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But 2015 could be the year the president can make some progress on his vow to shut gitmo down. suzanne, victor. >> barbara starr, thank you so much. we've got cnn military analyst retired army general spider marks joining us from washington. i want to pick up on that point barbara starr just made about the yemenis. we know that 64 of the 102 eligible to be transferred -- 64 are eligible to be transferred, 54 of those are yemeni. what do you do with those? >> the bigger issue, you've got 132, and you're exactly right, 54 are ready for release in one form or another. third countries are not go...

Accomplishing that with the lowest numbers of detainees there since it opened in 2002? >> i think president obama said right from the beginning he was going to close gitmo down. one of the things we do know is we are getting intelligence and have been getting intelligence or he's been getting intelligence from prisoners in guantanamo bay which have been held illegally. i think that's the point. i think what he should do is start to release hostages, in this case, where he has via uruguay. we have to be careful because some of the hostages that have gone to qatar have been involved in fighting ...

President obama assumed the presidency eight years into ten-year effort. by the time he assumed the presidency, we were already hot on the trail of bin laden thanks to information obtained from our black sites, information from hardened terrorists that gave us the information because they were subjected to our enhanced interrogation program. so he deserves credited for going ahead with the operation, but to spike the ball and assume sole responsibility and credit for killing bin laden is not right. >> sean: he was against the very intelligence gathering -- by the way, you spent a significant p...

President obama assumed the presidency eight years into ten-year effort. by the time he assumed the presidency, we were already hot on the trail of bin laden thanks to information obtained from our black sites, information from hardened terrorists that gave us the information because they were subjected to our enhanced interrogation program. so he deserves credited for going ahead with the operation, but to spike the ball and assume sole responsibility and credit for killing bin laden is not right. >> sean: he was against the very intelligence gathering -- by the way, you spent a significant p...

>> president obama has said what we did was torture. >> well, president obama is entitled to his opinion. when president obama condemns the covert action, activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that exists between intelligence officers at the pointed end of the spear hanging right out there and the government that authorized them and directed them to go there. >> you have a couple of things to think about here. these c.i.a. agents now even if they could question possible terror suspects, will they? because keep in mind, that the department of justice has wanted to pro...