reports instances of waterboarding as near drownings. detainees are often waterboarded repeatedly. khalid sheik mohammed was waterboarded at least 183 times. another detainee was waterboarded so often that it led him to at least once to become completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his mouth. this torture tactic may also lead to bleeding from the ears, severe lung and brain damage and lasting psychological damage. if we waterboard our prisoners, they will waterboard our men and women when they become prisoners. walling. walling is a torture technique that involves encircling the detainee's neck with a collar or towel and slamming him against a wall. despite a requirement to use false wall to avoid injury, abu zabaida was initially slammed against a concrete wall. even if a false wall was used detainees suffered extreme injury. abu jafar suffered swelling of his head with the use of a false wall. if we use this technique on our prisoners, they will use this technique on our men and women in uniform if they were to capture them. sleep deprivation, the detainees were kept

the damaging effects of waterboarding cannot be overstated.ccording to the intelligence senate intelligence committee to report on torture. the waterboarding session quote - resulted in immediate fluid intake and involuntary chest and arm spasms and hysterical please. at least one session, he became completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open mouth and required medical intervention. the memos that they are mr. bradberry's name also made it possible for libyan detainee and his wife to be rendered to a foreign country where the woman was bound and gagged while several months pregnant and photographed naked as several american intelligence officers -- i wonder what our average citizens would think when we tell them that an agent of the american government took a woman who was bound and gagged, several months pregnant, photographed naked as several american intelligence officers watched i am told that picture still exists somewhere in the archives. that recorded this shameful. in the history. i am voting against his nomination. as

waterboarding was deemed a war crime, japanese officers were shot and executed because they waterboarded people. it is clearly a war crime. by the way, the cia has gotten away with it. they've destroy the film and a lot of the information and it would be a black mark on the history of this country if we did that, frankly, i will never forgive the cia for what they did.

colleague sheik muhammad was being waterboarded and sent a message back to c.i.a. saying we can't get anything out of him. and the answer was water board him some more. waterboarding was deemed a war crime and japanese officers were shot and executed because they water boarded people. it is clearly a war crime. by the way the c.i.a. has gotten away it. they destroyed the film. they destroyed a lot of the information. and it would be a black mark on the history of this country that we did that. frankly, i'll never forgive the c.i.a. for what they did. brian: go back to -- comparison on something. we know a lot about your torture. what has been harder for you? living through the torture or living through the cancer? senator mccain: well, living through cancer is a challenge that i have. living through torture is you never know what's going to happen the next morning. whether they are going to come around and open your cell door and say come on out. at least with this fight that i'm in, i know the enemy and i know what we have to do. and know that we take the conseque

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revealed the agency was using torture methods against al qaeda prisoners those methods included waterboarding earlier he told me how he was removed from the e.u. panel which was about to discuss whistle blowing the very thing he spent almost two years behind bars for. was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bertie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i did appear at a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first paid in so as a understand it was. warm he said she wasn't allowed to be on the same panel with the what was the reaction to that lashed which where everybody blames the right even a risk even ten i wished i had better on happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the begi

for fourteen years in two thousand and seven in a televised interview he revealed the agency was waterboarding al qaeda suspects then spent two years behind bars for whistle blowing and we spoke to kiriakou who told us how he was removed from the e.u. parliamentary panel. i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i laughed when she first said it because it was so ridiculous that i thought she was joking and then she walked away and one of the aides handed me an updated schedule and my name was was not associated then with the first panel that's politics in america right now isn't it where where everybody blames the russians the russians the bad guys for absolutely everything and and they feel like they can't even risk even a tangenti

he dressed up in academic robes on waterboard and it looked for him it was business as usual.nity since that military takeover. he was an iconic figure, but andrew was saying, he lost touch. his rule has been despotic and there has been political repression and political chaos. i think the question now that we have to start addressing is — what follows ? n o to start addressing is — what follows? no one knows. yes, there might bea follows? no one knows. yes, there might be a transitional government. but if emmerson mnangagwa is that the head of it, people have questions about him. he was a strong man and a mugabe. he was his security chief. he has been accused of human rights abuses for a long time. some people are saying, would he be much that —— that much better than mugabe? i think the importance of yesterday's demonstrations on the streets and all the euphoria there was and that display of people power was and that display of people power was actually things have changed. you cannot just be was actually things have changed. you cannotjust be a kind of another mugabe, anoth

colorfully said, you know: "give me a beer and a cigarette, and i'll get more information than by waterboardingnot quite that simple, but to put it, i guess, more simply, it would be that you wanna become the detainee's best friend in detention. the interrogator does. and i say this having been the commander who oversaw the holding of more detainees in iraq than at any other time, 27,000 of them. so we have some experience with what works with detainees, and treating them humanely while still eliciting information from them is the way to go about it. and then the most in afghanistan as well. now, you had never before had people working for you directly who were killed in combat. now, this experience, had people work for you. yeah. yeah. what was that like to have the command of people who were dying? it's-- you know, it's... it's a chilling experience, actually, the first time. i remember the radio call when our first soldier was killed. and it takes the wind out of you. i remember hearing when a sister unit, the 3rd infantry division, which really spearheaded the fight, along with the marine d

