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A detention and interrogation program. c.i.a. has learned some tough lessons from that experience. we were asked to tackle a mission that fell outside our expertise. for me, there is no better example of implementing lessons learned than what the agency took away from that program. in retrospect, it is clear, as the report concluded, that c.i.a. was not prepared to conduct a detention and interrogation program. today the u.s. government has a clear, legal and policy framework that governs detentions and interrogations. specifically, the law provides that no individual in u.s. custody may be su...

>> her support for u.s. torture programs after 9/11, the fact that she headed up a secret u.s. detention camp in thailand, that somebody was water boarded there under her watch. >> laura: the truth is she oversaw detention facility in thailand in 2002 for a few al qaeda operatives were waterboarding. they make it sound like she invented the interrogation technique. she did not. it was authorized by george w. bush and approved by his legal team who briefed congress on it. there was further static about her being involved as you heard with the destruction of nearly hundreds of tapes of interroga...

Legal at the time. i helped write the treatment. at the time, the bush administration viewed it as an authorized interrogation technique. after the passage of the detainee treatment act, it is clearly not authorized and i'm looking for her to acknowledge that this behavior is no longer allowed and that she will adhere to the law, as it exists. she, again, is very highly qualified. mr. clapper supports her. m leon panetta supports her. mr. hayden supports her. she is excellent at what she does, but she will have to adhere to the law as it exists today. >> what about rand paul's objection that h...

>> i think john is right. i believe that waterboarding was legal at the time. i helped write the treatment. at the time, the bush administration viewed it as an authorized interrogation technique. after the passage of the detainee treatment act, it is clearly not authorized and i'm looking for her to acknowledge that this behavior is no longer allowed and that she will adhere to the law, as it exists. she, again, is very highly qualified. mr. clapper supports her. leon panetta supports her. mr. hayden supports her. she is excellent at what she does, but she will have to adhere to the law as it...

Years in the cia. she's the deputy director and facing harsh criticism for the time she spent overseeing a secret prison in thailand where waterboarding was used with suspected terrorists. remind viewers exactly what waterboarding is. it could be the biggest point of controversy in her confirmation hearing. it is an enhanced interrogation technique that simulates drowning. it is torture. here is what it looks like. this graphic is provided by quick torture now.org. a person is strapped to a board or in some way their head is hangle -- angled downward and a cloth is placed over their mouth and ...