do you agree waterboarding is illegal and torture? >> yes. >> thank you.ould you agree to answer this question the same when the matter who was president? >> certainly. >> the surveillance powers of the fbi have grown. americans are becoming increasingly concerned the fbi is more of a domestic surveillance in -- agency rather than an intelligence agency. through the patriot act it can and vast amounts of information. the you believe the bulk collection of meta data for e- mails and telephone calls is a corporate, even when the majority of individuals with whom those things are associated are law-abiding americans? >> center, i'm not familiar with the details of the current programs. obviously, i have been out apartment for eight years. as a general matter, i know that is acollection of meta data valuable tool in the fight against terrorism. >> while he describes waterboarding as torture and illegal, he alleges citing an authorization of its use while in the bush and administration. he did not say why his view on water boarding had changed since 2005. durin

r just waterboarding >> i was concerned with waterboarding and sleep deprivation in particular.s i focused on the most. >> you think sleep deprivation as torture? >> i was concerned that thiscularly in aggregation plus the other things was very problematic underneath a statue. consequences to shatter the enhanced interrogation. by virtue of their decision not to question members about qaeda and other organizations, we do not have a lot of information that we might otherwise be able to get. this strikes me as problematic. instead, we have an administration that has decided to compile a kill list for inrorists using armed drones the light. that strikes me as problematic as well. if you're just going to use that to kill terrorist, he certainly do not know anything about any of the other information that would be helpful from an intelligence perspective and save american lives. you believe the memos from the office of legal counsel that have authorized the use of kill armed drones including american citizens, that those >> id be made public? pre-k' think transparency is a very impor

if waterboarding does not constitution torture, then there is no such thing as torture.e it for 18 seconds. but the impact of his experience lasted much longer. in last year's book, "kill or capture," the war on terror and the soul of the obama presidency, author daniel cleedman writes bon viewing hitchins' video, attorney general eric holder was, quote, mesmerized and repulsed by what he saw. he went on to launch an inquiry into the united nations interrogation techniques. even though president obama had already banned waterboarding almost immediately after taking office in 2009. on tuesday, james comey, the nominee for fbi director, put a feign point on our country's evolution on waterboarding, during his testimony before the senate judiciary committee and specifically a question from senator leahy. >> do you agree that waterboarding is torture and is illegal? >> yes. >> that easy answer continues to allude us when it comes to the question of how we're currently treating the guantanamo bay detainees who have been on hunger strike since february. force feeding. doesn't

comey declared that waterboarding is torture.ad endorsed a legal memo that authorized the use of waterboarding when he served as deputy attorney general under george w. bush but today comey told lawmakers that he always believed that the practice was wrong but was overruled. >> absolutely, senator. i -- when i first learned about waterboarding, when i became deputy attorney general, my reaction as a citizen and a leader was this is torture, it's still what i think. it starts with something little, like taking a first step. and then another. and another. and if you do it. and your friends do it. and their friends do it... soon we'll be walking our way to awareness, support and an end to alzheimer's disease. and that? that would be big. grab your friends and family and start a team today. register at alz.org there's a new way to fight litter box odor. introducing tidy cats with glade tough odor solutions. two trusted names, one amazing product. but, dad, you've got... [ voice of dennis ] allstate. with accident forgiveness, they gu

and while the practice of waterboarding may officially have been stopped by the u.s. government another just as inhumane and torturous practice takes place in guantanamo bay now and once again our corporate media is white washington since february of this year inmates and want on a moby have been hunger striking to protest against their ongoing detention most of the prisoners have never even been charged with a crime and half of the remaining population of prisoners have been cleared for release by the us government. there are over one hundred inmates participating in the hunger strike and while their protest is entirely peaceful response by get all officials and our federal government has not been so peaceful officials a good mo have been force feed a force fed nearly every nearly i'm sorry have been for speeding nearly half of the hunger strike in prisoners they've also been using procedures known as forcible cell extractions to remove the prisoners from their cells in order to force feed them for speeding doesn't sound all that horrific and since the media has bare

