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Tehran, cuba. there is no way, even in six months of daily, all-day interrogations, youre not going to get everything that a career spy did in 16 years. we will never fully know the damage that she did to the united states. during the time we were debriefing her, we learned a lot about her motivation for being a cuban spy. >> so, in 1984, 1985, montes was working on her masters degree in international relations at johns hopkins university, and her mutual friend saw her in class, knew her opinion...

You. >> and he started to tell us about this spiritual adviser named abdel rahman. >> the individual said he knew who the spiritual adviser was. the spiritual adviser would periodically go meet with zarqawi and conduct the kind of spiritual advice you might get from a mentor. >> one of the pieces of intel we got during our interrogations was when there was going to be a meeting with zarqawi, abd al rahman would physically move his entire family from whatever home they were living in to another h...

We have to bring him down. we have 130,000 troops there trained in terrorism and we have not done that. >> i was supposed to be there for six months. my assignment was almost up, but i didnt care. i would not stop looking for saddam. >> i called one of the interrogators in baghdad and said dont let the fishermen go, im coming tonight. i needed to prove what they were. theres no why two guys are sticking around in the middle of nowhere next to a fish pond, fishing at 1:00 in the morning. that nig...

Places but we were getting pieces of a puzzle that let everybody understand that nobody was going to know where he was until we found the right people. >> after several hundred interrogations, these prisoners, they started talking about their insurgency groups. they started popping up the name of al muslit. i dont know why. they just kept popping up in the insurgency. so jeff and i were were most interested in this al muslit group. they brought in this guy, nasr yaseen omar al musla. he was an i...

>> youre talking engineers, teachers, a cleric. we narrowed the 12 down to five. we bring the five up to balad for questioning and through interrogations we narrowed that down really to the one guy. and that was abu alawi. >> we did not mistreat prisoners. the two interrogators, a male and female that worked with them, built a real relationship with him. they took him down to baghdad one time to let him meet other people. they let him watch his favorite movie one night, which was "the exorcist."...

Battle with the fear that either a taliban or an angry terrorist will kill me. >> the taliban actually had serious evidence against these people. in fact, they had broken taliban law. it seemed pretty clear they were guilty. >> this stuff is indicating they were indeed proselytizing in afghanistan. >> after we were arrested, it basically began three weeks of interrogations. they would bring in taliban officers. >> i was an employee of the minister of justice assigned to the investigation. i was ...

But on the other hand, that could be a problem. >> reporter: that is right, john. they were not on the same page. a couple issues raised in the hearings. we heard from general mattis appearing before the defense secretary hearings. he laid out different views on a range of issues. one on iran with the nuclear agreement. he didnt think it was a great deal. he said the u.s. had to stick with it for the time being. on the issue of israel, he talked about the issue of the embassy being moved from te...

Nomination to get derailed or does this seem like a smoother process than, say, rex tillerson was yesterday? >> reporter: i think pompeo answered in the ways that those senators were looking for. would he separate himself from president-elect trump? yes, he would. would he adhere to what has been a long, contentious battle on capitol hill to end what is commonly referred to as torture by limiting some of the actions -- again, were talking cia. they had a responsibility in interrogations, to foll...

Prove that they are indeed connected sufficiently with an enemy action against the united states or they couldnt be detained. >> well, i appreciate that. let me go into another subject. you were one of nine senators to vote against the detainee treatment act of 2005. it prohibited the imposition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of any person in the custody or control of u.s. personnel. you also voted against an amendment sponsored by senator mccain in the 2016 defense autho...

Housekeeper and her husband. >> linda hoffman pew had been employed by the ramseys for a while. she had asked patsy to borrow $2,000 shortly before christmas. >> police searched the housekeepers home and found possible evidence linking the couple to jonbenet. >> for example, the duct tape and the cord that was found. >> but their alibis checked out and dna and handwriting didnt match. detectives had their eyes on other suspects. a convicted sex offender who carried a photo of jonbenet in his wal...