Page 97 - Interrogations News Today

They used the intelligence that was drawn from the inmates from guantanamo over the past several years. they renew these interrogations over the last several years. the president in effect jumped over it and said im taking your advice, setting it to the side and making my own determination on this. >> steve, i have a question. so we in the past several years, including as early as last year, the intel community and the pentagon said they were not comfortable with these five terrorists being rele...

Remote control. we know tamerlan went to dagistan. he talked about going into the woods which is code for going to the common jihad did i to learn terrorist attacks. learning how this was done confirms how it was carried out. did tamerlan actually meet with anybody in dagestan? doesnt mean dzhokhar learned that. >> thanks to deb feyerick. there are 11 hours of interrogations of the accused dzhokhar tsarnaev when he was in hospital. the fbi is warning that serious bloody civil war is the scen...

This in your column that went online today. the senate intelligence committee has sent its controversial torture report on cia interrogations during the bush administration to president obama for review and declassification. over writing objections from john brennan. in response, michael hayden suggested that dianne feinstein was somehow overreacting. perhaps its a woman thing? >> i read an article by david ignatius earlier this week and he said -- >> columnist for the "washington post." >> he s...

Table. and, you know, they wanted to make sure their family was intact and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. yes, they broke the law, but its not a felony. its a act of love. its an act of commitment to your family. i honestly think that is a different kind of crime that should be -- there should be a price paid but it shouldnt be -- it shouldnt rile people up that people are coming to this country to provide for their familie...

>> reporter: well, the police inspector general was very clear that they have exhausted a lot of leads here. they have cleared the passengers of all four areas that, you know, wasnt financial duress a that anybody was under, they werent involved with any known terror groups. so this is the first time it has come out clarifying that. but he also notes that theyve got leads. theyve done 170 different interviews, interrogations, taken statements, but its really not giving them any solid evidence of...

Lot of these investigations. they have information that theyre not sharing, whether its sensitive information, submarines may have collected, other information, tom, from interrogations theyre not sharing, because this is now as they say, a criminal investigation. does that, by the way, rule out mechanical? if they say this is a criminal investigation? >> well, it could be a crime to tamper with the airplane and sabotage it. so it could be both still. >> you agree? >> i do. but i think theyre lo...

Through the years, havent we? >> we have indeed. i have to say, this tops them all. >> well, you know, the idea of hamid coming into the united states as an official delegate from iran, the u.n. ambassador, it is yet one more ongoing slap in the face to international justice and what takes place in a civilized world. >> kevin, do you remember him? can you tell us about him? >> well, you know, i havent had an opportunity to actually explore whether or not he was a part of any of my particular int...

Prosecution after this report. >> and were talking about, this is going on for five or six years. >> its hovering over their heads. >> and ive debated people on this topic, i asked people who are critical of these interrogations. what do you suggest? what do you propose? they have no answer, these people wont talk. they have information that could lead to saving people -- and they never explain how we may get this information otherwise. >> a very frustrating thing was, because the program was so...

Its 6,000 pages long. were still going to fight what can be released of it. the committee, the senate intelligence committee and the white house both say they want to see portion of it. maybe only the executive summary, which is 400 pages relacied so the rest of us can read it. but it really should put to rest this debate weve been having over the past decade about how far you go in prosecuting the war on terrorism, because not only is the stuff wrong and horrendous, there are stories in this re...

Illegal. i think the question is how much of the detail of what happened should properly be revealed to the public and thats being battled out between ci and the congress as it should be. thats basically how this dynamic should work. >> can i just jump in on that? >> should look at what the cia does and between the two, some balance should be struck. >> sam, go ahead. >> theres always been a tug of war within this administration over how much you should reveal about what we were doing both in th...