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One of the striking things about the newly released report is the lengths the agency went to about the effectiveness on the torture program. the investigation paints the picture the agency and misinformation to willfully mislead the people. regarding the operation and effectiveness of the c e c.i.a.s interrogation program. >> about the effectiveness of c.i.a. interrogation being

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 people now. lets start a program. now, i doubt theres a...

It was chaos. and the report today started one station chief writes back to headquarters in december, 20003. 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 have been treated with these techniques for months while they werent actually being questioned about anything. nobody knew why they were there. it was chaos. it was not just a torture program...

He had to personally sign off on that every 30 to 45 days. so the notion, the committee is trying to peddle that somehow the agency was operating on a rogue basis and we werent being told or the president wasnt being told. >> he talks about with respect to the program and then with respect to the in house interrogation program. it started in the summer of 2002. he was fully informed. >> so where is the ceps here? >> i think he is more or less telling the truth. the idea that there was something ...

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 nthey got a guarantee of legal immunity if they ever needed it. this is the only reck...

Well thought out, so professional, so carefully monitored to extract only what we needed under e under the most highly-controlled circumstances. it wasnt like that. it was chaos. and the report today started one station chief writes back to headquarters in december, 20003. 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 have been treated with the...

It was a very poorly run torture program. when michael hayden, then the director of the cia, when he sent that thank-you letter, thank you for your service, that implicit apology and that folded american flag to a dying nosenko somewhere in the south in the summer of 2008. were sorry we tortured you. we know it was wrong. we thank you for your service to this country. when he dispatched that banquet of senior cia officials, to go apologize to that man in the last month before he died somewhere i...

Somebody else torturing them so those programs, that is where the cia went to help develop what they specifically called a torture program. they tapped two psychologists who help service members survive torture techniques. and, basically, they asked the psychologists 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 e...

Al qaeda or any related terrorist groups. they had no relevant culture experience, but people would soon be getting captured by the cia. neither one of them had conducted an interrogation, ever, in the real world. never. no experience. and the cia hired him. we didnt have a torture program. now, they also needed somewhere to operate. you might have previously heard it described as the salt pit or as the dark prison. it was in afghanistan. more than half of the 119 prisons held in the cia looked ...

One of the striking things about the newly released report is the lepgtsds the agency went to about the effectiveness on the torture program. the investigation paints the picture the agency and misinformation to willfully mislead the people. regarding the operation and effectiveness of the c e c.i.a.s effectiveness and interrogation program.