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Zaghari—ratcliffe. their families describe them as hostages being used by iranian authorities for political and financial leverage with the west. evin is notorious for being horrific. each room is shared by 15—20 people. they have rats and cockroaches all the time. he was interrogated very, very heavily. they threatened to hurt us throughout the interrogations. they told my dad that they knew where we lived, where we worked, what pets we had. my dad was saying, "i have nothing to confess to ...

Perpetrated this crime. >> the dallas police called him on the phone to apologize. >> the police sergeant was very thoughtful. he said on behalf of the dallas department, i want to tell you we apologize for anything that we may have done to have accused you of a crime in this case, and we wish you well. >> wait a minute -- >> they made me feel great. >> you were okay with that? >> sure. >> thats all it took? >> you bet. >> how many interrogations? >> i have no idea. >> holding the crime scene ph...

That would work as part of the enhanced interrogation program. but how would you make the leap from that to actually carrying out, personally, some of those interrogation techniques? well, by the time they asked me if i would do the interrogations myself, i had received over 90 intel briefings about the impending catastrophic attacks that were in the works. there was a lot of reliable intelligence to suggest that that second wave of attacks might involve a nuclear weapon. when they asked me, i w...

And nail people to trees and crucify children and bury people up to their necks and throw rocks at them and that sort of stuff. i think it is tough to come back from that. i think it is difficult. has it been tough for you? no, and heres the reason. i was convinced because ive relied on the department ofjustice that they were legal, and im convinced because of the way that we did them, we did them in a way that wouldnt produce permanent harm, mental or physical harm. that was my obligation when ...

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...

Wouldnt produce permanent harm, mental or physical harm. that was my obligation when i did it. i dont have any control over how someone else did it. do you have any regrets, though? because you said that when you thought about whether you should actually carry out the interrogations, and carry out waterboarding, that it would change your life as you knew it. do you regret that you went down that path? well, the only thing that i actually regret is that, in doing that, im not likely to be a colle...

Gather evidence for a trial, it was to ensure that other attacks couldnt take place and so some will justify the methods that were used because they will say the fact that there hasnt been an attack anywhere nearas there hasnt been an attack anywhere near as large as 9/11 over the last 20 years has been something of a success. it was all then about finding and disrupting any other plans that may have been in the pipeline for other attacks. of course, in the long term we have seen notjust the way...

Thick glass in a gallery at the back of the courtroom on a 40 second delay to make sure that classified information was not revealed publicly. the charges date back to 2012, they include terrorism, hijacking aircraft, conspiracy, and murder. the defense team argues that interrogations tainted by torture should not be allowed as evidence. in the past some victims families have call for the death penalty. >> it has to be the death penalty. it doesnt have to be an ugly death. >> reporter: the proce...

The one who took care of the hamburg sale the other one paid mohammed atta to go ahead and pull off the hijacking, the flight classes in america. so these other two are equally evil and ksm went to north carolina nicknamed pluto because such clown and loser. ends up coming back and blowing up in a way that we could not have thought imaginable. pete: good history lesson how its all connected together. we dont know any of that without the interrogations that happened around khalid sheikh mohammed....

Over. its just one more example of how having this case at guantanamo means a whole lot of issues that would not be in play if it were taking place anywhere else. >> reporter: todays proceedings were a pretrial hearing for the men one of whom is ksms nephew. family members of those killed on 9/11 were there. journalists watched from behind thick glass in a gallery. on a 40 second delay to make sure classified information was not revealed publicly. the charges date back to 2012, 11 years after 9/...