be a done deal. republicans will be able to push through whatever they want. well, this is how, i mean, the system hopefully will work, where if they do that, the president then cerritos and then they go back and they try to do it again. and so, we may actually get some bills on the floor and we may actually have some debate, which will be a good thing. in other news, the latest on the fallout from the senate intelligence committee s scathing report on cia interrogation methods following the 9/11 attacks. outgoing democratic senator mark udall delivered a passionate speech on the senate floor for nearly 50 minutes, calling for cia director john brennan to resign. he also criticized the white house for not holding anyone accountable and revealed details of the classified cia report from 2009. cia personnel tortured detainees to confirm they didn t have intelligence, not because they thought they did. director brennan and the cia today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate
our, you know, consciousness and our society and culture. so influential. night after night doing that. in a business of impermanence. he found a way to stick it out, despite his only personal journey along the way. do you think colbert will do well? i don t know what to expect. i don t know who he is, other than his fake persona, what we see on the colbert show. how about you? what about me? i thought your hmmm suggested a thought. it s proof of how interesting i find your two takes. is that what that is? i don t need to have my opinion, you two are more than enough. the senate s report on torture found that brutal interrogation methods do not gather effective intelligence or they say they also did not lead to osama bin laden. does that mean that harsh interrogation methods don t ever work? we ll ask a former covert operations officer at the c.i.a. all the torture talk is
trying to gain information to stop what everybody thought would be another terrorist attack against an enemy that just killed 3000 americans, i think they would say many of those are reasonable under the circumstances and don t rise to the level of torture. i think the one that come closest to torture which you didn t mention is waterboarding. if you look back at what the justice department and my office had to struggle with was did waterboarding cross the line. because we have a federal law that is taken seriously, more seriously than what official claimed in the opening segment determines is the law. and so we interest pretted careful the anti-torture statute which you can not inflict severe pain and suffering. i think most of the interrogation methods do not cross that standard. waterboarding is the closest to the line. that is closest to the line and your line on torture was did
bill cosby now facing a defamation suit by one of his accusers. tamara green says cosby damaged her reputation by branding her a liar. she claims he drugged and sexually assaulted her in the early 70s. those are some of our top stories on this thursday, december 11th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. we begin now with some high level criticism of the senate report on cia interrogation methods. vice president dick cheney launching out. karen travers has more from washington. reporter: the senate intelligence committee s so-called torture report is a 6,700-page damning indictment of the cia s enhanced interrogation techniques used after september 11th. and the conclusion, the methods were not effective. a british citizen who was held at guantanamo bay for three years welcomed the u.s. transparency. but what doesn t happen is accountability. reporter: the abuse began
torture dependent just happen, after all. the cia tortured detainees for years. torture is something we avoided. water boarding that s ka lating into near drownings. we thought we were doing the nation s will. they re responsible for the use of these techniques. of course they re going to defend them. the level of abuse was torture. absolutely devastating to read. helps our enemies recruitment efforts. what are we supposed to do in kiss them on both cheeks and tell us please, please, tell us what you know. my president would have ordered these interrogation methods. i have no sympathy for them. torture doesn t work. more often than not, you get bad information. talking points is siding with the cia people. it did, in fact, produce actionable intelligence.