after 9/11 when the cia personnel began to use harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding, the director refused to allow the fbi to participate in those interrogations'. i said before and i will say it again this was true leadership on the part of the director mueller. he refused to bend to the enormous pressure of the time. it's easy to say what you might have done at the time that what do you think he would have done if you had them the fbi director at that time. would you have given the same direction? >> absolutely, senator. when i first learned about waterboarding when i can the deputy attorney general my reaction as a citizen and a leader was this is torture and that's still what i think and to his great credit, robert mueller made sure the fbi had nothing to do with that business and if our fbi director it would never have anything to do with that. can that be reconciled with your approval in may of 2005 the memo that conclude the gulf ablaze to use of waterboarding wouldn't violate the statute? >> i think so, senator pete if i might explain to you. as i said, when

he approved waterboarding.these memos led to the treatment of detainees in a way that was contrary to our laws and made us less safe. it is critical that whoever the fbi never repeat these mistakes. they leave a stain on this great nation. that it matters who leads our nation, at all levels of government. we need strong and ethical leaders who will steadfastly adhere to the rule of law. the fbi has a continued focus on terrorism but has to continue its law enforcement function. to hear what want your priorities are for the next decade. it is a 10 year term. as director more noted, and i theauded him, he noted that rule of law and civil liberties are not burdens for the fbi. they have made the fbi better. we will look forward to seeing , if confirmed, will lead the app ei in these challenging times. in these challenging times. >> thank you for wanting to enter public service again. as a director of the federal bureau of investigations, you are charged with tremendous power. this power, if used inappropriately, c

waterboarding, for example. by any definition, it's torture. the justice department called it "enhanced interrogation methods," and it approved seven of them, including waterboarding. >> narrator: al qaeda's khalid sheikh mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. it took reporter dana priest years to piece together where prisoners like khalid sheikh mohammed were. they had been hidden in a secret network of cia prisons known as "black sites." >> priest: in the investigation of the black sites, i found a worldwide system of about two dozen prisons throughout the world run by the cia, paid by the cia, organized by the cia, but with cooperation from other countries. >> narrator: top cia official john rizzo helped authorize the prisons. >> rizzo: creating a prison system was something, certainly in my 25 years, we had never done. it was essential that these people be held in absolute isolation, with... with access to the fewest number of people. that quickly led to the conclusion that... that facilities had to be built oversees, secret facilities. >> na

he told a panel that he now views waterboarding as torture. new zealand is rebuffing a spyrt that showed u.s. agencies assisted the new zealand military in collecting metadata on the phone calls of jon stephenson and his associates while reporting on the occupation of afghanistan last year. the new zealand defense minister said a review of the claims is under way. if confirmed, the report could show spying techniques shown by the national security agency have been used against journalists. a new poll appears to show increasing public skepticism about the nsa's surveillance policies. the poll found for the first time since polling began a decade ago people are more concerned about protection of civil liberties than about protection from potential terrorism. according to the poll, 47% of people said their greatest concern about anti-terrorism policies is that the government has gone too far in restricting civil liberties. over all, 56% said federal courts fail to provide adequate limits on the telephone and internet data swept up by the governme

. >> do you believe that waterboarding is illegal? >> yes. >> thank you. and would you answer this question no matter who was president? >> oh, yes. that may explanation not satisfy many of the 13,000 explanation that may not satisfy many of the 1300 fbi agents, and some are pressing comey further, about an explanation that talked about those techniques being used individually. >> he did not reject the memos that justified torture, that he endorsed. >> indeed, since the september 11 attacks, the u.s. fbi has transformed itself from domestic law enforcement to an agency focused on counter-terrorism. if confirmed as its director, comey must strike a delicate balance of national security and not infringing on personal rights. it is a delicate issue, as they routinely collect the telephone and internet data of u.s. citizens, surveillance comey defense. >> the analysis of meta data is an important tool. >> making public now of the secret intelligence, authorizing that surveillance. if confirmed, he says he will push for greater transparency, as long as it does

