David Petraeus: Tracking Maduro’s Movements Was an ‘Extraordinarily Challenging Mission’ Only U.S. Intelligence Could Execute

RUSH EXCERPT:

PETRAEUS: “I think it‘s extraordinarily challenging and probably something that only our intelligence community, frankly, could pull off. But to establish the kind of detail that general kane described, the pattern of life, to understand everything about the individual you‘re intending to detain is enormously challenging. And it involved all sources of intelligence, not just human intelligence and sources. Perhaps inside the regime and so forth, but all of the sophisticated technical means that we have as well, to enable the knowledge to launch this operation of a great deal of complexity. 150 aircraft of various types to take out the supposedly sophisticated Chinese and Russian air and ballistic missile defense systems, to neutralize all of these individuals around him, to kill a large number again, he has the equivalent of the Secret Service, and it even includes Cuban security forces around him to augment what it is that he has on the ground, and to carry all this off with only, as I understand it, a couple of our soldiers, wounded, not life threatening and damage to just one aircraft which is able to make it back. Really an extraordinary demonstration of American military capability.”