“Were they ever to leak, they would permit identification of your CIA colleagues who had

“Were they ever to leak, they would permit identification of your CIA colleagues who had served in the program, exposing them and their families to retaliation from al-Qaida and its sympathizers.”

CIA Director Michael Hayden

Defending the agency’s decision to destroy videotapes of interrogations of suspected terrorists.

“I never heard anything. The only thing I knew I was flat on my face and my arms were extended in front of me and they were all purple and bleeding.”

Everett Hyland, 84

Recalling the bombing of the USS Pennsylvania on Dec. 7, 1941.