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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 to the former president even though he stopped trying to catch osama b...

Derived through those kinds of interrogations but i guess the question that everybody will always debate is whether or not those approaches had to be used in order to get the same information. and that frankly, is an open question. >> bill: okay. because mr. panetta works for president obama. he has to say that he has to hedge a bit. well, we dont know exactly how much information. we might have got, could have, maybe, had we not dunked the guys in the water, the three guys. okay, fine. i unders...

Learn about abu ahmads identity until 2007. they say it began with a nickname given up by post 9/11 detainees during interrogation. they havent said exactly who gave up the information or what it took to get it out of them. peter king, a new york republican, said this today. >> i was talking to people close to the situation who said initial information came from khalid shaikh mohammed after he was waterboarded, directly relating to the courier. >> can you describe your source? is it somebody in ...

Others cite the waterboarding. you believe that they did play a role. explain. >> i know they d ive spoken to people involved. everyone ive spoken to is in position to know and has confirmed that the enhanced interrogation led to significant information from khalid sheikh mohammed and libya. they were the two major steps on this long road to getting bin laden. a lot has happened between then and now but the key information which started this entire process of looking for the couriers came from e...

The thing that would make him believe it is the photograph. its unlikely that these lawyers are likely to threaten the united states national security so why convince them of the photograph. these are educated intellectuals here and they dont believe what they are being told. it does raise a question for many people here about credibility, wolf. >> what about the people taken from the compound alive? pakistani intelligence, im sure, is debriefing them or holding them. what are you learning about...

Happened at the time. >> those interrogations were conducted during the bush administration and defense secretary donald rumsfeld shot down the idea that water boarded was used. >> the united states department of defense did not do water boarded for interrogation purposes to anyone, and it is true, as i understand it, that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches in guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. but it was not harsh treatment, it ...

That, and after it. >> i think president obama and his administration are going kicking and screaming into the war on terror. they came in wanting to close gitmo now they are keeping it open. they are against enhanced interrogations but now seemingly some of the evidence that led to usama bin laden came from those interrogations. i think the world realizes we are in a war on terror and we are trying to do everything we can to defeat these evil terrorist forces and to kill these people who do us ...

Abu ahmad, the courier who u.s. officials say led them to osama bin laden. he was a protege of this man, 9/11 mastermind khalid shaikh mohammed. who can forget the picture after his capture in 2003 in pakistan? u.s. officials say they didnt learn about abu ahmads identity until 2007. they say it began with a nickname given up by post 9/11 detainees during interrogation. they havent said exactly who gave up the information or what it took to get it out of them. peter king, a new york republican, ...

>> i was talking to people close to the situation who said initial information came from khalid shaikh mohammed after he was water boarded, directly relating to the courier. >> can you describe your source? is it somebody in the cia? >> somebody who was, somebody who is very familiar with what happened at the time. >> those interrogations were conducted during the bush administration and defense secretary donald rumsfeld shot down the idea that water boarded was used. >> the united states depart...

Conversely there have been many times when this administration has taken the point of few when it comes to enemy combatants that this is not and ongoing war that they should be tried in the civilian courts and the like. many i right. >> youre right. lets say they came out the right way in the end. you are absolutely right. for a longtime the administration has continued to denigrate the viability of the laws of war architecture which is the framework for governing detention operations, interroga...