terror victims and fallen soldiers. tony phillipson just found out his son james who died in afghanistan in 2006 may have had his cell phone tapped into by the news of the world and also his e-mail. they hacked into a dead soldier. it is despicable. what else can you say? what on earth do they think they were going to find? reporter: in word of the prime minister, people trust the police to wrote tect them, politicians to represent them and the press to inform them. and, he says, the british public has been failed by all three. alex, just to explain why some people are so upset by this is alleged, for example, a missing 13-year-old girl had her mobile phone hacked into, voice mails left by her parents listened to by a private detective and even some voice mails deleted to make space so more voice mails could
britain s prime minister vowing no stone will be left unturned. that these people could have had their phones hacked into in order to generate stories for a newspaper is simply disgusting. among the 4,000 potential phone hacking victims whose names or numbers have now been turned over to the police, families of murder victims, terror attack victims, and fallen soldiers. tony phillipson just found out that his son, james, who died in afghanistan in 2006 may have had not only his cell phone tapped into by the news of the world but also his e-mail. they hacked into a dead soldier. it s despicable. what else can you say? what on earth did they think they were going to find? reporter: in words of the prime minister, people trust the police to protect them. politicians to represent them. and press to inform them. and, he says, the british public has been failed by all three.
and children, elderly and mentally ill are hold, wrongly, and 172 prisoners remain some with no prospect of trial or release. stunning allegations. any response from the white house? there has been. the white house spokesman condemned the release of the documents and emphasized the obama administration may not share the same view of the bush assessments. these are not detain he assessment briefs from 2006 may or may in the reflect the administration of that detain he in 2011. reporter: and the aclu put out a statement the one-sided assessments are fouled of uncorroborated evidence and information obtained through torture, speculation, and allegations that have been proven false. but what is clear is that the 172 detainees are a problem
documents reviewed by britain s daily telegraph a nuclear hailstorm would ensue because al-qaeda claimed to have a nuclear weapon hidden in europe. according to the files not all were on the newspaper as in the past, the one accused of bombing the uss cole in 2000, received injections to promote impotence and recommended the injections to others so more time could be spent on jihad, rather than distracted by women. the white house condemn the organization for release, emphasizing that the obama administration may not share the same view of the bush era assessment. we think it s an important point to make. the brief in 2006 may or may not be reflective of the administration s view of that particular detainee in 2011. reporter: the administration blames congress for roadblock to close detention camp, reality is more than half of the 172 remaining detainees come from yemen, country home to the