i wanted to make sure james comey would never resort to waterboarding a prisoner, where we have done that from other countries. he answered my questions, stated directly, unequivocally that waterboarding was not only personally object hornet but was -- abhorrent but was torture legal. he said he would not permit the use of illegal techniques against prisoners including sleep deprivation and cramped confinement. mr. comey and i do not agree on all matters. i do not agree with him that the authorization for the use of military force permits the government to detain indefinitely an american citizen, captured on american soil in military custody without charge or trial. and i'll continue to oppose effort to codify such interpretation of the law. i was glad james comey committed to adhering to the current administration policy of not detaining indefinitely americans in such circumstances. but when he testified before us, i saw a man of integrity and honesty, competence and background. and so once he's confirmed -- and i trust he will be -- once this filibuster is ended, i trust he'll be c

spoke about the cia's torture practices and became the first government official who confirmed waterboarding at one time to get out who was the head of the cia's counterterrorism operations in pakistan father of five kid out who is now in jail serving his two and a half years sentence former n.s.a. employees william binney and thomas drake were very close to jail time after they separately blew the whistle on the government's massive surveillance program which they saw as ineffective an illegal needless to say their careers were destroyed edward snowden's revelations of only confirmed would be drake had been saying for years but possibly unlike binney and drake snowden has also made public indisputable proof of the existence of the programs i had the chance to interview three of these men john kiriakou william binney and thomas drake they talked to me about what it's like being targeted by the u.s. government take a listen to your in itself is control. and what people will do when they're fearful is they were be will begin to censor themselves so much of what's happening now particular my ca

included sleep deprivation solitary confinement stress positions water dallas' scene and of course waterboarding yes comey was in full agreement that these techniques were needed to fight the war on terror wow so glad of bush torture apologist of the road to head the f.b.i. but then again what more can we really expect from ministration that's essentially just a continuation of the previous one remember we're talking about the same president that appointed john brennan to head the cia you know the man calling is bush's drone assassination czar so please spare me the ad tricks to train this man is a defiant pioneer because he's endorsed actions that stand in direct violation of international law so instead of calling him a trailblazer let's call him by his real title a gate keeper for bush put two point zero. letters that were never seen anything like that. the hunger strike of thirty thousand prison inmates in california has now reached its fourth day and spread to two thirds of the state's thirty three prisons the prisoners are protesting what they see as unfit prison conditions but the main fo

included sleep deprivation solitary confinement stress positions water dallas' scene and of course waterboarding yes comey was in full agreement that these techniques were needed to fight the war on terror wow so glad of bush torture apologist of the road to head the f.b.i. but then again what more can we really expect from ministration that's essentially just a continuation of the previous one remember we're talking about the same president that appointed john brennan to head the cia you know the man calling is bush's drone assassination czar so please spare me the ad tricks to train this man is a defiant pioneer because he's endorsed actions that stand in direct violation of international law so instead of calling him a trailblazer let's call him by his real title a gate keeper for bush put two point zero. letters for a. regime anything like that. the hunger strike of thirty thousand prison inmates in california has now reached its fourth day and spread to two thirds of the state's thirty three prisons the prisoners are protesting what they see as unfit prison conditions but the main focus of

spoke about the cia's torture practices and became the first government official who confirmed waterboarding at one time to get out who was the head of the cia's counterterrorism operations in pakistan father of five kids out who is now in jail serving his two and a half years sentence former n.s.a. employees william binney and thomas drake were very close to jail time after they separately blew the whistle on the government's massive surveillance program which they saw as ineffective an illegal needless to say their careers were destroyed edward snowden's revelations have only. would be me and drake had been saying for years but possibly on like beanie and drake snowden has also made public indisputable proof of the existence of the programs i had the chance to interview three of these men john kiriakou william binney and thomas drake they talked to me about what it's like being targeted by the u.s. government take a listen if you're in itself is control and what people will do when they're fearful as they were being will begin to censor themselves so much of what's happening now particular

