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Our moral authority as americans and as a country. so one question i have not heard you answer is do you believe that the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? >> senator, i believe that c.i.a. officers to whom you referred -- >> it's a yes or no answer. do you believe the previous interrogation techniques were immoral? i'm not asking do you believe they were legal. do you believe they were immoral? >> senator, i believe that c.i.a. does extraordinary work to prevent another attack on this country given the legal authority we were able to use. >> do you believe that those techniques ...

C.i.a. historically has not done interrogations. we don't have interrogators so we just don't have any expertise. >> most of the questions have been directed to you has been because of that. >> yes, that's right. dod of course does do battlefield investigations and why we have the army field manual. we have policy guidance for those dod interrogations which i support. the f.b.i. has its own authorities for interviewing terror suspects and as we mentioned we have the high-value interrogation group and c.i.a. is part of that. we support that with substantive expertise about a particular group or...

Qualified leader. we appreciate that very much. let me ask you a little bit about some ongoing threats coming at us that we haven't had much time to talk about today. let's talk about the counter narcotics threat coming at us and some of the changing situations that's happening in our hemisphere dealing with drug trafficking organizations, international drug trafficking in particular. what do you sense is a role the c.i.a. should have in the ongoing work to do counter naar -- narcotics work. >> thank you for the question. when i returned from my overseas posting in early 2017, i was frankly sh...

Made this decision? >> senator, i do not recall being aware of that. >> senator's time is expired. chair would note at this time since there has been a reference to declassification, i just want to draw a distinction that the durham investigation done by the department of justice is not in the purview of the central intelligence agency. any decision to declassify or keep classified is a department of justice decision and i just wanted to separate that from the discussions about miss haspel's background at the agency. with that, the chair recognizes senator langford. >> thank you very much. tha...