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Non-combatants killed in our operations, taken responsibility when mistakes are made. weve declassified information about interrogation methods that were wrong, so we learn from past mistakes. and yesterday i directed our government, for the first time, to release a full description of the legal and policy frameworks that guide our military operations around the world. this public information allows for a more informed public debate, and it provides a potential check on unfettered executive powe...

Make interrogation methods compliant and legal. the sixth one, it says torture ways. it is a bill from july of 2008 called limitations on interrogation act of 2008. nothing in here that appears to be classified. i want to talk about this sf-86 for a second. im holding this up right now. i have heard people talk about this. these are things that you might not want the public to have hold of. if someone who works in the intelligence community, you know that if you put something on your regular e-m...

The mecca people think of the cia interrogation methods. 51% say it is acceptable under circumstances the treatment of these prisoners. with 28% said went too far and was wrong. what yo is able to the controvey that surrounds this in light of the unbelievable ambush we saw at the school just yesterday morning? >> one of the things im able to do is troubled country and give speeches not talk a lot of the american public. generally they agree with me as far as enhanced interrogation does work. lov...

Soldier back when the afghanistan war was going on with the russians. in any event, they came up with their ways to resist our interrogation methods, and they asked james mitchell, dr. james mitchell, the u.s. did, to take a look at this manual and figure out ways to sort of counteract our own resistance techniques that al-qaeda was prepared to use. and then they figured out, okay, now we know how to do it, and someones actually going to have to go in and execute on this and get information from...

Your staff hasnt been very respectful toward us. also tonight, jesse watters confronting the mayor of new york city, whose own police force is turning against him. >> you need rescuing. >> i never need rescuing. caution. you are about to enter the no-spin zone. "factor" begins right now. hi, im bill oreilly. thanks for watching us tonight. the cia and the police. that is the subject of this evens talking points memo. speaking on "meet the press" former vice president dick cheney said the e...

Public school compound in the northwest city of peshawar and killed at least 141 people, all but nine of them students, children aged 12 to 16. for hours, troops battled terrorists room by room until the attackers themselves were killed but not before they planted explosives which still are being sought out and neutralized at this hour. pakistan is calling the attack a, quote, ghastly act of cowardice. and president obama says terrorists have once again shown their depravity. the grisly revela...

On the show, because it is a family show, but it is a crock. and the whole report has not been released. >> and thousands of pages here and this is the executive sum i ri. >> yes, and go read what the directors of the agencies said about the report. they were extremely critical of it as were the republicans who were on the committee. >> does it plant any seed of doubt in your mind? >> no. absolutely not. >> no seed of doubt in your mind whether it worked or not? >> no, it did work. it absolutely...

They were given wide latitude to develop and carry out some of the most brutal interrogation methods, even though they had no experience in actual interrogations, according to the report. they formed a company, and actually carried out the waterboarding of khalid sheikh mohamed, among other significant detainees, pocketed $81 million before their contract was dissolved in 2009. to some, the details are evidence of a desperate administration willing to try anything, even people with questionable ...

Nation after 9/11, they were afraid another attack was imminent. when they caught a terrorist, they used these techniques. out of fear of another attack. so theres not going to be any prosecution of those who were employing these techniques because they were given legal guidance. the law at the time was very confusing. but it is very clear now. >> what about countries that cooperated with the cia post-september 11th detention and interrogation program? like poland expressing concerns that detail...

-- i repeat, we were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used. >> that was then-speaker of the house nancy pelosi back in 2009 denying that she or her colleagues had ever been briefed about the cias enhanced interrogation techniques put into place after september 11th. the folks over at the politifact website investigated that claim and rated it false. so when did democrats find out about this program, and how much did they know? trace gallagher ...