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Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used duri...

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...

We did to japanese american citizens, we threw the constitution out the window. >> the pivotal question in all of this, did these torture techniques work? did they produce useful intelligence? the answer is still strongly debated. lets watch. >> the committee found that the cias coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring active intelligence. >> actionable intelligence that was otherwise unavailable was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >>...

Program was formulated in the aftermath of the murders of close to 3,000 people on 9/11. it felt like the classic ticking time bomb scenario every single day. senator feinstein rejected that issue as he presented the report on the floor today. here she is. >> at no time did the cias coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques. the committee never found an example of this hyp...

Actionable intelligence that was, quote, otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> okay. lets start with david ignatius in washington. you say, david, this was necessary to release for public accounting but what about national security? >> i found the report absolutely devastating. weve known about these techniques. weve known about this chapter in american life. but to see what it felt like for a young cia medical officer ob...

Actionable intelligence that was quote otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> all right, david ignacious, the issue of legality on many levels could be pivotal as we take a look at this we bunked in, we came in with a sound byte from john yu, you say is correct, al. >> john yu is the young lawyer of the question of the techniques the cia contractors opposed using. the 12 techniques that included waterboarding were real and...

I dont gainsay that. but again, i dont mean to repeat myself, but these things do not rise to the legal threshold. >> well mr. rizzo, the upshot of all of this is they didnt work. according to senator dinian feinstein and the findings of the entire report, its that they only produced false intelligence. fabricated intelligence. let me play for you what senator feinstein says her conclusion is. >> at no time did the c.i.a.s coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence ...

Search came from enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions. >> actionable intelligence that was "otherwise unavailable" was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> reporter: the cia and senate republicans dispute that saying detainees in cia custody who had been the subject of those techniques helped lead the agency to a man named abu achmed al kuwaiti. >> the al qaeda facilitator who served as osama bin ladens personal c...

>> as they say in courtroom dramas, youre leading the witness. >> correct. >> feinstein summarized the report on the floor today. >> the committee found that the cias coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring 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. actionable intelligence that was, quote, ...

Because he may employee his stack if he were to be briefed on whats going on. this is is a train wreck waiting to happen and i intend to get the held off the train before it happens. the five-year investigation also disputes claim that is the enhanced interrogations stopped eminent attacks and lead to information that located osama bin laden in pakistan. >> the committee found that the cias coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gainin...