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Controversy surrounding her possible nomination and so do you think that we are likely to see the same sort of grilling and sort of tough road ahead that pompeo had? >> yeah, i definitely think so. we have already heard from numerous senate democrat who is have raised significant concerns about gina haspel's role during her 33 years with the cia. she also oversaw black site in thailand that has raised a lot of concerns among democrats in the senate and of course there is also the role that she played in destroying the tapes of some of those interrogation sessions. so i think those three things...

16 years to try five people subheard of in american history. in a nutshell here is the issue. the government wants to use evidence that the defendants say was obtained under torture. so the judge is holding hearing after hearing after hearing to find out what actually happened in these interrogation sessions and was it torture. it's taken 16 years. the government has a very excellent team of lawyers. the chief prosecutor is a long-time friend of mine. the defendants have very excellent teams of lawyers. but 16 years to try five people. they tried 22 nazis in nuremberg in three and a half years...

Far more detail than i'm going to provide here about things that were in these interrogation sessions. and the summary itself includes only a subset of the treatment of the 119 cia detainees. there is far more detail all documented in the full 6,700-page study. this summarizes briefly the committee's findings and conclusions. before i wrap up, i'd like to thank the people who made this undertaking possible. first, i think senator jay rockefeller. he started this project by directing his staff to review the operational cables that describe the first recorded interrogations after we learned that...

And records that the videotapes were destroyed shortly after cia attorneys raised concerns that congress might find out about the tapes. in any case, at that same december 11th committee hearing, director hayden told the committee that cia cables related to the interrogation sessions depicted in the videotapes were, and i quote: a more than adequate representation of the tapes and, therefore, be you want them -- if you want them, we'll give you access to them. that's at the december 2007 hearing. senator rockefeller, then chairman of the committee, designated two members of the committee staff...

Records that the video tapes were destroyed shortly after cia attorneys raised concerns that congress might find out about the tapes. at the same december committee hearing the cia cables related to the interrogation sessions depicted in the video tapes were, and i quote, a more than adequate representation of the tapes. and therefore if you want them we'll give you access to them. that's our transcript december 11th, 2000 hearing. 2007 hearing. senator rockefeller then chairman of the committee designated two members of the committee staff to review the cables describing the interrogation ses...