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Practices, he said those exceeded what was authorized. and he wouldnt call those torture, but said they shouldnt have happened. i thought it was a surprising amount of regret -- >> but he has an excuse for everything. rectal feeding was somehow medically indicated. he was willing to say anything to cover it. if hes proud of it, why does he keep coming up with ridiculous excuses? >> i dont have any idea why. or why he said he would do it all again. what i do agree, nothing greater good can come b...

We achieve our objective. thats to get the guys who did 9/11 and its to avoid another attack against the united states. i was prepared and we did, we got the authorize from the president and authorization from the justice department to the go forward with the program. it worked. weve avoided another mass casualty attack against the united states. we captured bin laden and others who are responsible for the attack on 9/11. id do it again in a minute. >> he would do it all over again. >> kudos to ...

>> weve avoided another mass casualty attack against the united states. we did capture bin laden. becaptured an awful lot of senior guys from al qaeda. id do it again in a minute. >> cheney declined to call the cia out for some of the brutal practices described in the report including rectal rehydration and rectal feeding. words making waves around the country. also, a dramatic manhunt has ended. u.s. marshals capturing the third inmate who escaped from an alabama jail. the u.s. marshal servic...

About this report. no, torture did not keep us safe. it did not make us safer. >> when you see an interview like this, taking the politics out of it, does it help or hurt his side when hes saying rectal feeding is not torture? people like that were undecided, start looking at this and say, what? >> i think its not so much what he said, but how he said it. he was very unapologetic. we know hes to blame. he was involved at overseeing the cia. so i think the fact that he was so arrogant and backed ...

>> some of the tactics that were written about in the senate intelligence report were brutal. as i said before, constituted torture in my mind. >> the senate report details waterboarding that was, quote, a series of near drownings, sleep deprivation for up to rectal feeding, that wasnt necessary. isnt that torture by any -- >> no. there are nine references on 14 pages to rectal feeding. in four of those five, it is discussed as being a result of a hunger strike by the detainee. they -- theres no...

Some of the moem memos that authorized the ooze of enhanced interrogation. when you read about this report and the techniques that were used, forced rectal feeding, agency officials threatening to rape the mothers of prisoners, people with broken limbs being forced to stand for hours and hours, deprived of sleep for up to one week, doesnt that strike you as torture? >> well, those are very troubling examples. they would not have been approved by the justice department. they were not approved by ...

Department official in the bush administration and one of the authors of the governments so-called torture memos. hes now a professor at berkeley law school. and marwan muasher was the foreign minister and then deputy prime minister of jordan in the post-9/11 years. his nation was an important u.s. ally in the war on terror. john, let me start with you. you did author or have authored some of the memos that authorized the use of enhanced interrogation. when you read about this report and the tec...

Attention. at least five cia detainees subjected to rectal feeding without documented medical necessity. take a listen to how it is defended. >> lets differentiate, if we can, for the sake of the conversation, between the abuses such as the rectal re-hydration. >> stop. that was a medical procedure. that was done because of detainee health that the people responsible there for the health of the detainees saw they were becoming dehydrated and had limited options. it was invuvenus with needles. it...

An intellectually challenged man was held by the cia solely as leverage to get a family member to provide information. at least five cia detainees were subjected to rectal rehydration, or rectal feeding, without documented medical necessity. the last is especially horrifying to medical professionals. a senior medical adviser for the group, physicians for human rights said, quote, this is a form of sexual assault. masquerading as a medical treatment. the senate report claims the cia misrepresente...

And they said the rectal feeding was better if you couldnt put a needle in someones arm if they are resisting and the detainee who was remaining in the report and he ripped out the hose and so they did rectal feeding. that is the explanation. was that okay? >> no, you look at this in context, this is pure torture. rectal feeding, waterboarding. wall slamming. leaving people outside all night to die of hypothermia. it fits a pattern of abuse and that is the way it will be interpreted. >> and it i...