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Things right to save american lives during this time. christine, he says the cia has learned from its mistakes. >> evan perez, thank you. a top official in the bush administration out in force fighting the firestorm created by the 500-page torture report. bush era official claimed the techniques did not violate the law. cia director michael hayden said rectal feeding was not an interrogation technique. >> jake, i'm not a doctor. this is one of the ways the body is rehydrated. these were medical procedures. to give you a sense. >> you are defending that rehydration? >> i'm defending history. to...

Necessary to stop more attacks on the u.s. >> we didn't have the luxury time. we had a ticking time bomb situation. >> reporter: on "the lead," former cia director michael hayden defended the forced rectal feeding of detainees. >> they had limited options in which to do this. it was intravenous with needles, which would be dangerous with a noncooperative detainee. it was through the nasal passage -- >> hummus and pine nuts and -- >> jake, i'm not a doctor and neither are you, but what i'm told is this is one of the ways that the body is rehydrated. these were medical procedures. and to give yo...

We have seen 500 pages of 6,000. >> that is right. >> and if there new material, and when you rodriguez saying that the rectal feeding was a new news for him, there's opportunity here for re-examination and it has to happen. >> and here's my question as someone on the human rights watch and this is an important point, because in other countries when bad things happen, it happens outside of the law and some thug rolls in and puts a cigarette outt on someone's arm and starts to wail on him, and in our office, there is legal cover and what came to my mind is the cover of russia, and it was done b...

Regulate, sloshing up the sbeps tins. the officer wrote that, what i infer is that you get a tube up as far as uh you can then open the iv wide. as described in the context of the rectal feeding, ensure was infeuded in a in regard-facing position with head lower than torso. the lunch trey consisting of hummus, pasta with sauce, nuts and raisins were pure rayed and rectally infused. senator jay rockefeller who served as vice chairman of the committee in 2003 said that congress was not fully briefed on the program. >> the chairman and vice chairman, give them a flip chart, 45 minutes with the vi...

The way, that at least five detainees were subjected to what was called rectal rehydration and rectal feeding? >> no. what we don't know is whether that's, in fact, accurate and that's important for viewers to understand is i don't know how much of this report is accurate. how much of it is biassed and how much of it is political. i think it's very unfortunate that we didn't have republicans sign on to this report. i think what we need to do is have an unbiased bipartisan examination of how we fight the war on terror. this document, in my judgment, does not reflect that. >> if in fact that wer...