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Head to the facebook page join in on the conversation at #keep talking. >> the cia director firing back against a highly critical senate report on interrogation methods. john brennan defending the agency and taking on democrats. heres fox news chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge. >> it would plunge us into a seemingly never ending more against a globally dispersed collection of terrorists with a murderous agenda. >> john brennan had a senate intelligence committee report that the...

Agency reminding everyone of the difficult challenges after 9/11. >> we pledge to come together as one and do what we can to prevent osama bin laden and his killing machine from ever carrying out another attack. >> reporter: it led to so-called enhanced interrogation techni e techniques against cia detainees. water boarding, being put in stress positions, deprived of sleep, chained to walls. brennan admitted mistakes were made by some, but never said the so-called enhanced interrogation program ...

>> i was aware of the detention interrogation program. i had some visibility into some of the activities that were there. i did not have authority over the implementation of that program or the management oversight of it. >> reporter: it was outrage over the interrogation program that destroyed brennans chances to lead the agency in obamas first term. four years later, brennans nomination was met with opposition from members of the presidents own party, who threatened to hold up his nomination, ...

And that investigation later expanded under attorney general holder into a larger probe of the interrogation program and whether individuals should be charged with the crime of torture. thanks for being with me. brannan said the cia engaged in practices that were abhorrent. do you think it was abhorrent? >> that is not the standard. that is a great question, but that is not the standard. we have a law in this country and the torture statute said you cant under color of law intentionalitily cause...

Needles would be dangerous with a noncooperative detainee. im not a doctor and neither are you. these were medical procedures. >> youre defending it? >> what im defending is history. to give you a sense as to how this report was put together. this activity, which was done five times in each time for the health of the detainees and not part of the interrogation program and not designed to soften him up for any questioning. the committee, the democrats on the committee, have used one half ass unwa...

Mukasey said it did not violate the law. michael hayden argued that rectal rehydration was not an interrogation technique at all. >> jake, im not a doctor and neither are you. im told this is one of the ways the body is rehydrated. >> are you really defending? >> im defending history. to give you a sense of how the report is put together, this activity, which was done five times and each time for the health of the detainee, not part of the interrogation program. >> the torture statute says you c...

Trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i love myself as a non-smoker. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. i think its a partisan pile of crap. its an attempt to smear the men and women of the cia as the democrats leave their position of authority. >> that was a psychologist who admitted to cnn that he was one of the people that helped to develop the cias interrogation program. his name is james mitchell. he made his stance on the senate report and its scathing conclusions about the hars...

And more so we had a finding and wrote a report around it rather than let the evidence guide you than deciding your findings, i would suspend those people and give the client their money back. thats kind of what were dealing with here. very disappointing use of $40 million. i think its important to have these conversations. of course it is. talk about policies and procedures. but you would like to think that, you know, we would come far enough in this whole discussion that this thing would have ...

Interviews. he didnt want to talk any more and answer any more of my question, john, saying now that hes confirming he is in that report, he has to have a lot more of what he said reviewed? >> you would think hed want to set the record straight. im curious what he makes of the question about his credentials. did he address that? >> mikaila, c michaela, he did. he wouldnt say whether they were his credentials being called into question in the report but when you look at the report it talks about ...

On this debate on fox news sunday. chris will be talking with karl rove, former senior advisor to george w. bush. also, the man who oversaw the interrogation program, jose rod rodriguez, the former director of the caas national clandestine service. this sunday on your local big fox station. check the tv listings. >> ed ins are offering a $10,000 reward. looking for any information in the case of a teenaged girl who burned to death on a rural road in mississippi. a local crimestoppers group is of...