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At that 2006 meeting, the full committee learned for the first time of the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques or eits. it was a short meeting in part because president bush was making a public speech later that day disclosing officially for the first time the existence of cia black sites. and announcing the transfer of 14 detainees from cia custody to guantanamo bay cuba. it was the first time the interrogation program was explained to the full committee as details had previously...

Interrogation. source cia cable july 15, 2002. after the news and photographs emerged from the united states military detention of iraqis at abu ghraib, they held a hearing on the matter on may 12th, 2004. without disclosing details of their own interrogation program, the cia director testified that cia interrogations were nothing like what was depicted at abu ghraib, the united states prison in iraq were abused by american personnel. this was false. cia detainees described as a dungeon were kep...

Out there. do whatever you have to do to bring them to justice. make sure that this never happens again. so the c.i.a. started working things. keep in mind, what they did to three terrorists 11 years ago was legal. waterboarding was legal. everything they did was legal. now just before on the eve of the democrats losing control of the u.s. senate, theyre releasing this. they spent $40 million and years to put it together. now essentially what theyre trying to do is simply show that it was bad. w...

The president writes, as ive said before our nation did many things right in those difficult years. at the same time, some of the actions that were taken were contrary to our values. that is why i unequivocally ban editor tour when i took office because one of our most effective tools in fighting terrorism and keeping americans safe is staying true to our ideals at home and abroad. todays report the president writes by the senate select committee on intelligence details one element of our nation...

Thank you all for being with us tonight. coming up, new protests take hold across the country. we will discuss the national movement towards greater racial equality in our society. but first, the torture report, we are talking about the post-9/11 interrogation program and the damming new details coming out this week. [ male announcer ] its a warning. a wake-up call. but its not happening out there.

Because she is so protective of the long tenure as a chairpers chairperson. it surprises most everyone of us in terms of what has taken place here. if it turns out to be true that investigators do not talk to anybody associated with this interrogation program. not sure how it can be balanced if they havent been spoken to. shannon: you have to get all sides. we will see what they decide to do. jon: a health crisis on the high seas. what is sickening passengers aboard a cruise ship in with a cruis...

Piece of intelligence or the initial tip, if you will, came from the enhanced interrogation program, what critics call the cia torture program. >> why is it taking so long to release the report. >> the report was released last summer but negotiations intensified over the redactions and whether the senates proposal and using pseudonym0si u -- cia officers would blow their cover. >> when they goo into the field theyre going to be afraid of being second-guessed. >> a former intelligence official to...

>> when we made the decision to go in iraq in 03 i believed it in then. it was absolutely the right thing to do. >> i helped put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasnt. >> i dont spend a lot of time thinking about my faults. >> if you want to be loved, go be a movie star. im proud of the policies we put in place. im not inclined to commit any mea culpas. >> after all, darth vader is one of the nicer things ive been called recently. >> and in the new we...

Investigates new claims of a chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held village in central syria. just a warning, the video you are about to see is graphic. a western-backed opposition group is claiming that a syrian government plane dropped chlorine gas on friday night. nbc news cannot independently confirm the amateur video released by rebel groups, which shows adults and children gasping for breath. meanwhile, state-run syrian tv is blaming rebel forces, specifically the al qaeda-linked front fo...

Heres dick cheney defending torture. >> i was a strong advocate and helped put together the enhanced interrogation program. some people call it torture. it wasnt torture. we were very careful in all respects to abide by the law. we got legal opinions out of the justice department with respect to what we could do and what we couldnt do. this notion that somehow there was torture involved, thats not true. its a name that, a term that the critics have used in order to try to discredit the program. ...