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Problems. the main issue has been her role in the detention interrogation program after 9/11, and her oversight of a base in thailand during which waterboarding occurred. this has been the main issue for those opponents to her nomination. and it's really hard to tell right now which way it is going to go. but it's just really fascinating issue about years and years after this has occurred, the -- you know, the issue has not gone away. the question of the united states engaging in torture. this is something that is going to be lingering for some time. >> and let's play a bit of susan collins. i...

Individual, and she's very competent. i think she has the experience and breadth and depth dealing with these foreign policy issues, that she'll be able to provide the unvarnished, apolitical intelligence and input to donald trump and others. yes, the cia was involved in a very controversial program, the detention interrogation program but that was directed and authorized by president bush and deemed lawful by the department of justice. and cia officers, including gina haspel at the time, carried out those responsibilities to the best of their ability. there were some cia officers that were he...

Time in agency history were a part of. so if you're going to issue a blanket edict that anyone who was part of the detention interrogation program or touched it in some way, you are essentially going to prohibit a generation of agency officers from ascending to the leadership of this cia. i think what we hear and will be hearing from langley is a welcome sigh of relief that gina haspel is now their director. they know, these agency officials know, that she understands them, she appreciates them. and she will be a good leader for them hopefully in the years to come. >> ned, stand by for me if y...

>> i was aware of the detention interrogation program. i had some visibility into some of the activities that were there. i did not have authority over the implementation of that program or the management oversight of it. >> reporter: it was outrage over the interrogation program that destroyed brennan's chances to lead the agency in obama's first term. four years later, brennan's nomination was met with opposition from members of the president's own party, who threatened to hold up his nomination, demanding answers about the legality of targeted drone attacks, killing americans overseas. >> e...

John, the former legal counsel department of justice whose job was to review the legality of these practices explains, paints the picture of the con context and setting after 9-11 and what the pressure was like and how in fact it was effective in terms of getting information and keeping americans safe. watch. >> we were just a few months after the attacks. 3,000 people had been killed. we knew very little about al-qaeda. stunningly little about al-qaeda at the time and we knew they wanted to carry out pending attacks. the c.i.a. was asked to stand up and start a detention interrogation program...