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Lot of efforts to circumvent oversight and to report to top officials exactly what was happening within that program. the president for his part has already reacted to the release of this report. i want to read for you what president obama has said in part. todays report reports one element of our nations response to 9/11. the cias interrogation program which i formally ended on one of my first days in the office. the report reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only inc...

Bounds to what they said were okay? >> make no mistake about it, what senators feinstein and mccain described are crimes. its a criminal enterprise which was described not only in the violation of international domestic laws, which we all knew about in the running of a torture program but equally unsettling was the determined effort to hide that program, including what both senators described as false information being given to them by former directors of the cia, the general counsel of the cia....

Information about the program and its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia inspector general, the media and the american public. this conclusion is somewhat personal for me. i remember clearly when director hayden briefed the intelligence committee for the first time on the so-called eits at that september 2006 committee meeting. he referred specifically to a, quote, tummy slap, among other techniques and presented the entire techniques as minimally harm...

In the last hour, if youve just been watching. id like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. significant findings in this report that the cia interrogation techniques were far more brutal than were led on to government officials and that were released to the public. also, that the program itself was grossly mismanaged, that they circumvented congress and the white house in terms of effective communication and also advising. not only that but they underreported the num...

National security issed viseor tom done lynn is the likely source of the leak. >> we as members of the intelligence committee cant confirm whether the programs exist and yet you have national security advisor talking the covert action program. u.s. attorneys are proven record of independence they need to be objective saying campaign donations and reported vetting of presidential candidates. >> appoint tees of the obama administration are tasks with doing the investigation and reporting to gues...

Yet, you have the national security advisor talking about a covert action program. >> the justice department says the u.s. attorney have a proven record of independence, they question whether they can be objective. the vetting of vice presidential candidates. >> political appointees of the obama administration are tasked with doing investigation and reporting to guess who? to attorney general eric holder. >> senior intelligence official says the leaks endanger op t operation and lives. >> we are...

Security adviser talking about a covert action program. >> reporter: the senators questioned whether this u.s. attorney can be unbiased being that he donated to president obamas campaign. >> where is the outrage in this administration? where is there any indication that within the obama administration officials are outraged at the criminal leaks of classified information that put our agents and our friends at risk? >> reporter: more than 30 senators have signed onto the letter. none of them are ...

Also important for us to remember we have a broad range of issues that we work with pakistan together. and i can remember going to pakistan, in the 1980s, when i was on the intel committee, and we were running a covert action program, to support the afghan mujahideen against the soviets and were duoing it in conjunctin with the pakistani government and we were knitted together in that program and it was successful and work. and we have a lot of interest in that part of the world and an interest,...

Carnage. the enormous human toll thats taking place there. >> governor, one other thing you touched on. you have gone beyond the no-fly zone and suggested go about arming the rebels in libya. now, do you know something about these rebels perhaps that i or others dont? from what i can tell, we know vrl little about what they want and where they want to take the government. we have the experience of arming afghanistan and arming bin laden. how do we go about that prudently? >> well, first of all, ...

Torture? >> i think shes the best person to do this job. hes a dedicated, experienced professional. was she part of a covert action program that was authorized by the president of the united states, that was deemed lawful by the highest legal body within the executive branch, the office of legal counsel at the department of justice, committees who authorized funds for it, and some of those members happen to have amnesia. so her nomination should be given appropriate scrutiny. they should look at...