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Uncorrupted, reliable memory. and research again is very clear on the fragility of human memory under the best circumstances. imagine introduces waterboard or the anxiety that comes from continued threats of sleep deprivation. even if somebody wished to provide information, their ability to do so is severely undermined. >> and in this evaluation of the information that they would be getting from waterboarding, if theyre saying, if the bush administration is saying, look, we just found out in eff...

Whats more important is the fundamentalal objective is to get access to an individuals uncorrupted, reliable memory. and research again is very clear on the fragility of human memory under the best circumstances. imagine introduces waterboard or the anxiety that comes from continued threats of sleep deprivation. even if somebody wished to provide information, their ability to do so is severely undermined. >> and in this evaluation of the information that they would be getting from waterboarding,...

Stop. >> thats correct. whats more important is the fundamentalal objective is to get access to an individuals uncorrupted, reliable memory. and research again is very clear on the fragility of human memory under the best circumstances. imagine introduces werboard or the anxiety that comes from continued threats of sleep deprivation. even if somebody wished to provide information, their ability to do so is severely undermined. >> and in this evaluation of the information that they would be getti...

>> dont you accept the techniques have been vindicated by the death of bin laden? >> not at all. i think weve tried to dig too deeply into the trivia of the event and losing the grand vision behind this. interrogation, this is what your listeners need to understand and perhaps theyre misled by the television portrayals, interrogation is always about access to somebodys uncorrupted and reliable memory. its science. its not art. and what we know about the human memory is that intrapersonal, enviro...

Told me that. not a word. thats called the washington two-step. thats where you get set up, somebody passes information, and out you go. in the face of facing cancer, fighting the democratic leadership -- by the way, im a proud democrat. im a democrat in a place where we dont have democrats. its not like im in new york city. im in rural america where the rubber hits the road. one of the first democrats to be elected in my congressional district in human memory. and there the people of my distric...

Conceivable option. the north koreans ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon, put on it top of an intercontinental ballistic missile. it is a real existential threat to the country. im not sure the president is making things better. what history teaches us, is that every leader believes they can control events. but most leaders he are controlled by events. and when leaders are controlled by events, and they begin to lose control of the trajectory of them, and those events spiral, leaders miscal...

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