so we captured khalid sheikh muhammed. he was the chief operating officer of al qaeda.he was the man who slit danny pearls throat he was jewish. one of a great statements of religious principle ever when he said my grandfather is jewish, my father is jewish and i am jewish then his throat was slit. recapture him and i am told he has information that could prevent another attack. i was also told the interrogation techniques that we reusing at the time as a matter of fact khalid sheikh muhammed said i will talk to you when i get my lawyer in new york. the cia said they would like to take over the interrogation. talked-about techniques available to them that they thought would be effective to get information from this killer to save lives. i then went through the exhaustive legal review of their recommendations understanding there are laws against torture. i was not going to break the law to protect you legal opinions came back and i approve the techniques including waterboarding on three people. in my book i just make the two points clear. bond. of the information we rece