what does this mean for the future of guantanamo bay? guest: i am not sure that the death of osama bin laden has an effect one way or the other on the future of guantanamo. we got some classified documents that we spent a couple of weeks looking at and wrote a series of stories on. what they made clear is that this prison, which was set up in a hurry in 2002, after 9/11, they looked for a place of sort of put these people. i think that no one really expected to be going on with it this long. now that they have 72 people left there, there is very little chance of getting rid of the evidence, so it has become a permanent part of the american approach to terrorism. host: what has happened to the others that were there? guest out as many as 800 people have passed through their at one time or another. about 600 were sent to other countries other -- under the bush administration. some of them were sent home. others resettled in third countries because there was fear if they were sent home, they would be mistreated and tortured. congress has rec

guantanamo bay if the president had his way president obama had his way he would to shut it down preemptively and we didn't get a say in the intelligence that we've got other get out of guantanamo bay in the last two years and the fact that we have military bases in afghanistan that possible good for us to go to pakistan and i thought we had gone into pakistan probation germany we had so you know you can't take away from the fact that president bush helped start the process that president obama finished both deserve credit enhanced interrogation techniques did help get this information i'm curious your take i think it's too early to say what exactly got the information we've heard a lot of conflicting things around what i would say is this george bush spent eight years waging a multiple wars and even get close to catching osama bin laden if he had focus purely on sort of smarter intelligence sort of good sort of counterinsurgency good counterterrorism i think that maybe could have gotten him i'm i'm obviously not some of the men and women in uniform there who are limited yeah i m

i don't think anything we did with regard to the al qaeda leaders in guantanamo bay or method on the top leaders will change the way al qaeda acts against us. >> i agree there that we are not dealing with people who will temper down their own approach and attempts in dialing with us. great case is daniel pearl who was a journal >> defendant: and behead by these people. we are not talking about people who think like we domp please stay with me. when we come back, i want to talk about what happened this week with the killing of osama bin laden. you wrote a piece in the wall street journal and i will ask the> this week the killing of osama bin laden has been celebrated by freedom loving people and certainly americans around . do you feel a since of vindication that information that led to the killing was obtained by water boarding. >> it is it a vindication of the bush administration policy . without the policy on interrogation and wire tapping, both of which are put into place under president obama, we would never have gotten the intelligence necessary to find osama bin la

he's in custody at guantanamo bay. mustafa ahmed al haw sa which is in guantanamo bail, as well.or player in the 9/11 conspiracy not in custody and his whereabouts are unknown. ayman al zawahiri is known as osama bin laden's top lieutenant. often seen next to bin laden in his videos, he's presumed to be still alive and perhaps best positioned to take over leadership of what's left of al qaeda, his whereabouts unknown. >>> well, today the world can't forget is especially poignant for a group of american teenagers. we'll hear how they remember president bush in their classroom on that morning of 9/11. ant a warm, super-delics strawberry toaster strudel yeah but now i have nothing to eat sure you do. hey! you can have the pop tart! pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat pillsbury toaster strudel. coldwell banker. we never stop moving. [ thunder rumbles ] [ male announcer ] the motorola xoom. designed to access anything and everything on the internet with adobe flash. upgradable to 4g lte for blazing-fast web surfing. and access to the fast growing, endlessly exciting ap

i don't think anything we did with regard to the al qaeda leaders in guantanamo bay or method on the leaders will change the way al qaeda acts against us. >> i agree there that we are not dealing with people who will temper down their own approach and attempts in dialing with us. great case is daniel pearl who was a journal >> defendant: and behead by these people. we are not talking about people who think like we domp please stay with me. when we come back, i want to talk about what happened this week with the killing of osama bin laden. you wrote a piece in the wall street journal and i will ask street journal and i will ask yo♪ about that. there's another way to minimize litter box odor: purina tidy cats. ti cats premium line of litters now works harder to help neutralize odors in multiple-cat homes. and our improved formula also helps eliminate dust. so it's easier than ever to keep your house smelling just the way you want it. purina tidy cats. keep your home smelling like home. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of

