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The first official u.s. torture program. that's what we're talking about. it's not enhanced interrogation, it is well documented, not much really there to left to the imagination. it was torture. >> it says the legal justifications for the cia's enhanced interrogation techniques relied on the cia's claim that the techniques were necessary to save lives. and according to the report, it didn't, so it was thus unfounded, right? >> well, it's interesting you should bring that up. it's very troubling to see, even today, the cia claiming that the use of these torture methods was, quote, effective. u...

About this report is that it runs the entire range of criminal acts. from torture, which is a crime not just under international law, but under u.s. law. but it also includes clear references to criminal acts from obstruction to destruction of evidence to lying to congress, lying to federal investigators. it really covers the entire section of in terms of criminal acts. there's never been that much of a debate from experts as to whether crimes were committed under this program. what is under debate is the commitment to do anything about it. president obama was heavily criticized at the beginni...

Numerous interrogations resulted in 766 sole source disseminated intelligence reports. now, that's an awful lot of actionable intelligence collected under the cia program that this study tries to quietly sweep under the carpet in an effort to support its false headline that the cia's use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not effective. the study also overlooked several crucial intelligent successes that prevented terror attacks against the united states and our allies around the world. al qaeda affiliated extremists subjected to the techniques made admissions that led to the identificat...

Terrorist attacks on the u.s. homeland and against our military forces overseas. al qaeda affiliate statements to interrogators led to the identification of jose padea and al qaeda operative tasked with conducting a terrorist attack inside the united states. the interrogation of ksm and akned disrupted plotting. a critical base of operations in the war on terror in africa. and at that time, home to some 1,600 u.s. military personnel. there's no telling how many lives this program saved in those particular interrogations alone. intelligence gathered under -- >> his dissenting voice. this was al...

Powell and secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. there are cia records stating that colin powell wasn't told about the program at first because there were concerns t t that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack if he were breached. source e-mail from john rizzo dated july 31, 2003. >> colin powell will blow his stack. it makes you shake your head. you include all these quotes in your piece, josh rogen, view on the headline of your piece, "bush was kept in the dark." my first question to you was, how long was he in the dark? >> what we learned today was president george w. bush didn't recei...