Mauro compares Iran rescue of missing colonel to Maduro capture, credits intelligence preparation

U.S. intelligence agencies had already done the groundwork needed to locate a missing colonel inside Iran, Paul Mauro said Monday, arguing the operation relied on intelligence gathered well before the mission began.

"You've got to collect, you collect, you collect and a lot of it sometimes you're never going to use," Mauro told "Fox & Friends."

"The key is when you need it, it has to be there."

Mauro pointed to the Maduro case, which unfolded at the behest of the Trump administration in January...