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Loved ones 2001. the fight against toror goes on but tonight america has sent a message, no matter how long it takes, justice will be done. what do you think? >> president reagan tried hard and president bush tried hard and i am glad he called and talked because this was an americanest not democrat or republican. no one owns 9/11. we congratulate all of the brave young men and women involved with this and who did all the interrogations and everything else that led up to it. it brought peace. >> ...

If we can do this without instilling more hatred, more recruitment, were better off. i think the way the military handled it with the very careful burial at sea of bin laden didnt make the matter any worse and i think this is a very different kind of war. we have to win it with guts and smarts. >> all right. thank you very much, chris, for sticking around. be sure to watch "hardball with chris matthews" tonight, more insight and reaction to the killing of osama bin laden. let me fwlibring in gen...

Of al qaeda, it is simply not there. we dont have capacity no matter how many interrogations there have been. some were relying on the fact that some had a watch, very common watch, that was given out at a certain al qaeda training facility to say heres the link. as though somehow there are 1 million people with that watch and thats the evidence were relying on. when you see this as a lawyer and someone who has been a federal prosecutor, you look at how does it make you feel in that capacity to ...

Follow the jihad? >> yes, thats right. >> there are a number of people who are pranwere sent to gitmo nothing wrong? >> right. youre talking about an 89-year-old man bordering on senility and there are reports where they literally say, they captured the wrong person and brought them to guantanamo bay. >> is there anything, in parsing through all of the these documents that struck you that was missing? maybe the use of interrogation tactics that have certainly made news? >> right. so there are oc...

Information about osama bin laden and those that help him accomplish his missions, so to speak. whats the most interesting tidbit about that? about osama? >> well, there are glimpses of bin laden from various -- these are detainee assessments. essentially a summary of the interrogations, and other intelligence about each individual detainee. theres about 700 of them. and many of them had glimpses of bin laden, in some cases met with him, sauce his movements, particularly in the meerd after 9/11,...

Senior reporter who has extensively reported on gitmo and also fran townsend. well get into details in just a minute. first a debate about whether it is good or bad, good or potentially harmful that these documents and these details are made public. you think, fran, there is some risk. is somebody watching at home possible that terrorists can learn so much from seeing documents that someone at home is less safe? >> john, the problem with this is two-fold. one, we know that al qaeda developed cou...

Prisoner, from prisoners at guantanamo bay. what does that say to you about the argument for keeping guantanamo bay or for the success or failure of interrogation of these prisoners? >> i dont think it really says very much either way. ali, thats a very long discussion about, you know, how and why guantanamo should be closed. i mean, these are essentially the interrogations of prisoners. they dont shed much light on i think many of the legal issues surrounding the prison. they dont shed much lig...

An actionable nature. >> reporter: fran town send believes it is still worth it to hold the detainees purely for security reasons. despite rigorous screening, many returned to the battlefield. one said while he was at guantanamo portrayed himself as being in the wrong place at the wrong time. he kept saying he was only trying to help his brother from being captured but once he was released from guantanamo he became one of the tally banss most notorious operational leaders. >> you also received d...

Listen, the commander in chief has one job, to protect american lives. you need to do what is necessary when faced with a threat to do it. president obama has said he is not subjecting any terrorist suspect to water boarding and as far as we know that is true, but dont think for a minute this administration is not subjecting terror suspects to aggressive interrogations because necessity commander in chief wants another terrorist attack. >> thank you. forget waiting around for libyan rebels to pa...

Military facility he will be transferred to. what we do know is that his condition right now according to some of the doctors that weve been able to speak to and some of the hospital sources is stable and that the interrogations and the investigation continues. though we do hear he is not being questioned every day because it depends according to the source we spoke to at the general prosecutors office on his health. and whether or not he is able to receive investigators in his hospital room. we...