I will be back at the top of the hour with more newsday with sharanjit. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Its 18 years since alqaedas 9 11 attack on the United States. The impact still reverberate even as memories fade. The Us Government responded by adopting a counterterrorist strategy embracing enhanced interrogation, that was a euphemism for torture. We know what happened because of the work of my guest today, danieljones, who led a six year investigation into the caas darkest secrets. Now his story has been turned into a movie, but did america long ago sees to care . Cease. Danieljones, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. A film has just come out betraying your battle to write this report into what the caa did and its counter tourism operations up 9 11 cia. It was sometime ago, but is it you like Unfinished Business to you . In so many ways, the terms of how the United States responded to 9 11 from a policy perspect
In the writing and in the battling to get at least a summary of it published and before the eyes of the American Public. But that has happened. And i just wonder whether you feel actually some elements of this story remain unsold . Absolutely. So it was actually a seven yearjourney. It began after it came to light that the cia had destroyed interrogation videotapes of detainees in its custody and that they had destroyed his tapes in 2005 over the objections of cia leadership, over objections of the bush white house. When it came to light in 2007, the Senate Intelligence committee where i worked because they brought investigation into what would have been on those dates. At the same time, the Bush Administration launched a criminal investigation into the caa for the destruction, and you may remember the commissioners report. The enquiry basically said the report had engaged in destruction of evidence when they destroyed those dates. And you, despite the fact the tapes were destroyed, yo
We are engaging in the two both Justice Department but also fbi and others to engage in talks constructively for these companies. The Business Models keep changing. This late expertise on have a technically work resides in the private hands. In some of these models one may be we are a business and we are building a platform for people to talk and share ideas into business. Their Business Model is not we want to have that model used by terrorists to get people inside the tiny. Thats not the point of the Business Model. When we talk to these companies now theres an awareness that same platform they used for good is been used to target the people on the platform. Its Good Business to make sure your platform a safe, i would hope come in addition to being good patriotic duty. We are seeing that shared commonality of interest. What you are seeing is increased investment in resources, both Human Resources in order to identify the terrorists on your site or targeting children are those who are
Mexico canceling his meeting with trump. The white house threatening to slap a 20 tax on mexican imports. The latest on a very fast in moving international situation. The mexican president canceled a meeting with President Trump scheduled for next tuesday at the white house after President Trump issued an executive order about the border wall. Here is president obama doubling down that he will make mexico pay for the wall. The wall will cost us nothing. There will be a payment. It will be in a form, perhaps a complicated form. What im doing is good for the United States, and it will alsoen good tore mexico. Liz here is president nieto firing back that mexico will not pay for it. Im saddened by the decision of the United States to continue with a wall that has not joined us, but has divide us. Mexico does not believin walls. Mexico will not pay for any wall. The u. S. Has a 60 billion trade deficit with mexico and it has been a onesided deal from the beginning of nafta. If mexico is unw
Liz breaking news. President trump just followed through on that campaign promise. He just signed executive orders putting in place extreme vets for visa and refugee applicants from terror hot spots. Another one to rebuild our armed forces. We have all the details tonight. Welcome to risk and risk reward, im Liz Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. This is just the first week. Im establishing new vetting measures to keep radical islamic terrorists out of the United States of america. We dont want them here. We want to insure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who will support our country, and love, deeply our people. Liz most sweeping changes in four decades. They have not been changed like this since the Vietnamese Resettlement Program in the 1970s. The president spoke to fox about why extreme vetting was necessary now. Were going to have extreme vetting. Well have extreme vetting for