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And as cheney puts it, the torture program, as he calls it, was all his. it was all i was prepared to, and we did it, we got the authorization from the president and authorization from the justice department to go forward with the program. it worked. oh, but dont anybody say w. was the boy with the dirty work. the waterboarding and the rest of it from the beginning. thats a lie, cheney said, the president was in on it big time. this man knew what they were doing. sounds like bill clinton saying ...

You know? hes wrong about everything. this report will eventually come out and he will -- well, he would be shamed if he were a normal person and capable of feeling shame. but this is going to be yet another black eye for his legacy. but he and his daughter are going to keep on swinging at the opponents. and, you know, theyre not win, chris. i think public opinion is turning against them. but hes going to leave this earth insisting he did the right thing. >> it seems the most important message h...

It didnt achieve any truths, but cheney has a certain look in his face, a certain grinding of the teeth. you see in his face, it was all legal, we were able to do that. the washington reported on what the senate intelligence committee reports, about the current and u.s. officials with knowledge of the report had to say about it. quote, the cia misled the government and the public about the torture program. two, it concealed the tales about the severity of the methods used. three, it overstated t...

Acrimonyny. on the cia side, the justice department under obama has shown a real extreme reluctance to look at all of -- about any aspect of the torture program, at all. now that this has come back on them, in the most ironic possible way, about a cover-up, its a real interesting question whether the justice department will decide it wants to go after the cia for covering up the thing that it wouldnt go after them for doing. >> you know, anthony, on some level, one cant imagine how no one could ...

>> and then the system seems to be working well enough. as the senate staff continued its multi-year study of the cias torture program and began writing what is now a still unreleased report that is over 6,000 pages long. then in 2013 a document that the senate staff had been working with called the panetta review suddenly disappeared from the committees computer system. >> when the internal panetta review documents disappeared from the committees computer system, this suggested once again that ...

>> i rise today to set the record straight and to provide a full accounting of the facts and history. this morning the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committee went to the senate floor and publicly accused of cia of potentially breaking the law by searching computers set up for committee staff who were conducting a review of the cias torture program under president bush. >> besides the constitutional implication, the cia search may also have violated the fourth amendment, the comp...

On the cias intrusion. >> some fact and some fiction. >> did the cia spy on congress? >> i rise today to set the record straight and to provide a full accounting of the facts and history. this morning the democratic chair of the senate intelligence committee went to the senate floor and publicly accused of cia of potentially breaking the law by searching computers set up for committee staff who were conducting a review of the cias torture program under president bush. >> besides the constituti...

Its multi-year study of the cias torture program and began writing what is now a still unreleased report that is over 6,000 pages long. then in 2013 a document that the senate staff had been working with called the panetta review suddenly disappeared from the committees computer system. >> when the internal panetta review documents disappeared from the committees computer system, this suggested once again that the cia had removed documents already provided to the committee in violation of cia ag...

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Detainees provided. >> jeremy skahill is author of "blackwater" and is a frequent contributor to the nation. there seems to be a debate between whether this was provoked by intelligence that led them to bin laden or interrogation. which was it? >> first of all, dick cheney has like a ph.d. in historical revisionism and weve seen that play out over the course of the oaks, everything from torture to civil liberties and beyond. anything obama does is wrong in the eyes of dick cheney. when cheney an...