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Those programs, that is where the cia wont to help develop 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 rela...

Obama and mccain, that accountability was going to 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 prosecutions, no named officers, no named policymakers who signed off on it. even jessen and mitchell. they turned themselves into a company and collected $81 million in taxpayer money for their services in...

Cia subcontracted this interrogation program out to a company run by two psychologists. they didnt have any specific training in interrogations. they didnt have any specific training in al qaeda. they made $80 million off of this contract. is this typical of the way that the cia operates? >> well, i dont know that its typical of the way the cia operates. its certainly typical of the way the united states operated in the first couple years after 9/11. when i did my book, i talked to condoleezza r...

Commit errors as we obviously did against international law and our own domestic law in conducting this torture program. >> mika, whats your reaction to the decision to release it? >> i think this decision has been a long time coming. theyve been working for eight months to redact sensitive information and this was an extensive investigation, five years, 6,000 pages, career investigators. they put a lot of time and effort into this, and dianne feinstein is the one to most likely give them a fair...

Worldwide. we heard from defense secretary hagel who left iraq he said he was concerned about the realization of the report but also went on to say sheshes satisfied they redacted all they could im joined by richard engel. it would seem to me -- senator johnson said the same thing. a lot of details in the report have already been leaked. so what more will we learn in just a few hours? before we get to that i think its important understand what this report actually is. already were seeing it divi...

Or was there more to it? >> well, i think in one element, i think the country went rogue after 9/11. not just the cia. you saw military abuses. you saw intelligence abuses. you saw overreach for surveillance systems that were still seeing right now. and there were elements in the cia that were desperate, that acted, i think, inappropriately, stupidly. they contracted out, spending millions of dollars to inexperienced people and ran a torture program. that was a -- >> they ran a torture program? ...

Philippines insurrection. we prosecuted japanese soldiers for waterboarding in world war ii. we cant be a leader having a double standard for ourselves. its just wrong. a lot was broken and bent out of shape trying to protect this torture program and we need to set all of that right as well. >> who is at the root of it, in your opinion senator? is this just some rogue agents that went off on their own because she wethey were upset te country got hit or do you think they took orders from the whit...

Saw something about the report coming out? >> not now. will tomorrow. >> tell me about senator kerrys phone call with you on friday? >> no. >> what do you expect -- do you expect pushback -- >> tomorrow at 11:00, and id like to reserve any comment until then. >> thank you very much, maam. >> im sorry you had to wait all day for that. >> after five years of bitter wrangling, jockeying and litigation and power struggles and damn near constitutional crisis and a reported cost of $40 million, tomorr...

Who live in dictatorships is the fact that were willing to confront our foibles when we commit errors as we obviously did against international law and our own domestic law in conducting this torture program. >> mika, whats your reaction to the decision to release it? >> i think this decision has been a long time coming. theyve been working for eight months to redabts sensitive information and this was an extensive investigation, five years, 6,000 pages, career investigators. they put a lot of t...

Nobody pauses to think are chemical weapons a good idea? we ought not use torture. if you are going to go to the question, the lesson of this report is that it did not work. it never worked. the cia knew that unfortunately and misrepresented the utility to the government. >> on this point about whether the client was al qaeda affiliated, the former directors as you may know wrote a column saying once they had been compliant, both turned out to be invaluable sources on the al qaeda organization. ...