that authorized the use of confinement wall standing water dowsing extended sleep deprivation and waterboarding although he called the techniques simply awful in subsequent e-mails he did not object to the lawfulness of such acts now james komi is best known for racing to the hospital room of former attorney general john ashcroft to convince him not to reauthorize the warrantless spying program under president bush. well nelson mandela once said education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world but tell that to four star general david petraeus when he begins teaching as an adjunct professor at city university of new york he is now fighting for the high. the hearts and minds of american students and he's got a salary that you're more likely to see in the department of defense and the department of education the former commander of the united states armed forces in iraq and afghanistan will be paid a whopping one hundred fifty thousand dollars to teach two classes and conduct a to conduct some public lectures while petraeus announced his appointment to the professorship

however larry some of the information to get osama bin laden was first we got that intel from waterboarding down and on to on hanssen tera geisha don't want to obey which was dick cheney's program and i know it's unpopular like dick cheney but dick cheney did a great thing there. are you a little goose or earned about one sixty percent of the american public doesn't approve of the job the congressional republicans are doing bob dole recently said there were a lot of differences in the days i was in the senate every case we were able to work out the differences compromise is now a bad word. look what do you make of the beginning at a time larry get everybody hates congress but it's a paradox because why do ninety percent of congressmen and women get reelected because everybody hates congress like your own congress you like your own congressman but you hate congress and that's the everybody runs for congress by running against congress because you hate the face that you don't know what your local congressman is fighting against all these bad people it's a silly game it's probably a good thing

however larry some of the information to get osama bin laden was first we got that intel from waterboarding down in quantico and hanssen tara geisha donna guantanamo bay which was dick cheney's program and i know it's unpopular like dick cheney but dick cheney did a great thing there. are you a little goose earned about one sixty percent of the american public doesn't approve of the job the congressional republicans are doing bob dole recently said there were a lot of differences in the days i was in the senate every case we were able to work out the differences compromise is now a bad word. look what do you make of the beginning at a time where you get everybody hates congress but it's a paradox because why do ninety percent of congressmen and women get reelected because everybody hates congress like your own congress you like your own congressman but you hate congress and that's the everybody runs for congress by running against congress because you hate the face that you don't know what your local congressman is fighting against all these bad people it's a silly game it's probably a good

the same people that waterboarded. what are your liberal friends going to say to you?i'm not worried about it. my friends that are democrats and friends that are republicans can both watch. >> bill: you said i'm glorifying people that may did bad things in the name of the country? >> i've been to the c.i.a. i met david petraeus. these are extraordinary honorable people at the c.i.a.. >> bill: that is good to hear. iran again influencing presidential election because of a nuke thing? >> i'm worried about it because there is trouble spots. this is same regime in my movie and this is the same thing and we're still dealing with them. if they got a bomb, everybody thinks that is trouble. my feeling about it is, one also has to be judicious. frankly i don't think there is a lot.... >> bill: what does judicious mean. here the choice you strangle them with sanctions which seems to be reacting. >> they are in bad trouble. >> bill: or you give netanyahu the okay to go in and whack them. >> my understanding that netanyahu or israel is not capable of whacking to the extent they ne

does not think anything in did under the bush era was torture, with the exception of waterboarding.he could be subjected to every enhancement interrogation technique, lights on all the time, hot temperatures, cold temperatures, all of the enhanced interrogation techniques allowed under the view of torture. second, prolonged detention. it does not say that we will not put him in an underground cell and keep them there for the rest of his life. and it also says that he does .ot have the right to asylum this letter is meaningless, a pr ploy. from his quote more letter. >> is what i said. in the words of the diet state's statute, a portrait is illegal, but they have redefined it so that it can include in his interrogation techniques. he is aon for asylum, whistleblower, and one that has revealed important information about human rights violations by the united states. he is entitled to refugee status because of that. holder does not address that. >> the news that -- last week that he would be issued temporary asylum in russia. why is he still in the airport? >> i do not know. i just kno