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They investigated that claim and rated it false. when did democrats find out did they know? trace gallagher live in the newsroom with that. >> the exact date was september 4th, 2002. they were briefed on enhanced interrogation technique. the fact than triple checked and confirmed. porter goss who later head up the cia.54h&ç the chairs and the ranking members of the house and senate committees that they were holy interrogating high valued terrorists. we understood what the cia was doing we gave them our bipartisan support. they gave them the cia funding. listen to what the former director of t...

Authorized techniques that were approved and determined to be lawful. they went outside of the bounds in terms of their actions as part of that interrogation process. and they were harsh, as i said in some instance i consider them abhorrent. and i will leave to others how they might want to label those activities. but for me it was something that is certainly regrettable but we are not a perfect institution. >> that was cia director john brennan in a rare live news conference earlier this week explaining how some interrogations techniques went too far. he goes on the to defend the enhanced int...

So where was the congressional oversight of the cia? the senate report regarding detention and enhanced interrogation technique says the cia, quote, it actively avoided or impeded congressional oversight. one person who says he didn't know was the chair of the senate intelligence committee in the aftermath of 9/11, bob graham, former governor and u.s. senator from the great state of florida and joins us now from naples. senator, what were you told about the eit program, while you were the chair of the senate intelligence committee? is . >> nothing, mike. it -- after this program started, there...

But for someone to say that there was no intelligence of value, of use that came from those detainees once they were subjected to eits, i think lacks any foundation at all. >> interestingly, that position is actually shared by the obama administration, despite some tough talks by president obama on torture in the past. >> the president's view is it is impossible for anyone to know whether or not the use of an enhanced interrogation technique was useful. it's impossible to know whether you could have obtained that piece of information by any other means. >> now, that's not likely to sit well wi...

Mukasey said it did not violate the law. michael hayden argued that rectal rehydration was not an interrogation technique at all. >> jake, i'm not a doctor and neither are you. i'm told this is one of the ways the body is rehydrated. >> are you really defending? >> i'm defending history. to give you a sense of how the report is put together, this activity, which was done five times and each time for the health of the detainee, not part of the interrogation program. >> the torture statute says you can't under law cause intentionally cause somebody severe physical or mental pain or suffering. it...