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No, it's much more complicated. and there have been a lot of books. but what there haven't been is a book about journalism, what we got right, what we got wrong. and what i've done is i've gone back and tried to take apart that narrative. what became very clear to me was that the people who were the best in the country, the intelligence analysts upon whom we now depend for all our information about iran north korea, pakistan -- >> isis. >> -- isis. they got it wrong. they were right about osama bin laden and so was i when i said he was a threat to this country ten years before he kind of came ...

Search came from enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions. >> actionable intelligence that was "otherwise unavailable" was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> reporter: the cia and senate republicans dispute that saying detainees in cia custody who had been the subject of those techniques helped lead the agency to a man named abu achmed al kuwaiti. >> the al qaeda facilitator who served as osama bin laden's personal courier and the man who led cia intelligence analysts and the navy seals to bin laden himself. >> re...

Sheikh mohammed who was teaching classes to intelligence analysts at the site, describing what al qaeda was. >> torture. >> well, john mccain thinks it's torture. and he's an expert on the subject. we considered waterboarding torture when it was used by our troops on the fill peechbs and the war there more than a century ago. is so this is a long history of a long technique, it's one thing to expose for very good reasons as a training technique, our own people to this on a limited basis that they know is limited and it's going to end, it becomes torture when there's no end in sight. >> but geo...

About, our intelligence analysts will look at a bunch of data and say did we see truck matted missiles moving around and going across the boarder? with fbi agents and the identification of a dual citizen, american citizen on that plane, there is a separate basket that is do we have evidence that can be admitted in the international criminal court in a court of law in new york city or washington years down the road? further more, forget about the site, can you talk to people who might have witnessed that plane coming down? were there witnesses over time in the course of years, can we talk to pe...

They shake hands with their sworn enemy. one of them over here briefly puts his hand to his chest in a sign of respect. but then they quickly move to get bergdahl to the helicopter. he touches him in the back here. and then away they go while keeping a very close eye on the taliban. at the helicopter, a much more thorough frisking happens here. bergdahl was carrying a plastic bag which he's forced to drop. then quickly onto the helicopter. all the while keeping an eye on the taliban. this happens fast. and then away they go. you have to wonder why would the taliban give this over so that it ca...