i don't think anything we did with regard to the al qaeda leaders in guantanamo bay or method on the will change the way al qaeda acts against us. >> i agree there that we are not dealing with people who will temper down their own approach and attempts in dialing with us. great case is daniel pearl who was a journal >> defendant: and behead by these people. we are not talking about people who think like we domp please stay with me. when we come back, i want to talk about what happened this week with the killing of osama bin laden. you wrote a piece in the wall street journal and i will ask you about that. we'll be back with professor yu. this is the neighborhood. you get elm street and you get main street. thank you. and that just the first quarter. so you want a slide in your office ? or monkey bars, either one. more small businesses choose verizon wireless than any other wireless carrier. where's susie ? is she expecting you ? because they know the small business with the best technology rules. to london starts with arthritis pain... and a choice. take tylenol now, and maybe up to

there were teams of interrogators down at guantanamo bay. there was a criminal task force. which i was a deputy commander and special agent of federal agents. the fbi was there and the agents worked very closely together. on the other side were military intelligence interrogators at gitmo. the interdpators from the federal agencies who were deeply experienced in counterterrorism matters were still in there doing interrogations just refused to participate or condone or be involved in any manner with anything that was tantamount to what we believe to be torture and illegal. >> what would say to people who say the capture and killing of osama bin laden proves that torture works? >> i think some people are trying to rewrite history here. i've seen no information that the infliction of pain equates to the elis tags of accurate information. two, it's a shame to diminish the incredible work that went on through the the intelligence community with analysts and case officers that led to bin laden's capture. that's a significant event in our history. to try to cheapen it by saying th

open and electronic surveillance and the use, they continued, but a lot of the areas like guantanamo bayried to reverse the bush administration policy when they came into office and i think it's reality that brought them kicking and screaming around after two and a half years, policies similar to the ones they' tacked on campaign. the thing that worries me one area they haven't is the area of unteinterrogation. and probably the most important stream of intelligence on the enemy. you wrote a piece this week in the wall street journal. you suggest rather than kill usama bin laden, it would have been better to bring him back for intelligence. explain why you would have preferred not to have killed him? >> it's a loss of a enormous intelligence opportunity. the most important information from al-qaeda and we've gotten through interrogation. the most important person we could have captured is usama bin laden. think about the intelligence we would have on al-qaeda, its operations and network and other leaders and pending attacks on the united states. you have endured nearly ten years of relent

. >> guantanamo bay detention center. europeans had a chance to play a central role here. back in his campaign, closing guantanamo was a high part of his platform. it went as far as to close it down in his first year in office, a feat he did not achieve. partially because of a lack of support from europe. >> the hopes were that european states would take guantanamo bay inmates, but europe did not give obama much help. that is an example of the west needing your's help. it -- that is an example of the u.s. meeting europe's help. >> i think the europeans are schizophrenic on this. they say we should close guantanamo, but i don't see much readiness on the part of the europeans to take some of the people and put them someplace where they take them off our hands. >> the united front is always presented for the cameras, but obama as european partners failed to give him the support he needed to solve the guantanamo problem. europe and the u.s. also took a long time to agree on a unified approach to handling muammar gaddafi's murderous violence against his own people in libya. germ

the guantanamo bay facility currently holds 172 prisoners. "the washington post" reports that international red cross has been in discussion with the pentagon about setting up a visitation program. >>> well, they are assessing the damage in parts of iowa and texas this morning following a new surge of violent weather. two tornadoes struck the southwest iowa town of lennox yesterday afternoon. officials say 45% of the town was damaged. in texas, yesterday, strong winds and thunderstorms caused damage in the dallas-ft. worth area. >>> severe weather could also be on tap for flood victims along the mississippi river. rain and strong thunderstorms are forecast for much of the mississippi delta today and tomorrow. floodwaters there have already turned farmland into swamps. the high water is surging downriver, with a crest not expected in the delta region until next week. randall pinkston reports. >> reporter: neighborhoods are unrecognizable in tunic ka cutoff, mississippi. 300 homes are all under water. building codes require new construction to

