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Senator carl levin. >> my question is this, in your opinion, does waterboarding constitute torture? >> the attorney general has referred to waterboarding as torture. the attorney general, premiere law enforcement officer and lawyer of this country. and as you well know and as we have had the discussion, senator, the term torture has a lot of legal and political inl plications. >> do you have a personal opinion as to whether waterboarding is torture. >> i have a personal opinion its something tha...

Senator rubio. >> thank you. thank you, mr. brennan, for being here with us today and congratulations on your nomination. i wanted to ask in the 2007 cbs interview you said that information obtained in interrogations have saved lives and in september of 2011 you said a speech at harvard, whenever possible the preference of the administration is to take custody of individuals so we can obtain information which is, quote, vital to the safety and security of the american people. so obviously you be...

Administration like providing the secret legal memos, quote: congress and the public can decide whether the presidents power to deliberately kill american citizens is subject to appropriate limitations and safeguards. republican senator susan collins who signed a letter telling fox late today the refusal to release the secret memos is hypocritical. >> obama administration that released all of these opinions from the office of legal counsel about the bush administrations treatment of detainees. s...

Issues. all of this questioning, potential controversy from the program that authorizes targeted drone strikes on u.s. terror suspects overseas to what he knew about the bush administrations so-called enhanced interrogation techniques. plus concerns that he, leaked classified information when he briefed reporters about the bin laden raid and the underwear bomber plot. these are big topics. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this lets start on o...

Classified report into the cia program. those familiar with the reports findings tell fox news concludes the agency lied about the programs effectiveness, a charge denied by those who ran the program. a leading human rights group believes brennan must explain whether he agrees with the reports findings. >> i havent seen the study so it is difficult to talk about it because it is over 6,000 mains long but it is classified. senator wyden, a member of the committee who has seen the study, says it a...

>> you have to have some standards. i thought thats what everybody was screaming and yelling about as far as the bush enhanced interrogation program when those things were going on. they went in and seized one person who they actually had actionable intelligence on. then took that one person out, and interrogated them and got information they felt would lead to the saving of other lives. you have to have standards there. you just cant grab an american citizen, like we said, and, willie, throw hi...

Jenna: new controversy in washington over the presidents picks for the director of central intelligence agency, the head of the director of the cia. this is ahead of john brennans hearing. this they are pouncing on comments he made in the past. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more on this. what issues will the senate confirmation process potentially focus on? >> reporter: thank you, jenna. the senate intelligence committee recently finished a classi...

>> bret: in international news, five suspected militants were killed in what is believed to have been another military drone strike in pakistan. the seventh such attack in two weeks. todays started the main town in the north waziristan tribal area. strikes likebe that one are not popular in pakistan or at home with many on the left. the president nominee to head the c.i.a. is the architect of the drone policy. tonight, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge tells us john brennan fac...

Union said despite raising concerns over the terrorism tactics of the white house, they should not move on the nomination until all senators can assess the role of the c.i.a. and any role by bren nan himself in forture. the choice of brennan the aclu sees a largeer program. >> much of the legal architecture that the bush administration used to justify so-called war on terror is being continued by the obama administration. >> with the 6,000-page classified investigation, including the c.i.a. prog...

Intelligence committee along with ranking republican saxby chambliss the past has been highly critical of brennans law enforcement approach to terrorist prosecution. it comes with the release of the movie "zero dark thirty." which depicts the manhunt for usama bin laden and the cias use of the enhanced interrogation program. while deannouncing waurd boarding as un-american in a 2007 interview, brennan told cbs news said it was valuable. quote, there has been a lot of information that has come ou...