warships off the streets of gibraltar were stopped. plot to blow up the empire state building and brooklyn bridge, chicago sears tower, seattle's space needle, library tower in downtown los angeles and stalin. plots to blow up gas stations in baltimore, all stopped based on interrogating and debriefing khalid shaikh mohammed. how many of these plots with you have liked to see succeed by giving up the water boarding option? how many? how many people do you want to trade so that we don't water board someone who has devoted his life to terrorism? thank you very much. [applause] >> we have a few minutes for questions. the microphone here. >> you said you have questions that going too far can be counterproductive. what are the talking heads on ms nbc interviewed several people described as interrogators who said that water boarding have a counter-productive effect of causing someone to hate america which intuitively sounded absurd to me in cases like ksm. that you could increase hatred for america in any way. would you comment upon that? i