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But at the same time he said it's hard to fault the cia because it was doing what the bush white house wanted. >> there's a lot of hypocrisy going around obviously and it starts at the white house, which has been critical. at the same time they're droning people. it was interesting to watch our own ed henry press josh earnest on this, reporter going head-to-head with josh earnest saying how do you claim moral authority when you guys are droning people and yet you're so critical of torture program. there was no out for josh earnest there, howie. what did you think of that exchange? >> i think i...

Senator which would be a very unusual disguise. where did that come from? we haven't talked about him at all? but there is still a mystery at the heart of this story. we still do not know why the krchlt i.a. came up with this idea. why did the c.i.a. decide to start a torture program? they didn't have an existing torture program. and it wasn't that they had the people in dust kill custody and the normal methods weren't working. the normal methods were working. but despite that, an abstract policy decision was made to proactively come up with a plan to start torturing people even though there w...

Introduced, which did not produce results as zubaydah shut down and stopped talking, correct? >> correct, sir. >> since then, fbi agent soufan has been able to become more public. he has written a terrific book about his experiences and about al qaeda and he has been a guest on this show. he can now tell his story. or at least the parts of it that are not classified about how his nontorture interrogation works. and it worked. until the cia stepped in with torture, then progress stopped. but there is still a mystery at the heart of this story. we still do not know why the cia came up with there...

That fbi interrogation was successful. it produced real information that u.s. needed and was able to act on. but then something changed. abu zubaydah was interrogated by suffant. contractors were sent in. they stripped him naked. blasted music in his cell. went ton to water board him. they were part after new cia torture program. they were sent to torture the prisoner even though he had already been talking without tore touring him. people make the case that rashalal for torturing people is that there is no time to waste. a time bomb is ticking somewhere. but the cia contractors who came in an...

>> none of these lapses should be excused, down played or denied. >> who are we to disagree? >> john brennan in what some thought would be a defense of the torture program but instead he made explicit his agreement with most of the criticism of the cia in the senate intelligence committee report. >> the cia was unprepared to conduct and intention and interrogation program and our officers inadequately developed and monitored its initial activities. the agency failed to establish quickly the operational guidelines needed to govern the entire effort. in a limited number of cases, agency officers...