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In 2002 cia officials determined that "it is highly unlikely subject has any actionable new information about threats to the united states, yet they continue to "maintain the current level of psychological pressures anyway. >> tomorrow she will likely be asked lots of questions about her thoughts on waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. does she believe they are effective and what exactly was her role in drawing up orders to destroy videotapes documenting the cias use of tho...

Heck wont be the last. >> for other democrats on the committee running for reelection, their vote could have real impact on whether or not they will be returning to washington. senator jon tester from montana is facing stiff republican opposition in the midterms, he said today he is a "no" because hes not a huge fan of waterboarding. something haspel briefly oversaw as cia backed site. that controversial period over 32 years as a covert operative will be front and center at tomorrows hearing and...

3 college now a reality for some, but you the taxpayer will be footing the bill, the program signed into law in maryland will cost $15 million and begin next year. it covers community college tuition for students from families earning less then $120,000 per year and single adults earning less then $90,000. 26 minutes after the hour. the cia director nominee in the hot seat, gina haspel expected to promise the interrogation program is over. live in washington a sneak peek of her testimony. espn h...

I support the higher moral standard that this country has decided to hold itself to. i would never, ever take c.i.a. back to an interrogation program. first of all, c.i.a. 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 c.i.a. officers at risk by asking them to undertake risky, controversial activity again. >> my question is this. on a going-forward basis, if this president asked ...

Post" last night. a reporter wrote a story talking about the failure of certain organizations to correct their facts and that was one of them. and he noted that mr. rizzo, about 10 days ago, he was wrong. he didnt fact check. and that has been corrected. i would never even serve in that department nor was i the head of it. >> let me read his quote from the book. several weeks later porter promoted jose rodriguez to the position as deputy director for operations. jim pafsh itchs former job. once ...

Do you agree with the findings of that report? >> senator, i do. >> thank you. weve talked a bit about the statement in mr. rizzos book that you had previously run the interrogation program. i understand he has changed his view on that. your career timeline 2001, 2003, 03 to 04 senior level supervisor, 04-05 deputy chief national resources division. in any of those jobs were you in a supervisory or management capacity in connection to the rendition and interrogation program? >> senator, well be ...

Just representing herself right now. she doesnt need this job. one of the c.i.a., her former bosses an interviewed for my column this morning, every job that has come to her. she is not just a c.i.a. clandestine operative. she represents the men and women of this agency. hundreds of whom were involved in that interrogation program. if she is killed -- if her nomination is killed over her involvement in this program, it sends a signal to hundreds of people in that agency that your careers are bas...

Reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention interrogation program, end quote. the questions will follow but thats her position, steve. how does that not go through? >> yeah. i think the question is whether these red state democrats who want to make this a debate about bush-era enhanced interrogation program. theyll probably try to make it a bigger issue. very little ambiguity. i would like there to be a detention and interrogation program. whether it should incl...

Here, dollars to doughnuts. the iranians prevented us from looking at militaryinon installations, to inspect the military installations for the production of nuclear weapons. sean, where the heck do you think they are going to produce a nuclear weapon? the local walmart? of course they doo it at the military installation. this is common sense, this was never a deal. this was obama getting played in the iranians never had anypr intention of sticking to this deal and i applaud president trump for ...

Controversy. good to see you. >> over the last few hours we got our hands on some sections of her opening statements and shes planning on addressing the waterboarding issue head on. she will promise can senators if confirmed with the cia will not restart that controversial program but will those words be enough to convince democrats to vote for her? >> president trumps pick to lead the cia gina haspel back on capitol hill today meeting with some of the democratic senators who will likely determi...