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Master mind to kill 3000 americans and hit the pentagon and would have taken out the white house or the capitol building if, in fact, it wasnt for the passengers of the united 93. he is in our possession, we know he is the architect and what are we supposed to do? kiss him on both cheeks and say, please, please, tell us what you know. of course not. we did exactly what we needed to be done to catch those that are guilty on 9/11 and prevent a further attack and we were successful on both parts. >...

Make sure these things were never done again. obviously, when you peck your conclusion, you can cherry pick your documents to make them fit. i think any president in that circumstance, given the information either as a cia representative or as senator fine teen thinks it should have been presented, the american president i think shill would have ordered these interrogation methods. >> that the a part of an exclusive with john yu, who approved enhanced techniques for the bushed a men strax. welco...

Was not torture. they actually are basing that on the opinion that was britain by john yu? its really interesting to listen to him defend that some years later. people, when you read the memo, read the techniques described you just almost cant believe a lawyer would have looked at it and said this is permissible going forward. but thats what happened in 2002. >> mark halperin, political motivations. can this be painted as one side attacking the other? there are certain key almosts that are not i...

Actionable intelligence that was quote otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> all right, david ignacious, the issue of legality on many levels could be pivotal as we take a look at this we bunked in, we came in with a sound byte from john yu, you say is correct, al. >> john yu is the young lawyer of the question of the techniques the cia contractors opposed using. the 12 techniques that included waterboarding were real and...

The group now, the head of research at the heritage foundation is this guy. do you remember him? do you remember david adding ton? during all of the -- i think during the scariest scandals of the bush administration, the stuff about memos saying that torture is actually legal and cooking up the fake case for the iraq war and everything elsewhere it seemed like dick cheney and dick cheneys office were really the prime mover behind some of these most scandalous things in the bush administration, a...

0 always has been. but basically, republican politics is just what heritage does. even if they want to seem slightly more emperical about it. it was a little embarrassing when they hired jim demint. what was more embarrassing, they decided to fight the prospect of immigration reform in our country by releasing a pseudo academic analysis of why immigration reform was a terrible idea. a terribly expensive, terribly bad idea to reform immigration policy in this country. turned out that under jim de...

0 sights the report as if its good science. heres the thing about the heritage foundation. jim demint is the president of the group now, the head of research at the heritage foundation is this guy. do you remember him? do you remember david adding ton? during all of the -- i think during the scariest scandals of the bush administration, the stuff about memos saying that torture is actually legal and cooking up the fake case for the iraq war and everything elsewhere it seemed like dick cheney and...

0 argument, talk about where spending can be curtailed and where government can be made more efficient. >> thank you both for being here tonight. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show begins now. >> good evening, ezra, thank you. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. the highest profile right wing think tank in the country is probably the heritage foundation. because they want to be thought of as a think tank and not just another run of the mill republican pressur...

And our intelligence gathering in this country? >> isnt it a bit rich to see congress posturing like this when theyve done such a terrible job of oversight over the course of the last couple of years? >> theyre the ones with the hands on the spiget theoretically. >> i dont have a problem with drones. i think drones represent an advance in the history of warfare that -- its also a bit rich to see john yu pilot criticisms. its very clear that one of the promises that the obama administration made ...

0 does post-modern warfare call for post-modern civil lib snerts its friday, february 8, and this is "now." joining us today new york city deputy mayor howard wolfson, editor of "the new republic" frankly for, politico white house reporter carrie rudolph brown making her debut, and our old hand bloomberg white house correspondent hans nichol. there isnt much overlap between critics of george w. bush and barack obama unless you are talking counterterrorism. members of code pink, a group founded...