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This just before heading into this location. that seems significant to me. >> yeah well the investigation still in the early phases obviously, but just based on the time stamp on twitter, somebody knew this was coming and it was reasonable to believe the individual who says that hes the one engaging in the attack would have been perhaps the only one who would know or these two individuals, rather. i think we can see they would use that kind of a social media platform in a sense as their last wor...

Processed. one thing here and by the way the fbi regards them as major annoy sans. when people get on, they have to look at it and see if theyre following down or just talking or bragging thats what they want to do, or if they mean it. the difference in these two is that they were not some goofty teep agers deciding to play susie homemaker, but woman that wanted to know thousand make bombs and killing soldiers and police officers. this was getting into attack plans, and not just it would be grea...

Director tom. tom, in both census there are tweets and statements and conversations and viinvestigato and if youre planning an operation, why be public with the details? >> well, the answer is that they want other people to know about it. they want to try to recruit others to join the case or they want people that are going to help them carry out the attack plans. i would like to add that the recruitment is disturbing and they have been doing this and the estimates are from the u.s. and all over...

Jeh johnson, and do our best. but its not going to be risk free. now that theyve identified these three terrorists and the u.s. government has the names of these three terrorists how long will it take to figure out if they were involved with a specific terror group. >> i think they already know if they were communicating with people in the united states or other cells in europe. there have been other attack plans thwarted by the french and other european services of related al qaeda plans. the p...

Coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. we took 20 examples that the cia itself claimed to show the success of these interrogations. our staff reviewed every one of the 20 cases. and not a single case holds up. >> the cia director john brennan defended his agency in a press conference on thursday, arguing that it got crucial information from cia detainees. >> the detention and interrogation program produced...

Story weve been following all week. the cia director admitting his mick takes but defending his agency in an unusual news conference on thursday. >> yeah, john brennan never used the word torture when discussing the harsh interrogation tactics used on detainees, but his comments on the programs effect iness are now similar to the white house stance as michelle kaczynski tells us. >> reporter: the cia director defended his agency in an unprecedented press conference. >> the program produced usefu...

United states thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and saved lives. but let me be clear. we have not concluded that it was the use of eits within that program that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees subjected to them. the cause and effect relationship between the use of eits, and useful information subsequently provided by the detainee is, in my view, unknowable. the cia was unprepared to conduct a detention and interrogation program and our officers inadequately developed...

Activities. the agency failed to establish quickly the operational guidelines needed to govern the entire effort. in a limited number of cases, agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized, were abhorrent, and rightly should be repudiated by all. >> brennan conceded he cannot say for sure the methods obtained useful information. >> our reviews indicate that the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united states thwart atta...

With the cias first detainee, al qaeda operative abu zubaydah, who was waterboarded 83 times. the report says that in one session, zubaydah became completely unresponsive with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth. the cia pushback was quick. director john brennan saying the harsh interrogations helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. as for the claims that osama bin laden was tracked down based on information gained from enhanced interrogations, the senate committee...

Intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. and brennans statement also -- and former vice president dick cheney. >> its deeply flawed. they didnt bother to interview key people involved in the program we asked the agency to go take steps an put in place programs that were designed to catch the bastards that killed 3,000 on 9/11. khalid sheikh mohammed the mastermind of 9/11, what are we supposed to do, kiss him on both cheeks and said, please, please, tell u...