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Embarrassing moments and troubling scandals. among his questionable actions, deciding to try the 9/11 terror masterminds, a block away from ground zero, declassifying top-secret documents about the cisas enhanced interrogation program. dropping voter intimidation charges against the new black panther party after their actions were caught on tape by fox news, criticizing arizonas immigration law without taking the time to read the 10-page bill first. >> i think you are missing the fact that this ...

Embarrassing moments and troubling scandals. among his questionable actions, deciding to try the 9/11 terror masterminds, a block away from ground zero, declassifying top-secret documents about the cisas enhanced interrogation program. dropping voter intimidation charges against the new black panther party after their actions were caught on tape by fox news, criticizing arizonas immigration law without taking the time to read the 10-page bill first. >> i think you are missing the fact that this ...

Attorney general, the contempt before congress issue is coming up, calls for his firing. but i thought it was important to put this in perspective and lay it out for people. when you see this in its entirety, whats your reaction? >> you know, i think that its clear at this point, sean, that even in an administration which has had a very low bar in terms of interpretation of the law and the constitution, attorney general holder hasnt even managed to clear that hurdle. you know, your piece laid it...

Blame who have been those on executing the policy. >>guest: correct. >> and now, another issue, there was, this week in the news, what happened with the intelligence leading to the bin laden capture, a suggestion by two democratic senators, senator feinstein and senator levin, enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding did not lead or produce evidence that led to the bin laden capture. they say the c.i.a. learned of the existence of the courier, his true name and location, through m...

Sheikh shark, abu-zebada. you were in charge. the president of the united states now refers to you as someone who was involved in torture. your reaction? >> i describe our measure as how disgusted i was when i heard that because, you know, we stepped up to the plate. we got authority from the president-- justice department. >> justice department certified that it was legal. we briefed the congress-- nancy pelosi. you briefed her personally. >>? i briefed her personally. i led the team that b...

I commend jose rodriguez and all of this is colleagues, nameless, faceless colleagues that we will never know. i believe that americans are alive and possibly westerners elsewhere in the world and our own troop because of this waterboarding, mainly because of the enhanced interrogation program. only three people were waterboarded? >> well, more people were waterboarded in this room than we waterboarded in the whole time-- the one time only one who liked it was colonel north. im sorry. we are g...

Sheikh shark, abu-zebada. you were in charge. the president of the united states now refers to you as someone who was involved in torture. your reaction? >> i describe our measure as how disgusted i was when i heard that because, you know, we stepped up to the plate. we got authority from the president-- justice department. >> justice department certified that it was legal. we briefed the congress-- nancy pelosi. you briefed her personally. >>? i briefed her personally. i led the team that b...

Because weve been seven hours into the hearing and there have not been any pleas from the men. it seems clear to me from my reporting that the men came to court today with a strategy to frustrate and delay the process. theyve refused to cooperate with the judge. they refused to answer questions. and they refused to wear head phones to air the translation. at one point, the lawyer for khalid sheikh mohammed, self-described architect told the court, quote, not putting the head phones in his ears h...

Five of the pilots were exmilitary pilots and four of them might have been waterboarded as well. when i read the so-called torture memos describing the enhanced interrogation program, i wept because this administration gave our play book to the enemy. and i believe that the enhanced interrogation program, not only worked. i know that the holder of justice department thinks it works too because they described the program in one of their memo -- legal briefs in the trial of the african embassy bom...

I commend jose rodriguez and all of this is colleagues, nameless, faceless colleagues that we will never know. i believe that americans are alive and possibly westerners elsewhere in the world and our own troop because of this waterboarding, mainly because of the enhanced interrogation program. only three people were waterboarded? >> well, more people were waterboarded in this room than we waterboarded in the whole time-- the one time only one who liked it was colonel north. im sorry. we are g...