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Like the democratic senator angus king who has said that they already started to gather documents and if you look back at what the senate intelligence committee did on the cias harsh interrogation program, they uncovered a lot and pushed ahead, publicized. so there are moments they can do work to bring abuses to the light of day. so this tussle is going to go forward. >> and i want to ask you, bob, as we wrap up, this russian spy ship that is lurking 30 miles off the coast of norfolk, virginia. ...

Designed so that you would ask questions about actual intelligence while the detainee was experiencing the enhanced interrogation program. almost like a good cop, bad cop kind of setup with a really bad cop. >> joining me now investigative reporter who produced that piece. let me start at the beginning and ask what may seem a strange question, but how do you even put out a contract for psychologists to consult on torture? whats even the genesis of this when the whole things classified and top se...

Rain, more storms, similar storm system, coming up over the next couple days and thats all good news because remember, arthel, were still in the middle of this historic three-year drought in california. >> i know for sure but its hard to see those images of those homes buried in the mud, and you hate to hear of the deaths in those types of weather storms out there. okay. well, well keep fingers crossed for more rain but not too much to where its going to cause more damage. relations between th...

We know about the report so far. >> reporter: the 600-page report capped a five-year investigation. the 5 hung-page executive scumry is expected to provide new and raw details about the post-9/11 cia interrogation program which critics call torture. >> the program included the waterboarding of khalid sheikh mohammed. as well as the alleged planner of the uss cole bombing in 2000. the aclu fully supports democratic senators dianne feinsteins decision to make the report public. >> this is a cia th...

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>> arthel, some of the biggest critics of the cia interrogation program on capitol hill were those who were briefed the earliest about the methods being used. >> i remember very clearly briefing nancy pelosi in september of 2002. she never objected to the technique at all. the only one that ever objected to any of this and it was more of a question was jane harmine in 2003 when she said, be careful, the perception will be in the future that you did this to hide something. >> members of the senat...

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Thank you, ping. reliably fast internet starts at $89.95 a month. comcast business. built for business. if one man was at the heart of the enhanced interrogation program it was jose rodriguez. during the years after 9/11 he was the head of the cia counterterrorism program and then ran the national clandestine service. mr. rodriguez joins us to discuss this weeks controversy. mr. rodriguez, you were the man who came up with the enhanced interrogation program after all weve heard this week about...

President obama put a career prosecutor in charge of it. they spent three years looking at all of these. they came up with a finding of no prosecutable offends were involved. >> the second question we want to examine is, was it effective? the senate report says enhanced interrogation -- heres cia director john brennan. >> the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united states thwart attack plans and save lives. >> senator, the three cia directors who o...

>> here is the killer in this report. the report is going to say that none of this torture provided actionable intelligence. the cia is going to dispute. that and senator feinstein apparently has in there support for her allegation. but if what she said is believed by the american people, then all this lawlessness was for not. >> listen to the man who ran the interrogation program. he ran it. he wrote a book a couple of years ago. he went on a very limited pr campaign to promote his book. and he...