Page 13 - Attack Plans News Today

Tactics were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. i think youll hear him make a similar case. whats been striking is that the president and john brennan have disagreed so starkly on this point. president obama making the complete opposite point. and essentially saying that he supports what the intelligence report found, which is that these interrogation tactics didnt lead to actionable intelligence and they did, in fact, amount to tort...

These methods led to good intelligence and saved lives. well, today, a big change. we hear brennan now publicly agreeing with the white house, saying that it is unknowable whether that intel was knowable or could have been gotten by other means and this has become yet another question, when the techniques were used. the cia direct for today defended his agency in an unprecedented press conference. >> the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united stat...

Do here as this sound bite makes clear. >> i dont think that you can know what it feels like to know that america has gone through the worst attack on the continental united states in its history, and youre uncertain as to whats coming next. so there were a lot of people who did a lot of things right and worked very hard to keep us safe, but i think that any fair minded person looking at this would say that some terrible mistakes were made in allowing these kinds of practices to take place. >> m...

With the democrats. senator john mccain who was tortured in vietnam. he welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. heres now abcs jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says its flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. ...

State colin poll. >> there are record stating that colin powell wasnt told about the program at first because there were concerns that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack. >> republicans warned the report could inspire more terrorism. >> trkd it could be used to incite unrest and even attacks against our service members e personnel overseas and our international partners. >> insisting the interrogations did help thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. >> some of the tactics...

Whats clear is that the cia set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. >> reporter: the president was responding to senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinsteins damning report on cia interrogations that said detainees were waterboarded, kept in dungeon conditions, others naked, hooded and dragged while being slapped and punched. the report said the agency misled the bush administration about the program and no cia officer up to and includ...

Brutal tactics did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. feinstein told cnn thats wrong. >> an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> reporter: but three former cia directors say their program helped lead to the killing of osama bin laden. in an op-ed in the "wall street journal," george tenant, michael hayden and porter goss insisted they suspected bin laden was plotting ...

All of those documents. cia director john brennan strongly disagreed with the senate reports findings. he said this, "our interview indicates interrogations of detainees subject to enhanced interrogation did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. the intelligence gained from the program was critical to our understanding of al qaeda and it continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day." why would he say that if it wasnt true? >> tha...

Produce intelligence, that helped thwart attack plans. feinstein told cnn thats wrong. >> an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> but three former c.i.a. directors say their program helped lead to the killing of osama bin laden. in an op-ed in the "wall street journal," three officials said they suspected that bin laden was planning to blow up new york city with a nuclear weapon. many top republicans accuse feinstein of ...

He welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. heres now abcs jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says its flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. and in a fiery defense of the spy agencys honor, three former cia dir...