Cia misled the white house, members of congress, and the American People time after time about what was really going on. Keeping detainees awake for days, in stress positions, repeatedly water boarding detainees and sexually abuse family members, aggressive use of rectal tubes. The list goes on and on. This is from just the summary of the report. The details are certainly hard to listen to. But theyre important to know about. Were going to go into more detail in a moment. First theres breaking news tonight related to this. A warning tonight about what repercussions could be coming from terror groups here in the united states. Our justice correspondent pamela brown joins me live on the latest with that. What do you know about the terror warning . The fbi and dhs sent out a bulletin, anderson, warning Law Enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists may try to exploit the findings as propaganda and use it as a recruiting tool. And it could spark online reaction. So the big con
Positions and water boarding, threatening to sexually abuse family members, rectal tubes, list goes on and on and this is just from the summary of the report. The details are certainly hard to listen to, but theyre important to know about and well go into more detail in a moment. Breaking news tonight related to this. A warning about what repercussions could be coming from terror groups and violent extremists in the united states. Justice correspondent pamela brown on the latest with that. Theres a terror warning. What do you know about it . The fbi sent out a bulletin warning Law Enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists that may try to exploit the torture memo findings as propaganda and using it as a tool. It could spark online reaction and influence home grown violence extremists. The big concern as it picks up steam on social media, it could inflame extremists. I want to emphasize the bulletin, its unlikely to see violence in the near term and Law Enforcement said the
Arnold the globe. Fbi is warning of terrorist action after a Senate Report on torture. Bar a starr has more on these disturbing allegations. The brutality is shocking. The report reveals at least five detainees were subjected to what it calls rectal feeding. Interrogation procedures that went on for months. At least one detainee died from hypothermia. Stripped naked, diapered, physically struck and put in various painful stress positions for long periods of time. They were deprived of sleep for days. In one case, up to 180 hours. Reporter one detainee had his lunch purr rayed and poured into his rectum. He eventually attempted to cut his wrists, chew into his arm and cut a vein in his foot. Much of the informing kept from president george w. Bushs own secretary of state. There are cia records stating that cololilin powell wasnt t about the program at first because there were concerns that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack if he were briefed. A former top cia official says some
World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. A scathing report issued today details what the cia did to terrorism suspects in the name of 9 11 and in the war on terrorism. It describes the brutal treatment of prisoners in secret locations, using torture tactics while hiding the truth from the american people, members of congress, and at times the bush administration, all of it while this nation was at war, with hundreds of thousands of troops in the fight. And it goes a long way toward answering the question were we made any safer, are we any safer today because of what went on in prison cells in the dark when no one was watching. We begin our coverage here tonight with our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. Andrea, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. It is a devastating report for the cia, which strongly objects to the conclusions, but now they are there for all of america and the world to read. For years the ci
Helped us find and kill usama bin laden. Senate democrats say its not true. They allege the cia did not learn anything of value and tarnished the reputation of the usa in the process. At the end of the day, the one thing getting some agreement, tonight americans at home and abroad are at greater risk than they were 24 hours ago. Was it worth it . We have team fox coverage tonight with brit hume, mike roger, ed henry and former Deputy White House press secretary bill burton. But we begin with our chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge who is live in washington. Reporter on the senate floor democratic chairwoman Dianne Feinstein said the program shut down six years ago is a stain on americas values. History will judge us by our commitment to a just society governed by law and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. Reporter on the allegation the cia program was not effective, a former cia officer with firsthand knowledge of the interrogations says 9 11 arc