it s just crazy that the canadian government even if the guys rights were violated, $8 million? he had a bad day, he didn t have a shoulder to cry on and you want to give him $8 million? where is the scale, where is the justice they are there is none. a former u.s. military authority with intimate knowledge of the case spoke to fox news and said there is no evidence that khadr was mistreated or tortured at guantanamo. he knows all detainee interrogations done by foreign governments were closely observed by u.s. authorities. last week, khadr told an interviewer that he hoped this multi-million payout to him did not cause the family any pain, which it certainly has. jon: unbelievable. it is still ahead on happening now, an american doctor meeting with the parents
noticing? well, yeah. it is well known after this raid the pakistanis were absolutely humiliated and that because of the inscident and this operation, our cooperation with them essentially ceased. it was the lowest point in u.s./pak relations maybe in history. what i can t understand here is why the isi leadership, the military leadership would put forward a story that made them look incompetent and was completely humiliating to them. that is the part that defies lodge ic and also remember chris, if there were a walk-in source, there was a protracted conversation between the senate intelligence committee, the cia and the white house about what role torture or detainee interrogations played in the effort to find bin laden. you have to believe that if the senate dems found a pakistani source, a walk-in, anything of that nature they would have put that evidence forward in their effort to say detainee
communicating, he must be doing it through human beings, we need to find and follow the couriers. that was a hypothesis with which we went into this four years ago or so. so this is classic human intelligence? you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of the exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites, and then from that point we used all the tools of intelligence. i can t go into detail, but it was signals intelligence and imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. this wasn t done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. this is classic analytic work. tell us for a moment about
mark, thanks so much in washington. of course, we re still learning more about the raid on bin laden s compound. on cnn s fareed zakaria: gps today, the courier was first identified during the bush administration. i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of this exercise was partial identity information that came out of
released bin laden videotapes captured in the raid on that compound. today we learned that the courier who unwittingly led the u.s. to bin laden was first identified during the bush administration. i think it was about four years ago in 2007, we had built up sufficient lead information on the name of the courier that we thought it was ready for presidential primetime. so we briefed it to the president. not as something imminent, but as our most promising lead to track down bin laden. so this is classic human intelligence. you had people on the ground. they talked to people. they developed relationships. is that right? it is. but it also came out of detainee interrogations. one of the more prominent leads we had at the beginning of this exercise was partial identity information that came out of detainees that we were holding in our so-called black sites. then from that point, we used all the tools of intelligence. i can t go into detail, but i