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Welcome back the US stepping up its drone attacks in Yemen with two suspected strikes.

And he attacks reportedly killing eleven al-Qaeda militants in the southern part of the country.

Targeting two provinces which have come under the -- of al-Qaeda.

Meanwhile White House counterterrorism.

Advisor John Brennan is visiting Yemen to meet with their new president -- power panel is back and Judith Miller.

Patricia Powell and -- -- to rally and Judy I'm gonna start with you on this.

I mean how.

Much of a problem -- leaks like this.

This is a terrible problem for the administration and you know some conservatives accuse the administration of kind of doing a victory lap.

It was quite the opposite the administration did everything that it could to keep the lid on the details of the story they did not succeed.

And a double agent who kept many Americans from being blown up on airplanes.

Was compromised and it hasn't it.

And it's a huge huge problem and there is a Department of Justice investigation into who leaked the information now.

Because I went to jail to protect someone who gave me classified information I'm not a big fan of leaking and leak investigations but if ever there was a reason to keep an operation secret.

This was it because it -- so many future missions and current mission is in jeopardy yeah me.

That's the bad news what you have leaks like this who's going to want to be.

An agent to provide this information known at their cover could be blown -- the whole -- could be compromised.

But I think the good news is that we need to hit the terrorists where they are -- -- their homely and by using human intelligence because frisking grandmas and kids at the airport.

Is not the answer I've been doing a lot of traveling promoting my book black flash and just last week.

There was this elderly woman they made stand up out of a wheelchair walk over to the scanner she could barely hold her arms up.

Sony really didn't ground my kids come on we need human intelligence is much more unaware of -- -- you know we're actually in the second decade of our war on terror although we don't quote that any anymore.

-- and I think that you know this is really personal -- an awful lot of us in the New York in the New York area we may see a little differently.

On protecting agents that also.

You know -- military all -- me unintelligent kids obese people that are at risk around -- around the world and we didn't hear -- now eleven years after nine elevenths without an attack on our soil and if you get people ten years ago.

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