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Force. my parents gave me a very strong moral compass. i support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. i would never, ever take cia back to an interrogation program. first of all, cia follows the law. we followed the law then. we follow the law today. i support the law. i wouldnt support a change in the law, but ill tell you this, i would not put cia officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again. >> miss haspel, my question ...

Torture. so let me ask you a series of questions. first, were you involved in any way in the creation of the enhanced interrogation program? >> senator, i was not, and i was not read into the program until about a year into its existence. >> were you a senior manager at the cia at the time that the program was created? >> no. i had just returned from an overseas posting. i was a gs-15. i was not yet a member of the senior executive service. i was assigned as a deputy group chief. thats pretty fa...

Getting back in that business. >> thank you. >> the senators time has expired. >> you didnt actually answer the question. what would you do if the president ordered you to get back in that business. >> senator, the president has selected me to give him advice. i would not restart under any circumstances in an interrogation program at cia. under any circumstances. >> thank you. you have repeatedly said that at xx of interrogation techniques like waterboarding were determined to be legal. now ther...

Directed by the president who as a candidate enthusiastically endorsed water boarding and more. >> i would bring back waterboarding and a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding. >> i would not restart under any circumstances an interrogation program at cia under any circumstances. >> reporter: pressed however, haspel with not say if she considered the torture program immoral. >> do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral. >> senator, i leave that cia officers to whom ...

In fact, i was not even read into the interrogation program until it had been up and running for a year. i never served -- >> were you an advocate for destroying the tapes. >> senator, i absolutely was an advok and the if we can within and conforming to u.s. law and if we can get policy concurrence to support the security risk posed by those tapes -- >> were you aware of what those tapes contained? >> no. i never watched the tapes, but i understood that our officers faces were on them and that w...

The stkrugz destruction of vide. she said she was ordered by her superiors. in some of the excerpts, she does defend her record, especially about interrogation. this is what she said. i can offer you my personal commitment, clearly and without reservation, that under my leadership the cia will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. the cia earlier this week delivered box of the senate intelligence committee about her record but they are still classified. the big push today and t...

Book so i didnt even know that was out there. mr. rizzo, and actually i read about it in "the washington post" last night. eric wimpel, i believe, wrote a story talked about the certain organizations to correct their facts and that was one of them, and he noted that mr. rizzo about ten days ago, he was wrong. he didnt fact check, and that has been corrected. i would never even served in that department nor was i the head of it. >> several weeks later porter promoted jose rodriguez to the positio...

Here are some highlights. >> i thought we did extraordinary work. >> there is a shadow cast over what has been a major contribution to protecting this country. >> should the cia even be in the business of interrogating detainees? >> having access, direct access to a terrorist is extremely valuable for intelligence collection and we do that. but cia does not today conduct interrogations. we never did historically and were not getting back in that business. >> what would you do if the president or...

Who will play a key role in determining whether shell get enough votes to be approved favorably by this committee and expect a contentious hearing today, guys. >> thank you, manu. we will bring it to you full live as soon as it begins. lets bring in our panel to discuss this and nia, let me go to you first, we know some of what shell say in these prepared marks and some of what shell say is, quote, under my leadership, the cia will not restart such a detention and interrogation program, meaning ...

Leadership, on my watch, cia will not restart a detention and interrogation program. cia has learned some tough lessons from that experience. we were asked to tackle a mission that fell outside our expertise. for me, there is no better example of implementing lessons learned than what the agency took away from that program. in retrospect, it is clear as the majority report concluded, that cia was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation program. today, the u.s. government has a clea...