What kind of obstacles did you encounter along the way?
Lara: An extraordinary amount of pressure on the people involved not to talk. And an extraordinary amount of pressure on anyone in the government—the military side, the political side—not to say anything outside of official channels. I mean, to the point where people that we’ve known for years would call people who were no longer in their positions, and they would call someone else that we knew, and messages would be delivered like that because there couldn’t be any trail linking you directly to our story.
The administration is cracking down so hard on leakers: no one wants to put anything in writing, everybody is scared to talk over the phone, people want to meet in person—all of that makes it that much harder to investigate anything.
If you listen to mesta machine and I do,shes the best we have. She lays much of the blame on Petraeus saying it was his op all along.I think she is right.