one e-mail to justify the story that you have now bought hook, line and sinker that we used this to abuse other human beings. so hayden says medically necessary, which if true would solve that particular mystery. moving on. before the torture report was released, few people realized enhanced interrogation was actually the brain child of these two united states air force veterans, both of whom have psychology degrees and next to zero expertise in questioning subjects. we here at cnn have tracked them down. here we go. james mitchell. this is the co-oarchitect of th whole thing. enhanced interrogation. here he is. the point of that was to get the detainee to be willing to engage with a debriefer. it s a little bit like i would appreciate it if you re going to use this that you use the whole thing. it s like a good cop/bad cop argument. you got a bad cop and good cop. the point of the bad cop is to get the bad guy to talk to the good cop. it s not surprising to me that there s a foo
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 can assure you it was signals intelligence and imagery intelligence and human intelligence that allowed us to build this. fareed, this wasn t done one brick at a time. this was actually done one pebble at a time. so hayden also said president obama s decision to raid bin laden s compound was courageous. but he thinks any american president would have made the same choice. let s talk about the threat of water in a very big way in memphis, tennessee. a nervous wait at the swollen mississippi river keeps rising. it s expected to crest tuesday at 14 feet above flood stage. the expected crest, just inches below the record flood in 1937. people living in at least 1,100 homes in the memphis area have been told to evacuate and more evacuations might be ordered.