some after-the-fact rationale for trying to make the next president look worse. but i mean i just, i think for the guy who wrote that horrible memo that has since been withdrawn about torture, you know consider the source. you have the american people in just about every poll saying we don t care what you do to bad guys, especially after 9/11. keep us safe. so there s a little bit of what you know power the people give government in this, but it s also raising real trust issues, because when you hear them saying yeah, that s not torture? that makes you think well can we trust the decisions that they re making? if they say this isn t torture, you know, what does that mean jeffrey in terms of whether we trust the process that s being applied? and you know, i think you put your finger on a very important point here. is that you know, i hate to be lawyer-centric. as you look at the whole controversy that s happened since the report has come out, a lot of it goes back to the lawyers
versed in this type of interrogation, what happens around the world. you talked to somebody is very key in our analysis. let s discuss how rare this situation is that s going on. not the torture. that we re getting inside the c.i.a. that they re having to come out and explain. they re giving a press conference, although even that was weird. did you hear they were making reporters surrender their phones. and other recording devices before they went in? what do you make of this kind of exposure we re seeing right now? well it is unique exposure. obviously we don t get that kind of thing around the world. even in our democracies here in western europe. just a note, the british government did confirm that they had been notified by director brennan, people had been notified that this report was going to come out. so yes, we don t get to see this kind of transparency. really the question is going forward, what this means, does it have any repercussions overseas, you know a lot of overseas
we know it s torture, that s not the issue. it was a top legal expert, that it was an esprit decorps issue. let me ask you something. if what you re saying is true about the magistrate in international law, quickly on this, does that mean that vice president dick cheney, if he were like vacationing in paris, may be at risk of getting picked up for a criminal action? well, look, all i can say is if he s named in that report, they say yes, and i spoke to the former chief prosecutor at guantanamo, who said that he would recommend anybody named in this report to quote vacation domestically. wow. christianne amanpour, thank you very much for helping us with this interview. michaela, imagine that. i wonder if they knew there was this kind of implication when they put out the report. one of them said i think i ll
rehydration? i m giving you a sense of how the report was put together. this activity that was done five times, in each time for the health of the detainee, not part of the interrogation program. not designed to soften him up for any questioning. critics ask what s the difference between harsh interrogations under president bush and classified drone attacks under president obama? one intelligence committee member insisted, the drone program is legal. i believe that the c.i.a. is acting within the law in the intentions right now. that s as far as i want to go. now, all of these attacks on the c.i.a. prompted a spirited defense from former president george h.w. bush, who said in a statement last night he felt compelled to reiterate his confidence in the men and women who work there. of course former president george h.w. bush was not only the director of the c.i.a., the headquarters is named after him. alisyn? all right jim, thanks so much. joining us to talk more about the fal
carve out a new place within the republican party for relevancy purposes. i guess my question is, is it real? or is it just, you know, look if you re a politician, especially if you think mitt romney thinks i told you so on a number of issues and you ran a campaign. is this just ego-feeding or is he sitting around saying whoa, i might do this again. i keep asking this question and it s really true that he is thinking about it. revisiting the issue. i just think that there are a lot of reasons for him to decide not to run and so he could speculate as late as you know, next fall. to your point especially once, and they will get to this. they will not shut the government down, they ve passed a temporary thing for a couple of days. they ll get to in the senate saturday or monday morning, once the government sup and running we ll have an immigrate debate in february 2016, 2016, maeve, wanna, we ve been talking about the c.i.a. torture report. seth myers noticed that dick cheney had st