>> well, thomas, i have been to guantanamo bay and wrote a report at mccaffery.com, and it is one of the best-run correction facilities anywhere on the face of the earth and part of it is a counterintelligence service, that while respecting the rights of the accused, they don't go into their lawyer's writings, et cetera, and still a lot of intelligence comes out of it. perhaps a third of those people are global terrorists of some danger. so, i was glad to see again it paid off, but a lot of the intel that we get at guantanamo does directly pay off in making america safer. >> sir, the military officials say that the order was to kill bin laden and not to capture him. is the obvious question here why? >> well, thank god. we would have gone through all sorts of gyrations. the trial would have gone on for years. we would have tried to protect our intelligence sources, as we did so, and there would have been terrorist incidents trying to affect the trial, and this is the right income to kill this mass murderer. >> the compound, though, where osama bin laden was found was not far from a pa

yesterday thirty seven year old afghan detainee at guantanamo bay whom they call an ayatollah was found that the official report that's far has been labeled as an apparent suicide and it said that the guards found an ayatollah unresponsive and not breathing in his cell or early wednesday found makes him the eighth detainee to die on time of day and once again brings up questions of the treatment of prisoners there whether official reports ever really tell us the truth the families of two former guantanamo detainees who had died of the dentin center had been fighting a court battle against what they called a pentagon cover up but that was dismissed by federal judge last year so will this story be any different earlier i caught up with scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine he recently won the national magazine award for his piece wanted to most suicides which is an investigation of the suspicious deaths of three inmates at the facility so i first asked him considering the extensive coverage that he's done on suicide the quantum of a

still lingering, is the death of bin laden a result of enhanced interrogation techniques used the guantanamo bay? we'll talk to the man who oversaw interrogations at guantanamo. >>> blue new details on the men who could replace bin laden, one of them an american born in new mexico. >>> but we again with breaking news. a senior official tells nbc news, president obama has decided not to release a photo of osama bin laden after he was killed. nbc's mike viqueira joins us live from the white house. we started off playing congressman peter king and senator mccain, and you know it's interesting, difficult, opinions. but peter king is in the minority when you look at lawmakers who say, most say, it was not a good idea to release the photo. >> reporter: right, after a series of briefings on capitol hill by leon panetta and others, a variety of opinions as lawmakers come out of the committees, diane feinstein saying it would be too gruesome blood, vis ser ra, this is what we're talking about here, whether it would be the benefits would be worth the costs in releasing such a picture just to prove to the

they'd come to iraq to fight was because of the torture and abuse of detainees at both good and guantanamo bay and this is not my opinion the department of defense tracked these districts and they were briefed every interrogator who arrived there the torture and abuse was ok it is number one recruiting tool in the army manual in section one thirty five as part one section thirty five is a recall says explicitly the use of violence is not necessary to to acquire information from suspects and it goes on to say that it actually is counterproductive i mean this is against this is against the u.c. i'm j. it's against the uniform code of military justice here what you're saying against you are absolutely just you're absolutely distorting this argument again you have a loud voice saying something that is wrong is right and something that is right is wrong in this case we're getting waterboarding has been responsible for saving many american lives and american interests against there's no evidence ideologically opposed i disagree with that but i disagree with the secretary that it's not inciting yes i

one veteran refused citing his opposition the war in iraq and procedures that have been used to guantanamo bay in cuba she went on to write actually this is a quote we did it with a certain amount of respect and justice this is john gunther dean eighty one he was talking about interrogation became a career foreign service officer ambassador to denmark the interrogators had standards that remain a source of pride and honor and finally george frankel eighty seven of kensington said during the many interrogations i never laid hands on anyone we extract that information in a battle of the wits i'm proud to say i never compromised my humanity george w. bush took us to a place where we as a nation compromised our humanity fortunately president obama has as repudiated that and let's hope it never happens again. it's time for our daily poll your chance to tell us what you think here's today's question do you agree with president obama saying no go on the bin laden death photos your choices are yes i agree with him we don't need to trot this out as a trophy is obama said that's not who we are or no as

