detention program.
think about that for a second,
we were hanging them from the
ceiling in 2002.
we still had him in custody as
of yesterday.
yesterday, as this report came
out and as the new afghan
president said he stayed up all
night reading i and they
prepared the announcement that
the last american prison in
afghanistan would be closed
down, yesterday afghanistan
finally got this guy back.
it's one thing to talk about
learning from the past.
this stuff isn't even over yet.
yesterday we learned all this
detail about the torture of abu
zubaydah.
people who tried to justify the
way abu zubaydah got treated
will often cite this ticking
timebomb scenario, where a
timebomb is ticking and the guy
that knows where it's going to
go off, you have to torture him
to get information out of him
quickly.
you to torture people because
you have to get them to talk
fast.
abu zubaydah, part of his
torture was they put him in
total confinement for 47 days
before they asked him a single
question, in...