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Techniques such as sleep deprivation if you want to if you look at the evidence, and you and i would sit down a couple of people and look at it hard, tough say that the hard, youd have to say that the killing of bin laden began with harsh interrogations, particularly of two high value individuals, khalid shaikh khalid sheikh mohammed, and abu farah al libbi. that is very clear. but you say it could have done it another way, maybe, but wasnt done another way in this particular instance. >> fair e...

Hi, everyone. im tamron hall. well hear from white house press secretary jay carney on the breaking news about president obamas decision not to release the pictures of osama bin ladens body. plus, ill talk to the special agent who oversaw interrogations at guantanamo bay. he is giving his thoughts on the debate over harsh interrogation tactics that some claim may have led to the capture and killing of bin laden. and osama bin ladens will, a kuwaiti paper is claiming that it obtained a copy of hi...

Of his wives. his wife attacked the seals and they shot her in the leg. according to the latest reports, bin laden was not armed. the team exited the compound by helicopter with bin ladens body. but questions are surfacing about the intelligence that led to the capture and just how much of it was gathered through enhanced interrogations, conducted during the bush administration. joining me with analysis, the one and owned donald rumsfeld is back. welcome back. good it see you. >> thank you, sean...

Silver bullet f 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 -- replacement in al qaeda, led us to this fella this courier who had the nom de guerre of tracking him to peshawar and the compound? >> you can ask the other question now, the techniques, nonsophisticated techniques, torture not used works we h...

Boarding ended seven years ago. all of the enhanced interrogation techniques were abandoned by the cia five years ago. the most famous target khalid sheik mohammed was water boarded hundreds of times. mohammed did not discuss bin ladens courier while being subjected to the simulated drowning deck neek known as water boarding. former officials said he acknowledged knowing him many months later under standard interrogation. joining me now mark fallon a former interrogator and special agent in char...

Thats a source, but its not the best source and, in fact, because of the legal complications, its something that not only doesnt give us 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 p...

Guantanamo bay. thanks for joining me tonight. >> youre very welcome. >> you have extensive experience in exactly the kinds of interrogations peter king is talking about at guantanamo bay. listen to something leon panetta said to brian williams about this tonight. >> are you denying that water boarding was in part among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to this successful mission? >> no, i think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogat...

Last month in the presidents highest approval rating since june, 2009. the moral high ground is important. americans are not having to believe a campaign speech, they have seeing a strategy being played out big time. what are the republicans doing? they are out in full force. we played the tape for you. the sound machine is out and about. they want you to think its all about illegal activity, interrogations. it is not. this country is not only taking down more terrorists under the obama administ...

That interrogation program. and one person in particular, journalists have been trying to interview for a while. he had never given an interview. he was the head of the counter terrorism center in the period when these harsh interrogation techniques was used. his name was jose rodriguez. he went on to head the clandestine services of the cia. last year he was investigated by the justice department for destroying videos of interrogations of the high-value al qaeda detainees and he was cleared of ...

Folks, when it comes to national security, this killing of osama bin laden is the republicans water loom on national security. they dont have the upper hand. their plan didnt work for all those years. they did the illegal activity and it doesnt work. it was president obama and the democrats who supported this strategy that was well played out on the campaign trail and is an act, big time and we are getting results. we are not doing it through enhanced interrogations. we are just as safe tonight ...