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And how they would do it. you tell me the only method we have is please, please, pretty please tell us what you know. i don t buy that. the techniques were notreture. a lot of people try to call it that but it wasn t torture at the time. the techniques were used on our ion people i on our own peopl. the president signed off, i signed off, others signed off. they got the intel guns they needed. now people want to go back and rewrite history. he was my chief of staff. it worked for me in the pentagon and white house. ....
Radio host who famously touted a plan to undergo waterboarding, to say that it wasn t torture, and that didn t go as planned when he lasted about 10 seconds. all right, that s it. that s it. all right, i don t want to say this, i do not want to say this, absolutely torture. barack obama ran against torture in 2008, he reissued the bans against the techniques that bush used on his first day in office. we have to be clear and unequivocal, we do not torture. period. that will be my position as president. president obama signed a second order banning aggressive interrogation techniques, such as waterboarding, which many consider torture. waterboarding violates our ideals and our values. we could have gotten this information in other ways. in ways that were consistent ....
Four soldiers, after abu great briti britian abu graibh, they lost their jobs, their freedom and their trump is now promoting a senior official who oversaw torture. detainees were water boarded, threatened with illegal execution and other degradations. al are sheema sheerry was threatened with a gun near his head and power drills and given forced enemas. even hardened cia officials were reduced to tears after seeing what was done at the base that haspel ran. and claiming that torture is not torture it was enhanced interrogation. there was even a conservative ....
Lied to lawmakers and also the report concluded that torture was not effective in gathering accurate information. it s also a legillegal and immo. i think it s high time for dianne fienstein who produced the summary report in 2014, that her statements about gina haspel s full report. someone should read it into the report. i think it s compelling, it s part of the public interest and i think it will play a very important role in what should be a bruising, tough confirmation hearing for gina haspel. talk us through the way this works, where a key technique is to say, you can t really challenge this stuff, she ll be promoted anyway, move on, there s nothing to see here. we need accountability. i will say that president obama who issued an executive order ....
Already against her. so her nomination and our country s view of for cltorture now in 2018, that hangs in the balance right now. i turn to the editor and publisher of the torturer are. and has been working on investigative stories along these lines for well over a decade. thank you for your compelling report, ari. it s critical at this time. we live at a moment when accountability has been defined down, the architects of the iraq war, the architects of torture have not been held accountable and i think our country is on trial now, as the hearings begin, confirmation hearings. you laid out the key points why gina haspel should not be confirmed. there s an additional note to be made. is that the senate intelligence committee as you recall issued very truncated summery of its 6,700-page report in december 2014, which showed that cia had ....