right now we have over 170 inmates at guantanamo bay. we don't know what to do with the fair number of them, for a variety of different reasons. that undermines our ability to fight the terrorism threat that we are trying to confront, it doesn't help it. i ask we give the president all the tools in his toolbox. i support military commissions and i support indefinite detention, in some cases that's going to be necessary. i also support our courts that have over 200 years of history, some of the most effective courts in the world for their ability to bring swift an fair justice to all criminals. we should not undermine our president's ability to make use of those courts in prosecuting our fights against terrorists. therefore, i urge you to support this amendment. i will add one thing. in my amendment if the president is going to bring people from guantanamo bay to be tried here in article 3 court he has to notify congress, he has to establish -- establish that he feels that can be done safely and fairly. it does require that. more than any

to utilize the information that was received under those and enhanced interrogation methods at guantanamo bay used unclean shaikh muhammad to get to this point that's been widely reported today and if that all shakes out to be true and accurate i think it underscores why the bush administration did what it did and why there are some of us who wish the obama administration keeps on that track you wish the obama administration would keep on their track of people opening secret prisons around the world detaining people indefinitely in guantanamo bay perhaps maybe they should even revert back to the bush days and start torturing people like i don't think it's a reversion i'm not sure i the obama destruction used information during the untanned enhanced techniques to get this lead i mean that was that's been widely reported everywhere today if that's the case and it took going that step to get to bin laden then absolutely we continue to use those methods so that we can get the next bin laden and certainly as lauren said the threat is not over the war against terrorism the fight against internation

and permission from iraq, afghanistan, or guantanamo bay can be difficult to verify even by experienced journalists. critics say the u.s. diplomatic cables contain more gossip than useful information. but the recent plagiarism scandal surrounding the form and german defense minister showed old and new media working together, forcing his resignation. the special website document line by line or they had used other writers were. journalists were also probing the case. but their work cannot have toppled the minister. anyone could see the evidence on line. >> the kind of scrutiny would bode well for investigative journalism, and a tradition that attracted a broad audience. they reached the high point with the watergate scandal. few reporters did hard indeed. they raised serio questns abt nuear power. those questions aren't even being asked. >> traces of the earthquake that rocked japan are everywhere. the helmets that the ready, he employs are well-equipped here. the state-funded international tv network. and his team is well prepared for covering a disaster. it worked like clockwork. every

four years ago guantanamo bay detain tees revealed the identity, but not the location of one of those couriers to u.s. intelligence officials. two years later, officials determined the genre onin pakistan where that courier and his brother operated. last august, the key break came when the u.s. pinpointed their exact location. an affluent pakistan suburb in a three-story home situated in an extraordinarily unique compound. that compound was built in 2005. was eight times larger than other homes in the neighborhood. it had 12 to 18-foot walls lined with barbed wire, two security gates and few windows despite being a million dollar home it had no phone or wireless access. the residence of the compound burned their trash rather than set it on the curb as is cus come in that neighborhood. by september the cia determined that a compound like this could not just house the courier and his brother. it must also house a high-value target. by mid february, the president and cia director saw enough intelligence to feel confident that high value -- that that high value target was indeed osama bin

i think this has been captured and brought forward in part because the debate on whether not guantÁnamo bayould stay open and let me just say that regardless of how you feel about that, even if you believe guantÁnamo should stay open and continue to be utilized for the detention of terrorist suspects, you can still support this amendment. i concern is that in the legislation effort last session to find some way to stop the closing of guantÁnamo, that we took an extreme step and simply said we are going to prohibit you from transferring anybody out of guantÁnamo and i will absolutely admit that is stopped cold in its tracks in the effort to close guantÁnamo but i think it also went further than was legislatively necessary to compass that goal and also to continue to make sure that our laws are in the best place to protect us and can prosecute the war on terror. for take article iii courts off the table completely for everybody we are taking a vital tool away from the president in way too many circumstances. we are simply not giving him the options that are necessary and i want to remind ever

military says an afghan detained at guantanamo bay prison since 2007 has died in an apparent suicide. he is the eighth prisoner to die there since 2002. five of those other deaths were also apparent suicides. >>> the senate rejected a republican attempt to allow more coastal oil exploration and speed up the issuance of drilling permits. the measure came down to a 57-42 vote with 5 republicans voting against it. republicans say it would have lowered gas prices. democrats accuse republicans of not learning from the bp oil disaster. >>> the hospital where gabrielle giffords had surgery on her skull yesterday says her recovery is going well following the operation. they used a plastic implant to close a hole in the congresswoman's skull that was damaged when she was shot in the head. >>> and a new study finds that there's a new class of free-flying rogue alien planets. by definition, a planet is something that orbits a star. now researchers have discovered there are planets that float through space without any known star. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off th

