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State secret. >> chris: drones. >> those things across the board. >> chris: surge in afghanistan. >> he has taken those and inherited those and much like eisenhower troo took trumans d war architecture, i think obama has done that with the bush terror architecture. it worked anded enhanced interrogations as part of it. that is the one area where he has differed but yet we have evidence that issues biggest success was built on that. >> we dont have evidence. >> we do, too. >> this is so petty tha...

Interrogate them. -- adequately and effectively interrogate them. >> eric: eric holder says, that is torture and what did he say. >> chris: he says, that leon panetta, he viewed it as torture and he viewed it as -- that it wasnt and, he had legal opinions from the justice department people and, the other thing he gets into and i think you will see a growing debate about this, the justice department is investigating a half dozen cia operatives as to whether they used undue force in their interrog...

>> it may go away quietly the same way the civilian trials wept away quietly. there are over enhanced interrogations and they claim they will have civilian prosecutions for terrorists. we will shut down guantanamo and this is why leon panetta said screw it, lets kill this guy. the big dispute, the capture. it turns out he wasnt armed. he wasnt shooting back. but they thought if we bring him alive, eric holder will be trying him in new york city. bullet to the head. >> he could have ended up free...

President cheney who said that investigation is an outrage. with interrogations such a key part of this raid, why not end that investigation? >> well, what i said was an interrogation was one part of a mosaic and hundreds of pieces of information over time that built an intelligence case. it was just not the cia, it was multiple agencies which is another important aspect. the team work in the intelligence community. >> chris: why not end the investigation? >> ile get to that now. that is not som...

No single piece of intelligence led to this. david, thats not the way this works. over time, you have professionals combing through this, and the case goes cold and it heats up again, right, you know -- >> but the specific point, did harsh interrogation help in the effort to ultimately identify where he was? >> no single piece of intelligence led to this. now, we had intelligence -- >> but both things could be true. >> yes, but -- >> answer my question. did harsh interrogations help in the hunt ...

>> eric: one of the bush administrations most out spoken figures in the fight against al qaeda. former vice president dick cheney, and he had plenty to say on the killing of usama bin laden. he sat down this morning for an exclusive interview with fox news sunday anchor, chris wallace. >> well, i think you have to give him a lot of credit for make ting -- making the decision, for seal team 6 to get bin laden, i think he handled it well, but im concerned, about the fact i think a lot of the techn...

Shape the strategy. for example, does that mean more mumbai attacks, where instead of blowing up an airliner, youre bringing simultaneous armed attacks on a number of different facilities? so, while this is on one hand a great advantage of eliminating bin laden, on the other hand, we have to be more careful than ever to look at what may be tactical changes in how they move forward. >> general hayden, are you concerned that they didnt capture him alive? >> no. i mean, it might have provided some ...

Including access to osama bin ladens three wives. >> clearly not shutting the door, the united states leaving open the possibility there there could have been elements within the pakistani element that were impolicent of his presence at the compound, alex. >> how about all the controversy about waterboarding which following under the caption of interrogation techniques. what is the white house saying about that? >> donilin was asked this directly many times. dick cheney condemned or smarlly crit...

Question: with interrogation -- and you certainly have agreed, however it came, with interrogations such a key part of the raid, why not end that investigation. >> what i said it was interrogation is one part of a mosaic, hundreds of pieces of information over time that build an intelligence case and it was not just the cia, it was multiple agencies which is another important aspect we dont have time to get into, the teamwork in the intelligence community. >> chris:... the investigation. >> ill ...

Will this go away quietly? >> it may go away quietly the same way the civilian trials wept away quietly. there are over enhanced interrogations and they claim they will have civilian prosecutions for terrorists. we will shut down guantanamo and this is why leon panetta said screw it, lets kill this guy. the big dispute, the capture. it turns out he wasnt armed. he wasnt shooting back. but they thought if we bring him alive, eric holder will be trying him in new york city. bullet to the head. >> ...