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>> john brennan in what some thought would be a defense of the torture program but instead he made explicit his agreement with most of the criticism of the cia in the senate intelligence committee report. >> the cia was unprepared to conduct and intention and interrogation program and our officers inadequately developed and monitored its initial activities. the agency failed to establish quickly the operational guidelines needed to govern the entire effort. in a limited number of cases, agency o...

Deceitful about how that torture program contributed to getting evidence from him. as you know, youve had the fbi agent who was in charge of this on your show. that all came out before they brought in the torturer -- >> he provided useful information under fbi techniques that were not coercive. they started torturing him thereafter and got nothing else useful from him. >> theyll say that the torture program -- i should say that the interrogation program got this out. but what they dont distingui...

We troll tlood awe lot of the shared information and now lets sit down with the people involved from the program, agency, and pursue these and say look weve got a document here about abu zubaydah, or bin ail machine, wh al shooeb. thats one of the things missing from this massive report. >> tom, the other side of this is they say we didnt do it because we had the documents, we didnt need to deal with people we think might be deceptive for us, do you think that was a legitimate basis for not doin...

So are we done with torture? are we proud of ourselves for being willing to admit what weve done and be open about it? thats not even settled. stay tuned. fridays the next chapter in that. and, and this is a difficult one. are we done with this in terms of people who are currently serving in the u.s. government? the cia cooked up its torture program under president george w. bush. today, though, in what may be his final speech as a united states senator, colorado democrat mark udall took to the ...

>> there is good news op the senate intelligence report on torture and that is that no one in the government knew anything about torture before the cia got into the torture business. they didnt have a well trained cadre of torturers ready to go, and so as senator rockefeller described it yesterday, they made everything up on the fly. the 123459 report indicates that the torture program was ineff t ineffectual and involved much more torture than anyone previously imagined and that it was a cesspo...

Demanding a case by case, picture by picture justification from the government for why these things cant come out. spencer ackerman reported for the guardian on this today. theyve not leaked. so nobody is able to describe them in reporting, but according to what spencer ackerman has turned up, the photos are, quote, said to be even more disturbing than the infamous abu ghraib photographs that sparked a global furor in 2004. so are we done with torture? are we proud of ourselves for being willing...

Saying the united states must respect international convent n conventio conventions. we heard iran accusing the cia of becoming the international symbol of humanity. the united nations should take action to censure the united states for the kinds of activities. all of these countries have something in common. appalling human rights records. the u.s. allies making comments. david cameron saying torture is wrong. what cameron did not spell out is he has something to lose. britain is accused of bei...

>> there is good news op the senate intelligence report on torture and that is that no one in the government knew anything about torture before the cia got into the torture business. they didnt have a well trained cadre of torturers ready to go, and so as senator rockefeller described it yesterday, they made everything up on the fly. the 123459 report indicates that the torture program was ineffectual and involved much more torture than anyone previously imagined and that it was a cesspool of co...

Of course, all these countries have something in common. appalling record of human rights. you look at u.s. allies. we heard from david cameron saying torture is wrong under any circumstance, but what cameron did not state is britain may have been complicit in the aspects of the torture program. we heard from polands former president. he said he was aware and he did offer what he called a quiet place for cia operations on polish territory. he said he did not know what was going on. the european ...

Evidence from him. as you know, youve had the fbi agent who was in charge of this on your show. that all came out before they brought in the torturer -- >> he provided useful information under fbi techniques that were not coercive. they started torturing him thereafter and got nothing else useful from him. >> theyll say that the torture program -- i should say that the interrogation program got this out. but what they dont distinguish is the legitimate interrogation done by fbi and cia officials...