techniques which has become the shorthand for the waterboarding involved khalid sheikh mohammed, guantanamo bay, and elsewhere, this has become a cause on the right of course, the president has suspended those techniques. the administration has gone so far as to look into the individuals who conducted those techniques, something that has outraged many people, including dick cheney this morning. >> i'm not going to comment on the specific intelligence except to say the following, that it was gathered through detainees, gathered tech neck lly, gather oefrd time. >> and alex, in case anyone forgets the work of the nation, the president having a down day in washington. he was out for dinner with first lady michelle obama last night. but tuesday a big speech in el paso, texas, on the very aggressive issue. >> i was hoping he was having a down day, serving michelle breakfast in bed, taking auto the trash. let's not forget it's mother's day in the white house too. >>> they show a sign of osama bin laden that al qaeda did not want o you to see. in one of them you see the aging terrorist in that dingy r

guantanamo bay has been set ablaze since being captured by troops in sudan. the sudanese armed forces were responsible for ensuring law and order. about 20,000 residents have fled. the trial of a man charged with helping it you find locations for the mumbai attacks as begun trial in chicago. the trial is likely to shed light on the alleged link between militant groups and the pakastani secret service. the remains of one president have been exhumed to determine his means of death. he was up in santiago. the troops of pinochet moved into the palace, which brought the generals to power. here we owe a -- here we go again. the forecast says the ash cloud from ireland is likely to reach scotland overnight. remember last year. our science correspondent has more. >> it is happening all over again. a vast tower of ash in the skies over iceland. and the wind is blowing the stub our way. is not the same volcano as last year, but the ashes are being blasted a higher. so, this evening, authorities are warning that flights will be disrupted. >> some parts of the u.k. will

in march, i visited the guantanamo bay detention facility. gitmo now represents the most professionally run detention facility in the world. international human rights activists, reporters, members of the u.s. congress and the senate constantly stream through guantanamo checking on the conditions, holding the department of defense accountable for the conditions there. guantanamo is no abu ghraib. detainees are treated in a matter that i don' conforms to international law and honors our values. guantanamo detainees receive three meals a day tailored to their preferences of each detainee. they also have access to top-notch health care faciliti facilities. their religion is respected. they have television, newspapers, books, english and art classes. in fact, the officials at guantanamo bend over backwards to respect the cultural and religious preferences of the detainees that are held there. don't get me wrong, guantanamo is no club med, but the terrorists who are detained there, most of who would undoubtedly kill americans if they were given the

it was the courier's name they got from people being interrogated at guantanamo bay. the carrier switched his mobile on just outside the compound and that was the key. >> first they had his nom de guerre and then had to work out where he was. last year he was tracked to this particular count. that then led to the surveillance on the compound which eventually led them to bin laden. -- last year he was tracked to this particular compound. the pakistanis said the acquired information on the compound a couple years ago, but that they did not know osama bin laden was in there. >> thanks very much. let's get an update on this attrition in syria. security forces have clamped governmentdti- protesters. the u.s. has described the situation as barbaric. we are watching the situation from beirut because foreign journalists are not allowed into syria. the city of daraa had been the epicenter of where that was going on. >> yes, that remains the focal point. it's become a battle cry at around the country as people hold vigils or demonstrations. it is daraa that they are calling and

where the guantanamo bay prison camp and its use of waterboarding and china for its rounding up and jailing without trial democracy activists. the e.u. has come in for criticism for its treatment of north african refugees. >> these refugees have fled north africa for the italian island. more than 30,000 have risked the dangerous journey since january, many to escape the war in libya. italy says it is overwhelmed and the rest of the european union has been unwilling to share the burden. instead, they're discussing tighter controls to prevent the mi grants from crossing over their borders. the refugee crisis is one consequence of the uprisings across the arab world. amnesty sees the push for greater freedom and democracy as an opportunity to end repression. by closing their doors to refugees, it believes e.u. members are undermining arab calls for justice. it wants a different message in a watershed year for human rights. >> i think there's no question that what's happened is unprecedented. we haven't seen anything like this after the fall of the berlin wall. >> and he says it's optimistic th

