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The drone thing. that has nothing to do with what he did. but were here talking about -- >> well, but its about americas war on terror, right? and how do you best get the information you need and get the bad guys to stop? >> yeah, but you dont -- that is the question. how do you get the best information you can, to get the bad guys to stop. clearly, what you dont do is do it with rectal hydrating and waterboarding. there is some question people say save lives. i want to know, did it cost lives. ...

Were going to have an experiment. were going to do only gentle interrogations. were going to ask khalid sheikh mohammed would you kindly help us out in learning about the plots that now now having trained. and well see if you get hit on 9/11. or well say we cant conduct the experiment with the lives of thousands of americans. were going to do everything in our power and we take on the %b ponsibility and it is a deep and a serious one of going beyond the bounds of what we would like to do in orde...

>> weve been thrown under the bus. and the politicians are playing political football with the cia. >> this attack on the cia is not only dangerous, but its immeasurably deceitful. >> what good comes from publishing this blatantly partisan disturbing report now? were being warned by our allies and enemies that americans are going to die. god help dianne feinstein if americans die because of what shes done. >> thats true. >> the fact is this report is the most dangerous report i believe that has ...

Mike. the agency is peculiarly, the organization of the president. we do what the president wants. whether its droning under obama or doing enhanced interrogations under bush. if lawyers are going to write what somebody wants them to write, then even more they need to go back to school and learn a little bit of integrity. but the question is really, was it -- was it essential, a., and was it useful? when we were attacked in 9/11, the military had absolutely no plan to do anything in afghanistan ...

Word and did it. >> yes, exactly. as the press reported theres really nothing all that new in this report. this thing with the cia interrogations has been public for a listening time. so you do have to wonder what is going to be, i think, a big question, the political effect of this report. >> your answer. >> my answer is its going to hurt the democrats. i really do believe that. i mean, if they want to be the party that is on the side of criticizing the people who interrogated the perpetrators ...

A good friend of mine, operational psychologist is one of the best in advising interrogations said there was something known where you have a situation like this 100 days of isolation isnt enough when you are getting this kind of bad advice. it is 110. and these are the kind of things that happen. >> we will talk more about this while you heard the former head of the cia say this was a medical procedure. the man running the cias secret operations at the time said he never heard of it. >> i am te...

On the committee has gone back and said it doesnt look like a lot of stuff was got by the bad cop and other people say, no, we think the bad cop was necessary to get them to talk to the good cop. thats the explanation as clear as i understand it as a u.s. citizen. >> and again, this is the architect of the program, enhanced interrogation. private citizen. doesnt work for the government. chris frates sat down with james mitchell. i want to go back to the qualifications. he and his partner have de...

Were given pseudonyms in the report, whether people can identify them and whether they will suddenly disappear. >> being able to triangulate descriptions of places and things, trying to figure out who was in the room. i get that. that brings up something else about people who were actually there. this back and forth about whether or not we really learned anything from the interrogations, interesting, because as i understand this report does not talk to anybody, not interview one person, single p...

I certainly wish that this would not be happening. >> so what are the facts? youll hear from someone who did the interrogations. >> that is going to be great. we told you how esquire magazine is demanding kevin mccarthy throw his ugly christmas suit that he premiered on this program in the garbage because its a fashion offense. will he do it? today kevin mccarthy is here live to respond. >> with his quilt? >> it looks like pajamas. we all love it. tgif. thank goodness its fox. >> im ollie north ...

Platform for other people abused to step forward and be heard. cosby denied previous accusations and has never been charged with a crime. there is more reaction to that scathing torture report. in a very rare move, the cia director goes front and center to face the media and defended the agency for 45 minutes. here is nbcs andrea mitchell. >> reporter: the cia is fighting back, going public in an unprecedented live press conference from the agencys secretive headquarters in langly, virginia. j...