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Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used duri...

The senate report on cia and torture reveals pretty shocking details about two men who created these eits or enhanced interrogation techniques. the cia contracted with two psychologists who develop, to operate and assess its interrogation operations. but neither of those men has experience as an interrogator or in-depth knowledge of al qaeda. still, the cia offered them a $180 million contract for that job and ended up paying them more than $80 million before the contract was cancelled. our chri...

>> it is interesting the report talks about the etis used on the one who helped lead them to bin ladens courier. i want to talk about page 20 of the report saying the cia contracted with two psychologists to develop to assess interrogation operations. neither had experience as interrogator nor did either have special knowledge about anything relevant to this job. as a former cia operative, it is so hard just to be allowed to work in the cia let alone get an $80 million contract. >> its more than...

And, third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and the cias oral history program. so while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals, we did utilize transcripts or summaries of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and interrogation operations. these interviews occurred at the time the program was operational and covered the exact topics we would have asked about had we conducted interview...

Shortcomings identified in the report are the following. the cia used poorly trained and nonvetted personnel. individuals were deployed in particular interrogators without relevant training or experience. due to the cias redactions to the report, there are limits to what i can say in this regard. its a clear fact that the cia deployed officers who had histories of personal, ethical, and professional problems of a serious nature. these included histories of violence and abusive training treatment...

Study. and, third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and the cias oral history program so while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals we did utilize transcripts or some reis of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and interrogation operations. this covered the exact topics we would have asked about had we conducted interviews ourselves. these interview reports and transcripts include...

And third, the committee had access to and utilized an extensive set of reports of interviews conducted by the cia inspector general and oral history program. while we could not conduct new interviews of individuals we did utilize transcripts or summaries of interviews of those directly engaged in detention and interrogation operations. these interviewinterviews occure time it was operational. and covered the topics we would asked about had we conducted interviews ourselves. the interview report...