Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110911:

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110911:07:09:00

marks. >> whether or not people in a command position are prosecuted for torture, if that ever happens, do you think that people operating at your level in the military should have been held more accountable? do you think there should have been more widespread prosecution? >> i do think there should have been more widespread prosecutions from the bottom level all the way up to the top. i fully expected to be prosecuted. it never happened because i think they didn't want to follow that trail and, you know, get the higher-ups involved. >> do you still think you should have been? >> yes. >> a response to allegations by the u.s. military reads in part, d.o.d. personnel working in detention facilities operate under an extraordinary high lel of scrutiny and they consistently provide the most humane and safe care and custody of individuals under their control. the suggestion that d.o.d. personnel, the overwhelming majority of whom serve honorably, were or are engaged in systematic torture or abuse of detainees simply does not withstand the credible scrutiny. >> it still weighs on me, yeah. >> are you glad you decided to talk about what you did in iraq? >> i don't know. people have asked me before. i don't know if it was a good thing for had he to talk about it for my own mental health. >> coming up -- >> someone picked up a lit cigarette about a mile away. >> one of the most effective

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