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Classified and what happened is after interest by congress about the program, the department took the classified opinion, sanitized it and what was disclosed yesterday reflects that document. there may be additional information or facts that we don't know about the program which may of course explain why the level of scrutiny isn't as high as we saw back with respect to some of the tax particula tactics used by the bush administration. >> alisyn: you're being very kind, mr. gonzalez, a nice lens by which to look at the double standard and maybe we don't have enough information, but press secre...

Was used very minimally by president bush, and now they're over 3,000 civilians who have been killed in this, in this program. >> the obama administration base faces repeated questioning over the drone campaign and the deaths of noncombatants since 2011 and the american cleric you see him on the left, anwar awlaki became the first targeted for death and three weeks later his 16-year-old son you see him on the right was killed in a drone strike and described as collateral damage. >> i think it's far to say far fewer civilians lose their lives in an effort to go after senior leadership in al-qae...

Consistency here. if we're going to attack president bush for the counterterrorism policies shouldn't president obama be subjected to the same criticism. >> alisyn: kirsten how do you explain that even democratic lawmakers haven't been as outspoke been this, as they were about the previous war on terror tactics, and in fact you took one to task on a different cable network for basically having a double standard what president bush was trying to do and president obama is trying to do. how do you explain their silence? >> i can't. i mean, they're clearly hipocrits and they clearly don't care abo...

Hello. >> good afternoon. >> alisyn: before i get to your impression of the drone program, and i do want to hear those, can you take us back to the years 2005, 2007 when you're attorney general in the white house, and what had a day in your life was like as you were underfire for the anti-terror tactics that the bush administration used? >> well, it's part of the attorney general, part of the job of the attorney general is to take on these difficult tasks and president bush took extraordinary measures to protect america, that we believed were lawful. anytime you're doing something controversia...

For water boarding three planners of 9/11 attacks, but you don't have a problem with the president having a kill list. again, we knew he had a kill list before the election, this is not new information. we-- it's just gotten worse because now we're seeing, they're doing exactly what president obama criticized bush for basically making the law fit around his already preconceived notion and what obama is doing an unconstitutional and illegal. there's no question. there is no way you can argue that you can kill an american without due process and that he's not being held accountable by the media,...