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I understand why people did this. >> what is the difference between enhanced continue tear gation and torture. >> i think from a military lawyers point of view, none there are some enhanced interrogation techniques that dont violate the. beyond the army field the idea is pretty absurd. because the army field manual is to make sure that corporal smith doesnt abuse a prisoner in the field. we need to allow our intelligence community and military intelligence officials some latitude interrogation b...

Targets. does this now, the release of the senate intel report put any kind of additional pressure on this administration to justify the drone program? >> well that will really depend on the congress and the american public. the president said these enhanced interrogation techniques hurt our standing in the world. from my experience, the existence of these techniques was widely known by our friend and allies. certainly widely reported in the press and has been so the past few years and it hasnt ...

Explore it, explain it to the american people and make a clean break from the past and move forward. >> havent we already done that? >> well, the president the very first days of his administration put an end to these enhanced interrogation techniques, but that didnt mean there didnt have to be a full accounting of information of what happened out >> but that all came out. this is incremental. >> that presupposes that the information that came out in this report, that none of the information in ...

Wednesday, december 10th. its 5:00 a.m. in the east. u.s. facilities around the world are on high alert right now. officials are concerned about possible reprisals in response to an explosive senate report released on the cias use of harsh interrogation techniques after september 11th. this report includes pretty shocking revelations about mock executions. days of sleep deprivation. this is all in addition to waterboarding. cnns michelle kosinski is at the white house with latest. >> hi, john an...

Harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees after the 9/11 attacks. that amounted to torture. >> i think in the midst of a national trauma, and uncertainty as to whether the attacks were going to repeat themselves, whats clear is that the c.i.a. set up something very fast, without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. >> the president was responding to senate intelligence committee chair, dianne feinsteins damning report on c.i.a. interrogations. that said detainees wer...

Otherwise unavailable. otherwise unavailable was not obtained using these interrogation techniques. >> so there was swift reaction from all sides to the report which critics said could put americans at home and overseas at risk. >> president obama priced those working to keep u.s. citizen safe. >> one of the things that sets us apart from other counteds is when we make mistakes, we admit them. and i think that as i said in my written statement, there are a lot of folks who work very hard after 9...

Irts a bad idea. weve tried it. its a bad idea. there were almosts in the c.i.a. who wanted to bring the methods back from time-to-time. the cia found out about that officer doing that and disciplined the guy. the c.i.a. recommended that that officer be adds monoished for i believe e inappropriate use of interrogation techniques. so yes,it is there. but they knew, functionally, it didnt work.

Held responsible, i find that disingenuous at best. >> and in terms of making your point about the legality of it, in terms of the morality of it, when you were there and in afghanistan in the early days, was there anything you were uncomfortable with? >> well, no. at the time we werent engaged in these interrogations. i was there from 01-02 and these interrogation techniques came into play later on in 02. i should emphasize though, the necessity for speed and a variety of plans and policies tha...

Interrogation techniques. the most powerful tool we had, bar none, was our knowledge. we knew how to bump up the things they were telling us with the universe of information we were creating. a lot of it from other detain detainees. so when someone told you something, wolf, they didnt become flag waving american citizens after they went through this program. they gave us some information more freely. there were other pieces of information that they talked about. one of the core indicators that w...

And, the most accurate information was provided prior to the c.i.a. subjecting the detainee to enhanced interrogation techniques. >> history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. >> history will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. vice president joe biden applauded the reports released today. >> i think its a badge of h...