Soufan, Ali - short clip - ComingCleanAboutTorture
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| - | Overclassifying 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 | |
| That talk about many of the arguments | 0:19 | |
| that me and others were involved in. | 0:21 | |
| So we're not doing 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 a lot of people know. | 0:37 | |
| It's the truth. | 0:41 | |
| I mean, it's not a coincidence that the only people | 0:42 | |
| who were prosecuted in Guantanamo, | 0:45 | |
| like Bahlul and Hamdan and stuff, are people who- | 0:47 | |
| their interrogations were done in a clean manner | 0:50 | |
| and they were not tortured. | 0:53 | |
| 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 Mohammed, 13 years after 9/11, | 1:01 | |
| and he's still in jail? Didn't even get prosecuted yet. | 1:05 | |
| That gives you an idea about the mistakes | 1:10 | |
| that has been done. | 1:12 | |
| Again, look at the number of Islamic extremists today | 1:14 | |
| versus in 2001, that gives you an idea about how successful | 1:18 | |
| or unsuccessful we've been in combating the threat. | 1:23 | |
| So the threat is not only, | 1:27 | |
| a person who want to blow up a car in Midtown Manhattan. | 1:29 | |
| The threat is also that ideology, | 1:33 | |
| and 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, "We torture people." | 1:43 | |
| He knows the truth, we know the truth. | 1:46 | |
| We just need to turn the page, | 1:48 | |
| and we tell the American people what really happened. | 1:51 | |
| Even if were gonna hurt the feelings | 1:53 | |
| of couple of individuals, | 1:55 | |
| who personally were invested in the program, | 1:57 | |
| and we move forward. | 1:59 | |
| For the sake of the CIA, for the sake of the United States, | 2:01 | |
| for the sake of every man and woman putting their life | 2:04 | |
| on the line defending this great nation. | 2:09 |
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