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Well thought out, so professional, so carefully monitored to extract only what we needed under e under the most highly-controlled circumstances. it wasn't like that. it was chaos. and the report today started one station chief writes back to headquarters in december, 20003. of he writes back to headquarters about whom we know very little. they don't even know who we have. they have custody of who's in charge without knowing who they were or why they were there. people who have been treated with these techniques for months while they weren't actually being questioned about anything. nobody knew...

It was a very poorly run torture program. when michael hayden, then the director of the cia, when he sent that thank-you letter, thank you for your service, that implicit apology and that folded american flag to a dying nosenko somewhere in the south in the summer of 2008. we're sorry we tortured you. we know it was wrong. we thank you for your service to this country. when he dispatched that banquet of senior cia officials, to go apologize to that man in the last month before he died somewhere in the south in the summer of 2008, it was right before the presidential election that year.

Somebody else torturing them so those programs, that is where the cia went to help develop what they specifically called a torture program. they tapped two psychologists who help service members survive torture techniques. and, basically, they asked the psychologists to do that training in reverse. to come up with ways not to survive that kind of torture, but to come up with ways to impose that kind of torture. james mitchell and bruce drezen had no experience in intelligence work. they had no experience in

Al qaeda or any related terrorist groups. they had no relevant culture experience, but people would soon be getting captured by the cia. neither one of them had conducted an interrogation, ever, in the real world. never. no experience. and the cia hired him. we didn't have a torture program. now, they also needed somewhere to operate. you might have previously heard it described as the salt pit or as the dark prison. it was in afghanistan. more than half of the 119 prisons held in the cia looked at today, more than half spent at least some of their time at cobalt at the salt pit. to run that f...

One of the striking things about the newly released report is the lepgtsds the agency went to about the effectiveness on the torture program. the investigation paints the picture the agency and misinformation to willfully mislead the people. regarding the operation and effectiveness of the c e c.i.a.'s effectiveness and interrogation program.