John Yoo: If the Senate torture report is true, CIA officers are in legal jeopardy

FAREED ZAKARIA:
But, John, if you’d made a fair point that the Republican minority did not join in, and it would have given it more credence, but the practices that they’re describing, as I understand it, are taken from the CIA’s own accounts, are you saying that you think the committee has doctored those reports?

JOHN YOO:
What I’m worried about — and this is what — don’t take my word for it. This is what CIA ex-directors have been saying over the last few days and they appear in the CIA’s own answer and in the minority report to the committee, that these were all cherry picked out of millions of documents and that we don’t have the context to understand these are classified documents, of course, many of them, so we can’t see the underlying documents. That’s why we really need to rely in these kind of situation under being bipartisanship and a chance for people to appear and testify before the committee.

But I agree. Look, Fareed, I agree with you, if these things happened as they are described in the report, as you describe them, those were not authorized by the Justice Department. They were not supposed to be done and those people who did those are at risk legally because they were acting outside their orders.