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Silver bullet if it was, then why did it take us ten years or many, many years after the water boarding of these individuals to find bin laden? >> what about the allegations we are hearing about the rough interrogations, most of us call torture of khatani -- ksm and his replacement in al qaeda, led us to this fella this courier who had the nom de guerre of code name of al kuwaiti, was that all part of tracking him to peshawar and the compound? >> you can ask the other question also, if other tec...

>> joining me now matthew alexander, a former senior military interrogator who conducted or supervized over 1,300 interrogations in iraq leading to the capture of numerous al qaeda leaders and the killing of abu musab all zarqawi. we should note, matthew alexander is a pseudonym he uses for obvious security reasons. thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me, lawrence. >> you just heard donald rumsfeld say, that anyone, anyone who suggests that the enhanced techniques, w...

Military interrogator who conducted or supervised over 1300 interrogations in iraq leading to the capture of numerous al qaeda leaders and the killing of al zarqawi. we should note, matthew alexander is a pseudonym he uses for obvious security reasons. thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> thanks for having me, lawrence. >> you just heard donald rumsfeld say, that anyone, anyone who suggests that the enhanced techniques, waterboarding did not produce an enormous amount of valuable intel...

As rumsfeld did just then, we got enormous amounts of valuable intelligence from waterboarding. that is the same administration that ends waterboarding. this thing thats enormously valuable, they say, you know what,st enormously valuable but were not going to do it anymore because we dont need it. why would you ever stop doing it if it was enormously valuable. >> the reason why is because of the long-term negative consequences of using torture and abuse which greatly outweigh any benefit you get...

Department. there are some of his justice department heros who today get dogged by some of these unhinged leftists in their private homes, get dogged by some of these zealots, still trotting around in their gitmo orange suits. and as i. >> sean: let me ask you. this let me just, there is one more point because i want to make because i definitely want to throw jay carneys words right back at him, sean. he said there is no one single act that led to the capture and killing of bin laden. that is ce...

Get their real name and location and follow them to your target. >> heres what makes no sense to me. the administration that says, as rumsfeld did just then, we got enormous amounts of valuable intelligence from waterboarding. that is the same administration that ends waterboarding. this thing thats enormously valuable, they say, you know what, its enormously valuable but were not going to do it anymore because we dont need it. why would you ever stop doing it if it was enormously valuable? >> t...

Valuable -- vital information sometimes but it also leads us to intense criticism. frankly, i think looking back over these years and i think this should be a very thorough analysis, as leon suggests, of what contributed to our ultimate success, but looking back on it, it was putting together lots of different pieces of information the interrogations that are permissible under law, the -- >> right. >> electronic surveillance, the overhead surveillance, all these pieces led one toward the other. ...

Thanks for being here with us tonight. another discredited figure from the bush administration is claiming that enhanced interrogation led to the death of osama bin laden. jose rodriguez was the cias chief of counterterrorism from the years 2002 to 2005. rodriguez says that information provided by ksm and others about bin ladens courier was the lead information that eventually led to the location of bin ladens compound. so we can add this guy to the pile of bushies who were trying to give credit...

Entities set up as pass throughs for assets for al qaeda. communication patterns and procedures. training sites. safe houses. theres an enormous amount of material that could be on here but its still speculative because, of course, still analyzing. >> to think about this, if they were taken alive, many of the people there, this information factual information probably provides much more information than getting out of an interrogation. >> well, certainly, in a faster fashion. yeah. interrogation...

It left a lot of holes plot wise. leon pineta said maybe we did do enhanced interrogations and maybe we didnt. very much like the cia to talk in circles. see frequent guest mike baker. i want to go back to a magazine article that said that brian williams is the funniest anchor we currently have. that was case in point. very much improve. i dont think any of that was on prompter. he is like this. from pineta to upsetta. they are filled with bile, he didnt get a trial. it was inevitable, bin lad...