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Others cite the waterboarding. you believe that they did play a role. explain. >> i know they d ive spoken to people involved. everyone ive spoken to is in position to know and has confirmed that the enhanced interrogation led to significant information from khalid sheikh mohammed and libya. they were the two major steps on this long road to getting bin laden. a lot has happened between then and now but the key information which started this entire process of looking for the couriers came from e...

Traveling abroad today. they can cause trouble. but i dont think there is a future in it. i think they are on the downside and that we have really dealt them a huge blow. >> well, i do think that this was a brilliant operation as a former counter terrorism agent myself. having said that the franchise groups, the grass roots groups are still out there and very capable of killing americans. but al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 is not capable of coming into the u.s. and carrying out a similar atta...

Former boss, george w. bush about this? >> no, i communicated with his office but not with him directly. i know every single day, he was dedicated to finding osama bin laden. he gave the military and intelligence community the resources they needed to do it. as you said, the threat stream of the khali shaikh mohammed interrogation led directly to this. and again, these things take a long time and patient is not something that americans have a lot of but it was worth it in the end. >> it worked. ...

Overzealous interrogation led to courts marshall for three navy seals. julio huertas cleared this morning. he demanded a military trial, no easy discharge and wanted to clear his name. cnns mohammed jamjoon is live in baghdad this morning. so mohammed the pictures actually show this guy that was interrogated, right? how bad was it? he claims one thing and the navy seals claim another. >> reporter: kyra, as you said yesterday, fairly early on in the trial the accuser here, the detainee, am ed abe...

Deprivation, detainees slam against walls and stuffed inside boxes the size of coffins. katherine herridge has the news in washington. the new global response and what is the response inside d.c. >> the cia directors a seesment that interrogation led to intelligence of osama bin laden has clearly struck a nerve. >> it was information obtained scent to the application of eits from detainees that was useful in the bin laden operation. >> the democrat-led senate report found the opposite with senat...

Find your own children? >> i would use what works. >> im asking. >> torture never works. >> you would say pretty please with sugar on top? i tell you what i would do, i would beat the living hell out of them and make sure i find out where my kids. >> it wouldnt work. >> everybody has predicated on your belief that if youre nice to the terrorists theyll give you information. you are naive beyond understanding. >> tortured and tortured and get zero action -- >> excuse me. jose rodriguez who was th...

Traveling abroad today. they can cause trouble. but i dont think there is a future in it. i think they are on the downside and that we have really dealt them a huge blow. >> well, i do think that this was a brilliant operation as a former counter terrorism agent myself. having said that the franchise groups, the grass roots groups are still out there and very capable of killing americans. but al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 is not capable of coming into the u.s. and carrying out a similar atta...

States government sanctioning torture is in our best interest. i do not think torture works. >> can you, mr. vice president, ever envision a time when waterboarding should be used on anyone? >> no. >> no? >> no. its not effective. >> bill: well now we know the vice president is wrong. it is effective. coerced interrogation led in part to the death of bin laden. but this debate will not go quietly into the night because idealogues rarely admit they are wrong. personal note i like alan colmes, is ...

Traveling abroad today. they can cause trouble. but i dont think there is a future in it. i think they are on the downside and that we have really dealt them a huge blow. >> well, i do think that this was a brilliant operation as a former counter terrorism agent myself. having said that the franchise groups, the grass roots groups are still out there and very capable of killing americans. but al qaeda that attacked us on 9/11 is not capable of coming into the u.s. and carrying out a similar atta...

Most intelligence officers agree with that. >> i do not think the u.s. sanctioning torture works. >> can you, mr. vice president, ever envision a time when waterboarding should be used on anyone? >> no. no, it is not effective. >> now we know the vice president is wrong. it is effective. of course interrogation led, in part, to the death of bin laden but this will not go quietly into the night because ideaologists wont admit they are wrong. i like colmes but as i told him to his face, his ideaol...