somebody around the head. you know, or to subject them to waterboarding. and i would say that the reason was a kind of panic. and it has to do with people that understood deep down that they did the wrong thing and they keep wanting to pretend, wanting to pretend that they did the right thing in order to save their reputations and possibly save themselves from some kind of deeper inquiry, which would show the world just how badly we screwed this up? alex, good to see you this morning. thank you as always for joining us, my friend. alex gibney is a documentary and filmmaker of the forever prisoner. it premieres tomorrow on hbo and the hbo max streaming service. go nowhere. straight ahead, representative judy chu has an actual bill that would codify roe v. wade. another hour of velshi begins right now.
sabeda, the first man subject to the highly illegal enhanced interrogation techniques. zabedayeh remains detained at guantanamo to this day despite never being charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention. in 2002, the fbi thought they nabbed a terrorist mastermind. he was imprisonedn t in secret cia unit called strawberry fields. as in, forever. reporter: joining me now is the filmmaker behind the forever prisoner, alex dpibny. also the documentary s narrator. you ve done enough work on this for people to know, you re not soft on terrorism. you don t carry water for people who are terrorists.