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So i think there's still a lot of questions to be answered, but at the same time, i think that the transparency issue with this report, i do, myself, believe that there should be something released to the public to be able to decide for themselves how they want to view this because it doesn't matter what the conclusions are of congress and the agency, they will continue to differ. and i think this is all going to come up to public opinion. >> this is what's so striking to me. what i'm hearing from you is the agency believes that the torture program, i want to use that word because other people...

Just gets to say what the cia wants to do and doesn't answer to the white house. >> well, i think the fact that it's been referred to the internal i.g. for the cia and out to doj, the investigation will hopefully give us a little transparency and insight into what actually transpired here and who possibly gave orders to whom to do what. so i think there's still a lot of questions to be answered, but at the same time, i think that the transparency issue with this report, i do, myself, believe that there should be something released to the public to be able to decide for themselves how they want...

Years, some things happened that were arguably illegal, right? nobody ever paid a price for the cia's torture program. michael hayden, director of the nsa, was told by the justice department that one of the domestic surveillance programs was no longer authorized by the justice department in 2004 and the bush white house asked him to continue it anyway. he did so. i asked him about this recently. he said he did so because he was worried about the security of the united states. when the obama administration came in, they decided not to look backwards, to look forward, not to pursue any of the al...

Cced on every memo or at one side of the spectrum. the other side of the spectrum is being, i guess, the decider. he's saying he wasn't the decider but there's a lot of space in between. and in d.c., chief of staff or deputy director, what they are usually implementers. not deciders or flies on the wall. they're implementers. and for someone at this level, if he was implementing this torture program, secret prison program, that's a big deal. >> i think that this discussion is complicated by the fact that everyone is implicated in this, right? congress is implicated. they have successively -- s...

I worked in the united states senate for almost seven years and at no time was i ever privy to any of that information nor did i want to be. frankly, listen, do i like torture? no, i think it's probably bad. i think i'd also -- i don't like drones per se but they make america safer. at the end of the day, this is a movie. it's drama. i think all this hullabaloo by these three senators, two of which are democrats, john mccain, an american hero who was tortured, i think it's all a bunch ado about nothing at the end of the day. it's a movie. it's a drama. it was not meant to be a documentary. >> ...