CNN Anderson Cooper 360 January 18, 2014 05:11:00
Director of the cia said the same thing, there's no evidence that this program is necessary to stop terrorism. there was one federal judge who accepted the government's aim claim that it could have helped stop 9/11. but two leading al qaeda experts, peter bergen, an analyst at cnn, and lawrence wright, who wrote defending against al qaeda, said those claims are absurd. the 9/11 commission made clear that the u.s. government had the in its possession what it would have needed to know about the 9/11 attack. they got a memo saying bin laden plans to attack in the united states. but they had so mu...