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Waterboarding. is that a fair summary of the conflict? >> yes, senator, i believe it is. >> there are people in the bush administration who did not want to go down the road that waterboarding was torture. that was not the deal of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day, the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants with practices we can employ with interrogation standards. it also tried to come up with a system of review. i was in the camp that with past wars, i don't remember any german or japanese fighter who didn't have a captain. traditionally, as of the command...

Post-waterboarding. is that a fair summary of the conflict? >> yes, senator, i believe it is. >> there were people in the bush administration that did not want to go down the road that waterboarding was torture. that was not the view of senator mccain or myself. at the end of the day, the detainee treatment act codified how we treat enemy combatants at a time of war in terms of for practices we can employ in terms of interrogation standards. is that correct? >> yes. >> and it also tried to come up with a system of judicial review. i was in the camp that we're at war and in past wars, you don't...

The former director of national counter terrorism center. welcome all. first to you, over at the hearing, i just came from over there. we've been watching it tolgt. they will fou go into closed sessions. she had some tough questioning. i wanted to play a bit of senator warner, who is the vice chair of the committee asking her about that period of enhanced interrogations otherwise known as torture. >> do you believe the program in terms interrogation program was consistent with american values? >> senator, as we sit here today, and with some distance between us and the events of 9/11, the congr...