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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...

The torture was brutal, the detainees were waterboarded, and others were fed rectally. it didnt even produce intelligence. they strongly disagree with these assessments. do you believe that these tactics were needed? >> i think there are two sides to this. i think tomorrow, for example, in the "washington post," youre going to read from john mclauk lan, the acting director of the cia in 2004 and deputy director for a four-year time period at the critical sequence, and he will make the case that ...

Think their captors will believe it. i know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions, the united states not only joined but for the most part, author. i know, too, that bad things happen in war. i kn...

Gouging during an emergency. a slow moving storm is churning through the region today dumping heavy rain on the coast and snow inland. flood watches are posted as up to four inches of rainfalls. winter storm warnings are in effect for interior sections, expecting from six to 12 inches of snow. the senate report condemning cia interrogation methods after the naa 9/11 attacks. well talk about it all with to the panel when we return.

Intelligence to defute or energies but torture leads to more misleading information than actionable intelligence. and what the advocates of harsh and cruel interrogation methods have never established is that we couldnt get more reliable intelligence from using hugh maybe methods. most importantly we got in the search for osama bin laden came from using conventional interrogation methods. i think its an insult to the many intelligence officers who have acquired good intelligence without hurting ...

One, particularly because of the painful details that will be included, but again, the president believes that it is important for us to be as transparent as we possibly can be about what exactly transpired so we can just be clear to the american public and to people around the world that something like this should not happen again. >> reporter: former vice president dick cheney dismissed the senate report saying the cias interrogation methods were "absolutely totally justified." cheney, who has...

Million in six years coming to this moment and theyre desperate before they lose control of the senate intelligence committee to smear the cia. shame on them for doing so. >> tomorrow well get a republican member of the senate intelligence committee on "the factor." from what i understand, all the interrogation methods we used the senate intel committee knew about it. >> sure. they were briefed about them. nancy pelosi was briefed about them, bob graham, the then chairman of the intelligence com...

Laden. listen to this. >> the most important thing we got in the search for bin laden, came from using conventional interrogation methods. i think its an insult to the many intelligence officers who have acquired good intelligence without hurting or degrading prisoners to assert we cant win this war without such methods, yes, we can, and we will. >> now, these are two very different accounts. is there any evidence at all that the use of torture led to the capture of osama bin laden? >> i dont be...

Cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder was recovered from the scene. ntsb investigators will remain on the scene for the next several days trying to recover as much evidence as possible to determine what caused this tragedy. t.j., reena? >> karen, thank you. the controversial senate report on cia torture is being made public later today. it will detail harsh interrogation methods used by the spy agency in the days after 9/11. it also claims the administration misled the administration...

Waterboarding, provided by key information that prevented other terror attacks and led to the capture of osama bin laden. but the report questions the effectiveness of those procedures. critics of the $50 million report question the timing of its release. >> what would be a good time to release this report? its difficult to imagine one. particularly because of the painful details that will be included. but, again, the president believes that it is important for us to be as transparent as we poss...