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In this building in the romanian capital bucharest the cia is said to have tortured terror suspects there was also a secret prison in lithuania lawmakers in the us and europe have been trying to come to terms with these detention centers then to terror suspects in the u.s. detention camp back one ton of obey took romania and lithuania to the european court of human rights there the judges ruled the cia operated secret prisons in both countries with the knowledge and cooperation of their governme...

Committeesed that reports on the two deaths. they had the ig reports of the activities earlier in the program. everyone knew that the program i was briefing was created as a result of how bad the agency had begun to do the work early on in the war. >> so everyone knew, the hypocrisys we will tauch touch on here, does that make it all right? are values being represented well by conducting these tactics that someone would call torture and murder? >> first, put the two deaths aside, they have been ...

Operations had not defied white house justice department and cia orders towards those videotapes. thats why michael hayden had to go to the hill and say, lets give you these transcripts of the interrogations and see if you can recreate the fact that those tapes exist. >> david ignacious earlier we spoke with the former cia director michael hayden. you were there. i want to show you this part when we asked him about the discrepancy about his past testimony and there are many. i have a list of at ...

Person described who was running interrogation program describing it as a train wreck. its very, very powerful. you realize just how unprepared the cia was for interrogating the suspects and how unprepared the country was and all the% takes that flowed from that. is this a fair minded report? i think thats one of the questions we are struggling with. the tone was almost prosecutorial. in every instance, it was never to look for the worst construction, the possibility that the cia had willfully, ...

Will? you have a covert action? >> general hayden, good to talk to you. >> hey, richard, hi, good to see you again. >> when does dianne feinstein know about this? did she know in detail years ago and did she express the same kind of outrage and opposition then that she is expressing now? >> i believe the first time was december of 2006. i believe she was on the committee then. but she had not been a part of a gang of four who had been thoroughly briefed on the program since its inception. i pay ...

>> no, legally not. mike, you and i talked, you and i came from i think similar religious conditions. we understand the generalized use of the word "torture." but what we had to rely on here, as a part of the next, was, did it or did it not meet the legal definition of torture? and pike, once you got to, it does not quite meet the legal definition then you got to ask the question, is it effective and appropriate in the circumstances in which we found ourselves and the circumstances in which we f...

There should not be partisan politics as a part of understanding and appreciating how to create transparency with the federal government and the american people, having multiple reports does not get that done. >> senior, thank you very much for being on the show the morning. still ahead, we will join the likes of gand ghandi as "times" person of the year t.ancier is next. . -- the answer is next. ♪ my baby drove up in a brand new cadillac.... ♪ ♪ look here, daddy, im never coming back......

About -- and, you know, we often did not i think fully show exactly what they do. >> well, its an interesting problem. its like we paid attention to the story at exactly the wrong times. the attention needed to be paid early on. instead, it sort of -- epidemic was able to spread. so our story really highlights people -- many of them on the ground in places like liberia, sierra leone, who started early and started fighting this disease. its important to remember we as a world are very capable of ...

The 20 cases and not a single case holds up. actionable intelligence, that was quote otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> okay. lets start with david ignacious in washington. you say, david, this was necessary to release for public accounting, but what about national security? >> well, lets take the first part first. i found the report absolutely devastating to read. we have known about these techniques. we have known ab...