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As torture. details will come from senate intelligence committee chair diane feinstein set to speak on the senate floor at 11:00 a.m. eastern. republicans are not happy about it. last hour senator ron johnson told me he doesnt support revealing specific details about u.s. tactics. >> this is dangerous world. sometimes we have to do unpleasant things. im not saying that -- i dont believe that the u.s. government should bear all the dirty laundry to the entire world. i think it harms our effort at...

T int interrogation methods were not approved. >> the impending release of this report has left officials in the white house panicked that it may insight violence abroad, secretary of state john kerry called fienstein to worth her and 2,000 marines were placed on alert in and around the gulf and mediterranean. officials are gearing up to rebut their report, a report that started yesterday. president bush himself said he had not yet read the report. >> were fortunate to have men and women working...

>> all right. are you breathing? >> harsh. harsh to watch. legality aside were still arguing whether water boarding worked. some security folks say indict not. others say we might not have gotten osama bin laden had some terrorist not rafted out his courier while they were being water boarded. remember that? >> i absolutely remember it. as a matter of fact i wrote a book about jose an american hero who stopped the presumed 20th hijacker. he is one of those with whom harsh interrogation methods w...

Interrogation methods that were not approved by the justice department or cia headquarters. the agency impeded effective white house oversight regarding the program. it actively evaded congressional oversight. and it hindered oversight by its own inspector generals office. earlier this month, the senate intelligence committee voted to declassify the report. president obama said he would like the declassification process to be expeditious. joining me now is senior national security and intelligen...

On a bus that arrived safely and the other girl has not been heard of and their older brother learned about the accident at his fathers 65th birthday party. so for this family and nine others, an enormous tragedy playing out. >> we need to get to other news now. were getting explosive new details on an important senate report which accuses the cia of misleading congress or lying to congress about the scope of its enhanced interrogation methods, which means torture english. well have a live repor...

A senate report on post 9/11 cia interrogation methods. tracy pots live in washington. some have called the report shoging. >> reporter: thats what diane feinstein called. shes part of the committee that wants to release it. its not new. they approved it more than a year ago. but the public hasnt seen it yet. did the cia cross the line using water and other techniques to interrogate terror suspects after 9/11? did it work? is this how the u.s. tracked down bin laden? and prevented other attacks?...

Being told again today in "the washington post." the article quotes unnamed officials who say they have seen a damning 163-page report. the officials say it details how the cia misled the nation regarding its interrogation methods. in some cases taking credit for intelligence gathered by standard fbi interrogation methods and crediting so-called enhanced interrogation instead. that includes the intelligence that led to the whereabouts and ultimately the killing of osama bin laden. the report als...

The report. thats a 400-page summary of a 6300 page report. joining me is ron suskind and author of four books on presidential power, including the bush-cheney administration. and his new book "life animated" is about the unique way his autistic son has learned to communicate. a correspondent who cowrote todays front story. greg, we got to start with you this. is so complete a statement that it just rocks me. to say in this breathtaking claim or report the senate committee is saying basically th...

Illegal. i think the question is how much of the detail of what happened should properly be revealed to the public and thats being battled out between ci and the congress as it should be. thats basically how this dynamic should work. >> can i just jump in on that? >> should look at what the cia does and between the two, some balance should be struck. >> sam, go ahead. >> theres always been a tug of war within this administration over how much you should reveal about what we were doing both in th...

Agencys brutal interrogation methods, including waterboarding. committee chair dianne feinstein is pushing for parts of the report to be declassified. the white house says it supports her effort. the cia doesnt agree. last summer, cia director john brennan wrote 122-page rebuttal challenging specific findings and the reports overall conclusion about the programs value. in other words, the senate committee found that torture was ineffective. the presidents cia chief doesnt agree with that finding...