Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141210:11:41:00
>> no, legally not. mike, you and i talked, you and i came from i think similar religious conditions. we understand the generalized use of the word "torture." but what we had to rely on here, as a part of the next, was, did it or did it not meet the legal definition of torture? and pike, once you got to, it does not quite meet the legal definition then you got to ask the question, is it effective and appropriate in the circumstances in which we found ourselves and the circumstances in which we found ourselves were 3,000 dead countries. >> so you were with the nsa from 1999 to 2005, you were th...