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To a construct, a rationale to say they didnt tell us the truth. interrogations were the right thing to do. if i had to do it all over again, i would do it. on a personal note, i know scores of americans who lost loved ones on 9/11. i have watched their children grow up without mothers and fathers. if i were president, i would have authorized waterboarding and other severe interrogation methods of high ranking captured terrorists. it is morally correct to protect innocent lives from bare bare ba...

Good wednesday morning. im t.j. holmes. >> im reena ninan. here are some of the top headlines on "world news now." former heads of the cia are defending the interrogation methods. this after the release of a senate report which detailed the often brutal tactics used on terror suspects. full details in a moment. a fourth night of protests in the bay area. police firing rubber bullets overnight as they block another highway in berkeley. they stopped amtrak service and forced officials to postpon...

Agency colleagues about certain of those eits, such as waterboarding, nudity and others, where i professed my personal objections to it, but i did not try to stop it because it was, you know, something that was being done in a different part of the agency under the authority of others. >> so even he had personal objections to some of the things that they were doing. >> and he also said in response to this report that the interrogation methods helped. look, you and i can argue this back and forth...

That makes it sound like the cia was not only torturing bad guys like ksm or abu zubaida, but inon sent people. >> youre using the word torture and i would dispute that the people in enhanced interrogation program, that was harsh, brutal tactic. >> youre not disputing that the force-feeding people rectally is torture. >> no, absolutely not. those were abuses. the system was not perfect. there were abuses along the way. >> its more than abuses. they were abhorrent. >> im not going to contest that...

Who had been a drift since thanksgiving. the man was tired, hungry and dehydrated but otherwise okay. hes expected to be back on land today. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, december 10th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." we begin with the cia on the defensive following the release of the scathing report on torture. former heads say those interrogation methods saved thousands of american lives. >> but the report says the use of waterboarding produced n...

This information. thats not the kind of country we are. and in a large way, this report, i think, you know, will tell people that, okay, there were mistakes made but were a country that believes in open government and this is what were willing to say now. i want to know whether the governments going to go one step further and talk about apologies or reparations. im sure there will be lawsuits on the part of detainees. and so i dont think its entirely over. >> thank you very much. its great to se...

Here tonight. all the way south into l.a. by friday. likely bringing flooding and mud slides. back to you. >> jim dickey, thank you as always. to the protests in northern california. hundreds of people spilling into the streets of oakland and berkeley to rally against excessive force by police. extra police patrols clashed with protesters firing rubber bullets at the crowd. a train station was temporarily shut down again and amtrak suspended service in the area. new details on the cia interr...

Bring those to justice who violated the law. after eight years of investigations, especially by a partisan group in the senate, there is no allegation crimes have been committed. eric holder said there will be no criminal investigation. the bottom line is were a lot safer today, no attacks have of happened during that time. because of our interrogation methods. >> information we got come from not because of torture, and was prior to the torture. people work properly until they say getting tortur...

Saying he thinks that the cia has a tough job but that they do it well and he hasnt yet publicly denied the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation methods but he is calling them brutal and he is saying that they violate american values. >> whats clear is that the cia set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. that the lines of accountability that needed to be set up werent always in place. and that some of these techniques that were described wer...

The memo will generate any activity overseas for from home-grown violent extremists. erin. >> pam, thank you very much. and the senate intelligence committee spent five years to put this together and read more than 6 million pages of cia documents to complete the review. the entire review is more than 6,000 pages long. it cost $50 million to put together. our barbara starr spent the day going through the summary -- the summary and it was 525 pages but had shocking details and shes "outfront." >>...