the mission, to kill the world's most wanted man, osama bin ladin. >> the death of bin laden mark it is most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al qaeda. >> most have heard the incredible details of the compound raid, but little has been revealed about the intense months-long deliberation that led to the final decision to act. so how was the decision made? who was told? how did they weigh the options? tonight we will ask the men tasked by the president to synthesize the intelligence, analyze the assessments and run the decision making process, to act, in a sense, as gatekeeper of this monumental decision. i sat down with national security adviser follow donlin in the eisenhower executive office building. when you come into the white house, has the trail for osama bin ladin gone cold? >> when we came into office at the beginning of 2009 the trail had gone cold. we really hadn't had a good case as to his whereabouts since he was in tora bora in 2001. >> so the president at that point tells leon panetta, get bin ladin. >> in the spring of 009, the president

thriller film supposedly portraying a real time account of the seal team raid that killed osama bin ladin now director kathryn bigelow made a huge splash at the two thousand and ten academy awards for her movie hurt locker which depicted soldiers fighting in iraq the oscar winning film was revered by conservatives and antiwar liberals alike for its balanced and realistic tone but in reality the movie is just a clever form of pro military propaganda portray an imaginary superhero like character wearing a bomb protection suit his sole job was to defuse ids from military zones now zero dark thirty is bigelow's follow up film check out the trailer. and i want to see my . little son. the insulin. so now we'll know what actually happened that day i've been waiting for this first so long because you know recent news revealed that all the seal helmet cams that supposedly recorded the entire event never actually recorded a damn thing and furthermore no one actually witnessed the burial of bin laden back to the movie bigelow and crew were given exclusive access to classified details of the raid to

as a viable means of gaining intel to find bin ladin in fact just monday miss n.b.c.'s joe scarborough actually defended the use of these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques depicted in the film and check it out. i had to listen to people on this show for years tell me well the cia program that were right waterboarding to work and i knew that was just not true you did get information to lead shaikh muhammad and other terrorists that eventually led to not just the killing of osama bin laden but a lot of victories. no actually reality check joe tortured doesn't work it's never gained valuable intel this is well no man it's been known for years where have you been and i'm sorry but if i was waterboard one hundred eighty three times in one month like shaikh muhammad was i probably confess that i was a damn tooth fairy if that's what you wanted to hear think about this point though for one second if it is torture did get intelligence is that enough justification to practice the barbaric it in the main act of torturing human beings i think not but despite all of thes

now in select theaters zero dark thirty a film laboratory of the hunt for osama bin ladin now to make the hollywood blockbuster screenwriters were given special access to classified information from the cia here's a here's a peek. because the only thing that. but some say the film does not accurately portray what led up to the capture of bin ladin critics say glorifies torture as critical in getting the information that led to the nine eleven mastermind another question why does hollywood get special access to classified information while the public remains in the dark over torture techniques used on terror suspects testimony from guantanamo bay remains classified as well as a congressional report that details pushchair bush era interrogation methods so is the movie and the continued secrecy of torture techniques doing a disservice to the public colonel morris davis professor at howard university school of law think so and join me earlier to explain why he thinks the film will give viewers a distorted view about how effective torture is. back when i was younger the movie jaws came out

radical islam that you had this have no problem to behead people alive you didn't was people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his shin to use any form of whip around to to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends many morocco to throw their weight behind the newly formed syrian opposition coalition two thirds of the islamic dominated entire south coalition has the highest of the muslim brotherhood and salafist and their idea of freedom for syria what. a positive sign for us that our military struggle is characterized by being mostly islamic because martyrdom for the sake of anna has always been the main motive of people who are. in what's seen as a symbolic attempts to distance themselves from terrorists in syria washington has designated one of the rebel groups all nusra a terrorist organization but the same syrian opposition that the u.s. supports welcomes the efforts of groups like al nusra the decision of considering one of the. factions fighting the regime

we took one point four trillion dollars pay a small black ops team to hunt track and kill osama bin ladin oh we even had money left over in the budget to decimate two countries launch hostilities resulting in over one million innocent civilians dead and counting ask yourself how many orphans going to bed with clenched fists tonight in afghanistan or iraq who grow up willing to fly a plane into the building and how many trillions are we prepared to spend on avenging that. did not. do everything go to school and not just go to school but excel in school work really really hard and i graduated and really had to feeling a lot of the time very consciously in my head that. i might as well. you know i mean. was there reason for me to be in debt good evening of all the time bombs on the american economy set to explode with dire consequences this is a big one staggering debt from student loans everyone is told a college education is a way to get ahead college tuitions though keep going up so does the borrowing and we just hit an awful milestone our nation's combined student loan debt is now. one t

radical islam that you have this have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his e.t.a. shin to use any form of whip around to to really. control any place. religious believes an ideology representatives of opposition fighters came together in turkey last friday to form a unified command with the support of the so-called friends of syria including the gulf states the u.s. the u.k. and friends one of the delegates at the meeting says two thirds of the islamist dominated anti assad groups have ties to the muslim brotherhood and salafist people here in washington don't seem to understand that. if you don't like the government in karo or if you do like the government in cairo i guess i should say then you will love the government the comes to power in damascus because you will see a sunni muslim islamic government a muslim brotherhood style government that is absolutely intolerant fundamentally hostile to the west washington has failed to officially denounce the many suicide bombings perpetrated by the rebels in syria

much much more all the jihadists have no problem to behead people alive you deal with people like bin ladin and there are because of al qaida who have no his it is to use any form of whip around to really like control any place. religious believes and ideology. and there's unverified evidence are suggesting there anti outside forces may actually be seeking to launch a chemical attack of their own party dot com we have a video where an alleged rebel fighter uses a deadly gas on animals promising to do the same to government supporters. a student has been found guilty in a british court of involvement in a cyber attack on global online payment companies pay pal visa and master card were targeted after it blocked off funds meant for whistle blowing site wiki leaks the twenty two year old who has maintained his innocence is now facing a jail sentence live now to our it is laura smith who is in london laura what exactly is the man accused of christopher weatherhead has been found guilty of. yeah he's already been convicted as we know but he is waiting for sentencing and the crime is basically a

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report where we were so far and also how enhanced enhanced interrogation related to exactly how osama bin ladin with sound i want to play for you her response. they have gone through more than three million e-mails cables pieces of paper just looking for this today. the answer to your question is no nothing has been found to indicate that this came out of guantanamo. now as far as what else is in this report well there are a lot of things there and. people also call. fortunately we as you can see we are having technical difficulties that was our political correspondent christine for. going to move on now to a mysterious plane's space plane the air force launched just a couple hours ago here it is the man plane looks like a mini space shuttle the x. thirty seven b. launch from cape canaveral air force station in florida top at an atlas rocket and the blast off was delayed for about two months as they worked out some technical glitches and today's launch is the third in three years so so far it's been nearly seven hundred days in orbit in total the space vehicle is solar powered so it can stay in

head of the program tonight with me kevin though in a movie about a summer bin ladin is violent demise a spook the cia we're going on our website to tell you why america's intelligence community was so worried by what they saw they considered the drama of a documentary about what really happens online and how life could be sustained on mars the bacteria from siberia get the science and the story to. russia's upper house of parliament approved a ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft laws in response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly involved in human rights violations the adoption restrictions got unanimous backing in the chamber that now needs presidential approval to become law the act is named after to make yakovlev a two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car on a hot day. targets america's lax treatment towards those who let russian children suffer but critics claim the move deprives thousands of orphans of the chance of finding a loving. the new year nearly her

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