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You want it, then you can call it what you will. and thats what happens. so no one ever used officially and formal, professional conversations that i heard the word torture. >> but they did use enhanced interrogation techniques. >> oh, yeah, sure. and there was no question, to me, and i think to many of my colleagues what this was. sure. >> you resisted. you said, im not going to do this. what was your -- what were colleagues saying? im so fascinated reading this report. you cant pull down the f...

>> we have alberto gonzalez. he was the white house counsel when they originally signed off on these enhanced interrogation techniques and later became the attorney general of the united states. it was one of those early meetings that rizzo from the cia lawyer was with alberto gonzalez. rizzo says at that meeting they said dont share this information with the then secretary of state colin powell. he could blow his stack if he hears about it. well speak to alberto gonzalez about those early meeti...

By terror threats. in fact it was an over reaction to those threats that some used to push torture in the first place. this should be a new time to look at the evidence in the report. how america violated law. here are key findings. this is not about behind sight. the evidence shows many people in the government knew at the time that this torture was inhumane and illegal thats why cia leadership flipped out when bush suggested we were treating detainees inhumanely and agencies officials were so ...

The e-mails that he wrote. and actually said he couldnt quite remember about that e-mail, which is one of the reasons why the e-mails are so powerful. it doesnt rely on someones memory of what they said at a particular time. this is contecontemporaneous. he wrote this on that day about these events. and i want to get to one of the descriptions in this report of how this was run at one of the detention sites. the cia officer in charge of detention site cobalt was a junior officer on his first ove...

Chambers they have, how are you going to interrogate the saudis? >> what they said was that they went beyond what the justice department guidelines were. >> these were all techniques that were brief, the senate and the house were both briefed on 30 occasions, i told u you about that, they couldnt come up with a no, they dwchbt tell them stop doing it. they didnt tell them not to do it, they went forward with it. hire are a couple of fallouts for it. for the record, i still think its okay to do s...

You think about it. one argument the cia has used to defend its interrogation techniques, is that they helped get information that led to finding osama bin laden. the top democrats dispute that claim, in fact. brian todd explains. >> reporter: one of the most successful intelligence operations in american history, the hunt for osama bin laden and the raid that killed him. top democrats say no meaningful clues. no key evidence in that decade long search came from enhanced interrogation techniques...

Presidential directive. >> does the president agree with former cia officials that the interrogation techniques did result in actionable intelligence or does he agree with the senate committees conclusion that they did not. >> well, jim, you are acknowledging that there are a couple of sides of a very vigorous ongoing debate. this is a debate that occurred around the announcement of a successful mission to take osama bin laden off the battlefield. there was a similarly robust debate that occurre...

The period, and even looking back on it now, i think this was indeed about the nations will. and what youve got here is a small group trying to say, oh, oh, it was never about us. its not us. its not us. its them. they did it. frankly, that really is hypocritical. >> greg miller covers national security for "the washington post." his new article exposes how the cia is pushing past this report, and fred burton, vice president of intelligence at stratford and former counterterror official. good da...

Interrogation techniques. oh e. >> oh, yeah, sure. and there was no question, to me, and i think to many of my colleagues what this was. sure. >> you resisted. you said im not going to do this. what was your -- what were colleagues saying. im so fascinated reading this report. you cant pull down the front line operators and ajents who are working in this? e. what are people saying to each other? are you getting drinks late at night. >> i think you will always have a range of views in any institu...

Hed do it again? >> well, he seemed to defend those interrogation techniques like waterboarding and sleep deprivation. he said "nothing was done to those detainees that arent done to our servicemen and women by our own training programs." he also says he thinks we need to have a national discussion about torture and whether we should allow terrorists to lawyer up. >> some of the details in that report are so disturbing. like the forced rectal feeding. hes for that that? >> thats right. and when ...