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Deserves enormous credit. it was a tough decision. it landed on his desk. as harry truman famously said, the buck stops here. there were risks in the operation. americans could have been killed. it might have been that nobody was there. it might have been that we could have had a terrible rupture in relations with pakistan. he made the call. it turns out it was the right call. i think he gets the credit for it. he would have gotten a lot of criticism if this would have gone bad. but let's also be clear that this didn't start yesterday or in 2009. it is the product of a long process of pursuing...

In guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance. but it was not harsh treatment, it was not waterboarding. >> joining me now is paul wolfowitz, former deputy secretary of defense for president bush and former president of the world bank. i apologize for the noise, i'm at ground zero. where thankfully construction is going on all night long. so that is what the jackhammering is behind me. you said this operation rested heavily on some of the more controversial policies of the bush administration, like guantanamo. does that include what in the bush administration they ...

We're coming to you live from ground zero. a remarkable vantage point we have from the penthouse of the world center hotel, which is right on washington street overlooking ground zero. if you come and stay at this hotel, there's a remarkable view of the construction, which you can hear going on right now, even at this late hour and it goes well into the night. they're busy trying to rebuild the number of buildings at ground zero. about two dozen navy s.e.a.l. commandos were involved in the operation that killed osama bin laden, all members of s.e.a.l. team six, a very secret branch of the s.e....

Locate bin laden. >> i think we have to know whether they knew. if the pakistanis knew. if they didn't know, why didn't they know? why didn't they pay more attention to it? >> neighbors in abbottabad say they were turned to learn bin laden had been living amongst them. one said local kids who kicked a ball into the walled compound were not allowed on the grounds to retrieve it and given money instead for the ball. the walled compound now sits empty, closed off to the public. the world's most wanted terrorist lived quietly behind these walls, but all that ended after a 40-minute capture or kill...

>> i mean, what secretary rumsfeld was saying, he was careful of saying no member of the defense department was waterboarding khalid shaikh mohammed. there are other groups who could have been, the cia, other groups, as well. do you think president obama, though, deserves the credit he's been getting for this? or do you give the credit to the bush administration or both? >> i think president obama deserves enormous credit. it was a tough decision. it landed on his desk. as harry truman famously said, the buck stops here. there were risks in the operation. americans could have been killed. it m...