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Might wonder, you yourself have admitted that you did attend -- witness some terrorist training camps or camps. you moved your family to live in the taliban regime in afghanistan. so it seems odd for somebody who seems to have sympathy for regimes that would brutal in terms of their oppression of human rights would never have some kind of nate report like this that looked at their own practices, that routinely behead people, amputate arms, discriminating massively against women, for you to be tu...

I went into the portal and spoke with several iranians about their lives and their country and how they see the united states. >> we are not like bad people. its not like all the stereotypes youre hearing about all the time or what they say in the press and news. its totally different. the actual life here is totally different. >> perhaps presidents obama and rouhani should meet this way. for more on the project, go to cnn.com/gps. the correct answer to the gps challenge is a, australia, second ...

Of a closed system with no checks and balances. the kremlin and the kgb had complete freedom of maneuver, no oversight, no requirement ever to reveal any operations and no media that reported on them. the result was that errors persisted and ultimately broke the back of the entire enterprise. now, america made its share of mistakes during the cold war, but because of a democratic system of contestation, transparencies and checks and balances, many were exposed early. new administrations could sh...

Again, many of the people involved thought they were doing the right thing but we failed them by not having a clear legal framework around their activity. >> jane, let me ask you about congress involvement. there is the argument that this report whitewashes one element of the system, which was congressional oversight, that the cia briefed congress 30 times, that there wasnt a lot of push back from congress, that david ig nash shous has a column in the washington post that if there is a failure h...

Committee has doctored those reports? >> what im worried about -- and dont take my word for it -- this is what cia ex-directors have been saying over the last few days and appear in the cias own answer and in the minority report to the committee, that these were al cherry picked out of millions of documents and that we dont have the context to understand these are classified documents, of course, many of them, so we cant see the underlying documents and thats why we really need to rely on there ...

So its unsurprising completely since my return from guantanamo ive been documenting numerous cases in the u.k. and around the world of people who were beaten and abused and tortured in various ways through this rendition program. >> do you believe that the release of this report will incite a certain degree of anti-americanism around radical youth in the middle east, for example? >> i dont think so, no. in fact, what it will do is suggest that at least america is attempting to be open, at least ...

Now we will hear from a former detainee. moazzam begg was a u.s. prisoner in bagram and gitmo who said he witnessed true torture. what was his reaction to the report? you will hear that in just a moment. myears now. thinking about what you want to do with your money? daughter: looking at options. what do you guys pay in fees? dad: i dont know exactly. daughter: if youre not happy do they have to pay you back? dad: it doesnt really work that way. daughter: you sure? vo: are you asking enough ques...

Moazzam begg has spoken out against the way that the war on terror has been con duducted. i wanted to understand what effect this would have on beggs point of view. i spoke to him this week. i was in mumbai and he was in birmingham, new england, where he lives. mr. begg, thank you for joining us. let me ask you, first, you say that when you were in custody -- in u.s. custody, you witnessed acts of torture. does the report accurately describe the kind of acts you saw? >> it does. some of the tort...

Feinstein report, john mccain pushed back. congress passed several acts, including the detainee treatment act in 2005 that began to cut off the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques. >> maruan, human watch claims that jordan was the place that the united states would engage in these interrogations and that one of those sites existed when you were foreign minister of jordan. >> well, i am not privy to any such information, even when i was foreign minister. this information is classified,...

Were revealed quickly. its the biggest contentious democracies, britain and the united states, that have prevailed in the world, not nazi germany, imperial japan and the soviet union. the cia claims that its program after 9/11 worked very well and suggested the best judge of this should be itself. the senate report provides an alternative view with substantial evidence and augmentation. after all, what organization has ever benefited from being able to be the sole judge of its own performance. t...