there wasn t one defender saying let s preserve this right. we re out of time. glenn greenwald, thank you for joining us. thank you. coming up, senator jay rock dpeler says that the cia program was managed incompetently by senior officials and not very many senior officials and that waterboarding was not the worst of it. that s next. and there was another killing by new york city police last night. one bullet ended the life of a suspect and yes, this time, there is video. [ hoof beats ] i wish.
instantly share information around the globe. when every millisecond counts, staying competitive begins with the cloud. this is the microsoft cloud. the united states senate took a stand against torture. republicans joined democrats in condemning the torture program that was run by the cia. not one senator rose to defend torture. the biggest dispute on the senate floor was about releasing this information today. republican sax by chambliss made the point that today is a bad day to release information like this because of all of the threatsby chambliss made the point that today is a bad day to release information like this because of all of the threats it might cause iraround
i think prior to today, it was certainly hard to get at this kind of fact base, but i think you re right, there wasn t a lot of eagerness to look into it. let s listen to what senator chambliss said today on the senator floor. everyone must remember that the cia was directed to conduct this program by the president. i have spoken with a number of cia officers over the years who remember the contentious debates about the program at the time it was being considered. but at the end of the day, the agency did what the president directed them to do. under color of law and based upon opinions issued and jut dated by the department of justice. but glenn, in the documents today, we discovered that the president didn t know as much about this, one, when it was first getting under way, didn t know as much about it apparently for possibly a number of years while it was going on. right. the cia has been a rogue agency
and they did this with no less a power than the cia trying toing stand in their way. even improperly and possibly illegally searching senate staff computers. government worker like this don t funch a time clock. they stay as long as they need to. they don t expect credit for what nay do. senate staff are thanked for their work publicly more often than you realize because whenever a senator gets to that point in the speech where he or she thanks the staff, the tv cameras usually find something more important to cover. senator feinstein gave the staff the thanks that they more than deserved today. most importantly, i want to thank the intelligence committee staff who performed this work. they are dan jones who has led this review since 2007. and more than anyone else, today is a result of his effort.
and getting that report out there, it is saying to the current cia and saying to the next 20 years of people going into the cia, we re going to be on you. a few decades down the line or at some point down the line, this is going to come up again in the cia. there s going to be some kind of terrorist threat where this kind of question comes up again. what kind of tactics should we use now that we ve been hit in this way or now that we face this challenge? and i think what the senators are trying to do today was lay this marker down in such a way that they will always remember. their chants today, their bumper sticker today was never again. i agree with you about their intent and it was commendable. i m glad they did it. at the same time, the united states imprisons more of citizens than any other country. we believe if we don t punish