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Behind leadership and saying that this report is inappropriate, they dont believe it was -- includes a lot of the information it should have and theyre worried its going to endanger people operating in the field, particularly given the fact that everything thats in the report happened years ago and its a program thats not really being used anymore. and i think thats -- thats where you do see some partisanship. but even there, most of the republicans that weve talked to have been -- they dont rea...

The three years after 9/11. those who were in charge say the committee never once bothered to interview them, any of these former spies have launched ciasavelives.com calling it a one-stop shopping place for the other side. the cia says, simply put, the study tells part of the story. the cia then goes on to address each of the 20 case studies. also missing from the study were interviews with the detainees who survived these techniques. regardless of where you stand on the motivation behind the r...

Doing counterterrorism activities. essentially you had the cia taking on drone strikes, hiring psychologists to come up with ways to torture information out of people. in a way, undercut the hard work the cia is so good at doing gather human intelligence and giving the policymakers and decision-makers the information they need. what happened after 9/11 is we had an explosion in the budget at the cia, so you had unlimited money. and basically nonexistent oversight and it resulted in really underc...

Of information that you use to validate another piece of information. and then you take another piece of the mosaic and eventually you get together and put a puzzle. so, was it totally valueless? its hard to know. was it worth the compromising our moral position? probably not. and i think thats where -- what senator mccain said. after 9/11, and you have to remember the context of all of this, there was an atrocity and for many years the u.s. lost its way. and i think everyone can agree with that...

But effectively was hinting that they stonewalled congressional investigators at some point. kind of brings into question this whole idea of legislators, executives, weve been talking on a whole lot of issues but you see that relationship between executive branch and cia very, very close, even when theres a democratic president, too close for some in the senate here. >> luke russert, thank you for that. chief foreign correspondent richard engel. as luke just referenced, john mccain gave a very p...