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Ago by the cias inspector general saying that would be better than interviewing people 10 years later, faulty memories, those kind of things. do you feel like the report would be more valid in your viewpoint and the viewpoint of other critics if they actually talked to those individual involved in these interrogations themselves, even if it is ten years later? >> no question about the because what they can do, they can compare condemn an just comments with what they may have said 10 years ago an...

Me persuasive is we are being hung out to dry here. we are ordered by the president of the united states to stay e do this. we did it. sure, we werent equipped to. it was wanted by the american people who were thirsty for vengeance and terrified. it was signed off and briefed to legislative leaders. and now you guys all want to put this on us. its the battle c.i.a. what do you think of that argument. >> the c.i.a. is a government agency and theres oversight of that government agency. theres a lo...

So hes getting them really valuable information. in 1964, he decided to defect to the united states. and that is when things started going horribly wrong. in 1963, the cia had written an interrogation manual, basically where they would use torture techniques as part of interrogations. they would even use things like hypnosis and drugging people into a stupor to try to get more out of them in an interrogation. a year before, nosenko defected, that was a year before as their guidelines. the other ...

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 people saying they should not be put in charge of bases. they would anger management issues. they were concern with unsubordination. we had one example, a particularly disturbing one a critique that was passed up the chain of the cia chief of interrogations, i believe, who resigned saying he wa...

Officers who are involved in these interrogations saying the suspect has no more information. this isnt effective. we should stop and voice concerns and told by higher ups, keep doing it. we think this person has more information. >> i dont think its hyped to say there has never been a day like this in american history. we didnt treat nazis like this or vietcong like this. this is something without precedent in american history and it came from the top. thats one thing somewhat ambiguous. it cam...

Package when we make a decision about whether or not to sign it so well keep you posted on that. roberta? >> the bill contains significant rollbacks for dodd-frank reforms. im wondering what the white house makes of those rollbacks and whether the white house is worried that this is going to lead to wall street being more emboldened in terms of asking for rollbacks on these measures. >> roberta, i cant comment on some of the specific proposals. >> youve been listening to the white house press se...

He welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. heres now abcs jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says its flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. and in a fiery defense of the spy agencys honor, three former cia dir...

Interrogations. in order to stop the next plane from hitting the next building which might have your family member, we have to use enhanced interrogation practices. not because they like torturing people or putting people through stress positions, but because they needed the maximum amount of intelligence as quickly as possible. if you could have your life saved, your family members saved by doing that, would you green light the c.i.a.? if the answer is yes, then throw out that report. >> just r...

Them all. now, yes, we know they destroyed some evidence. we know this destroyed some videotapes of some of these interrogations. but it is all of that. so i dont know whether you praise the cia for keeping this, but the fact of the matter, that is a fact. they did not. all this entire report is made up of cia documentation that said, so in many ways, it is the senate democratics are almost sifting and co lateing through cia memo. i think the decision is not the interview people. the question is...

By terror threats. in fact it was an over reaction to those threats that some used to push torture in the first place. this should be a new time to look at the evidence in the report. how america violated law. here are key findings. this is not about behind sight. the evidence shows many people in the government knew at the time that this torture was inhumane and illegal thats why cia leadership flipped out when bush suggested we were treating detainees inhumanely and agencies officials were so ...