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>> they had programs to reverse the sere thing and cia officers saying these guys dont know what theyre doing. >> anderson, there were people that did interrogations that spent a career in the u.s. military. 20 years as interrogators and i dont think thats included in the report and they had native language skills. thats not included in the report. i know that for a fact. >> glen, when you were working at this black side and you say what you can say, you raised objections to what you were seeing...

Leftie wishful thinking in a peaceful world, versus what happened in these interrogations, what worked and what didnt. >> theres no doubt theres part of that wishful thinking that you know, all these years on from 9/11, it would be great to rewrite history in the way we felt at that time. mr. fuentes is right in that a sense, think were on the same sheet of music. thats part of the problem of the whole debate. its been the problem for years now, weve been debating and talking and viewing the ren...

Street journal," calling it bogus and dangerous. every american should read that op-ed. as i said, the days following 9/11 were filled with chaos. america expected another al qaeda attack and there were plots investment. because the cia had failed to detect the al qaeda attack on 9/11, that killed nearly 3,000 americans, the agency was under intense pressure, and so when terrorists were captured, intense pressure was put on them, and in a few cases harsh interrogation methods were used. presiden...

>> the head of the cia is now pushing back against the controversial report on terrorist interrogations. they have already defended the program in which they worked on in both administrations bid today he will hold a press conference and answer questions on it, which could be quite interesting given there is a bit of divide on some of these issues between the boss who works for now and the boss in the last administration. so we welcome you now to "americas newsroom." bill: projecting these claim...

Occurred. somebody needs to be asking what was the basis for going down a road to inflict torture, to inflict duress on our adversaries, and the thought that that would actually result in the elicitation of accurate and reliable information? i can tell you, had i interrogated khalid sheikh mohammed, if kissing him on both cheeks would have saved lives, i would have kissed him on both cheeks. the goal is to elicit accurate and reliable information, not exact revenge from an add vary. >> dick chen...

Do here as this sound bite makes clear. >> i dont think that you can know what it feels like to know that america has gone through the worst attack on the continental united states in its history, and youre uncertain as to whats coming next. so there were a lot of people who did a lot of things right and worked very hard to keep us safe, but i think that any fair minded person looking at this would say that some terrible mistakes were made in allowing these kinds of practices to take place. >> m...

Intelligence backgrounds. being paid tens of millions of dollars to design programs -- >> $81 million. >> $81 million for contractors fulfilling that didnt have experience. >> let me step in for a second to say this. first off, theres the insinuation that it was inappropriate because youre seeing contractors. >> im saying inexperienced people. >> just hold on. the other thing, they should have had a psychologist there. actually, the people they had were sere instructors. if i had to choose a pro...

Several instances of people put in charge of these sites where supervisors even passed up the chain of the agency that people should not be in charge of things. and yet, they were still given these posts. >> and things were reading here are not testimonies made by prisoners saying these are the bad things they did to. this is what people within the cia, within the program wrote to each other about what they saw happen to these people, or what they did to these people. >> yes. colleagues of these...

Rules and regulations for how interrogations are conducted and you guys just pointed to the key reason for all of this. its because the u.s. follows these you would be told. its because its always concerned. if u.s. troops were captured overseas, the american people would not want them or the which you ared in any way so the u.s. has to follow the rules, too. >> barbara starr, that briefing is about to commence. why dont we return now to the white house briefing room and joshe josherners. >> doe...

Intelligence officials, quote, they deserve a lot of praise as far as im concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized. whats interesting about the split within the administration the current cia director seemed to side with cheney and not the current president, john brennan saying he believes these enhanced techniques brought in intelligence that stopped terror attacks. >> the cia has said the same, past cia operatives. joining me now bill burton, press secretary under president obama a...