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But the drone is the instrument of the 21st century when it comes to air power, and thats a reality. the problem comes down to really the morality and the white house has put out three criteria, including is it an imminent threat. if it were delayed, would it cause greater risk, and is there no other alternative? the problem is those always involve subjective judgments. its the same thing as firing a gun. in the eyes of the person who holds the weapon and it isnt always a balanced perception, an...

Interrogation methods and long detention of suspects without due process. ahead of todays hearing, the white house ordered that top lawmakers be given secret documents about the administrations drone program, this comes days after a group of 11 senators demanded more information, especially about the killing of american citizens. at least one prominent republican is backing the policy. south carolinas lindsay graham says hes 100% behind it. >> at the center of everything here is due process, o...

Coercive interrogation methods used under the bush administration forced him to withdraw his name. now brennan serves as a close adviser to president obama, overseeing one of the most controversial war-related programs. >> the united states is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely-piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. these targeted strikes against al qaeda terrorists are indeed ethical and just. >> reporter: after a failed attempt to kill bin laden in 1998, the u.s. gove...

Hannity program. will the obama administration admit the interrogation methods that was implemented by george w. bush, that is what led us to bin laden. well check in with liz cheney and frank luntz will play for you our favorite superbowl ads. what high profile commercial landed at the bottom and what at the top of mine. plus we are expecting a police press conference as the hostage standoff in alabama, five-year-old boy has now been saved, his kidnapper is dead and we are waiting on a press we...

I am pad news. im not your friend. im not going to help you. im going to break you. any questions? >> thats a clip from "zero dark thinkerty." which has taken a lot of questions on torture issues. the following motion picture is based on a first hand account of actual events. not so much according to the acting director of the cia. he said the film is inaccurate and creates the strong impression that torture was, quote, the key to fining bin laden. the issue at hand is how the public consumer th...

Killing osama bin laden, but those programs saved american lives. we know now because of declassified intelligence that those programs helped us to prevent terror attacks on this nation. >> sean: he opposes enhanced interrogation, uponned to close gitmo, said he would do it on day 1. didnt happen. he opposed rendition. we interviewed jose rodriguez. he was there when -- when the waterboarding, the enhanced interrogations occurred. i asked him, would we have been able to find bin laden if we had ...

Nature, theyre not easy places to go in and capture people. >> right. >> its not a terrain where thats very feasible so the use of drones, whatever questions youve got about it, isnt really an alternative to going in and capturing on the ground. >> are you saying we still have the program? >> we still -- >> that we still have the program that we had going from 2002 to 2005? >> people -- >> 2006? >> if somebody in south waziristan was captured tomorrow by some sort of joint operating team on the ...

Strikes is considered a terrorist because he is hanging out around them. you wonder how long that will fly in international circles. >>guest: well, that is rue and one of the thing that is another important aspect of this, we had the national security leaks a couple of weeks ago about president obama being engaged in the target selection, and this is exactly why you do not want that kind of operation adalat in the public domain because who sets the rules? this is evolving policy. it will take ti...

Board techniques were used. take a listen. >> we were not told that waterboarding or enhanced interrogation methods were used. >> i personally was the person that went to the congress in tenth, 2002. i briefed her on the interrogation of techniques we used. >> in 2002 you told her of waterboarding? >> greg: im not surprised. the bigger question is why the water boarding and torture is seen as a bad thing. everybody against torture talks about it as a principle. america doesnt torture. circular a...

Board techniques were used. take a listen. >> we were not told that waterboarding or enhanced interrogation methods were used. >> i personally was the person that went to the congress in tenth, 2002. i briefed her on the interrogation of techniques we used. >> in 2002 you told her of waterboarding? >> greg: im not surprised. the bigger question is why the water boarding and torture is seen as a bad thing. everybody against torture talks about it as a principle. america doesnt torture. circular a...