site cobalt manager during the period in which a cia detainee died and numerous cia detainees were subjected to unapproved coercive interrogation techniques. and of course, it s no surprise that they didn t have anyone who knew how to do this. the cia wasn t in the business of doing this kind of torture. yes, absolutely. and that really stands out, the example you pointed out. and sadly, several instances of that explained throughout the report, where we had these officers who were put in charge of these detention sites who clearly were not qualified to run a kind of interrogation program like this. as that passage would continue with that officer that you were referring to, there was actually a supervisor who issued a warning to the agency saying that this person should not be put in charge of a detention site. he was concerned he wasn t going to follow orders. we see that example.
bad things they did to. this is what people within the cia, within the program wrote to each other about what they saw happen to these people, or what they did to these people. yes. colleagues of these people saying they should not be put in charge of bases. they would anger management issues. they were concern with unsubordination. we had one example, a particularly disturbing one a critique that was passed up the chain of the cia chief of interrogations, i believe, who resigned saying he wanted to get off the train before it crashed. and i believe that note came in 2003 and we know now the program continued and the use of the techniques continued through far beyond 2003. so the fact that those kinds of internal critiques, there was a selective ignorance to the kind of criticisms that were passed up the chain should be very disturbing. if the cia and if this government never does this kind of torture again, it will be because of what the united states senate did today. thank you v
secrets didn t have to do with something like is a raid that was happening the next day or the next week in which there was time sensitive information, but about a program that wept on for years and years in which the congress was being asked to fund unwittingly. senator lindsay graham, a republican who supports the release of this report, supports the findings in it along with republican john mccain said that he plooefs this happened out of fear. the ci a s motivation for doing this was oit of fear after 9/11, what he considered an understandable fear. he thinks it was done by well meaning people, and it got out of control. in your peerns with the cia, would that be your impression of how this happened? i think there s probably an element of that. but there s also a fear of criticism. and fear of being called to
details about cia interrogation inclurded in the report. cia detainees, particularly thosed to standing sleep deprivation were routinely placed in diapers. a waste bucket was removed from the cell for punishment according to a cia cable. hazeem requested a bucket in which he could relieve himself but was told all rewards must be earned. they discussed rectal hydration as a means of behavior control. as one officer wrote while iv infusion is safe and effect, we were impressed with the ancillary effectiveness of the rectal infusion. the same officer provided a description of the proceduriting that, regarding the rectal tube, if you place it and open up the iv tubing, the flow will cell
joining me now is michael davidson who served as minority counsel for the senate select committee on intelligence for 2003 to 2006. mr. davidson, you served under jay rockefeller on the committee. you just heard him talking there about this the way the administration handled so-called briefing of congress. i worked for a senator who was once on the intelligence committee, senator moynihan who had his own problems with the cia. he and barry goldwater had bipartisan objections to the way the cia was misleading them on actions in central america. so this challenge that senators have of trying to get real information out of the cia is not now. it s definitely not new. but it s ground that has been very important to cover in the past and obviously was critical here and one thing that was especially unique about this