agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized. were abhorrent and rightly should be repudiated by all. >> but brennan would not call it torture. >> i would leave to others how they might want to label those activities. >> brennan's explanation, the c.i.a. was not ready after 9/11. >> the program was uncharted territory for the c.i.a. and we were not prepared. >> and he maintained the agency's enhanced interrogation techniques or eits produced intelligence, even though he conceded it was unknowable if the same results were obtainable without harsh methods. >> it is our considered view that the detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided information that was useful and was used. in the ultimate operation to go against bin laden. >> that's in sharp contrast to the torture report from democratic senate intelligence