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. >> nbc's michael isikoff is live in washington, d.c. now. so, michael, what are we learning about the intelligence trail that led to bin laden? >> well, we're learning bits and pieces and more and more every day and almost every hour right now. and the narratives are shifting. you know, there are some people out there like vice president cheney and others who are suggesting yesterday that it was enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding that led to the discovery of the courier who was -- who led us to bin laden. and that was the key break in the case. in fact, in further reporting, by myself and others, the trail is a bit more tangled than that, and suggests some other alternatives. in fact, the courier's name was first given up or -- his name was given up at interrogations at guantanamo. turns out he wasn't a kuwaiti at all. he was actually a pakistani who was born in kuwait. but when the most -- one of the more interesting parts is when they took his name to khalid sheikh mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times and, who accor

we are joined by national investigative correspondent michael isikoff.ant to follow up on what steve mentioned at the end of his speech is it remotely possible that nobody in the pakistani government could know that this guy is living large where he was? >> anything is possible, but one of the more notable comments today is when john bren arngs t brennan, the top adviser was asked about this very question and he said it certainly raises questions that he could have been in in million dollar compound surrounded by high walls, barbed wire for all these years in the shadow, literally, of pakistan's west point, one of its most prestigious military academies. it's an area surrounded and populated by current and former pakistani military officers and right in the middle is the most wanted man in the world and nobody has any idea? look, i talked to a pakistani official who says not a chance, we're complited to the world on terrorism, but as you know there's been a lot between the pakistanis and u.s. and this will only exacerbate. >> our team gave pakistan no wa