matters. i was there. i was walking toward the dome of the capitol which is where the intelligence committee rooms were located on 9/11. it was the intended target of the fourth airplane that went down. i was on the u.s. commission on terrorism that predicted a major attack on u.s. soil. i spent years trying to make sure our country was safe and i want to thank the cia and the fbi and our intelligence community for helping keep it safe. nonetheless, i think several things that happened were completely out of line. and i just want to read from the so-called torture memos which defin defined political abuse which does not end in organ failure, impairment of bodily function or even death not constituting inhuman and cruel treatment. a narrow definition like that could easily have led to the techniques that were used and i think looking back on this chapter is very painful.