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Let's remember, the people were already being dressed in orange suits and executed in iraq in 2005 and in 2014 and this was well before the details came out. the fact is that the occupation of iraq, of afghanistan, the torture program was well known around the world, and everybody was talking about it. so i don't think there will be any particular reaction to this specific specifically because of this release. >> let me ask you about the general idea of this kind of critique. because a lot of people watching might wonder, you yourself have admitted that you did attend -- witness some terrorist...

Were very upset and terrified. >> on edge. steve, you think this is inaccurate and partisan but my question is, have the media covered it fairly? >> no, i think, no. the mediayx buys the narrative that is pit -- put north in the senate report there was no detailed analysis of the report that you have had the media do on other things. you had some in the conservative media do this kind of break doing but not many, or even have the media asking the most basic questions or making the most bake points. it was possible to read a front page story in the "new york times" that never mentioned it was p...

An estimated 400 under president obama. >> the use of drones is heavily constrained. america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists. our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute. >> reporter: polls show about 70% of americans support the drone program. why? why is it more acceptable and more popular to kill people than to hold them and torture them? >> antiseptic drone strikes, which is the video image you see from the pentagon, torture is something we feel directly and personally and we think is morally wrong. >> reporter: but there is...

>> richard engel is in studio with me now. richard, first of, it's good to have you stateside. >> good to be here. >> december visit here. what's creating more terrorists? the bush interrogation program or obama's drone program? >> creating more terrorists? >> yeah. >> it's very hard to know. people are radicalized -- >> there's worry that both do that. that both can radicalize people. >> there's a whole history of why people are being radicalized. it goes back to u.s. support for israel, what's considered to be a war against islam. but the drone war is certainly part of it. the torture progra...

Attempting to be open, at least it is trying to make confessions in public. i know that there's no sense that there's going to be any prosecutions but at least america has come clean and is setting a record, a standard for other countries to follow. there are at least 54 countries in involved. what did britain do? what did pakistan do? what did syria do? what did egypt do? they also now have a template to follow. let's remember, the people were already being dressed in orange suits and executed in iraq in 2005 and in to 2014 and this wa well before the details came out. the fact is that the oc...