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>> thank you. >> -- because -- let me do the next question. in december 2005 after the passage of the detainee treatment act, you advocated that president bush should issue a signing statement to accompany the law. in an e-mail you sent to steven bradbury and others you said the signing statement would, and i quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticized some time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the mccain ...

Ret let me do the next question. in 2005 after the passage of the detainee treatment act you advocated the that president bush should issue a signing statement to accompany the law in an e-mail to steven bradberry and others and this is your quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticizesome time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the portion of the amendment. this statement clearly and in a formal way would be ...

General believes it is not that americans should not go there, they should be tried in court. clearly, they are thinking about it. >> is a broad policy matter, i dont think it is necessary to do that. what we need guantanamo for us to keep the bad guys are already there, potentially, to put future bad guys and capture. the most important thing president trump can do to change, reverse what we have seen under eight years of president obama, what happened before these al qaeda or isis members get ...

Americans should not go there, they should be tried in court. clearly, they are thinking about it. >> is a broad policy matter, i dont think it is necessary to do that. what we need guantanamo for us to keep the bad guys there who are already there, potentially, to put future bad guys and capture. the most important thing president trump can do to change, reverse what we have seen under eight years of president obama, what happened before these al qaeda or isis members get to guantanamo, that ha...

Drone strikes, not just one. >> the republican leadership lives in fear of the tea party and the fact is over the course of the past now years, they havent had a coherent foreign policy of the result of the rise of people like rand paul on the right. surprising no one, i dont think weve been giving the president enough credit in this discussion. this is a process to insure that our national security policy is consistent with our laws and our constitutional values that he took on from the moment ...

More abundant civil rights division. that is a division that has record numbers of cases, protected record numbers of people. i would take issue with regard to how we have conducted the war on terror with regard to interrogation policy. there were changes made by this administration. a repudiation or opinions that existed when we came into office. so were talking about, i think, changes that were consistent with, as i set what the president campaigned on and what we a talked about early on. >> t...

Or the joint -- he doesnt speak to anybody while ambassador and others are killed in libya. disengaged, where was he? what was he doing? why didnt he pursue this? this is a serious event. lastly, i wont go over it is what happens afterwards. obvious deception of what was the origin of the attack? video, which is made up story. as you showed in the tape earlier, the president was still implying viable story. two weeks after everyone knew it was a terror attack. >> chucks point,teams say okay. we ...

>> right. >> sean: would that be fair, as long as there was nobody on video that -- i mean, we saw the trade centers get hit, we saw the trade centers fall, we saw america under attack on september 11, 2001. why cant we get the videos? >> the president said they were releasing everything real time as we got t. we know that wasnt the caiss. each time more information comes out, all it does is call further into question, the actions of the president and the secretary of state and the secretary of ...

There is no bin laden without the intelligence you got using these methods, correct? >> that is correct. since then, of course, when he first came into the presidency, he closed down our back sites and stopped the interrogation program. we basically dont have an interrogation policy now. >> sean: so those interrogations led to the nickname of the can you remember yes, sir, over a period of years, you find his real name. he leads you bin laden and decision, president has no decision. this is very...

Community very well. the idea that obama is responsible for the state of the war on terror, he inherited al qaeda. the operation that got bin laden, which we are hearing a lot about now, it was made possible by the intelligence gathered from the cia interrogation program that he shut down. when obama had the chance to interrogate a guy trying to blow up a plane in detroit, he is using the intelligence that he inherited from the bush administration. one thing he gets credit for is because with th...