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Today was to stress the fact these torture techniques were specifically approved for use on him in combination. they were all approved for use on him including specific references by the people who wrote the torture memos approving these things, referencing how flexible he was and specifying the number of days he could be subjected to sleep deprivation. this was all designed to be used on him not just as individual one off things, but this is authorized in specific and in detail by government. >> he is the entire torture program as approve bide the department of justice. >> never charged with ...

In that u.s. detention center in iraq. >> that's a good point. it would not surprise me. he was there almost a year and there was a great intelligence stuff if you will, looms very large that we let him go. accidentally we did that with quite a few people. al-qaida and other people where we just messed up and because of the torture program largely we didn't really go after people in a solid methodical way and determine whether or not they were future threats. we let a lot of threats go. we let some go from guantánamo, too. yes, you got a point there. >> now you think about the current policy ...

Dangerous thing that he's doing. when i blew the when i felt on the cia's torture program, i got what the fbi called three credible death threats. i actually had to take my family and leave town where to week. when you have the president of the united states joking, maybe, maybe not joking, about death penalty offenses for someone reporting waste, fraud, abuse, or illegality, i think that's very tadangerous tack to take. >> that comes from somebody who paid a price for leaking to be sure. house democrats are trying to protect the whistle-blower's identity from what they call trump's allies who...

Torture program in late 2007, the bush administration investigated me and determined e had not committed a crime. just a few weeks later, john the number two at the national security council, h and he asked the justice department, eric holder, to secretly reopen the case against me. that went to robert mueller. he created this john kiriakou task force -- >> tucker: you are telling me that john brennan, a documented history of looking to the press, ask for a criminal investigation into you with results to you going to prison,ch with five kis because you leaked? >> exactly. and you know, when i ...

When i went public on the cia's torture program, the bush administration investigated me and determined that i hadn't committed a crime. they closed the case. a few weeks later, when barack obama became president, john brennan became the number two at the national security council, and he asked the justice department, eric holder, to secretory reopen the case against me. that went to robert mueller, and he created a task force -- >> you're telling me john brennan, who has a documented history of leaking to the press, asked for an investigation into you, which resulted you into going to prison ...