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Out on the kind of intelligence that helps us out. >>guest: there is a good comparison between what we have done in pakistan with the drone strikes versus, say, the bin laden raid. so, if certain situations it is better to capture than to kill. you get intelligence value. you can also confirm that you got that person. you also have the concern over what happens not only if you get the wrong person but the collateral damage issue, and you get a blow back effect. so a concern is not only when you ...

About. had the helicopter not had mechanical trouble and they blew it up, we would have probably taken all of those people out of the compound? >> i dont think you would have taken all of them. >> sean: why? >> because you are not going to get anything out of a can i. >> sean: adults? >> you want to get some information in them. the intelligence value you can get from somebody if you are allowed to ask questions with something other than a cigarette in hand, you can probably exploit that rapidly...

Should o should be unveiled. >> i think its important to understand who this man was and what his image. obviously those images and that information that has direct intelligence value not now but perhaps later can be declassified. i stand behind the president of not putting out the image of bin laden after death. he said we dont spike the football is exactly the right answer. the public has a right to this point to this kind of information and i think the administration is doing the right thing....

Sunday, that is just not the case. >> reporter: with bin ladens in the pakistani capital, they point to a disturbing pattern. most of the major al-qaeda captured in pakistan, the alleged 9/11 conspirator, khalid sheikh mohammed. according to the timeline released by the white house today, navy seals had 20 minutes after the firefight to scour the street for intelligence. u.s. officials claim ten hard drives, five computers and multiple disks were recovered. intelligence value is not yet known. b...

Sunday, that is just not the case. >> reporter: with bin ladens in the pakistani capital, they point to a disturbing pattern. most of the major al-qaeda captured in pakistan, the alleged 9/11 conspirator, khalid sheikh mohammed. according to the timeline released by the white house today, navy seals had 20 minutes after the firefight to scour the street for intelligence. u.s. officials claim ten hard drives, five computers and multiple disks were recovered. intelligence value is not yet known. b...

Why in. >> if the chopper went down they would not have wanted it to be turned over to the enemy so they would leave and blow it up and get out. >> we look at video of the compound the big fire is of the helicopter. >> yes. >> we thought much controversial lies in the compound and he has been there since 2005 and now it is on fire. do you think it is possible that pakistanis realize "we have been had," we will cover our tracks. or is the chopper something that ignited the entire place? >> the pl...

>> we do know moussa koussa arrived here yesterday, came of his own choice but media reports in britain suggest he may have arrived on a british government pla plane. the foreign office says hes resigning his post as foreign minister because hes no longer willing to represent the gadhafi regime abroad and theyre now talking to him about that. no one is officially using the word "defection" here yet. if true, as nic is saying, he obviously represents a significant prize perhaps as representation ...

This guy as an american citizen. >> theres an exception -- >> theres an exception -- >> ticking time bomb exception. >> they used that exception in this case. 48 hours where they questioned him without reading miranda rights, a public safety exception. they went by the law. then they read him his miranda rights. he continued to talk. theres nothing to object to. >> they say, you have to know your customer here. if youre interrogating someone, youll make a determination. i mean, there are plenty ...

And, the interesting question is, how significant the contact it was and how high up it went and you wouldnt normally expect an american coming into have access to very senior people but there could be a lot of intelligence value, based in -- on what he can tell us about his training, who he interacted with, and, most importantly, other people who might have -- he might have seen who are trained operatives. bill: and depending on whether or not it is true, if hes singing like a bird the last cou...

This involves the collection of intelligence. best to do it and not talk about it. >> former head of the c.i.a. bin laden unit says he has significant intelligence value. >> hes very important in the taliban. the overall military commander. he will be missed certainly. if the packs persuade him to talk he has good information for us. >> experts say he will be replaced and the war will go on, unless he gives up critical information about key taliban and al-qaeda leaders including perhaps whereabo...