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>> he is just lying there. take a hit, baby. >> selfish, selfish, baby. >> what the heck? just lying there drooling. >> thats why i dont have kids. they dont help the dog up on the bed. can we finally admit when you are dealing with bad people, things like water boarding and enhanced interrogation techniques work? we are all grown-ups. we can accept this fact. >> i think what the white house is saying, i am curious in learning it. they say the information came from a various number of sources. n...

Torture. dianne feinstein is chair of the intelligence committee on the senate side and she doesnt like it. the bush people, as a group, say it works. im not for it. it looks like it is murky. your view? >> im somebody who is against torture but i dont think all coercive, harsh, stressful interrogation procedures are necessarily torture. i think what we know in this instance, or at least the evident is pretty strong is that harsh interrogation methods, particularly of khalid sheikh mohammed, and...

Sure where its head now is. but its still dangerous, its still out there, its still active. one of the big issues thats come out of this is the suggestion that the -- lets call it torture, and we can come to the distinction in a minute of khalid sheikh mohammed in guantanamo bay may have led to information which led to the determination of bin ladens courier, and therefore, bin laden laden. do you believe thats whats happened? and if you believe thats the case, do you believe that vindicated the...

To the distinction in a minute of khalid sheikh mohammed in guantanamo bay may have led to information which led to the determination of bin ladens courier, and therefore, bin lad laden. do you believe thats whats happened? and if you believe thats the case, do you believe that vindicated the interrogation methods like waterboarding? >> i dont consider it torture, i consider it enhanced interrogation. but from my understanding, speaking to people who are very much involved, khalid sheikh mohamme...

Should be out there and it would, again, cut off the conspiracy theorist -- or at least minimize it. and -- but theres no doubt he is dead, we killed him, we should be proud of it. >> obviously, with bin laden gone, the question now is, what is left of al qaeda? and the general view seems to be, it still exists, its quite an amorphous kind of organization, no ones quite sure where its head now is. but its still dangerous, its still out there, its still active. one of the big issues thats come ou...

Same information through other approaches, i think, is always going to be an open question. >> well, its interesting, because leon panetta is part of the obama administration, and the president has emphatically disowned torture. former cia agent jack reich joins us now from minneapolis. jack, thanks for being with us. >> absolutely. >> now, i think that director panetta makes the key distinction that they may have been able to get this information through other interrogation methods. however, th...

Those years, doesnt like torture. dianne feinstein is chair of the intelligence committee on the senate side and she doesnt like it the bush people as a brown say it works, im not for it. it looks like it is murky. your view? >> im somebody who is against torture but i dont think all coercive, harsh, stressful interrogation procedures are necessarily torture. i think what we know in this instance or the evidence is pretty strong is that harsh interrogation methods, particularly of khalid shaikh ...

If it were to lead to captors like bin laden, is there concrete profit that it works? >> what we do know is from the two centuries from american prisoners of war o have been captured and interrogated, door chur does not work. we have an entire school structure in defense that teaches torture does not work. so you can claim that, but what we know that actually does work is by co-oping the values of these prisoners, showing prisoners that we are not what they believe that we are and showing them t...

This is murky. im getting almost like a rorschach test, depending who you ask, you get different responses. john mccain, of course, who was a prisoner all those years in vietnam at the hanoi hilton, of course, was tortured many of those years, doesnt like torture. dianne feinstein is chair of the intelligence committee on the senate side and she doesnt like it. the bush people, as a group, say it works. im not for it. it looks like it is murky. your view? >> im somebody who is against torture bu...

Are not coercive work better. >> since were talking about interrogation methods, bin laden was killed, as we both know. but had he been captured alive, would it be added more value, would it have had more value alive, basically for the nation information we could have gotten from him? >> i dont believe theres anything we could have gotten from osama bin laden that was more valuable than destroying and decapitating the leadership structure of the organization. and more importantly, osama bin lade...