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Them that there was justice. >> people are still arguing today over the detainees, the initial tip on this came during the george w. bush administration, and it came in the process of interrogations in guantanamo. the tip that led to the nickname of the courier, we then identified the courier and over the years narrowed the trail down and it led to osama bin laden. does this make you think or rethink the whole value of that very controversial process? >> well, there is lots of discussion about w...

Day and almost every hour right now. and the narratives are shifting. you know, there are some people out there like vice president cheney and others who are suggesting yesterday that it was enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding that led to the discovery of the courier who was -- who led us to bin laden. and that was the key break in the case. in fact, in further reporting, by myself and others, the trail is a bit more tangled than that, and suggests some other alternatives. in...

Waterboarding, long, long intense what sould would consider inhumane interrogations. i was a prosecutor most of my life. nasty intense questioning works. when you do the history of this, youre going to find that a lot of those techniques that president bush and cheney started are the rehn why the president of the united states had this kind of information available to him when he had to make a tough decision. >> and truth be said, there were some things that this president, tom brokaw, rejected ...

>> reporter: its one of the issues in this whole affair. despite the success of the mission that makes some people within the obama administration, certainly up on capitol hill, a little uncomfortable, as a matter of fact. because we are being told that the original tip on this courier that led the u.s. military and intelligence agencies to osama bin laden came from those aggressive interrogations, including 183 water boardings, which i know is a very bad word, of khalid sheikh mohammed, when he...

That this was bin laden it looked like him. there was very little doubt in the minds of this seal team that they had gotten their man. >> shepard: and that wife used in a way as a human shield. we are told she too shot and killed. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. thank you. u.s. intelligence community spent nearly a decade searching for the worlds most wanted fugitive. osama bin laden taunted us with videos and audio recordings. until now we were always at least a step behind. sources tell...

Four years ago we are told they finally had the name of the courier that was what led them to this home in abbottobad 35 miles northeast of the capital of islamabad and two years ago they started to put together the nickname of that guard, excuse me the couriers that were taken from interrogations of petroleum like khalid sheik mohammed, among others, who are currently now at gitmo bay and they put together the names and two years ago they knew the location of the compounds in abbottobad. they w...

Always looking for leads, came to me with the expectation that they might be able to use the kur your network. thats much more difficult for us to track but its an opportunity. and they began at that point. they actually used some information that we had derived from some of our high value detainees that gave us some identifying data on the cure couriers and i obviously lost lock on the hunt two years or so ago, but its very clear to me now that that process led to yesterdays events. >> the high...

On your broadcast earlier today, that we should brace ourselves for attacks on the homeland, especially home grown terrorists might act not in concert with al-qaeda central but they could act. there are materials on the web that teach people how to make dangerous weapons. but i think that we have better protection in our train stations, airports, airplanes, municipal buildings and so forth and people are more aware, so the chances of that are reduced, and my bottom line here is that we have a mu...

Chinooks and black hawks that took off from a base in afghanistan, made their way to this compound, 30-60 miles north of the capitol of islamabad, the president had actually order ed this mission on friday. it was supposed to go down on saturday night. but im told that weather got in the way. it was delayed by a day. and it finally went off at 3:30 p.m. eastern on sunday. thats when the choppers took off from afghanistan and im told 24 seal team members repelled from their choppers into the comp...

Interrogations at secret sights labeled are labeled by torture as some inflamed the muslim world. khalid sheikh mohammed provided information invaluable to us. radical change did come to the middle east of course but hardly as osama bin laden would have envision edit. that and more from my look back at the first decade on the war on terror on special report with bret bair at 6:00pm. martha. martha: when you think of this unfolding in the middle east its quite a tale. we look forward to that on s...