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Than good intelligence. >> and the president was careful not to call any of these harsh interrogation tactics crimes. and so far the justice department has given no indication that it will prosecute former c.i.a. officials for what happened during their interrogation program. and asked whether or not the president still stands by his claim that these interrogation tactics amounted to torture, a white house official said yes. alisyn and chris in. >> thanks for all of that. the release of the repo...

>> yes. >> how long will they be there? >> well, zubaydah is a definite detainee person in that category who the governemnt thinks is too dangerous to release. >> well, theyve tried, but they tortured him. >> yes, in some sense. >> so, in some dark place, he will have to leave in a black box. we also have someone who is on the other side of this who worked in the interrogation program, wrote a book about it. glen carl joins me now. glen, can we start with the black sites that are part, a huge pa...

If the interrogation program worked, it wasnt worth it. jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. a 67-year-old sailor is expected back on land in ohio -- in hawaii to at sea. a navy ship came to his rescue yesterday. he had been drifting since thanksgiving. that was when he made two mayday calls reporting his sailboat was taking on water. a coast guard search was started but was called off last monday. one final call -- mayday call came yesterday. it was heard and the navy destroyer arrived o...

>> yes, absolutely. and that really stands out, the example you pointed out. and sadly, several instances of that explained throughout the report, where we had these officers who were put in charge of these detention sites who clearly were not qualified to run a kind of interrogation program like this. as that passage would continue with that officer that you were referring to, there was actually a supervisor who issued a warning to the agency saying that this person should not be put in charge ...

This is a long process, but they will come. >> these two men are still in gitmo, correct? >> yes. >> how long will they be there? >> well, zubaydah is a definite detainee person in that category who the governemnt thinks is too dangerous to release. >> well, theyve tried, but they tortured him. >> yes, in some sense. >> so, in some dark place, he will have to leave in a black box. we also have someone who is on the other side of this who worked in the interrogation program, wrote a book about it...

You didnt know that the secretary of the program, it looks like tommy rice didnt know about the program. there were a lot of people at the highest levels of government in the executive branch who did not read into the fact that we were torturing people. >> i think thats true. ill go out on a limb who said the only person who was completely read in. but the one who had e has read in the need for the law to cover their rear ends and the need to continue the program because it was effective was ric...

But i think the idea that we should ban torture and say thou shalt not is correct. and weve learned that its correct from the worlds reaction to the exposure of what happened over the last ten years. >> richard, you know the scene better than anybody i know. do you know where weve been practicing this kind of nasty business, this torture, enhanced interrogations? and which of our allies are doing it? do we know that pretty much? >> well, torture is unfortunately very widespread in the world. bef...

One of the striking things about the newly released report is the lengths the agency went to about the effectiveness on the torture program. the investigation paints the picture the agency and misinformation to willfully mislead the people. regarding the operation and effectiveness of the c e c.i.a.s interrogation program. >> about the effectiveness of c.i.a. interrogation being

That makes it sound like the cia was not only torturing bad guys like ksm or abu zubaida, but inon sent people. >> youre using the word torture and i would dispute that the people in enhanced interrogation program, that was harsh, brutal tactic. >> youre not disputing that the force-feeding people rectally is torture. >> no, absolutely not. those were abuses. the system was not perfect. there were abuses along the way. >> its more than abuses. they were abhorrent. >> im not going to contest that...

>> i have to be somewhat cautious around client sensitivities. but i can say heel e he and other torture survivors who work with suffer the prediblgtble consequences which is to shatter people, to break them. >> rectal hydration which is a form of adepreggressive sexual assault. >> this term ive encountered before in my life. it sounds like forest feeding down the tube. its simply a means of degrading somehow. >> clearly. that is the point of this interrogation program. its so many of these brut...