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There were two reports, actually. yes. that's the one i want to pick up on, though, the one that was chaired by the democratic senator, dianne feinstein, and she said that "these are a stain on our values, the us values, and our history." so do you not have any sympathy with that kind of argument? although what you did was authorised, because it was approved, but nevertheless it was a stain. i have sympathy for it, but i reject the idea that it's a stain. you have to to understand, we're talking about a matter of days for this thing. for the use of enhanced interrogation techniques. one of the...

Judge must also decide what evidence can be admitted. the defense team arguing that the men on trial were tortured, subjected to brutal interrogation techniques. and that their accounts and that confession are in question. the cia has admitted to subjected khalid sheikh mohammed to repeated waterboarding, a technique that similar lat simu drowning. and the trial has been held up for nearly a decade. for the survivors and family members of the victims, it's a process that has taken far too long. 22-year-old patricia smith lost her mother, moira smith, in the attacks on september 11th. she was t...

If they do we're probably not close to starting it. the big thing as you report was that they have to resolve the issue of whether the confession evidence can come in or not. people should understand what we're talking about here are not statements that were elicited from water boarding. they are statements that were the result of interrogations by people who didn't -- officials who didn't have anything to do with the water boarding. that didn't have coercive tactics. the question is, even if these statements were voluntary, did they happen because the people were subjected to enhanced interro...

>> forward, not backward. that would be an important slogan, at that time. now, war crimes had been prosecuted, in the wake of the abuse, say, the prison in iraq, the most probably notorious and recorded, documented war crime in the bush years. 11 u.s. soldiers were convicted of crimes related to the abuse, capture in those infamous photos. former army reserve soldier was sentenced to three years in prison for her role. but remember, nothing ever happened to secretary of defense donald rumsfeld, who authorized the use of the interrogation techniques that multiple reports found led to that. and...

Der frühere US-Verteidigungsminister Donald Rumsfeld ist tot. Er verstarb am Dienstag im Alter von 88 Jahren im Kreis seiner Familie in Tao in New Mexico. Der Republikaner war von 2001 bis 2006 Pentagon-Chef unter dem damaligen Präsidenten George W. Bush und Chefplaner des Militäreinsatzes im Irak. Doch seine politische Karriere dauerte fast ein Viertel Jahrhundert an. Rumsfeld war an insgesamt vier Regierungen beteiligt. "Rummy", so sein Spitzname in den USA, gals als ehrgeizig, dynamisch und geistreich. Er war der einzige Pentagon-Chef, der dieses Amt zweimal inne hatte. 1975 bis 77 war ...