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Always struck me was how careful the agency was when they said we need the approval of the president of the united states and the national security council and they got both and they dead a hell of a job. >> but you rewrote -- >> i didnt rewrite the justification. the office of legal counsel and the justice department. >> you had an intimate roll -- >> i am strongly support tiff of the program, i didnt read the opinion and say youve got to change this and change that, but my job as vice presid...

These method. >> i know from personal experience that abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good information. i know they will stay whatever they think their torturers want them to believe if they believe it will stop their suffering. martha: the senator was tortured for five years in captivity during the vietnam war. he says our enemies work without conscience, we must not. bill: the department of justice not expected to proceed with criminal charges. he has reviewed this evidence and s...

To a welcome from president francois hollande. you see it here, sergei had been held by al qaeda militants in mali since 2011. as jim bitterman reports, there are questions over how his release came about. >> the french man was freed after three years of captivity at the hands of acme, the al qaeda branch of northern africa, he was kidnapped by them, along with another french man in northern mali. he was found shot to death in 2013. its not clear exactly what kind of negotiations went on to free...

Their final admission by the u.s., they may use it in future propaganda. bear in mind, too, weve heard from former hostages held by isis that some of them were waterboarded. obviously that was an attempt to link their captivity to those held in guantanamo and other black sites. but you have to also bear in mind the potential of some of the more barbaric techniques described in that report may be used on future u.s. or western hostages. thats a chilling thought, wolf. >> and, karl, very quickly, ...

Point a foreign intelligence report told you that there is going to be a second wave attack. >> after 9/11. >> what else did you need? thats all we had. what does that mean? who is responsible for it. we went to the detainees and i can take you through the details and the short version is yes, there is such a plot and i cant run it because i am in captivity. i know who would. a fellow in pakistan. we find that guy and indeed he is training 17 people to come here in an operation. we didnt know th...

Human element. ill make this example. if my wife was captured by any terrorist organization and the government says you dont pay ransom money or negotiate, do i turn and walk away, leave my wife to die in captivity or be beheaded or whatever? or do i do everything possible to negotiate, to find some money, to pray to get my wife out? how do you reconcile a government position and the position of a human being, human to human? >> dr. suleman, thank you so much for talking to us. coming up, big ...

I want you to keep your head up. >> i am keeping my head up. i want you to know i had nothing to do with this. so im trying to keep my head up the best i can. >> yeah. yeah, i know. >> being in here sucks, you know? >> i know. i know. i know. its like being in captivity. i know it suck. its just a -- carltons had a little past, and everything is based upon the past. but i see this with many of our minority kids. theyll be locked up, theyll be searched 15, 20, 30 times. but if a cajun kid, ive ne...

Health? >> about june, al qaeda gave messages to say he is not in good condition. but they volunteered this permission to say he was not in good health. after june, there was for mention of his health. we were afraid he may have died in captivity. but every time the tribal leaders approached him they said he is alive. they said if you want him put the money down now and you can have him. >> he says he was very close to negotiating the release of south african hostage pierre korkie, just after he...

As we have been reporting, detai decontinue to emerge this morning about the risky rescue mission yesterday to recover american hostage luke somers from al qaeda captivity. military officials saying the rescue effort "lost the element of surprise before it even began." colonel jack jacobs joins us from the big board. he is going to take a look at the challenges that this particular mission faced. colonel jack what kind of planning went into this operation? >> whats supposed to happen there is a ...

Nowhere. i want you to stay encouraged. i want you to keep your head up. >> yeah. trying to keep my head up the best i can. >> yeah. i know. >> being in here sucks, you know. >> i know, i know, i know. its like being in captivity. i know it sucks. its a modern form of slavery. >> carlton has a little past. everything is based upon the past. but i see this with many kids. there will be lock up. theyll be searched 15, 20, 30 times. but a caucasian kid, ive never seen searched 15, 20, 30 times. >> ...