leaders got a tip from a guantanamo bay detainee. last august officials discovered $1 million compound in pakistan. last week the president says he determined leaders had enough evidence to take action. one of the gutsy exist moves since the bay of pigs. navy seals dropped down on the roof on ropes, secured the building and got into a firefight. bin laden was ordered to give it up but he refused so he was shot and killed. so we went into pakistan, shot him twice, took a blood sample, wrapped him in a sheet, had a muslim burial, plopped him into the sea. >> reporter: well, jamie, certainly there is plenty of celebration, but you won't find it here. the death of osama bin laden has brought back a lot of painful memories of not only the 9/11 terrorist attack here, but also for those who lost their lives. the death of osama bin laden prompted this eighth grade field trip to make a detour to the pentagon memorial where students prayed for the 184 people who died when flight 77 smashed into the defense department's headquarters on 9/11. >>

the past 24 hours a, suggesting a valuable information was gained in the raid from people at guantanamo bay. do you think the killing of osama bin laden justifies what happens there? >> i don't know the source of information that led to a osama bin laden opposing the whereabouts. i suspect much of it came through good intelligence work and i believe some of it came because of the work of our intelligence agency interrogating the detainees at guantanamo and other locations around world, but i don't know the specifics. i did think that program is a very valuable program. president bush made courageous decisions to put in place some very important building blocks that allowed agencies to work together and get better intelligence so that we could make smarter decisions. i what was valuable in those interrogations, but i suspect there was always information that is helpful. i defend what president bush did and i hope that president obama keeps those building blocks in place so that we can keep america safe. >> you talk about the importance of intelligence. it seems that it was intelligence that

detention center at guantanamo bay.also campaigns against the recruitment of child soldiers, as in the democratic republic of congo. it demanded the rebel leard face justice -- leader face justice when he was arrested in 2009. earlier in 1998, the international community agreed to set up the international criminal court to try suspects accused of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. amnesty was among the organizations invited to take papa in the advisers. a human rights expert appraised amnesty's proposals for the german government in berlin. >> their discussion papers were very high quality. i have to say that amnesty's expertise is clearly superior to that of many delegations sent by small states. >> recent decades have seen the definition of human rights broadened. in 1948, they included individual rights and freedoms. now they include social rights such as the rights to clean water, food, and education. those changes have also altered amnesty international's view of just whom it represents. >> most peo

there was a whole mess over guantanamo bay, 1st he said he wanted to shut it down but then he was forced to keep it open. this gives him something that even his critics would have to commit that he can take to the bank. >> my fellow americans. >> this is president obama the night before the raid, at a black-tie, at the annual white house correspondents' dinner, cracking jokes at donald trump's expense. >> these are decisions that would keep me up at night. >> at this stage, the president had already authorized the operation. had it ended in failure, his presidency might have never recovered. no wonder he and everyone else looked so nervous the next day. this is the situation room in the bowels of the white house, the leadership watching the rate live -- raid. you can practically feel the intake of breath. >> after a fire fight that killed osama bin laden, they took custody of his body. >> they have been discussing osama's death and obama's presidency. >> this is symbolic to this country as a whole. we have been talking about him. >> this a family was -- this family fled from afghanistan

there was a whole mess over guantanamo bay, 1st he said he wanted to shut it down but then he was forced to keep it open. this gives him something that even his critics would have to commit that he can take to the bank. >> my fellow americans. >> this is president obama the night before the raid, at a black-tie, at the annual white house correspondents' dinner, cracking jokes at donald trump's expense. >> these are decisions that would keep me up at night. >> at this stage, the president had already authorized the operation. had it ended in failure, his presidency might have never recovered. no wonder he and everyone else looked so nervous the next day. this is the situation room in the bowels of the white house, the leadership watching the rate live -- raid. you can practically feel the intake of breath. >> after a fire fight that killed osama bin laden, they took custody of his body. >> they have been discussing osama's death and obama's presidency. >> this is symbolic to this country as a whole. we have been talking about him. >> this a family was -- this family fled from afghanistan

