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Techniques. i never found that they were necessary in the field. we didn t use them any place that i was in command. i don t think, though, that s the central issue regarding release of this report. jon: the central issue for you then would be what? the safety of agents and others who are out there? well, look, everybody who was involved in this program did so at the direction of the president of the united states with the full knowledge of the congress, with multiple layers of legal review and advice and medical experts involved. so if we have changed our minds and we don t believe we should be doing this, i don t have a problem with that. but hanging people out to dry for doing their jobs to protect more than citizens is wrong. it s indefensible. swrb jon dick cheney, the former vice president, had something to say about this in a telephone interview with the new york times. i want you to hear his thoughts ....
Do you think this report should be released? well, jon, it s worth noting that this report was originally approved on a bipartisan basis by all the republican members of the intelligence committee except for one, because there are republicans who had some problems with this, with this program, the enhanced interrogation program. when it became clear this was not going to be an objective investigation, the republicans pulled out. now, i was a cia analyst for 19 years, i was with the house intelligence committee for five years, this is not how congressional oversight is supposed to be done. this report was written entirely by the democratic staff, and they refused to look at all the facts. there were no interviews. former cia director michael hayden has said clearly this program was valuable to stopping terrorist attacks. i would think he had some useful information that this investigation should have used, but they refused to interview him or anyone. jon: do you think this is a partis ....
A decade ago are a stain on our value and on our history. the release of this 500-page summary cannot remove that stain, but it can and does say to our people and the world that america is big enough to admit when it s wrong and confident enough to learn there its mistakes. from its members. releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society. over the next hour, i d like to lay out for senators and the american mix the report s key findings and conclusions. and i ask that when i complete this, senator mccain be recognized. before i get to the substance of the report, i d like to make a few comments about why it s so important that we make this study public. all of us have vivid memories of ....
Records. draft sections of the report were produced by late 2011 and showered with the full committee shared with the full committee. the final report was completed in december 2012 and approved by the committee by a bipartisan vote of 9-6. after that vote i sent the full report to the president and asked the administration to provide comments on it before it was released. six months later, in june of 2013, the cia responded. i directed then that if the cia pointed out any error in our report, we would fix it, and we did fix one bullet point that did not impact our findings and conclusions. if the cia came to a different conclusion than the report did, we would note that in the report and explain our reasons for disagreeing if we disagreed. and you will see some of that ....
Bit later online. joining us now to talk about what she is saying, the gentleman we were talking to earlier, former cia senior analyst and managing editor of lignet.com, fred fleitz. two things stand out here. first of all, this was a report compiled only by democratic staff members of the intelligence committee, correct? that s right. jon: and also they did not actually interview people like the former directors of the cia, george tenet and michael hay depp. why not? hayden? why not the? well, she is claiming that she couldn t, these people couldn t be interviewed because there was a special prosecutor or investigating the destruction of tapes of people who were subjected to the enhanced interrogation program and that that investigation was enlarged. and according to feinstein, she couldn t interview cia officials because that would place them in legal jeopardy for this investigation. republicans didn t buy that ....