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Its important to look forward and not backwards, and to remind ourselves that we do have very real security threats out there. >> that summer, the department of justice opened an investigation into allegations of torture at the hands of the cia. after three years of investigation, the folks at doj also decided they, too, would look forward, officially dropping their torture investigation, filing no criminal charges. but even after the doj dropped its investigation, the president made nice with t...

Unacceptable to me and i would make it my goal on day one of my tenure and every day thereafter to strengthen the trust between us. >> joining me, national security correspondent for "the new york times," mark mazetti who is author of the way of the knife, the cia, a secret army and a war at the ends of the earth. compelling reporting youve been doing. thank you for joining us. my first question to you is, do you have any sense, this report the senate intelligence committee report, not declassif...

That these methods didnt produce any valuable intelligence. in terps of the cias internal review, the panetta review, its our understanding its a summary of documents. the panetta in 2009 put his staff on this project to basically figure out what they were turning over to the committee to summarize the documents. the panetta review is a series of memos that provides analysis. its our understanding some of the documents do have some pretty critical assessments of the cias own interrogation method...

Interrogation where some of the most controversial practices on the war on terror took place. committee had access to million of classified cables and documents. in 2012, four years and some 48 million taxpayer dollars late, the senate report was finished. committee submitted its 6300-page report to the cia for an official response. according to "the new york times," quote, people who have read the study said it is a withering indictment of the program and details many instances when cia officia...

The cias own account, the programs interrogation methods were designed to psychologically dislocate people and once the interrogation stopped the agency had to try and undo the psychological damage inflicted on detainees. one of the ways in which they bring people back effectively from insanity is by giving prisoners tasks to do. the fact that we as the united states of america are doing this and have to do this i find deplorable. >> we have -- exactly. i completely agree with you. we have to go...

Going along with the drone program. is there some inherent hypocrisy in that? >> well, there was an interesting statistic in the first year of the obama administration. i think -- or perhaps over the first couple of years in the administration. he authorized more drone strikes and more people were killed in drone strikes that he authorized than the total number of people that had before passed through guantanamo bay. that crystallizes that hypocrisy people talk about. >> you could also argue tha...

Exterminate targets. are either of those a convincing argument for you? >> there are supposedly 70 countries that have some kind of drone technology. but the drone is the instrument of the 21st century when it comes to air power, and thats a reality. the problem comes down to really the morality, and the white house has put out three criteria, including is it an imminent threat? if it were delayed, would it cause greater risk? and is there no other alternative? the problem is those always involv...

Argument for you? >> there are supposedly 70 countries that have some kind of drone technology. but the drone is the instrument of the 21st century when it comes to air power, and thats a reality. the problem comes down to really the morality, and the white house has put out three criteria, including is it an imminent threat? if it were delayed, would it cause greater risk? and is there no other alternative? the problem is those always involve subjective judgments. its the same thing as firing a...

Administration. i think -- or perhaps over the first couple of years in the administration. he authorized more drone strikes and more people were killed in drone strikes that he authorized than the total number of people that had before passed through guantanamo bay. that crystallizes that hypocrisy people talk about. >> you could also argue that we know drone strikes work. you know, the jury still seems like its out with regard to harsh interrogation methods, but drone strikes work. >> in terms...

Oversee evidence against americans who might be targeted by strikes. brennan was also pressed about his evolving answers on enhanced int interrogation methods. >> what steps did you take to stop cia from moving to these techniques you now say you found objectionable at the time? >> i did not take steps to stop the cias use of those techniques. i was not in the chain of command of that program. i expressed my personal objections and views to some agency colleagues. >> do you have a personal opini...