then there was the whole mess of guantanamo bay, first wants to close it down, then forced to keep it open. the killing of osama bin laden, ordered by him, gives him something that even his critics have to admit this president can take to the bank. >> my fellow americans. that this is president obama, the night before the raid, in black tie, at the annual white house correspondents' dinner, cracking jokes at donald trump's expense and a small for his audience. at this stage, the president had already authorized the operation. had it ended in failure, his presidency may have never wrote recovered. no wonder he and everyone else looked nervous. this is the situation room, and the bows of the white house, watching the race live on the screen. a top-secret reality show. you can practically feel the intake of breath. >> after a firefight, they killed osama bin laden and took custody of his body. >> these high school students grew up in the shadow of 9/11. it has been discussing bin laden's death and obama's presidency. that is usually -- >> it is hugely symbolic to this country. >> he reit

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ability to move quickly and probably quickly the timing is good obama has given up on closing guantanamo bay to the side to reopen the trial process and we now have a situation where even the. ministration i think forty eight of the people who request one of them are completely innocent and that they should be sent somebody i mean up in some way so completely innocent people are incarcerated for years and even years no trial and no one really knows no country with three thousand including the state for the united states has made them a problem. in nine states was involved in rounding up these innocent people setting up a process that was from the very beginning corrupt there's a reason why they're in guantanamo and not on the us mainland and not in our country and the reason was to hide them and keep them outside of the law just like you have caribbean islands and cajun money laundering united states was engaging people wondering let's move on and talk about your media partners one of which is the guardian with whom you are now involved in a dispute but you chose them as your primary english

dampen down their ability to move quickly because the timing is good obama has given up on closing guantanamo bay decided to reopen the trial process and we now have a situation where even the. goodness gracious is that forty eight of the people you encounter on a bombing are completely innocent and that they should be sent somewhere you know things are going so completely innocent people incarcerated for years and you can use no trial no hope really no no country will return one of them including states have united states has made them into court with. nine states was involved in rounding up these innocent people setting up a process it was from the very beginning corrupt there's a reason why they're in guantanamo and not on the us mainland and not you know our country and that reason was to hide them and keep an outside war just like you have caribbean islands and arrange money laundering united states was engaging people numbering and let's move on and talk about your media partners one of which is the guardian with whom you are now involved in a just that you chose them as your primary englis

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let me move to an entirely different topic then and that's guantanamo bay or gitmo. i've been there three times. the first time i was there was shortly after it -- after it opened, it was about nine years ago. not much to it at the time. that's where we, of course, held that the detainees or terrorists or enemy combatants, most of them captured in afghanistan. and the reason, of course, we needed a safe and secure place to keep the most dangerous people, essentially, the worst of the worst, the terrorists, most of them. and the goal was not to do it on u.s. soil. and at that time, they were within guantanamo bay, it wasn't much more than a bunch of cages out there. and i think a great disservice was done when we had the initial photographs where they had bags over their head and they were kneeling. and the wrong impression was given that that's the way we kept them all the time. and the world press went wild. and i think it was a blow to the united states around the world because that's not how these prisoners are treated. for the most part. and i was there a second

to held a joint press conference with the french interior minister he made a statement about guantanamo bay but left a lot of people out there confused he said although we have not closed guantanamo within the time period that we initially indicated it is still the intention of the president and it is still my intention to close the facility that exists in guantanamo really is there a goal there slept through the last oh i don't know year or so get noticed questions yes then presidential candidate obama vowed to shut down the facility within the first year of office but frankly those efforts to shut it down it pretty much stopped altogether thanks in part the outcry from both democrat. it's ad republicans and legislation blocking the movement of detainees to american soil as well as what seems to be a change of heart from the commander in chief in fact obama officially turned pro get no earlier this year when he signed an executive order to resume military commissions for detainees there and holder i don't know maybe should have noticed that the president wasn't planning on closing the faci