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Thats really what they did with this courier who was not using his real name. they gave him a nickname. he could have been operating in yemen or pakistan or afghanistan or iraq. and by the way, you got to track him down to usama bin laden. >> imagine trying to do that. and so they took that body of information, they took that nickname, that arabic nickname and they plugged it into what they knew from all of these interrogations and they were able to move this investigation forward until -- and a...

Let me ask you this, congressman, so much has been made in the last 24 hours of whether or not enhanced interrogation techniques implemented by the bush administration after 9/11, whether or not things like water boarding led to information that eventually led to the capture and killing of usama bin laden. your thoughts? >> well, khali shaikh mohammed did cooperate after being water boarded. but lets step back. of all that information at guantanamo bay, all enhanced interrogations that happened ...

Next leader of al qaeda? there is new information that an american could fill osama bin ladens shoes. plus -- what role did harsh interrogations really play in finding bin laden? ill talk to a special agent in charge who was once in charge of interrogations at guantanamo bay. ooh, a brainteaser. how can expedia now save me even more on my hotel? well, hotels know they cant fill every room every day. like this one. and this one. and oops, my bad. so, they give expedia ginormous discounts with t...

Bush and vice-president cheney, to their own detriment in terms of public opinion polls. they stuck by their guns and stayed with rendition and the issue of enhanced interrogations. this would not have happened but for those policies and that were implemented by president bush. do you think he deserves as much credit for the success sunday as president obama for making the gutsy decision to do it? >> there were seven important policy decisions made under bush that made sunday night possible. tre...

Everything he represented repred are probably just as happy as we are. >> the other big issue, it is very obvious that enhanced interrogations, rendition, that the harsh questioning, led to the intelligence, thanks to the bush administration. and i think they deserve as much credit for what happened sunday, and i said the president i am not a fan of, made a pretty gutsy decision by going in the way he did to have confirmation that it is in fact, bin laden. the left didnt want to do that. but don...

Before. so we need to -- listen, politics crept in. we need to get politics out of this. this is our national security. you need to have interrogations, you need to have a safe facility. >> why are they not admitting that, though, congressman? the only person in the obama administration to give any credit to enhanced interrogation techniques so far is leon panetta who is soon not going to be the director of the c.i.a. and the secretary of defense. listen to what the department of -- the attorney...

Congressman king said this about how bin laden was tracked down. >> we obtained that information through waterboarding. when people say it doesnt work and shouldnt be used again, we got vital information that directly led us to bin laden. >> bill: wow, let me stop you there did i not know that and im sure most of my audience did not know. explain how that went down. how did we get that information? where did it come from? was it guantanamo bay? >> it came from an overseas prison where khalid she...

Everything he did, represented and are probably just as happy as we are that hes gone. >> sean: it is obvious now that enhanced interrogations, rendition, black sites, that the harsh questioning led to the intelligence, thanks to the bush administration, i think they deserve as much credit for what happened sunday, i said the president, who i am not a find of, made a gutsy decision going in the way so we could have confirmation that it was bin laden instead of dropping a bomb. the left doesnt wa...

>> im with you on that, dave. thanks so much for the commonsense advice. see you next week. >> thanks, guys. >> hes a little dave, a little dr. phil at the same time. meanwhile, straight ahead. how far did the government go to catch usama bin laden? did aggressive interrogations at gitmo and other sites play a role. congressman mike rogers kept the operation secret for months. hes here next to say what he knows and what he can say. >> hollywood has been making movies about them for years. scenes...

The factor made headlines when congressman king said this about how bin laden was tracked down. >> we obtained that information through waterboarding. when people say it doesnt work and shouldnt be used again, we got vital information that directly led us to bin laden. >> bill: wow, let me stop you there did i not know that and im sure most of my audience did not know. explain how that went down. how did we get that information? where did it come from? was it guantanamo bay? >> it came from an o...