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Not torture. he also holds the medal of honor, as did bud day who was also captured and tortured and subsequently made it clear that he did not believe waterboarding was torture. >> so if an american citizen is waterboarded by isis, are we going to try to prosecute isis for war crimes? >> hes not likely to be waterboarded. hes likely to have his head cut off. its not a close call. >> if another country captures a u.s. soldier. >> youre trying to come up now with hypothetical situations. the wate...

Comcast nbcuniversal. bringing media and technology together for you. if one man was at the heart of the enhanced interrogation program it was jose rodriguez. during the years after 9/11 he was the head of the cia counterterrorism program and then ran the national clandestine service. mr. rodriguez joins us to discuss this weeks controversy. mr. rodriguez, you were the man who came up with the enhanced interrogation program after all weve heard this week about waterboarding, about confinement ...

Senate report this week is that there were times when the cia would leak information that made the interrogation program look favorable. >> well, i think the word leak is pajoritive right there. he wouldnt look at it as a leak. a leak to a reporter is something that some other reporter got. so the job with the agency spokesman is to provide information as best they can on an unclassified basis to reporters and thats what they did. >> michael, i see you smiling. have you been on the receiving end...

An american citizen on his cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the trade center in new york city on 9/11. theres this notion that somehow theres moral equivalence between what the terrorists did and what we do and absolutely not true. we were very careful to stop short of torture. >> that was former vice president dick cheney today slamming that controversial senate report released last week detailing the cias enhanced...

>> richard engel is in studio with me now. richard, first of, its good to have you stateside. >> good to be here. >> december visit here. whats creating more terrorists? the bush interrogation program or obamas drone program? >> creating more terrorists? >> yeah. >> its very hard to know. people are radicalized -- >> theres worry that both do that. that both can radicalize people. >> theres a whole history of why people are being radicalized. it goes back to u.s. support for israel, whats consid...

Director says. >> there was useful intelligence, very useful, valuable intelligence that was obtained from individuals who had been at some point subjected to eits. whether that could have been obtained without the use of again, that is unknowable. >> brennan also says enhanced interrogation provided information that led to the capture of osama bin laden. the report disputes that and goes onto criticize the cia for the management and brutality of the enhanced interrogation program. it should be ...

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...

Long disruption. a spokesman says the system was not hacked. california cleaning up after this rare tornado swept through l.a. friday morning. it tore up roofs and downed trees. no one was hurt. it was part of a massive storm we have been telling you about that slammed california bringing floods, mudslides and power outages. david camerons office says the uk asked to have sections deleted or changeed from the report on controversial cia interrogation techniques. the changes were meant to pro...

Over simplified. so it becomes either all of or all of that. the truth is resides as it usually does in the middle. talking to a detainee, doing the usually traditional interrogation of rapport building, of bridge building of reciprocity, gifting, whatever you want to call it, which was done the vast majority of times during the course of this program. >> and apparently it did gleam information. >> sometimes it works. sometimes it doesnt. this is my point. sometimes the enhanced interrogation te...

Asked about mitchells qualifications. >> i think its a partisan pile of crap. its an attempt to smear the men and women of the cia as the democrats leave their position of authority. >> reporter: thats james mitchell who has been tied to the secret interrogation program by publications in a 2008 senate report. hes one of two psychologists slammed in the report for developing the program. its the details that are jaw dropping. mitchell and his partner are believed to have landed in $180 million c...