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Captivity. in december 2009, the family says the night before he was scheduled to come back to the u.s. from his fifth trip to cuba. moments before he finished his phone call with his wife he was arrested. they held him for six months without charge. the cuban government then said he attempted to undermine the cuban government by distributed equipment that aloud by the government. alan gross grew up in maryland. well see if he goes back to join his family or somewhere else. martha: a blow for th...

Our chief national security correspondent, jim sciutto, is getting some new information on this u.s. intelligence asset that has been freed, 20 years in captivity for spying on behalf of the united states inside cuba. what are you learning, jim? >> reporter: thats right. until now we just knew it was an intelligence asset. but coming from the director of national intelligence, were learning the united states secured the release of a cuban individual from a cuban prison who the director of nation...

Bill: alan gross age 65 is coming home, freed from captivity after five years. phil keating is live in miami. >> reporter: judy gross, the wife of alan gross is incredibly relieved today. she has been bleeding the government to facilitate the release of her husband. she marked the fifth anniversary of alan gross imprisonment for espionage, pleading with the government to do something about it before alan gross committed suicide or died in prison. the rumors in havana yesterday

They found alan gross there. they spent about 30 minutes on the ground. were told that coincidentally while he was visiting with the members of congress -- im sorry. thats when he landed on air force. he gets on the plane and on the plane is awaiting him a big bowl of popcorn. thats one of the things hes said to have longed for in more than five years of captivity as well as a corn beef on rye with mustard was waiting for him and potato pancakes for hanukkah with applesauce and sour cream. at 8:...

Were debating this thing. the good thing about the back and forth between senator john mccain and dick cheney is both of them know, firsthand, what theyre talking about. mccain was tortured, cheney ordered mentortured. one man was tortured in vietnam. a little boy thrown in prison and treated to the limits of his capt captors brutality. dick cheney, on the other side of the torture experience, offers himself an equally, if not greater degree, self of approval. id do it again in a minute. if he m...

The zoo is home to one of the five remaining white rhinos. the others are in captivity in africa and the czech republic. an extremist sympathyizer acting alone. still to come the obama administration is trying to solve its guantanamo bay dilemma, and you may be surprised about the help which the administration is now seeking. that new car smell ♪ ♪ chicken parm you taste so good ♪ ♪ nationwide is on your side ♪ ♪ mmm mmm mmm mm mmm mm mmmmmm ben! well, that was close! you aint ly...

More effective if we sanctioned torture or other methods to obtain information from the enemy. that would be wrong. heres what senator mccain said this week. >> i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions, the united states not only joined, but for the most part authored. >> your reaction. >> my reaction is the same as leo tho...

Okay? within sear, which is a program started after the korean war because many of our prisoners were dying in captivity, dying from abuse and torture, and were breaking in such a way that they were die divulging real classified information. this program was put together on the basis of blood. it was put together on the basis of lessons learned from every captive soldier, american, since the american revolution. when we took -- when the bush administration took that information and took these en...

Longer. i think it should apply across the board. we know that a lot of women who suffer from sexual abuse do not come forward. sometimes it takes years for them to have the courage to come forward. we need to support those women by changing our law to support them. >> i agree. >> theres a uniform point of view from the panel. what do you think? tweet us your thoughts. and the torture report released this week by senator feinstein. ugly details about what american government did to detainees in ...

The state of california proposed a bill to ban the captivity. the story got something like 3,000 hits per second. its not a testimony to my writing its a testimony to the interest out there. its an archaic interform of treatment. >> you have trainers willing to stick by sea world. dawns family, when they reacted to the documentary they said dawn would not have remained a trainer at sea world for 15 years if she felt the bhwhales were not cared for. it feels as though some believe her death was a...