bush who put these techniques in place and he deserves the credit. come on. that s just politicizing. bill: juan, let s be honest, both presidents deserve credit. are you happy with that? yeah. bill: all right. i m fine with that. bill: good. don t go about diminishing this president in order to build up the past president. bill: i m not diminishing. i m telling the troth. the policies of president obama on interrogation coerced have been wrong and fallacious. period. go get dinner, juan. we always appreciate it see you later. one last thing. president obama should release these pictures. i think the american people should see. i m not worried about muslim sensitivities. let s confirm that this guy is dead. bill: all right. he is dead. i m still formulating my picture thing. i do see the downside but we will discuss it. here are the results of our bill o reilly.com poll. we asked you in a matchup between mitt romney and donald trump which one would you support? more t
with coerced interrogation. however, it is not a tool to be used lightly. only the president should be able to order it, but it can and has worked. and in this case osama bin laden is dead, partly because of it. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. let s bring in the aforementioned donald rumsfeld, author of the big best selling book known and unknown. he joins us from washington. mr. secretary, i apologize you are in the middle of this. i didn t inject you into it but obviously you are and i have a number of simple questions as you know i m a simple man. number one, how do you feel about alan colmes and others on the left using to you make their assertions against coerced interrogation? well, it was a first time i have ever heard of alan colmes using me to support a position of his. but, the fact is that the information was garbled. i think what i set was that there was no waterboarding at
we have done that once again with coerced interrogation. however, it is not a tool to be used lightly. only the president should be able to order it, but it can and has worked. and in this case osama bin laden is dead, partly because of it. and that s the memo. now for the top story tonight. let s bring in the aforementioned donald rumsfeld, author of the big best selling book known and unknown. he joins us from washington. mr. secretary, i apologize you are in the middle of this. i didn t inject you into it but obviously you are and i have a number of simple questions as you know i m a simple man. number one, how do you feel about alan colmes and others on the left using to you make their assertions against coerced interrogation? well, it was a first time i have ever heard of alan colmes using me to support a position of his. but, the fact is that the information was garbled. i think what i set was that there was no waterboarding at
interrogation provided information that protected american. correct? am i correct on that? you provided the sources and your sourcing is correct. you quoted panetta. bill: right. panetta said about this incident. okay. now, so then you hear the president and vice president, and secretary of state flat out deny what it looks to be proven yard. that worries me. well, in my view, we very likely would not have captured or killed osama bin laden had we not had the intelligence information we had. bill: okay. but does that worry you that the top three people in the government are saying you know, even though rumsfeld and everybody else, tenet, says it, we still don t believe it. doesn t that worry you? did they say that recently or when they were senators? bill: no, no. they didn t repudiate it. they should have come out and said i was wrong.
guantanamo and somebody else said that a guantanamo detainee who had been waterboarded provided important information. and the connection created a disconnect. the people waterboarded were three people by the cia. none of whom were waterboarded at guantanamo and none of whom were waterboarded by the military. bill: okay. so there was confusion about the context of your remarks, which happens, as you know, all the time, all the time. and it was seized upon by alan and others on the left to say, you know what? even rumsfeld says it didn t but i said, quite responsibly, i believe. that since i had not talked to you directly, i m not taking some secondary source that as you said garbled up what your original remarks were. now the most important thing. you just heard barack obama, secretary of state clinton, and vice president biden say flat out that coerced interrogation