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More than 20 years after the Bali bombings in which he allegedly played a central role, nobody quite knows what to do with a man once seen as Southeast Asia’s most wanted terrorist.

Between the u.s. and russia. when it comes to negotiating for detained americans abroad, even with hostile countries touchdown u.s. trying to keep that on a separate track from foreign policy goals and weve seen this in other places like north korea and venezuela. >> christina, which was a one for one deal. why wont russia negotiate for paul wheewhelans release? >> reporter: whelan is consider a high value detainee. hes a u.s. marine and charged with espionage, which the u.s. says isnt true, but...

Majid Khan’s historic guilty plea is a significant milestone in the war against terrorism and likely foreshadows cases to come.

The main goal was information on hard drives it wasnt a high value detainee. we have navy s.e.a.l. team six in yemen. they encounter small arms resistance. three wounded, three die. one of those appears to be an 8-year-old girl, the daughter of awlaki who was killed in 2011. the daughter, the 8-year-old, her gran father told the news she perished. we are getting conflicting reports how many civilians perished. but we know there was 14 al qaeda militants killed. numbers of civilians others are sa...

Conclusions just like the rolling stone author. is that true or false? >> i want to say this up front because i agree the debate over how they put the report together matters and they should have interviewed these people but i dont want to it distract from the substance of this. we use these interrogation techniques which goes to torture. if you read the report we used them on a lot of people. we profiled this one case where we brought in this one guy and presumed he actually wasnt a high value ...

Side of this argument, the left did very good job years ago in seizing this, the high ground on this. you either are talking and engaging in chat with the high value detainee or the tar get youre dealing with or its all torture. nothing in between. they did a very good job of framing it >> youre talking about the left. you talked about john mccain who talked about water boarding being torture. >> i said one part of this. >> okay. i dont think this is a purely partisan issue that, you know, left ...

Detention facility especially among the afghans, i wouldnt want to use the term revered, but there was an honest respect for their authority, and it was not often questioned. >> also this week, high value detainee will be arraigned in the courthouse about 40 yards over my shoulder. you can see it there behind me. heidi al iraqi is caused of being an internal operations chief for the al qaeda network and main liaison between al qaeda and al qaeda in afghanistan prior to 9/11. >> catherine herridg...

Questioning the suspect, its a group called the high value detainee interrogation group. and this group was established seven or eight years ago it was after the capture of saddam hussein and the interrogation of saddam hussein. and what homeland security realized then is they needed one specific group with global knowledge of terrorism, international knowledge of terrorism, to go in to question these high-value detainees rather than a local person who has knowledge of the local area, local muni...

Years ago for just these type of contingencies. its called the high value detainee interrogation group and it consists of federal officials, fbi, cia, dod, people who are experts in the language, the culture, the sort of cases theyre investigating. so it wont just be folks from the local fbi office, its a special team thats set up for these. >> already some calls specifically from senator lindsey graham, specifically from senator john mccain for the suspect to be treated as an enemy combatant. h...

Were encouraged. our high value detainee interrogation team is now involved in working to gather intelligence about how these terrible acts were committed and the possibility of future attacks. a decision to not read miranda rights to the suspect was sound and is in our national security interest. so this is going to be a big debate here whether you treat him as just any u.s. offender, or in this case, someone who would be an enemy combatant, meaning harm to this country. obviously some key repu...