this is you're talking about raymond davis. here's a picture of raymond davis. you tell his story.who is raymond davis and what is the story that makes him the subject at the beginning of your book? >> raymond davis was a c.i.a. contractor who, former special forces officer. and he was in pakistan in lahore in early 2011, and part of a team that was doing some work on a pakistani militant grougroup. he ends up chooting two people on the street after they approach his car. with guns drawn. and what happened afterwards is this incredible story of a third person being killed after an american car tried to rescue davis, kills a third pakistani. davis ends up in jail. and there's this hole behind-the-scenes negotiation between the united states and pakistan to get him out of jail. when i went to pakistan last year what was pretty incredible to me was that, you know, the bin laden raid is what we talk about here in the united states. and the davis episode was so overshadowed by the bin laden raid here. on the streets in pakistan people talk about raymond davis. people talk about this epi

where one of the wives swallowed rat poison because she became a new martyr and was convinced raymond daviso be treated well. ultimately the obama administration went to the pakistani government and sabrina davis is with the cia. there's got to amount of the country. in march of 2011, he was ultimately released from prison after what was blood money was paid, where the guns that the families were paid over $2 million in a massive swipe away his charges and he was released to the united states and sent to an. the entire episode was a microcosm of how fraught u.s. tech any relations have become. >> what kind of work was he doing for the cia impact of and? >> he was doing a number of different things. the best i've been able to determine if reddy was principally doing in lahore was gathered intelligence about it roop kamlesh curry to you the, a militant group primarily based around the horror that for years and years has had support from pakistan spy service, and the reason why they did as they were long seen as a proxy force who could help against pakistan's main india, so principally they we

a crisis with pakistan where cia contractor raymond davis was detained, you had had the revolution endingn egypt. hosni mubarak had just stepped down. the revolution was ongoing, the uprising was ongoing in libya. syria was erupting and you had a couple of thousand troops marching in to bahrain to quell the unrest there. all of this happening at the same time on the flight to paris and the u.s. is coming under intense pressure to try to do intense pressure to do something about libya where gadhafi was threatening to level the town or the city of ben gas city. that takes you back to the questions you asked about, you know, it's all fast moving and, you know, how do you make sure that you're not making any mistake. you don't have the luxury to stop. you have to aged it all at the same time. that's one tiny little window in to how, you know, dynamic it is to address all of those challenges. so hillary clinton goes to paris to try to assess where everything is on the issue of libya. because this administration is not going to get involved in my sort of military intervention unlate i are. ther

he came in shortly before the raymond davis episode, so did the new cia station chief.i spent time in two chapters were talking about the fight, the concerned that this guy had, cameron munter. he found himself very much at odds with what the cia was doing in their strategy. and he pushed to get more power over drone activities in pakistan, and it went all the way up the chain of command and the obama administration. hillary clinton went to bat for him and/or his tents most between hillary clinton and leon panetta inside the national city council meeting where they were, they weren't fighting but there was tension, tense exchange where she was to get up for her guy and a natty was sticking up for the cia. they kind of brokered a deal but ultimately the cia still maintained a degree of authority over what it did in pakistan. >> host: and you report in "the way of the knife" is a whole wing that is locked off from the rest of the embassy. >> guest: right. so the embassy itself has grown dramatically. you look at you go there, there's construction at this secure site. so a