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The former attorney general, michael mukasey, was wrong. do you have any information to disagree with our statement? >> i do not. >> a third statement that we quoted in our report. michael hayden, former cia director. we got the original lead information began with -- excuse me. that was mr. hayden i was asking you about. not mr. mukasey. your answer is the same i assume. >> im unaware. >> you dont have any information to the contrary? >> right. >> now, michael mukasey, former attorney general, ...

Go after al-awlaki. he did argue, however, that we should have been more transparent about the legal theories behind that attack than the administration chose to be. in fact, he was in favor of releasing the so-called white paper which is now been released and leaked. >> and, dan, briefly on john brennan, john brennan is going to come before this committee within the hour and he is going to try to make the argument that he did not support enhanced interrogation techniques, ie, torture, when he i...

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Clearly my indication theres valuable information coming out. >> in a november 2007 interview, you said that information from the interrogation techniques, quote, saved lives. closed quote. but you also say that cia should be out of the detention business. the main benefit that i saw in cias program was the ability to hold and question individuals about whom there was significant intelligence that they were terrorists. but not necessarily evidence that could be used a court of law. your view see...

Inaccuracy, it must immediately correct the record. certainly i would do so if i were director. i take your answer in the spirit of the written testimony you provided to the committee. let me return to the report and its eventual declassification if i might. i dont think it has to be difficult, that is the declassification, for these reasons. the identities of the most important detainees have already been declassified. the interrogation techniques themselves have been declassified. the applicat...

Only the president, of course, can authorize that, but the decisions sometimes is passed down and has to be passed down at a very accurate manner. and there have to be a protocol which is exact, more exact even than the interrogation techniques because i think thats probably been put to bed just a bit. beginning to get straightened out but the drones are going to grow. theres going to be more and more of that warfare. not just by us but by other countries and perhaps by people within our own cou...

>> steve: they refused to torture, or use enhanced interrogation techniques. instead it appears that the obama administration prefers to kill people. internal report by the department of justice outlines new rules by which the white house can kill americans suspected of being chief operational guys and gals in al-qaeda. like the american born al-qaeda operative, anwar al al-awlaki. and they claim its legal as well. >> we conduct those strikes because they are necessary to mitigate ongoing actual...

Harm and it is significant here. sean, you said something in the bebeginning of the broadcast that i hope everybody is underscoring and really comprehending. there was a call for the attorney general of the united states alberto gonzales to face krill criminal charges to take individuals in the justice department to the international criminal court in the haig because of enhanced interrogation techniques. calls from the media and academics and from a few of the congressmans colleagues. what do y...

Cannot used enhanced interrogation. >>brian: that is not what america does. >>steve: exactly right. this administration, we found out through a 15-page white paper that has been released -- nbc published it -- this administration and our government, rather than water board people, we kill them. the hypocrisy is amazing. when you take a look at how our president was talking a couple of years ago regarding enhanced interrogation techniques, in favor now of just killing them, its stunning. watch. >...

They dont want it brought up to them and thats why theyre okay with this? >> well, i think its an important conversation to have, but the last poll i saw, it was from a year ago, but a "washington post" poll showed 83% of americans supported the use, 77% among liberal democrats. obama has been strong on foreign policy for a while. so im not surprised that this is where the public is. >> alfonzo, do you think more republicans are going to speak up about this? >> i think so. i think the double sta...