one of the prisoners that the bush administration admitted to waterboarding for years. 2006 sent him to guantanamo, 2008 announced would bring charges against him for "uss cole" bombing. 2011 finally arraigned him. long haul but case has been plodding along through the not quite a court system in guantanamo. and in that case things have gone slightly bananas and resulted in imprisonment of number two lawyer in u.s. marine corps, brigadier general, locked up as of today. here's how it went crazy. nashiri, charged with a capital crime. they want the death penalty. when charged with capital crime you need a lawyer with experience in dealing with capital cases. you need a lawyer of learned counsel in legalese, or a lawyer who is death qualified. worked capital cases before. nashiri has one of those, a death qualified defense lawyer who has represented him for nine years. and two other defense lawyers as well. three weeks ago today on october 11th, those three lawyers all quit nashiri's case, i can vaguely describe why they quit but not specifically because i don't know because it's class

. >> we do waterboarding to our own soldiers in the military. >> reporter: this comes as the white house faces a diplomat tech uproar with a key u.s. ally after mr. trump retweeted anti-muslim videos from a far right group in britain. in one video, a boy on crutches was beaten by a migrant but born and raised in the netherlands. the president's retweet caused outrage in britain. >> by sharing it, he's either a racist, incompetent or unthinking or all three. >> reporter: britain's prime minister theresa may says the president was wrong to post the videos, prompting this response from mr. trump. don't focus on me. focus on the radical islamic terrorism that is happening within the united kingdom. we are doing just fine. >> he's elevated the conversation which is extreme violence and extreme terrorism that the president feels comfortable talking about and making sure that we're looking at the best ways to protect americans. >> reporter: but may isn't backing down. >> the fact that we work together does not mean that we're afraid to say when we think the united states has got it wrong. and t

imagine if obama had gone after the bushes on waterboarding.gine if bush had gone after gore on the buddhist temple fund-raiser. this is not american. this is not normal. this is wrong. >> jesse: i remember after the election, donald trump said no, we are not going to lock hillary up. i think he might've had a change of mind after this whole russia investigation got to where he got. >> greg: let's compare the segments. the letter a block was a hearing about a meeting. this is selling nuclear material to russians. they couldn't work out a deal selling knives to isis. >> dana: the uranium wasn't going to russia. the deal was it couldn't leave the united states. >> greg: it did go. >> juan: no, it did not. >> jesse: and went to canada and europe. >> greg: canada is not part of the united states. >> juan: i don't agree with you but let's say you are right. let's assume you're right. it was 2%. this is nothing, zero. because republicans are so -- look, it did not open up the threat of additional nuclear weapons commit that's what you're suggesting.

it must have almost felt like he was being waterboarded.e would be suddenly gasping for breath. ,e would often sleep sitting up in a vertical position, it would keep the air passage open. it is amazing the amount of suffering he went through, and the last thing that the average person would want to do during that time would be a massive project. to write a long book like this, as any writer would attest, carries a very large weight on your shoulders. he was already carrying the largest weight of all in terms of mortality in worrying about providing financially for his family. it was really an amazing, amazing feat. just a few days before he died, he finished the book. what was the end of his life like? it was almost as if grant recognized at that moment that his work was done, and his life was over. they wheeled him out one day to a scenic overlook we could see a number of different mountain ranges. just that exertion of rolling him, they came back, and it had taken a terrible toll on him. luckily, he passed away very, very quietly. to juli

. >> like the waterboard and t --r board and the state department of health. it's not just the navy saying it's okay. we have all these agencies at the state and local level that are overlook the work you are doing and making sure it is up to the standards of safety for us. would you comment on that? >> that's very accurate. my job primarily is to collect informati information, to clean things up and collect information, and then provide it to the regulatory agencies. they're the ones that sign off that is something is clean and suitable for transfer, as well as other independent agencies apart from san francisco department of health, the hsdr, institute, the cancer institute do independent studies upon themselves that the public can rely upon as far as whether or not treasure island is safe to live, work, and play in, which they've all said consistently it is. so that's something that we rely upon heavily, those independent third-party opinions based upon the information that we collect. >> thank you. and i think that we won't even accept the land, the transf

have been charged in the united states have been convicted.er >> sean: the cureor which led to waterboardingf only three people. o of only three people ever got water boarded and he was one of them. geraldo rivera, you and pam last night passionately disagree. enemy combatant, not an enemy combatant.em we can argue that, but the more important question to me is you have a mayor of new york that ends a surveillance program. i i just interviewed a detective that for years was surveilling, including that particular mosque saying he knew 20 radical thoughts -- people who aree radical thoughts within that mosque, a thousand nationwide. de blasio ends the program. schumer. authored the diversity visa program.m. that's what got the sky into the country. does this not highlight that the presidents right on vetting, on building the wall, protecting the country, protecting the american people first? >> i think yes, yes, maybe, i'm not sure. if i can just comment very briefly on the gtmo versus new york. i've been to both guantanamo bay and to the metropolitan corrections center for federal prisoners a

