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And we all knew that that was -- that was part of the risks involved here. but the president to his credit, made the decision that we had to go. >> brian also asked the cia director about the role of water boarding in finding bin laden. >> i'd like to ask you about the sourcing on the intel that ultimately led to this 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 ha...

Laden. destruction of videos of senior al qaeda videos. information provided by khalid sheikh mohammed and others was the lead information that eventually led to the location of bin laden's compound and the operation that led to his death. cia director panetta also addressed that issue last night. >> 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. that was true here. clearly some of it came from detainees and the interrogation ...

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 the tactics used to extract the intelligence that le...

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