no doubt, 2003 document, if they exist, there would be a mention of khalid sheikh mohammed. it is not really unusual. i did not expect to find him in the letters in 2010. the absence of ksm, to my mind, -- these are private communications related to the situation at the time of his writing or within months of writing them. >> i think we've got to wrap it up there. when is your new piece coming out? >> i believe next week. >> ok, >> it is called "the where, imitators." >> thank you for coming in and thank you very much to the entire team that helped put together this report and for the process of these things and to everybody who dealt with these documents before they get to you. li's release more of them. with that, thank you very much for coming. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> coming up on c-span, next is "washington journal" then " newsmakers" and later, the british phone hacking investigation with tony blair. coming up next on "washington journal," a round table. on the tuesday

i mean this is the president who condemned george bush and his cia for putting khalid sheikh mohammedg. as far as i know khalid sheikh mohammed is still alive. >> he is still alive and three people were subjected to water boarding that the bush administration acknowledged versus dozen, dozens of people, some of whom are americans who have been killed by president obama and left is totally silent. jon: it is okay to kill terrorism suspects, but you can't waurd both them? >> not only that he expanded a the definition of a what a militant is who include a wide variety of people likely not guilty of anything. not just that he is targeting people who may be terrorists or that they believe are terrorists, also civilians are being killed. jon: why is the left not out rioting in the streets over this? >> they have been so silent on the foreign policy issues. a handful of people, glen greenwalled at salon lone voice in the forest. a lot of liberals coming out not condemning but approving this which is beyond outrageous when you consider the types of attacks made against george bush which i thi

what they don't like about this man are some of the things like the trial for khalid sheikh mohammedtake place in a federal court in manhattan, like the possibly legalization of gay marriage? these are the issues they hate this man for. that's why they're using this to attack him. >> i have no doubt about that. if you listen to senator cronin's testimony the other day, at the end of the list, it says because he's not enforcing these anti-voter fraud law that is have been put in place. of course these laws are meant to keep african-americans hispani hispanics, others, students from voting. eric holder is a very competent attorney general. it's interesting that we -- attorney general mccasey, who came during the bush administration, he oversaw something called wide receiver, dhfs a similar operation, by the way, to this he wall street briefed and did nothing. when eric holder found out about it, he stopped it and had an investigation. he said i want to work with you and cooperate. he gave a serious proposal on thursday. the question now, martin, is can the committee chairman, mr. issa

there is upcoming report investigates whether waterboarding of high value detainees including khalid sheikh mohammedave been working for years on a review that is supposed to be released this summer and their conclusions are very different from mine. and maybe the truth hurts. maybe they can't take the truth. >> we could not get more specifics on the congressional report or its possible release as i mentioned the amount of money that the united states owes to china runs into 13 figures australia's entire economy. a group in the u.s. claims it may have found a way to put america back on even footing with the communist nation. fox reports on the possibility that china actually does not owe money to the united states. [ male announcer ] what if you had thermal night-vision goggles, like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering, web-

you still get holder trying to take khalid sheikh mohammed.nd to give him a civilian trial in new york so he can show the whole world that you know, we will give him his constitutional rights which he is not entitled to in the first place. they will still slip into this idiocy. however, conducting the war, protecting us against terrorists is a national security imperative. any president, left, right, and center would have to come to the same conclusions. but that is why the hypocrisy and the attacks by the left in those 8 years are so despicable. >> bill: with all the reportage on president obama. it all indicates that he takes this drone thing very personally. all right? all of the reporting says that he wants to know he says al awlaki, he said get that guy. it's personal to him. another liberal might, you know, be recoiled from it a little bit but do it under pressure, whatever. with obama, it seems that he wants to do it. he relishes it. >> you are reading it wrong. he would like i wants or people in the center to have of him because he has

. >> attorney general holder spent well over a year caught up in the debate where to try khalid sheikh mohammedr that issue was put to bed, holder found himself in another controversy, over the fast and few furious gun tracking operation that has gone through a couple of administrations. it came up yesterday on capitol hill. >> have you and your attorneys produced internally the materials responsive to the subpoenas? >> we believe a that we have responded to the subpoena -- >> no, mr. attorney general, you're not a good witness. a good witness answers the question asked. so let's go back again. >> grandstanding much? anyway, for the first two years of the obama administration, the white house all but admitted that they've botched the way the cabinet was handled. in fact, agency heads complained the white house was a locked fortress with them, on the outside looking in. in 2011, incoming chief of staff, bill daley, he promised to repair those relations and, quote, see these people more. bill daley said, i'll make sure of it, but we didn't see them much because he was also gone within a year. fas

in november of 2009, he vowed to try the 9/11 conspirators, including khalid sheikh mohammed, in a civilian court just blocks from ground zero. public resistance forced holder to scrap those plans, and return the case to military prosecutors at guantanamo bay. there have been major successes. holder's justice department secured convictions against key terror suspects. the underwear bomber, the times square bomber, and the terrorists plotting to bomb new york city subways. and just as recently has made record recoveries, more than $4 billion in health care fraud cases. >> even his critics say he is a savvy jurist. he is good on the law. strong on the law. he seems to run into trouble with the politics of this. >> he probably would be the first to say that he's not the most adept politician out there. over time, some of these controversies don't seem quite as important years from now. >> holder, a close personal friend of the president, is clearly weary but expected to stay on through the election. still, he faces more battles. later today, he'll meet with republican house members on that fas

. >> brian: like khalid sheikh mohammed. >> i want them dead, brian. how do you do it? or do you want to kill him from the air? you know he's dead. >> gretchen: i'm not disagreeing with the drone strikes. but i think we're missing part of the story here, which is that many people argue that this administration doesn't want to capture people because they don't want to have to bring them to gitmo because they don't bring with gitmo. >> i don't know what motivates the administration. i'm not a politician. what i do know is that our military in afghanistan is a lot safer because we are eliminating al-qaeda. the united states is much less likely to be attacked by al-qaeda. killing al-qaeda. i remember when david petraeus, the soft spoken, magnificent general, probably the best fighting general we have had at least since patton and eisenhower, i remember in the 05-06, 07 period when he started saying, we want to kill the enemy. when you heard the soft spoken man say kill the enemy, it was shocking. kill? we're going to be killers? yes, that's what war is. war killing them bef