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Them to do that. would you grit your teeth when you had to do these? i found them difficult to do morally, but it was always a moral choice between trying to save lives and allowing people who were trying to withhold information that could potentially stop those attacks to continue to do it — especially since they had voluntarily taken up arms against us. those eits were used in very short periods of time. abu zubaydah was subject to enhanced interrogation techniques for 14 days. abu zubaydah,...

Mohammed or abu zubaydah, they are not going to freely give up that information. in fact, this is what i would say... what general mattis had said was — and ive got a lot of respect for the man — but he said, "give me some beer and a pack of cigarettes and i think i could get more." thats the rapport—building approach. yes. heres the problem with that. youve got to ask yourself, would general mattis give up information that could potentially get his countrymen killed and disrupt our attack...

Its a stain. you have to to understand, were talking about a matter of days for this thing. for the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. one of the ways that i think about this is, we do, as do other countries, drone strikes. when we do a drone strike, we send a cruise missile or a hellfire missile into a family, and we kill the grandmother, we kill the kids, we kill the neighbours, we kill whoever happens to be around. thats not a stain? you know, in my mind, capturing someone, questioning...

Of interrogation techniques to use than the cia interrogator. so america is less safe, in your view, as a result? it is less safe as... notjust this, but a lot of things have happened in the last eight years. but, you know, one person who has been tortured is the republican senator, john mccain... yes. ..the vietnam war veteran. and he wrote in the washington post in 2011, "i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners sometimes produces good intelligence, but often produces bad in...

Im not still doing consultation for some of the things i was involved in. so to the extent that having done those things sort of blackballed me from doing other stuff, i have some regrets about that, but no regrets about doing it. because i dont think you need to be ashamed about trying to save american lives. i travel around quite a bit in the us, and i have not personally ran into one single person who was critical of me. ive run into people who disagree about the use of enhanced interrogation...

And neither would ksm. the only thing standing between another catastrophic attack from some senior person is whether or not that person is willing to voluntarily provide that information to us. so you feel that because america no longer uses enhanced interrogation techniques, that its a less safe place? they no longer even can use law enforcement techniques. the local mall cop has more choices as to what kinds of interrogation techniques to use than the cia interrogator. so america is less safe...

I travel around quite a bit in the us, and i have not personally ran into one single person who was critical of me. ive run into people who disagree about the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, who said, i prefer if it didnt happen, but i can understand that you did it to try to stop this next attack. but the vast majority of people i run into are grateful that somebody was willing to do what must be done to protect them. james mitchell, thank you very much for coming on hardtalk. thank y...

Such as waterboarding, slapping a terror suspect around the face, putting them in a small, confined space, that kind of thing. well, id seen those techniques used for at least 11 years in my military career, and i knew that it didnt result in permanent harm, you know, either mentally or physically, and id been trained to apply them myself. in addition to that, id experienced all of them. so, to me, it didnt seem like as big a jump as it might be to someone who you just stopped on the street and ...

Be willing to get involved in the interrogation programme, really was the falling man and the people jumping off the building. i thought it was inappropriate and wrong for them to have to choose which way they died as a result of this cowardly attack that was done by these islamists who were trying to destroy our way of life. so you, obviously using your experience as a clinical psychologist working with the american military for many years, could help identify, recommend techniques that would w...

But still, how do you feel? ifeel like it was my duty, you know? my preference was, all along, my preference was to simply ask the question and get the answer. and, in fact, we started that way. anyone who is familiar with the way it was done knows we would... every time, we would start with a neutral assessment of whether or not the person was going to talk, and then, in those cases where they would use the eits, and then as soon as it was over, we told them what we were going to ask them about...