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Brave journalists died and cowardly ones will profit. bill: the french have a lot of concern, ralph, as you know. these were highly-trained men and they had automatic weapons and by all accounts they were well-trained and they knew exactly where their targets were. so what now? >> first dr. walid phares earlier in the show really nailed it. this was a military operation. it was terrifying. i mean these guys, these werent amateurs. these werent clowns. so what are the implications? weve seen terr...

Both parents about exactly what happened here. >> i think the first question that i need to ask you this morning, okay, is what involvement did you have in the disappearance of lisa? >> none. the only thing i did wrong was drink that night. and possibly not be alert not hear. im im sorry. >> phil houston worked for the cia for 25 years. he has conducted thousands of interrogations and grilled double agents and terrorists. and he is credited with developing a deception detection method that is us...

Interrogations were a pair of psychologists who basically had reversed engineered a military training program thats supposed to help survive torture. they turned survive into inflict. and right around the time that he was involved and inflicted upon the detainee who was in 2005, if one who is requiring blood thinner to stand him back up again. james mitchell got a phone call from the new yorker named jane mayor. he has e had discovered reverse engineering in the u.s. mail tears survival tactics ...

Home of an al qaeda suspect. they called it the manchester manuel. it contained information stolen from the u.s. army. and al qaeda was using it to teach jihadists how to resist interrogations. in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, as the cia began to capture terrorists, it went back to mitchell to help devise and manage an interrogation program. and ultimately, it asked him to do the interrogations. among those mitchell was asked to interrogate khalid sheikh mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. ju...

People, because we were getting tremendous pressure from some folks to waterboard people that it wasnt necessary to waterboard them. so the management, the leadership, the people in charge like jose rodriguez very carefully took charge of that right away. i think the leadership -- i think faulting the leadership is wrong. >> now, one of the criticisms in the senate report done by the democrats is that you -- first they claim that you made $81 million on this program, and they claim that one of t...

That interrogation was being conducted in late 2005. we know from the senate report most of the c.i.a.s harsh interrogations were a pair of scientists who basically had reversed engineered a military training program thats supposed to help survive torture. they turned survive into inflict. and right around the time that he was involved and inflicted upon the detainee who was in 2005, if one who is requiring blood thinner to stand him back up again. james mitchell got a phone call from the new yo...

A draft of the briefing that day said that the president was being subjected to these aggressive interrogations, provided "almost no information that could be used to locate former colleagues or disrupt attack plots. so weve been torturing that guy, but theyve got nothing from him. that section of the daily brief needed to be changed immediately. >> ultimately, that line was

Experiment was going to end, it was fear of physical pain and suffering. >> what about that these interrogations produced nothing useful? >> heres a good test for senator feinstein, if that is true, then pass legislation ordering cia to destroy all the intelligence. there are thousands of interrogation prorts that have been produced that we are using to this very day. barack obama is using intelligence from cia interrogations. just two weeks ago al qaeda operational commander, was killed in paki...

Program attacking both their motives and their methods. the report used pseudonyms swaggart and dunbar. but they were quickly identified including dr. james mitchell as swaggart. they were not fit for the job, writing, both swaggart and dunbar had been psychologists for the u.s. air force, neither had experience as an interrogator, nor did either have specialized knowledge about al qaeda, a background in terrorism or any relevant regional, cultural or linguistic expertise. they did not speak wit...

People were held, they were humiliated, sexually humiliated, for years at a time. so im not sure if the public really understands what happened here extends how these kind of interrogations would work. if they do, its revealing about the state of thinking in this country. but torture is still illegal. its in the bill of rights. you shouldnt have cruel and unusual punishments. so what the public thinks on this necessarily probably shouldnt have a bearing. >> thanks so much both of you. much more ...