Soufan, Ali - short clip - ComingCleanAboutTorture-review
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| - | Over classifying facts and the truth | 0:00 |
| is not gonna make the truth go away. | 0:04 | |
| Eventually, people will know exactly what happened | 0:06 | |
| at that time. | 0:09 | |
| They know the argument that took place at that time. | 0:09 | |
| There are some reports that has been declassified | 0:12 | |
| about Guantanamo, about black sites. | 0:15 | |
| The talk about many of the arguments | 0:19 | |
| that me and others were involved in. | 0:21 | |
| So, we're not doing a Monday morning quarterbacking here. | 0:24 | |
| We're talking about stuff that we were vocal | 0:27 | |
| in discussing in 2002, in 2003, in 2004 and so forth. | 0:31 | |
| But, and, you know, | 0:37 | |
| a lot of people know it's the truth. | 0:39 | |
| I mean, it's not a coincidence | 0:42 | |
| that the only people who were prosecuted | 0:44 | |
| in Guantanamo like al-Bahlul and Hamdan and stuff | 0:46 | |
| are people who, you know, their interrogations were done | 0:49 | |
| in a clean manner and they were not tortured. | 0:52 | |
| That's why we can prosecute them. | 0:54 | |
| I mean, and all the others, we can't do anything about them. | 0:56 | |
| You know, people should be thinking | 1:00 | |
| why Khalid Sheikh Mohammad | 1:01 | |
| 13 years after 9/11, | 1:03 | |
| and he's still in jail, didn't even | 1:05 | |
| get prosecuted yet. | 1:08 | |
| That gives you an idea about the mistakes that | 1:10 | |
| has been done. | 1:13 | |
| Again, you know, look at the number of Islamic extremists | 1:14 | |
| today versus in 2001. | 1:18 | |
| That gives you an idea about how successful | 1:20 | |
| or unsuccessful we've been in combating the threat. | 1:23 | |
| So the threat is not only a person | 1:27 | |
| who want to blow up a car in Midtown Manhattan. | 1:29 | |
| The threat is also that ideology | 1:33 | |
| and the containing, the containment of that ideology | 1:36 | |
| that's spreading like wildfire around the world. | 1:39 | |
| You don't want the President of the United States | 1:41 | |
| come out and say, you know, we torture people. | 1:43 | |
| He knows the truth, you know. | 1:46 | |
| We know the truth, we just need to turn the page. | 1:47 | |
| And we tell the American people what really happened | 1:51 | |
| even if we're gonna hurt the feelings | 1:53 | |
| of couple of individuals | 1:55 | |
| who personally were invested in the program. | 1:57 | |
| I will move forward, | 1:59 | |
| for the sake of the CIA, | 2:01 | |
| for the sake of the United States, | 2:02 | |
| for the sake of the FBI, | 2:04 | |
| for the the sake of every man | 2:05 | |
| and woman who putting their life on the line | 2:06 | |
| defending this great nation. | 2:10 |
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