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Unconstitutional, parts of it. martha: there is turbulence on the way to the united states. the plane shaking so bad it caused injuries on board. martha: the man who waterboarded the mastermind of 9/11 slamming the characteristics a interrogations report. why he says the enhanced interrogation techniques were necessary. >> they tried to destroy a civilization and people were clamoring to do anything andering they could that was level and save american lives. thats what our government is supposed...

Phobias, and thats just an analogy. were not saying we induced a phobia. but many people that have phobias, like dental phobias, the closer you get to a dental appointment, the more you try to get out of it, right? so thats the point at which the person begins to provide information. and if they begin at that point, there is no mention of enhanced interrogations in that intel because they werent used. you dont use them. so the point was to shift the persons priorities with the bad cop so that th...

Have phobias, thats just an analogy, were not saying we induced the phobia, but many people like have dental phobias, the closer you get to your dental appointment, the more you try to get out of it, right? and so thats the point in which the person begins to provide information. and if they begin at that point, there is no mention of enhanced interrogations in that intel because they werent used. you dont use them. so the point was to shift the persons priorities with the bad cop so that they e...

Find something towards the middle. >> of course, but the descriptions you put in the procedures change the perception. >> i think harsh interrogation is a fair enough way of putting it. sitting in a coffin for four or five days. sitting on the cold floor, chained, naked. [ all speak at once ] >> or molestation, all these sex crimes. tell us what happened. we can handle it. well tell us what you think. >> my wife was a former prosecutor. you know her. shes a very tough woman. harsh interrogations...

Of these things -- >> harsh interrogation techniques is -- >> but its not torture. so i think the numbers would be a little different if you had used the word torture. >> you know, they were trying to find something towards the middle. >> of course, but the descriptions you put in the procedures change the perception. >> i think harsh interrogation is a fair enough way of putting it. sitting in a coffin for four or five days. sitting on the cold floor, chained, naked. [ all speak at once ] >> or...

Tortured in north vietnam says it was immoral i have to take that into account. my judgment is in protection of american lives, in the fog of war, i think only the president should have the authority to order it, but i want the president to be able to order extraordinary interrogation when lives are on the line. do you agree with that. >> i do because you have got to be thinking about these guys that are in line. they are doing interrogations. what else are they going to look at? >> one individu...

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. just 72 hours ago dr. mitchell ...

Tortured in north vietnam says it was immoral i have to take that into account. my judgment is in protection of american lives, in the fog of war, i think only the president should have the authority to order it, but i want the president to be able to order extraordinary interrogation when lives are on the line. do you agree with that. >> i do because you have got to be thinking about these guys that are in line. they are doing interrogations. what else are they going to look at? >> one individu...

He was being tortured by interrogators. 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.

>> i dont think he was wearing anything. i dont recall exactly because its been so long ago. and although that seems very exciting to other people, it was an ordinary part of my life for a long time. so the specifics of a single incident like the very first day, i dont remember that. but in general what i remember about those first interrogations was that he was arrogant. that he was immensely arrogant. that he was disdainful and that he was just -- he had a propensity at that particular point t...