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They are good people, really good people and were lucky as a nation to have them. >> if you read the report though, he wasnt even informered about these methods until 2006 and then expressed reservations about them. dick cheney dismissed the report before it came out. he was a proponent of what he called enhanced interrogation techniques after the 9/11 attacks. he told the new york times he thinks they were absolutely and totally justified. told the times about the senate report, quote, i hear t...

Story," mr. rizzo. >> hello, gretchen. nice to be here. >> so you were the first person to be briefed on interrogation techniques, correct? >> i was the first lawyer in the government to be briefed, yes. >> and you received that memo from the department of justice, correct? >> correct. on august 1st, 2002. so these techniques were carried out. what do you make of the report being released to the general public and to the world now? >> well, i must say, the timing seems disturbing to me, particul...

Of the committee and frankly some of their staff as well. this thing cant have an on-off switch based upon our off year elections him we feed an off year political consensus. im willing, not because they were unlawful, im willing to take some of the activity off the table in order to build this broad consensus. thats water supposed to happen in that 2007 briefing to the committee that senator feinstein. >> is it specific details? >> she had the details of the graphic nature of what was going on ...

A system being really novice or ill-prepared. and im using my own words to describe what a very large report said. but effectively that this was just badly put together by people who were unqualified. >> well, maybe its not surprising that he did seem to defend these interrogation techniques. he said to me, quote, nothing was done to those detainees that arent done to our servicemen and women by our own training programs. i think its a national discussion. the administration and the people of th...

Now, it doesnt say enhanced interrogation of t. says of torture thats why i asked you whats the difference? >> i assume that signed on we adhered to it in order to have leadership to the world. >> lets an a lawyer for a moment. the convention wasnt a criminal statute. >> i didnt think it was. >> thought detainee treatment act result of interrogation techniques being exposed. there is now clear guidance american law under the detainee treatment act that would outlaw waterboarding and other techni...

Brief period of time from august of 2002 it to early 2003, where the guidelines werent set in stone. they had the legal authority to do the enhanced interrogation techniques there were a few months where it was a little bit influx. i think thats what he was pointing to. there was a short period of time where the guidance wasnt totally. >> i dont want to do speculation. but that took me aback a little bit. okay. i believe its a partisan report. i believe that the democrats had a solution that the...

With him sometimes virtually every day lied to him or mislead him. these three men in charge of the agency didnt know what was going on most vital of programs that they were intimately involved with and in my opinion knew everything about. >> 17 the information indicate, doesnt identify what the information is which is always interesting. the information we have indicates that the president was not briefed by the cia regarding specific interrogation techniques until april of 2006 and at that tim...

Colleague joy reid after the report was released yesterday. >> i cant honestly say that crimes were committed. but i will say this, what we saw in the use of these enhanced interrogation techniques was not consistent with who we are, who we say we are as americans. they might have been legal in the strictest sense of the word. but i think in many ways, they were immoral. >> so you have legality, morality, different standards, obviously when you come to the criminal justice system. what are you g...

There aror things we cant know but theres one thing the president knows. the president knows that continuing to employ these techniques descried in that report would only undermine one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal to protect american national security and that is the moral authority around the globe of the united states of americ america. >> lets bring in our military analyst, mike hertling and former cia officer peter brooks. peter is also a national security expert with the heri...

He used a more color word when he talked to me. >> ill take your word for it. >> he also said when the interrogation program was running, cia officials were in a battle with al qaeda and at that time remember it was a group they knew very little about. they did the best they could given the information they had, brooke. >> i also heard that you said he defended a number of those interrogation techniques. how did he defend? what techniques did he defend? >> he seemed to defend interrogation techn...