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Central lines of questioning we anticipate today which is haspel's role in the bush-era interrogation program that critics call torture. it reads having served in that time i can offer you my personal commitment clearly and without reservation that under my leadership c.i.a. will not restart such a detention and interrogation program. that program was under the bush administration and it was approved by the justice department. it involved the water boarding of a handful of senior al qaeda operatives including the self-described architect of the attack khalid sheikh mohammed. critics call the p...

15. john rizzo was c.i.a. former chief legal officer who deemed the practices legal. he wrote the book "company man," and he joined us earlier. >> the program was briefed from the very beginning to -- it was kept because it was top secret to a close number of people in congress. but that certainly included from the outset senator jay rockefeller, who as you know, is now one of the most strident critics of the program, claiming it was immoral and one of the biggest backers of this report. it continues to yield valuable intelligence report, even leon panetta, the c.i.a. director under obama who ...

Hello? >> yeah. this program was briefed from the very beginning to -- it was kept top secret to a sternum of people in congress, but that is including from the outset senator jay rockefeller, who as you know, is now one of the most strident critics of the program, claiming it was immoral and one of the biggest backers of this report. >> here is the quote from rockefeller, who was talking to blitzer. he said, i wouldn't take anything off the table when it comes to khalid sheikh mohammed. where he's concerned, because this man killed hundreds of hundreds of americans over the last ten years. no...

Into, and they were lied to. but even the president and the national security advisor and colin powell and george w. bush were not told about in a timely manner. >> there's some refuting of that part of this report, from the bush folks, and i think we're going to hear much more about that from vice president champion in his first interview tomorrow on special report. steve, the push back, to the timing, the why now? what about all that? >> if the report were what george and marcie suggest what it is or what it purports to be, that would be fine, certainly it's good and noble and necessary. and...