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Hes the living proof of the fact that they have been 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 interrogati...

Charge of cobalt was recommended for a $2500 cash reward for his consistently superior work. we knew before today that the cia had tortured people. what we did not know before today was exactly how they did some of it and exactly how much of it they did and how much they tried to conceal it while they were doing it and after. but the other thing we didnt know is just what a mess they were as they tried to invent this program out of whole cloth. this did not organically happen. it was a departure...

But will that ever happen? i talked about that earlier with cnns senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. >> lets look at the legal ramifications of this report. the united nations calling for the prosecution of those named in the report. how realistic is that, do you think? >> not very. theres a variety of possibilities, but they rear all basically foreclosed. under united states law, there was a law passed in 2005 that effectively gave immunity to all the people who were involved in this torture p...

Instantly share information around the globe. when every millisecond counts, staying competitive begins with the cloud. this is the microsoft cloud. the united states senate took a stand against torture. republicans joined democrats in condemning the torture program that was run by the cia. not one senator rose to defend torture. the biggest dispute on the senate floor was about releasing this information today. republican sax by chambliss made the point that today is a bad day to release info...

What they specifically called a torture program. they captured two psychologists who help service members survive torture techniques. and, basically, they asked the sigh kolgs to do that training in reverse. to come up with ways not to survive that kind of torture, but to come up with ways to impose that kind of torture. james mitchell and bruce drezen had no experience in intelligence work. they had no experience in al-qaida or any related terrorist groups. they have no relevant cow e culture e...

Come. so in those last couple weeks, they got right with nosenko. they got right with him in the last few weeks of his life. and now, it turns out, 6 1/2 years later, this is as right as were ever going to get with any of the rest of them. no pros kugszs, no named officers, no named policymakers who signed off on it. even jessen and mitchell. they turned 24e78s into a company and collected $81 million in taxpayer money for their services in designing the torture program. plus they got a guarante...

Consistently superior work. we knew before today that the c.i.a. had tortured people. what we did not know today was exactly how they did some of it and exactly how much of it they did and how much they tried to conceal it while they were doing it and after. but the other thing we didnt know is just what mess they were as they tried to invent this program out of cloth. this did not organically happen. it was a departure from what that previously decided as an agency. we want to start torturing...

This was so carefully done, so well thought out, so professional, so carefully monitored to extract only what we needed under the most highly-controlled circumstances. it wasnt like that. it was chaos. and the report today stated one station chief writes back to headquarters in december 2003. of he writes back to headquarters about whom we know very little. they dont even know who we have. they have custody of whos in charge without knowing who they were or why they were there. people who had be...

The united states senate took a stand against torture. republicans joined democrats in condemning the torture program that was run by the cia. not one senator rose to defend torture. the biggest dispute on the senate floor was about releasing this information today. republican sax by chambliss made the point that today is a bad day to release information like this because of all of the threatsby chambliss made the point that today is a bad day to release information like this because of all of t...

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