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Our moral authority as americans and as a country. so one question i have not heard you answer is do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that c.i.a. officers to whom you referred -- >> its a yes or no answer. do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? im not asking do you believe they were legal. do you believe they were immoral? >> senator, i believe that c.i.a. does extraordinary work to prevent another attack on th...

C.i.a. historically has not done interrogations. we dont have interrogators so we just dont have any expertise. >> most of the questions have been directed to you has been because of that. >> yes, thats right. dod of course does do battlefield investigations and why we have the army field manual. we have policy guidance for those dod interrogations which i support. the f.b.i. has its own authorities for interviewing terror suspects and as we mentioned we have the high-value interrogation group a...

Qualified leader. we appreciate that very much. let me ask you a little bit about some ongoing threats coming at us that we havent had much time to talk about today. lets talk about the counter narcotics threat coming at us and some of the changing situations thats happening in our hemisphere dealing with drug trafficking organizations, international drug trafficking in particular. what do you sense is a role the c.i.a. should have in the ongoing work to do counter naar -- narcotics work. >> tha...

Made this decision? >> senator, i do not recall being aware of that. >> senators time is expired. chair would note at this time since there has been a reference to declassification, i just want to draw a distinction that the durham investigation done by the department of justice is not in the purview of the central intelligence agency. any decision to declassify or keep classified is a department of justice decision and i just wanted to separate that from the discussions about miss haspels backg...