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Think the answer is no. especially i if it's the criterion you late out. if it were done to americans, would it be torture? we water boarded, in the s.e.a.l. program, we water boarded our s.e.a.l.s and we didn't consider it torture. at the beginning of the report, it so says 7 of 9 detainees produced any unique intelligence value. what about the others? there's 82% that they can't account for. the report claims with sort of a wave of the hand, there was no intelligence of value produced that we wouldn't have gotten through other means, that's unknowable. if you talk to the people involved with...

Arrested. one of al b-baghdadi's wives isn custody. who is this woman and what kind of information she may have, if any? >> reporter: i was told she was a former wife of abu bakr al-baghdadi and contacted him. there's the personal connection but in addition to that, told by lebanese intelligence officials she's believed to have a role, some significant role in the terrorist organization. gave her intelligence value enough to make her the target of this operation. she wasn't picked up by accident. she was the target and considered to have intelligence value because of those connections. >> and ...

Leading to his capture, and that is how big of a target he is. and now, someone close to him is has been arrested. one of al baghdadi's wives is in custody. who is this woman and what kind of information she may have, if any? >> reporter: i was told she was a former wife of abu bakr al baghdadi and mother of his child. and that he had reached out to contact her. and she had reached tout contact him. there's the personal connection but in addition to that, told by lebanese intelligence officials she's believed to have a role, some significant role in the terrorist organization. that role gave h...

Conversations on e-mail or social media that were caught in the spy agency's traps. 90% of the individuals were ordinary users, not targets of the government. but just because the government collects it doesn't mean it reads it. the white house not responding to inquiries, but officials say the agency routinely filters our communications that are of no intelligence value. so maybe john berman, specifically your fitness selfies. >> i take topless photos of myself working out, i just don't want the government to have them. they're for my own private consumption. >> can we go back to the tsa. if ...

Holders were not the people the agency was trying to target. nearly half the surveillance files are from americans. former nsa analyst edward snowden provided the documents to the post. however, the article also points out how much valuable intelligence has been picked up in the sweep. quoting from the article, discoveries of considerable intelligence value in the intercepted message. to avoid interfering with on going operations, there are fresh revelations about a secret overseas nuclear project, double dealing by an ally, a military calamity and the identities of aggressive intrutders int...