda, the one in yemen is considered most dedicated to launching an attack against the american homeland, so the pentagon waited fair moonless night, and last weekend sent seal team 6 into a remote al qaeda hideout. the seals landed a fuel miles away and tried to sneak up-- it but were detected and began taking heavy fire. they called i gunships but civilians, including some children, were also inside. no longer pinned down, the seals moved through the building killing al qaeda fighters and collecting laptops, hard drives, and cell phones. in an attempt to show results, the u.s. military released a sample of the intelligence collect oltd raid, but it turned out to be old news-- a voof a bomb-making class which has been on the internet for years. military officers insisted t