Bush defends administration detention, interrogation policies — Transcript

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1. 0:00I I want to say something else
2. 0:02professionals questioning these uh
3. 0:05extremists and
4. 0:07terrorists I have put this program in
5. 0:10place for a
6. 0:12reason and that is to better protect the
7. 0:14American
8. 0:15people and when we find somebody who may
9. 0:18have
10. 0:19information regarding an potential
11. 0:21attack on America you bet we're going to
12. 0:23detain
13. 0:24them and you bet we're going to question
14. 0:27them because the American people us to
15. 0:30find out
16. 0:32information uh actionable intelligence
17. 0:34so we can help them help protect them
18. 0:36that's our
19. 0:37job no we got professionals who are
20. 0:40trained in this uh uh kind of work to
21. 0:44get information that'll protect the
22. 0:45American people this government does not
23. 0:48torture
24. 0:49people you know we we we we we we stick
25. 0:52to US law and our International
26. 0:56obligations the techniques that we use
27. 1:00have uh been fully disclosed to
28. 1:03appropriate members of the United States
29. 1:06Congress there are highly trained
30. 1:08professionals questioning these uh
31. 1:11extremists and
32. 1:13terrorists now words we got
33. 1:15professionals who are trained in this uh
34. 1:17uh kind of work to get information
35. 1:20that'll protect the American people and
36. 1:21by the way we have gotten information
37. 1:24from these high value detainees that
38. 1:26have helped protect
39. 1:28you and finally
40. 1:30finally the techniques that we
41. 1:33use have uh been fully disclosed to
42. 1:37appropriate members of the United States
43. 1:40Congress the American people expect
44. 1:43their government to take action to
45. 1:47protect them from further
46. 1:48attack and that's exactly what this
47. 1:50government is doing and that's exactly
48. 1:53what we'll continue to do