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President Biden released a statement on International Day in Support of Victims of Torture Torture is prohibited everywhere and at all times. It is illegal, immoral, and a stain on our collective conscience.

Torture remains a moral stain on the world’s collective conscience. That is why today, 35 years after the United Nations Convention Against Torture and

Terror, we continue to adopt those universal principles. >> there are two buckets here. one is guantanamo, which is representative of the way whether we do it guantanamo or the way we held prisoners in the middle east, which doesnt seem to live up to any meaningful standard of how you imprison people. and theres the second issue, which is enhanced interrogation techniques or what we now know to be torture and its effectiveness. both of these have undermined these universal principles that you sa...

Curtis said he thinks "senior people fully understand that acts like torture do more long-term damage than good, if they do any good."

Its not about reaching across the aisle. its not even about some kind of persuasive argument that people like jennifer can make because what youre running up against is this deep existential rage and fear that is being stoked on a daily, monthly, hourly basis by one of our two political parties in this country. >> yeah, zerlina, what alex has just framed for me has made me now see this as she was speaking as the kind of local version of the trump election loss because the person whos running thi...

The trump election loss. because the person whos running this torture program, against jennifer, is the person she beats in the election, the republican she beats in the election, in a used to be the democrats beat the republicans, the republican waited around for the next election, or went off into the real estate, business or something else, but now, democrat beats the republican, and the republican goes into attack, against the democrat, who beat the republican, and you get things lake, janua...

>> kelly cobiella with that incredible reporting, kelly, thank you so much. well look for more of that coming up on "nbc nightly news." coming up here on this show, a fascinating and potentially critical case in front of the supreme court today on u.s. government secrets and the cias not so secret torture program after 9/11. ♪ there are beautiful ideas that remain in the dark. but with our new multi-cloud experience, you have the flexibility you need to unveil them to the world. ♪ ♪upbea...

Williams is following this case and these arguments. pete, how did the justices respond to what they heard and what are the bigger implications here? >> the essence of this is not what was done to him but where it was done. the senate report never said where the black sites were, although it seems to be a pretty open secret that one of them was in poland. and thats what abu zubaydahs lawyers want to find out. the government says even though other people are talking about it, the fact is that the...

These guys need to be brought to real american justice, and i believe article 3 courts, regular courts can deal with their cases. unfortunately, in the techniques program, the torture program made it very difficult to accomplish any kind of justice for the families, and, you know, with these people getting the sentences that they deserve. th thmpls -- its going to be difficult to get any evidence against them in a court of law without disclosing what they

>> yeah. i think looking back now with 20 years of hindsight, what we see is that the u.s. made a series of choice in the wake of 9/11 about how to pursue the so-called global war on terror that ultimately compromised our aims to secure freedom, left us sort of less free at home, less secure at home, more morally compromised, more alone on the world stage than the united states has ever been. and it is a series of very tragic choices where we chose some poor allies, we misdefined our enemy, and ...