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Forgetting is what professional interrogators have been saying all along, when you use techniques like water boarding, you get the bare minimum about of information out of a detainee. that minimum about of information is going to lack the details you need to execute a mission to take out a target. the type of information you need to take out a target isnt a nickname of a courier. its who is that courier, how do we find him? and how do we know when hes meeting with the target. in this case, bin l...

Made that fight tougher and the task harder. >> the department of defense tracked those statistics. its a fact water boarding was al qaedas number one recruiting tool. >> moving forward, are you confident we are going to be able to take out al qaeda and use the moral high ground as president obama said his administration is going to do? i think its really profoundly pointed out with the interview with brian williams and leon panetta, they are not lying about it. water boarding was used and some ...

Tracked those statistics. its a fact water boarding was al qaedas number one recruiting tool. >> moving forward, are you confident we are going to be able to take out al qaeda and use the moral high ground as president obama said his administration is going to do? i think its really profoundly pointed out with the interview with brian williams and leon panetta, they are not lying about it. water boarding was used and some information came from it. moving forward, they are not going to do it. the...

Who do we believe? >> ed, if water boarding that happened seven to eight years ago just now led us to bin laden and thats the mesh of success, we are in a lot of trouble. its not an e vektive technique. compare it to, you know, my team in iraq, i went out on raids. our time requirement was ten to 15 minutes to get info. back at a prison, our standard was two to three days to get info to act on. maybe a couple weeks or a few weeks in other cases. eight or nine years to get information and conside...

Many years of war. we thank our president. we thank president bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory. >> the tools president bush put into place, gitmo, rendition, enhanced interrogation, the effort to get the information and put it in a usable form served his successor quite well. >> i dont know, folks, anybody playing a violin? do you see a pattern here? its not going to stop. king took it to another level on oreillys show. >> you mentioned we obtained vital information ye...

We thank president bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory. >> the tools president bush put into place, gitmo, rendition, enhanced interrogation, the effort to get the information and put it in a usable form served his successor quite well. >> i dont know, folks, anybody playing a violin? do you see a pattern here? its not going to stop. king took it to another level on oreillys show. >> you mentioned we obtained vital information years ago. we obtained it through water board...

>> we dont know much about his interrogations. in reports outside "the new york times" conflict with "the new york times" information. i always take the information that comes out after these types of events with a grain of salt. usually half of what we hear is incorrect. it will take time to flush out the whole story. what is clear is the information came from several sources. it was pieced together by analysts and the real heroes in this are intelligence collectors, interrogators. >> the conse...

>> no, they are not correct. what a lot of people are forgetting is what professional interrogators have been saying all along, when you use techniques like water boarding, you get the bare minimum about of information out of a detainee. that minimum about of information is going to lack the details you need to execute a mission to take out a target. the type of information you need to take out a target isnt a nickname of a courier. its who is that courier, how do we find him? and how do we know...

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New york times" is reporting thats not the case, it came from the courier. so, theres a lot of misinformation, a lot of cross information going on out there. who do we believe? >> ed, if water boarding that happened seven to eight years ago just now led us to bin laden and thats the mesh of success, we are in a lot of trouble. its not an e vektive technique. compare it to, you know, my team in iraq, i went out on raids. our time requirement was ten to 15 minutes to get info. back at a prison, ou...