olympic officials in sochi are promising that the city will be the safest place on earth during the games, but with all these latest terror threats, russia has to be prepared for the worst. our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh is in sochi. he s joining us live. the question is russia ready? reporter: well, wolf, obviously everyone s hoping the weeks ahead will pass without incident at all, but in the unlikely but ghastly event of an attack the question many are asking is what kind of russian response can we expect. that will rain between efficiency and the heartlessness of the kgb that runs the government and its elite core, and then across russia s huge expanse of the law enforcement which is often corrupt, often inefficient. people wondering exactly what russia will in fact do in the event something does happen. this is all a drill.
minorities. only 11% of the whole force is female. and i believe that that changing this would make a stronger elite force. i m always for diversity, i think we all are, how would ethnic diversity have avoided this, i m just curious. i understand how having women around men may calm the herd, but how would ethnic diversity have prevented this from happening? i think it s a value in itself, but i believe that certainly women and like-minded men, upholding the standards of this elite core, they had a definite standard that you re not supposed to in any way enter act with nationals. here they re having nationals back to their hotel room. it was clearly a violation of the rules, it s under investigation, and i m sure it will be completed and steps will
secret service man who said that if paula reed if every boss was like paula reed, this would never happen. so i personally believe if we had had more women on the ground of equal rank, maybe this would not have happened. if we had more diversity, more minorities, only 11% of the whole force is female. and i believe that changing this would make a stronger elite force. okay, i m always for adversity. how would ethnic diversity have avoided this? i m just curious with your thinking. i understand why having women around men makes them more macho. it sort of calms the herd, if you will. how could this value in itself have prevented this thing from happening? i believe it s a value in itself, but i believe that certainly women and like-minded men who are upholding the standards of its elite core, they have a definite standard that you are not supposed to in
equal rank, maybe this would not have happened. if we had more diversity, more minorities. only 11% of the whole force is female. and i believe that that changing this would make a stronger elite force. i m always for diversity, i think we all are, how would ethnic diversity have avoided this, i m just curious. i understand how having women around men may calm the herd, but how would ethnic diversity have prevented this from happening? i think it s a value in itself, but i believe that certainly women and like-minded men, upholding the standards of this elite core, they had a definite standard that you re not supposed to in any way enter act with nationals. here they re having nationals back to their hotel room. it was clearly a violation of the rules, it s under
subjected to these technique, which did which were effective. within a couple years, they had given us fully 50% of everything we knew about al qaeda. so it s not this is not an open question. they produced. they were limited. they were completely you support the authorized by the state. you support the three people were water boarded. and if these torture, then we torture our own elite core, they go through that same regimen. you disagree with mccain? i do, respectfully. here is what leon panetta, cia director said on this he took a nuanced position. listen to what he said. i think some of the detainees clearly were, you know they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees, but i m also saying that you know, the debate about whether whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches i think is always going to be an open question. as you said, the techniques