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Khali shaikh mohammed who you remember extreme interrogation methods were used against khali shaikh mohammed that have become controversial. but he mentioned the nickname of this courier. it was then verified by another key lieutenant of bin laden's when he was caught. he was captured by the pakistanis. he is the libyan -- he's currently at gitmo. and he also was interrogated and he crorroborated that there was this courier and it wasn't until four years ago that they had the name. and then they found out that he had a brother. both of them were living in this compound and they started honing ...

Obama. we read in this timeline now within a couple months coming into office, he told leon panetta, i'm giving you a directive to capture or kill osama bin laden. can you talk about how important it was for the president and his team to keep bin laden's name from the public even though they were pursuing him behind the scenes. >> my sources, i heard about an operation that dates back many years. the initial tip that led to yesterday's killing of bin laden came from some of the detainees subject to our very aggressive interrogation methods, who gave up the nickname of a courier that they thoug...

An opportunity to look at these cases and hear both sides, would have made the determination that the best thing is to go with the tried and true. to go with the system that has served us well. and distinguishes us as a nation. people in congress have a different view. i think in many ways this case was -- this decision was politicized. and i think that people in congress have made a big mistake here. >> one of the big issues in these trials is the coerced statements that khalid shaikh mohammed made. it's known he was waterboarded. and that's going to be a difficult one for the prosecutors to ...

Won't comment on the tapes but says his client is unstable and the tapes may be used at competency hearings. >> it would be a baseline as to what his mental competency was at that point in time compared to what it might be at the time of the hearing. that would be extremely relevant. >> contacted by cnn on the skro discovery of the tapes, the cia said the agency's past detention program has been subject to multiple reviews by multiple government organization under two administrations. some of those examinations continue to this day a year half after the program itself went out of operation. th...

Would hear oral arguments about detainees having access to supreme courts. that decision came in june of that year. the terrorists were then sent back to black site prisons until president bush's announcement in september 2006 that you just heard that they were being sent to guantanamo to face military tribunals and that's where they still are today, wolf. >> all of this coming in from the associated press. what is the cia saying about this? >> they asked about the a.p. report and did not deny the accuracy about it saying that the detention program ended over 18 months ago and the so-called bl...