for long periods of time. they were deprived of sleep for days. in one case, up to 180 hours. that s 7 1/2 days. over a week with no sleep. the cia led several detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive. cia detainees at one facility described as a dungeon were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use. there was confusion about how many detainees existed. records showed at least 119. cia officials stated there were fewer than 100. cia records show that former president george w. bush was kept in the dark with his first breeching taking place in 2006, four years after the program began. one memo claims the white house said to keep detail, of the program hidden from former
i think torture is wrong, no question about. that i am also indicating there is no question, given the severity of the situation, decisions were made. congress was informed. the white house was informed. their decisions moving forward to protect american lives and 9/11 was something i had not had to face yet. i don t know what the decision would have been had i been there. i do senator hayden said he made the best decision. senator the cia itself in a statement admitted it did make mistakes. absolutely. what mistakes do you see as the cia having made conducting this program? obviously the whole conversation around torture has been brought to the sfats, all of us said using torture is no question the key conversation from my perspective is we have a democratic report remember there is a republican report and a cia report that is a challenging situation for the american people.
will? you have a covert action? general hayden, good to talk to you. hey, richard, hi, good to see you again. when does dianne feinstein know about this? did she know in detail years ago and did she express the same kind of outrage and opposition then that she is expressing now? i believe the first time was december of 2006. i believe she was on the committee then. but she had not been a part of a gang of four who had been thoroughly briefed on the program since its inception. i pay have the specifics wrong there, at least if 2006 and certainly in 2007 that s the testimony that she made multiple references to yesterday. keep in mind the scenario here, guys. i become the director in may of 2006. i m the one who goes down in the white house and says, we need to put this program on a broader political footing. we need to bring in all members
all the intelligence agencies expanded, had their budgets grow dramatically. now we are looking back at what happened in this period right after 9-11. it s really quite disgusting. i think this report when you read the details and the specific way these detainees were humiliated, often sexually humiliated. that s a big undertone in this. you see the anger and the dark inside that came out and then there s questions about whether it was worth this or not. whether they got any actual intelligence out of the program. but it s also important to understand, this was a program. lots of people few about it. coming was briefed. perhaps the president, himself, wasn t briefed until later, but his inner staff was briefed. they decided not to tell him. well, that s their decision. maybe it was the wrong decision. maybe they cover their plausible deniability. but this was a program that went on for years, that to pretend
should have talked to? how do we know the report is true? how do we know it is credible? if it is true and credible, former cia dreblgor michael hayden is lying. this report is stunning, as riveting as this, we d like to be briefed for the prosecution, senator feinstein in 2009 decided that this story of use of torture by our intelligence agency was so shocking that she wanted to produce a report that was so daming that it would draw a bright red lean in our history and no one would use these techniques ever again. she s been quite saying that. so she gathered every document that should could probably show the program in a negative light. it turns out, there were many of them. the documents were gathered in terms of each asserted success for the program. she had her analysts go back and look, couldn t they have done it