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Was an arrest of this guy gul and when he came out and when he came out and gave the name of the courier and they looked at the way ksm and the other avoided trying to give that name and said thats no big deal. they started moving forward when they realized all this. >> exactly right. and ill tell you what, this is what weve got to get right following this. you know, theres been a lot of politics interjected into the intelligence communitys ability to conduct interrogations. and as an f.b.i. age...

Tortured hypothesis? or is this an attempt to rewrite history to try to grab credit for something they clearly did not do? let me bring in national investigative correspondent michael isikoff to help answer that question. great to have you here. >> great to be with you. >> i know you did some reporting on this. first, khalid sheikh mohammed, when did he give up the couriers name? >> theres so much misinformation about this. lets be clear. there are only three cia he-value detainees that were wat...

Great to have you with us here tonight on "the ed show." this is the story that has me fired up first. republicans are desperately trying to steal the spotlight from obama over the termination of osama bin laden. conservatives are scrambling to put national security back on the table. they are lining up to credit bushs torture policies for the information that led to the death of bin laden. >> we dont find this guy until 2007. we got it through enhanced interrogations then they found the real id...

Interrogations on the right or left saying that had nothing to do with it, theyre grossly oversimplifying this intel process. if you really want to know what happened, the "wall street journal" had a remarkably accurate description a few days ago how it went down and david ignatius, as always, a great place to start in on this, as keyed in as anybody in the intel community. you dont want to watch certain news programs on the right or left. they oversimplify it. its embarrassing. lets talk about ...

Hard, tough say that the intelligence that led to the killing of bin laden began with harsh interrogations, particularly of two high value individuals, khalid shaikh mohammed and al lib bill. 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 enough. i dont know where i stand -- i dont like waterboarding, i tell you who does, some people do but the freezing of the guy the freezing of him to the point where he ...

Sometimes but it also leads us 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 and the inference that i have and i think senator feinstein has reflected, is that a lot of this information was on taubed the traditional way. the interrogations that are permissible under law, the -...

Boarding. at a certain point that left them out of the process and it left the less experienced interrogators who were less informed than the fbi agents in the process. isnt that the way? >> not necessarily that sequence. there were teams of interrogators down at guantanamo bay. there was a criminal task force. which i was a deputy commander and special agent of federal agents. the fbi was there and the agents worked very closely together. on the other side were military intelligence interrogato...

>> we dont know much about his interrogations. in reports outside "the new york times" conflict with "the new york times" information. i always take the information that comes out after these types of events with a grain of salt. usually half of what we hear is incorrect. it will take time to flush out the whole story. what is clear is the information came from several sources. it was pieced together by analysts and the real heroes in this are intelligence collectors, interrogators. >> the conse...

Im assuming you must be satisfied this week. >> its not correct, by the way, that i never boasted of that. i dont know -- >> sounds good, though. >> but its not correct. and -- >> it was -- >> the substance of it is not correct. if youd like to ask a question, ill be happy -- >> im asking you if you feel that this week, to some extent the policies that were established then have borne fruit. >> you mean the interrogation policy? >> absolutely. >> well, as the cia director just suggested in the c...

What is your position on this? are you saying -- >> all i know about this is what im reading in the newspapers in the last several days, the claims are, and i hope well eventually get clear information on the point, but the claims are, and certainly the clip you just showed from cia director panetta supports the suggestion, that those interrogations produced some of the information that then pursued over months and years led to the identification of bin ladens hideout. >> according to other, tec...