torture, michlin jeffs, the two contract psychologists have written about him. they have given interviews about him. one of them wrote a memoir in they defended the torture. three former cia directors wrote a rebuttal to the senate torture report defending the torture. everybody knows that abu zubaydah was tortured. it s not a state secret. but this is what the cia does with some regulate. they re go into court and just say national security, and oftentimes that s enough to get a case dismissed. but you believe abu zubaydah should be released? i actually do, as crazy as that might sound. he has been incarcerated, not just incarcerated, but tortured mercilessly at guantanamo and at a series of secret prisons for almost 19 i m sorry, almost 20 years now. we captured him on the night of march 22nd, 2002. so here we are 20 years later, and the man has never been charged with a crime.
they re go into court and just say national security, and oftentimes that s enough to get a case dismissed. but you believe abu zubaydah should be released? i actually do, as crazy as that might sound. he has been incarcerated, not just incarcerated, but tortured mercilessly at guantanamo and at a series of secret prisons for almost 19 i m sorry, almost 20 years now. we captured him on the night of march 22nd, 2002. so here we are 20 years later, and the man has never been charged with a crime. whether we like him or not, whether we like his politics or not are irrelevant. he has the same constitutional rights that the rest of us have, and if he s as bad a guy as we say he is, then he should be charged with a crime and he should have his day in court. we just marked 20 years since 9/11. we didn t talk much on the anniversary about the torture we did after 9/11. the only cia person to go to prison over cia torture i believe was you for exposing it.