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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...

Wrong the implication is the 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...

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...

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...

His policies and to his criticism of policies that he offered of your former boss. >> absolutely. obama has adopted so much of the bush counter-terrorism strategy that it was a matter of time before he described himselfing a the decider in chief. the first decision he made was to shut count cia interrogation program which we now know it produced the intelligence that led to the killing of usama bin laden. you can say i give you full credit, but if you had bent decider in chief when we

huge deal. set the scene. >> reporter: this is a big deal, wolf. a trip by the president of the united states to a war zone like afghanistan is extraordinary and this is only the third time that president obama has made this trip. its been over a year. the last time he was there was in december 2010 and furthermore, at the presidential palace which is where he is right now for brief remarks with president hamid karzai and to sign the strategic partnership agreement with afghanistan to ...

Program. in yemen alone, number of strike tripled since 2002. the former director of the c.i.a. said in 2006, half of what the u.s. government knew about al-qaeda came from the interrogation program. >> some fraction of it is aging off. >> the terrorism advisor says the drone program is legal and not overused. >> we are not seeking general sense. rather we conduct the targeted strikes because they are in addition to mitigate actual ongoing threat. to prevent future attacks and save american live...

43 passengers kept on board a plane for more than three hours. the cause, a bug bite. "newsroom" begins right now. good morning to you. im carol costello. you are bere its final flight. the granddaddy of a program. it was the next wave of a space race that had americans holding their breath. a craft so futuristic and exciting president ford told nasa to name it after captain kirks ship from the legendary show "star trek." >> space, the final frontier. these are the voyages of the sta...

Shut down our interrogation program and dramatically reduce our presence various places where we had difficult assignments that the military had undertaken. >> do you think he projects weakness? >> i think he did in those early days. i think -- i fell as though there were a tendency on his part to want to apologize for america being america. when we talked about the unique aspects of our history, exceptionalism of the united states of america, that has very special meaning and significance i thi...