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Williams, an interview with former cia director leon panetta. >> can you confirm that it was as a result of waterboarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin laden? >> you know, brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here. we had a multiple source, multiple series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation. clearly some of it came from detainees in the interrogation of detainees but also had information from other sources as well. >> so finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation t...

now is not my time. >> we saw the governor's sense of humor, the command of the room as he answered questions for a long time. gin acosta was right there. he was heavily urged to run, he was flattered, the pressure came from people of high stature, in the end it wasn't enough, why? >> reporter: well, john, answering that question should take a couple of minutes but chris christie, who never is at a loss for words held court in the news conference room for an hour and listened as every reporter in the room basically poked him with a stick, trying to get at why he was not going to make...

Hayden, the c.i.a. director, and i believe most recently, leon panetta have all indicated that the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the c.i.a. actually produced a great deal of important intelligence. >> in regard to actually getting usama bin laden. funny you should mention leon panetta. listen to what he just said in the last 12 hours. >> in the intelligence business, you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here. we had a -- we had a multiple source -- a multiple series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation. clearly, some of it c...

Successful attack. can you confirm that it was a -- as a result of water boarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin laden? >> you know, brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information. and that was true here. we had -- we had a multiple source -- multiseries of sources that provided information with regards to this situation. clearly some of it came from detainees in the interrogation of detainees. but we also had information from other sources as well. >> turned around the other way, are you denying that water boarding was in part among ...

That was the theory behind the iraqi people. they had to know. saddam was caught. showed the video, later the hanging and they had to show those vicious kids he had are captured. there's people now that are saying this guy is not dead. show it, put it away. >> one of the most important reasons we're showing the pictures in iraq is the people were so scared of the tyranny of saddam hussein, in order to act out in their lives moving forward, they needed to see the pictures. it's a little different because usama bin laden was not technically leading a country in the same kind of fashion. anyway, ...