you drafted the memo which authorized enhanced terrorist techniques like waterboarding when you worked in the bush administration. do you agree with the president calling our justice system a laughing stock? >> no, i don't, and i think the thing to keep in mind is that civilian courts are good for some things and military courts are good for other things. the most important reason to have military commissions is when there is classified information at stake. so far, from everything i've seen about the saipov case and the manhattan bombing, it doesn't look like there is classified information or classified methods to be kept secret, so it seems a civilian court would do a fine job here. >> were you surprised to hear the president saying he considers sending this man to guantanamo bay? do you think he understands the implications of that? >> well, i think it would be a mistake. i think at least in the time i was in the bush administration, we were pretty careful to make sure all citizens and permanent resident aliens who are caught for terrorism within the united states, within our borde

potentially powerful effects down the road the idea that -- just to quote one business executive, the waterboarding stopped. that's a powerful idea in the economy, which have been significant. >> tom, you can't deny that. >> that's an interesting question look what barack obama walked into in 2009, the worst recession of our lifetime. hey, i've been listening the whole time, guys, will you listen to me for a moment? guys, will you listen to me for a moment i've been listening very respectfully, and if you give me the opportunity i just gave you, i would appreciate that. he walked into the worst economy of our lifetime. look what the stock market was when obama left. wall street did well under the obama administration, and it was a result in no small measure of courageous investments like the recovery act, which garnered no republican support whatsoever. we took an economy that was in the tank, and we handed the longest private sector job growth in american history you look at the first time claims for unemployment, they are at historic lows that's what barack obama handed to president trump >> what

torture that included extreme sleep at the bring pacing -- deprivation, cramped confinement and waterboarding. he helped find legal loopholes that were an affront to our values. and he failed to fulfill the special responsibility that all lawyers have for the quality of justice in our legal system. mr. bradbury's past government service reflects a lack of sound legal judgment. in fact, a 2009 review by the department of justice raised questions about the objectivity and reasonableness of the conclusions found in the memos he authored. rather than standing up for our values and laws, mr. bradbury deferred to the wishes and pressure of the president he was serving. furthermore, mr. president, during his confirmation hearing, when referring to his legal justification for these so-called enhanced interrogation techniques, mr. bradbury stated -- and this is a quote -- if i had my drutters, i wouldn't have engaged in having to address those issues. closed quote. if mr. bradbury preferred to not engage in tough legal questions at the time, then he should not have been serving in the office of legal

i was going in the library and i waterboard noticed this mandela exhibit, i wish you could talk for aut the foreign-policy successes we had. a little bit about that and other things because i think there were some real foreign-policy achievements that tend to get overshadowed by the economic achievements. sec. clinton: that's right. thank you for raising it. if you look at the eight years, the united states played a major role in some significant foreign-policy successes. let me name a couple. first, the irish peace process. [applause] that it would never have happened without bill deciding that united states was going to back it. that happened because of the campaign. when he was trying to get support, and people were still try to figure out who he was, and what he had done in arkansas, he had a meeting with you irish-americans led by a man command we both knew from law school. one of the requests was, if you get elected, would you be willing to play a more active role in trying to end the troubles? and bill said he would. in it was a risky decision. i remember well he decided to giv

it was a hearing in the case of andisoner who was picked up held by the cia for four years waterboardednd roughly custody before he got to guantanamo. he's charged, accused of being who put together the that blew up the -- off of 9/11 this is before the attack, charged in military with war , war court, crimes for having put together that plot. penalty case. the pentagon prosecutor wants im executed if convicted and what went on for three weeks was ostly how to keep or get him representation because he had a serving criminal defense attorney, civilian named rick again, civilian paid by the pentagon in more recent rick to be his lawyer and camen and two colleagues quit the case. classified secret ethical problem that forced them leave the case they say something secretive has gone on guantanamo that make its impossible to have confidential client,tions with their this alleged terrorist. hey quit the case, unlike any other court in america, they and marine general understood in order to quit the -- the ey didn't need general could release him. we flew in three weeks ago to series of questi

james mitchell waterboarded ksm. obvious question, what would you do with this guy if you could?do you mean in terms of interrogating him? stuart: yes, sir, i do. [laughter] >> the laws are the laws. there are several different ways that you can interrogate that guy. i would try to figure out belief system. part of what happens with these guys, you know, i interrogated 12, 14 of the most senior terrorist in cia custody and there was never a problem getting confession that wasn't even none of the rough stuff was used for that. i simply say, who are you and they tell me, what should i know about you and they say indication, i was the amir of cold bombing. what they want to protect is something to prevent future operations or people that are in their network and the difficulty there, basically three different ways to do it. not everybody protects the same information, the same way, right, so they'll talk to you freely about some things and not about other things and the questions for these guys are driven by intel requirements, not by what i want to know, so what you would be asking