it begins with retired colonel lawrence wilkerson, the former chief of staff of secretary of state colinpowell. >> look at diedrich only in sentences they got, two licenses was 15 years and this is supposed to be because of the brothers to the rescue shootdown and so forth which i have absolutely no way of knowing the truth about because our government, cuban-american community and others have so clouded the fax and so obfuscated all of the available material on it. own behalf, he said it is necessary for some countries to send their sons and daughters to defend themselves. carry out dangerous missions, be they in afghanistan or self order. >> it is not whether they were sent here because acts of terrorism were happening in cuba. you do not send people to spy in other countries because you think that they are committing or you say they are committing that. are trying to be painted as heroes are murderers. >> all the men were given maximum sentences, kept in solitary confinement or more than a year, barred from seeing for -- certain family members tom and what they believed was the most p

retired colonel lawrence wilkerson served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell from 200205. colonel wilkerson helped prepare that speech that general powell gave at the u.n., only to later renounce it. he is now a professor of government and public policy at william & mary. retired colonel lawrence wilkerson, welcome to democracy now. talk about the libi case and how seminal it was. >> amy, it is probably the most seminal moment in my memory of those five days and nights out at langley at the cia headquarters with george tenet and his deputy john mclachlan. powell had rarely in the some eight years or so i had worked for him to that point grown so angry with me that -- in this case, physically grabbed me and took me to the spaces that were empty in the room adjacent to the dci conference to set me down in a chair, and essentially lectured me on how he was dissatisfied with and very unhappy with the portions in his debt withon that terrorism, particularly, the connections with baghdad and al qaeda. i quickly apprised him of the fact that i was just as uneasy as he was. he

>> tonight, my exclusive interview with colonel lawrence wilkerson and one of the c.i.a. officers who interrogated prisoners at a black siet. she became the darling of the right wing. "all in" starts right you will 2340. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. after five years of work and a long battle over declassification, the senate select committee on intelligence today finally released its extensive report on the c.i.a.'s tension and interrogation program and it is damning, indeed. the heavily redacted 500 page summary on the committee's findings represents this country's first official reckoning with the torture regime operating by the u.s. from 2001 to 2009. it shows that torture carried out by the c.i.a. was far more brutal, far more widespread on far more shakier legal dwround than the agency had previously represented. the c.i.a. willfully misled media out lets, lawmakersened e, national security officials and the white house about the extent of the program and its effectiveness. the senator with chilling details about how the c.i.a. treated it e its des

>> tonight, my exclusive interview with colonel lawrence wilkerson and one of the c.i.a.