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Frankly, is more detrimental to us as a country than the bad politics. >> sean: one thing we didnt bring up in this entire night is, our enemies now know that this president thinks that enhanced interrogation is torture. so i assume on the -- you know, as they prepare, on their side of the war, theyre thinking, okay, they are teaching all of their combatants, dont worry, the united states. get yourself a lawyer. lawyer up. dont say a word -- >> exactly. you want to know how your enemys going to ...

The president didnt support gitmo, he wanted to close it. said he dolled it in his first year. the president didnt support rendition and black sights. so would we have had the intelligence to get bin laden if he had his way prior? anybody think we would have? >> well, i think that, i mean, with all due respect to jose rodriguez, obviously, has a different viewpoint, the interrogator who got the intelligence for the kill, he thinks that it actually delayed getting bin laden, the intelligence tria...

Frankly, is more detrimental to us as a country than the bad politics. >> sean: one thing we didnt bring up in this entire night is, our enemies now know that this president thinks that enhanced interrogation is torture. so i assume on the -- you know, as they prepare, on their side of the war, theyre thinking, okay, they are teaching all of their combatants, dont worry, the united states. get yourself a lawyer. lawyer up. dont say a word -- >> exactly. you want to know how your enemys going to ...

prison where hes been held since 2009. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." not only the null better one issue for most americans, but also the issue that will win the white house in november. the latest jobs report is not nearly what the obama administration was hoping for. its given the republicans fresh ammunition. were covering all the angles, beginning with our white house correspondent dan lothian. whats the reaction over there to the latest jobs numbers? >> reporter...

Began. >> sean: is luger more of a liberal republican? that is a big part of this? >> absolutely. we have a great comparison. but he has moved to the left over the last few years and the people in indiana-- i agree with you. i want conservative leaders. my endorsement hurts you, i wont give it to you, which could happen. kirstin, have you to admit and agree with me -- look, the president has every right to take credit for make a pretty gutsy decision on bin laden. i said that from day 1. but t...

Services chair carl levin. lets talk about what proof do you have? they write we are disappointed that mr. rodriguez and others who left government positions prior to the bin laden operation and are not privy to all of the intelligence that led to the raid continue to insist that the cias so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used many years ago with a central component to our success. this view is misguided and misinformed. they are claiming the information came from other interrogations....

You know, they include a number of conditioning and corrective techniques that are pretty wimpy. the two toughest ones are sleep deprivation and waterboarding. and sleep deprivation can be difficult, yes. and waterboarding actually is based on a program that is used in the u.s. to train servicemen so that they can understand what it is like to be waterboarded and its based on that program. >> why did you destroy the tapes if theyre so wimpy, why destroy the tapes of these interrogations? what we...

Sheikh mohammed who was waterboarded 183 times. the first mention of abu kuwaiti, the nickname of the courier who ultimately led us to bin laden as well as a description of him as an important member of al qaeda. cameheld. none of the three deans who were waterboarded provided abu ahmeds real name, his whereabouts. >> former director panetta told brian williams in this network that in fact, information that was obtained from enhanced interrogations and water boarding in particular led to the kil...

this has been an incredible saga. if you look back at the past week, he escaped house arrest, he took rev few in the u.s. embassy. today it looks as though there was a breakthrough. he walks there the embassy a free man, he was taken to a hospital for medical treatment, reunited with the family. but how there has been a complete back flip. speaking to him, he says he kne feels hes been let down by the united states, that while in the embassy, he was cut off from the news and he was enc...

americas longest running war after a trip to afghanistan by president obama. the unannounced visit to kabul was full of secrecy and symbolism, be but not very many specifics. a tough reminder that theres a long way to go in that country. suicide car bomber and taliban militants disguised attacked a housing compound. nick paton walsh is live with us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it appears the suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into whats known as the green villag...