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Democratic move, which is not how it plays abroad. there, it looks like, wow, the americans are being transparent and theyre investigating their own problems -- >> i think the only thing the cia exists for is to keep secrets. and for director brennan, whos a nice guy and comes on the air and wants to defend all of this. do you think youre going to get the truth? hell no! >> well, you wont -- >> do you think youre going to get the truth? no way! theyre in the business of secrets. >> well, its the...

Department and obama administration repeated they were not going to seek criminal charges. >> the whole thing lacks basic context, they say theres no consideration given to the mindset in america after the 9/11 attacks. at the time "new york times" wrote theres been a drum beat of warnings from top officials that terrorist attacks, even a nuclear one, are all but inevitable. and it was against this backdrop that the cia interrogation program was developed and approved. jose rodriguez jr. is the ...

Today. >> no -- >> yeah, thats what theyre saying. thats what joe bidens been saying. thats what barack obamas been saying. the drone program went into overdrive on january 21st, 2009. and when you talk about five years from now, ten years from now, the information comes out about this drone program, mike barnicle, and people actually report on this drone program, its going to look a hell of a lot worse, a hell of a lot deadlier, a hell of a lot more random and a hell of a lot more inhumane than...

Interrogation tactics. they support extending the drone program. ed henry getting into what some would call hypocrisy. >> can you explain how the president believes that it is unamerican to use these techniques but it was okay to ramp up the drone policy and basically thousands of people around the world, innocent civilians were killed. whats the moral equivalency. >> there is significant care taken and significant checks and balances included in the system to ensure any counter-terrorism action...

The value and basically it led to the destruction of the organization. in terms of whether we exceeded the authorities that we had, this program actually has been subjected to very intense investigations by justice department and, in fact, from 2009 to 2012, john durham, the special investigator, conducted a thorough investigation and he basically found no prosecutable charges to be made for anyone. >> you know, i talk a lot on this program about selective moral outrage, jose. let me give you an...

Targets. does this now, the release of the senate intel report put any kind of additional pressure on this administration to justify the drone program? >> well that will really depend on the congress and the american public. the president said these enhanced interrogation techniques hurt our standing in the world. from my experience, the existence of these techniques was widely known by our friend and allies. certainly widely reported in the press and has been so the past few years and it hasnt ...

Charges to be made for anyone. >> you know, i talk a lot on this program about selective moral outrage, jose. let me give you an example. we have, under president obama and his drone program, we have the estimated death toll at 2400. in pakistan alone, the death toll is estimated between 450 -- im sorry 400 and 950 civilians including 168 to 200 children. can you explain to me how the drone program under obama is not far more morally problematic than enhanced interrogation? and what do you make ...

And his information led to the sheik who was the post 9/11 plotter and his job was to come up with ways to hit america. they guav up sha lec mammogram and organizer who did the ba li bombing and in charge of hitting the west coast of the united states. and he gave up his brother who was in charge of the cell of 17 people who were charged in the plot against the united states and in the process of being planned and executed. and so the idea that it department lead to intelligence is ridiculous. w...

Committee report. theres a reason they werent interviewed. then theres this bizarre comparison. >> under president obama and his drone program we have death hol of 2400 and pakistan alone between 450 and 900 civilians, can you explain how the drone program under obama is not far more morally problematic than enhanced interrogation. and what do you make of diane fiensteins silence on that issue in comparison? >> yeah, its a very interesting because you know, this administration actually does not ...

Program that had a lot of criticism in the world and killing civilians and family members of suspects and the administrations failure to be more transparent about justification and legal standing and details of the sharply increased drone program. >> i support the administration on what they are doing with the drone program. but you are right. if you look at public opinion polls. america is less respected and lower approval ratings under president obama than it did under president bush in most i...