Page 93 - Interrogation Program News Today

After days waterboarding a detainee in 2002, officials determined it is, quote, highly likely subjects with any actionable information about threats to the united states yet they continued to maintain the psychological pressure anyway. so tomorrow haspel will be asked a lot of questions about her thoughts on waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques. does she believe they are effective and what was her role in drawing up orders to destroy videotapes documenting the cias use of th...

Surrounding the tapes. i dont recall pending legislation. i just dont recall that. >> what about the issue of all of the counsels, the vice president, dni. hipsy. ranking member. >> i dont know if i was aware of all of those but i knew there was disagreement about the issue of the tapes outside the agency and that is why we were working toward a meeting with the then director to talk about those issues and how we addressed those concerns of people outside the agency. so i was working toward reso...

Hearings. kristen fisher has the latest on the controversy. >> reporter: we got our hands on some sections of her opening statement and shes planning to address the waterboarding issue head on and have confirmed the cia will not lose the controversial programs but will that convinced democrats to vote for her? donald trumps pick to lead the cia, gina haspel meeting with senators who will determine her fate, one of the members of the senate intelligence committee urging the cia to declassify docu...

A detention and interrogation program. c.i.a. 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 report concluded, that c.i.a. was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation program. today the u.s. government has a clear, legal and policy framework that governs detent...

Central lines of questioning we anticipate today which is haspels role in the bush-era interrogation program that critics call torture. it reads having served in that time i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. that program was under the bush administration and it was approved by the justice department. it involved the water boarding of a handful of senior al qaeda operati...

Confirmation process it wont be the last. >> rather democrats on the committee running for reelection their vote could have a real impact whether they will be returning to washington. sen. jon tester is facing stiff republican opposition in the midterm said today he said no vote because hes not a huge fan of waterboarding, something haspel briefly oversaw. that controversial. go will be front and center it tomorrows hearing and something she is planning to address in her opening statement, quote...

Denied the airstrikes. it comes hours after donald trump withdrew from the iran deal. rob: gina haspel facing tough questions from senators at a confirmation hearing. the focus, her role in the now outlawed torture program. griff jenkins live with what we can expect today. >> reporter: of confirmed she would be the first female director of the cia with a 33 year career, what she can expect from the senate intelligence committee is tough questions about her role in the enhanced interrogation prog...

The fact it is against the law. the question i have, with the benefit of hindsight, do you believe the program in terms of the interrogation program was consistent with american values? >> senator, as we sit here today and with some distance between us and the events of 9/11, the congress and indeed our nation have had an opportunity to have a debate about the interrogation standards we want to use as the united states of america. we have decided to hold ourselves to a stricter moral standard fo...

To any kind of nuclear weapon development in iran. get rid of ballistic missiles and no more activity to terrorism which iran is the world number one terrorist organization. >> bill: it is moving quickly as i think you would agree. thank you so much for your time and observations. john barrasso from wyoming. thanks. >> julie: the confirmation hearing for gina haspel set to get underway in minutes. she is expected to face questions about her past role in an enhanced interrogation program. well ta...

Described how in 2005 jose rodriguez was promoted to be deputy c.i.a. director for operations and installed as his chief of staff an officer from the counter terror center who had previously run the interrogation program. is that you? >> senator, im so pleased you asked me that question. >> yes or no will do. >> no. and for the record, if you have your staff check, mr. rizzo has issued a correction. it is true that it is hard for -- in a -- that is not accurate. >> you recently confirmed it was ...