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Board that suspect, what would you do? >> senator, i would advise -- i do not believe the president would ask me to do that, but -- we have today in the u.s. government other u.s. government entities that conduct interrogations. dod uses the army field manual, and they conduct battlefield interrogations and cia has incredible expertise it can bring to the table in support of those interrogations. the fbi has its authorities to conduct interrogations, and as you know, we have the high-value inter...

Understand exactly, but cia does not do interrogations and we historically have not done interrogations and we dont do interrogations today. >> let me go in this direction, are there identities that have been destroyed and is that the standard procedure or are there tapes of interrogations that havent been destroyed to your knowledge? >> senator, probably, i dont know. i dont know if there are any other tapes. i dont believe there are any other tapes associated with the particular interrogation ...

In that business and why it should be done in the military? ? thats a great question. cia historically has not done interrogations. we dont have interrogators. we just dont have any expertise. >> the questions have been directed to you has been because of that. >> yes, thats right. and why dod, of course, does do battlefield interrogations and thats why we have the army field manual. we have very clear legal and policy guidance for those dod interrogations which i support and then, of course, th...

Found that a transcript was enough as long as it was recorded in a cia cable which is considered a document of record. the interrogations that were talking about have to do with an al qaeda operative, the accused mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the "u.s.s. cole" in the gulf of aden. so there were 92 tapes. they were destroyed. and they showed the detention and interrogation of that al qaeda operative. this was a central focus of the exchanges with senator dianne feinstein. >> were you an advoc...

>> she testified that her supervisor jose rodriguez who made the decision to destroy the videotape of the interrogation that included waterboarding and did this on his own authority. he did it without consulting the c.i.a. director at the time. and they did it because they were concerned that the c.i.a. officers were visible on the tapes and they could leak. i know from my own reporting that to this day, jose rodriguez has stood by that decision. haspel corrected a senior senator on the committe...

C.i.a. historically has not done interrogations. we dont have interrogators so we just dont have any expertise. >> most of the questions have been directed to you has been because of that. >> yes, thats right. dod of course does do battlefield investigations and why we have the army field manual. we have policy guidance for those dod interrogations which i support. the f.b.i. has its own authorities for interviewing terror suspects and as we mentioned we have the high-value interrogation group a...

In front these people that live their life for cable news spotlight hits and she did remarkably well and super calm about ten i wonder when diane finestein goes after her about destruction vl videotapes. she didnt order him he was chief taff to hoe a-rod reeing are hes who ordered and the implication there were 92 videotapes of different interrogations of different terrorists and corrected the record and said, no, there were 92 tapes of interrogations of one terrorist. so the misinformation abou...

Related to or thought about or had acquaintances with. next my final thought was, was any other americans harmed. thats all i cared about. what was this -- i thought about history. pearl harbor. how did we react as a nation after pearl harbor? i remember the cruel and unusual internment of japanese americans. and weve never gone down that road again. our thought process would have been there. let me go a step further. after 9/11 had any laws or rules or procedures changed because of the attacks ...

Reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention interrogation program, end quote. the questions will follow but thats her position, steve. how does that not go through? >> yeah. i think the question is whether these red state democrats who want to make this a debate about bush-era enhanced interrogation program. theyll probably try to make it a bigger issue. very little ambiguity. i would like there to be a detention and interrogation program. whether it should incl...

But we have today in the u.s. government other u.s. government entities that conduct interrogations. d.o.d. uses the army field manual and they conduct battlefield interrogations and c.i.a. has incredible expertise it can bring to the table in support of those interrogations. the f.b.i. has its authorities to conduct interrogations. and as you know, we have the high value interrogation group. so i would be advise -- advise anyone who ask me about it that c.i.a. is not the right place to conduct ...