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Document is incomplete and not based on the best available information. back with me is attorney raul reyes and joining me now is omar jagwatt, director of the aclus immigrations right project. thank you for being here. i want to throw out the department of homeland securitys response through the associated press that came out on friday. it said the document youre referencing was commentary from a single intelligence source versus an official, robust document with thorough interagency sourcing. ...

Part. so these are risky operations. and you know, i do think that it calls for a very careful, deliberate process where you evaluate whats the intelligence value you hope to gain, if it is an intelligence gathering operation. here it looks like part of the goal was to capture information, and what are the risks to our ips troops? but wouldnt leap to the conclusion it was poorly thought out or there were mistakes in the execution. sometimes of the mail storm of the operations things can go wrong...

Back. the chinese basically said, yeah, we hear you, then they sailed away with it. the u.s. has now issued a formal diplomat complaint to china over this issue. its not entire clear why china took it. this is not like when they kept our high tech surveillance airport that crashed on hainan island and sent it back to us in a number of boxes apparently trying to reverse engineer as much of the equipment as they could. this little drone thing, its cool, but its not going to have a lot of intellige...

They disable the vests, a common practice among other special ops forces. >> certainly would you want to see what intelligence value you can get off these dead combatants. >> the video shows them that their special forces are trained in preferring the scuba triks to tactical assaults. it has allowed vladimir putin to show off russias capabilities from an aircraft carrier to precision bombing. this video allows the president to crow about russian special forces, taxes and technology. >> it is so ...

>> sure. thats obviously the biggest benefit is the intelligence value that he has. ironically enough, thats one of the bigger reasons from what i understand that the mexican government didnt want to give him up for extradition when they caught him in february 2014. the mexican government was somewhat upset that the u.s. government hadnt shared more intelligence from other individuals extradited before. obviously the importance and value of guzman as an intelligence asset, i guess you could say,...

>> obviously the biggest benefit is the intelligence value that he has. ironically yuf, thats one of the bigger reasons that the mexican government didnt want to give him up for extradition when he was caught in february 2014. the mexican government was somewhat upset that the u.s. government hadnt shared more intelligence from other individuals that had been extradited before. obviously, the importance and value of guzman as an intelligence asset, i guess you could say, kind of trumps the conce...

Here? >> for one, they can get good information. one reason they refused to extradite him when he was caught back in february of 2014, they were upset we had not shared any intelligence information with them before on individuals extradited to the united states. hopefully that will change. its significant because we can keep him in prison, send him to a super max facility where were holding many other king pen and drug trafficking vips in florence, colorado, but i think the intelligence value is...

Welcome back to "americas newsroom." youve been call fog are appointment of a special counsel. ance her famous query, at this point what would it make, senator? >> how many private emails on the private email server and does that jeopardize intelligence value. we know her server was target of adversaries of united states. we donts know how much the intelligence was sacrificed in the with our foreign policy operatives or negotiations around the world because she was so reckless to have on a priva...

Nonsense, what he says. informs combat. my condolences to the family of master sergeant wheeler. look, if people are shooting at you and youre returning fire, that -- im a soldier. thats considered combat. with that said, this was not simply about rescuing 70 hostages. i knew this and others have heard this before. the intelligence value of these raids is humongous. its unimaginable. so as he said, it was not simply about rescuing these 70 folks, its about the fact that we get a huge, essentiall...

Reason. they kept them there because they were either of intelligence value, they were breaking the rules and bad prisoners or they were continuing threat to the united states. theres the three main reasons that each one of those guys would get reviewed every year to make sure that they really need to be detained. so they break five of these guys free. one of the worst possible deals that ever could have been made when everybody knew that these guys were bad, bad news. >> what do you think final...