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On an observation post just outside. and we were conducting mainly kill capture operations against high value targets, al qaeda and taliban and vehicle interdictions as well. when he walked off the base we iven the intelligence we had a deserter we were going to get him back we stopped everything we were doing. the war stopped from very highest levels of special operations and we started hunting him. my team and i would say 20 operations trying to find this guy. we got so close to him at one point we had the ransom money where he was turned over to the taliban. and we tried to pursue all the w...

So during a five-daytime period, he got less than ten hours of sleep, yet the majority does not acknowledge this was an enhanced interrogation. the claims that the fbi was exclusively usie ining rapport building tactics is nothing short of dishonest. gleaned from the enhanced interrogation that started in april of 2002, served as the foundation for the capture of additional terrorists. and the disruption of the plots those captured terrorists were planning. his information was also used to gather additional actionable intelligence from these newly captured terrorists, which in turn led to a se...

People. let me make one final point about our efforts against terrorism. the partnerships that i have described do not eliminate the need to take direct action when necessary to protect ourselves. when we have actionable intelligence, that is what we do. through capture operations like the one that brought a terrorist involved in the plot to bomb our embassies in 1998 to face justice or drone strikes like those we have carried out in yemen and somalia. there are times when those actions are necessary. but as i said last year, in taking direct action, we must uphold standards that reflect our v...