President Obama's national security adviser said today that analysts are poring over an "extraordinary" trove of terrorism intelligence gathered during last week's raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.  "It turns out that this is the largest cache of information gotten from a senior terrorist â€“ gotten from any terrorist in one operation," adviser Tom Donilon said on CNN's State of the Union. "It is about the size of a small college library."  A multi-agency task force is looking at answering some basic questions, Donilon said: "Are there imminent threats? What can we use in this intelligence to disrupt plotting? How can we use the intelligence to gain tactical and strategic advantage over al-Qaeda and others?"  Donilon, who made a tour of the Sunday shows a week after the raid that killed bin Laden, said on NBC's Meet The Press, "we're just starting to go through this large cache of information." On ABC's This Week With Christiane Amanpour, he said, "This is the most significant achievement we've had in our efforts against al-Qaeda."  Donilon praised Obama for making the decision to order the Navy SEAL raid that killed bin Laden -- a move some advisers opposed, preferring a more standard bombing run.  "He had gotten divided counsel," Donilon said. "And that happens a lot in these things as you would imagine."  Donilon said, "What strikes me now looking at the president is that we ask our presidents to make these exceedingly difficult decisions. And at the end of the day, 300 million Americans are looking to him to make the right decision."  See photos of: Barack Obama  To report corrections and clarifications, contact Standards Editor  . For publication consideration in the newspaper, send comments to  . Include name, phone number, city and state for verification. To view our corrections, go to
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