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Cia serving on our behalf. these are patriots. and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way offbase. and i knew the directors, i knew the deputy directors, i knew a lot of the operators. these are good people. really good people. and were lucky as a nation to have them. >> if you read the report though, he wasnt even informed about these methods until 2006 and then expressed reservations about them. dick cheney dismissed the report before it came o...

>> lets begin our coverage with senior white house correspondent jim acosta. good morning. >> good morning, carol. the white house has scheduled an early briefing report, reporters at the 10:45, less than two hours from now the administration will be handling some new questions come out of the release of this torture report and as you saw in the last 24 hours president obama is supporting the release of this report from senator dianne feinstein from the intelligence committee but we should also ...

Strong one, whats more dispute side whether or not its effective in 2011, as you know, the director of the cia leon panetta at the time wrote, some of the detainees who provided information had been subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques and whether they were the only timely and effective way when it came to the information to detention and capture of bin laden cannot be established. >> i know that when then director of the cia cant establish it then its pretty hard to do. i do know that...

Torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions the united states not only joined, but, for the most part, offered. >> the c.i.a., while acknowledging shortcomings and mistakes is pushing back on aspects of the report, including the idea the c.i.a. misled about the effectiveness of the program. the current c.i.a. director argued the program was, in...

The effectiveness of the program. the current c.i.a. director argued the program was, in fact, effective. writing quote\, interrogations of detainees on whom enhanced interrogation techniques are infused did help twart plans and save lives. intelligence gains the programs were critical to our understanding about al-qaida and continues to inform to this day. six former deputy directors also weighed in with an op ed in the wall street journal reading we designed at a time when welat n relationship...

Covert action authorities and then later on into 02, approved the enhanced interrogation techniques. congress was briefed at the time and now they come out with a report 13 years later from those thousands of miles from the battlefield criticizing the agency. what is of immediate concern is this report can provide our enemies, isis and al qaeda and other affiliates, more material for their prop grachbda -- proppo ganda purposes in the ultimate weeks. >> and for this report, if i were to summariz...

Because he pay quote blow his stack if he were to briefed on water going on. if 2003, the cias chief of interrogations threatened to quit, running if an e-mail quote this is a train wreck waiting to happen. i intend to get the hell off the train before it happens t. five-year investigation also disputed claims the enhanced nominations led to information that located osama bin laden in pakistan. >> the committee found that the cias cooers issive interrogation techniques were not an effective mean...

The chief of operations through the courier and then ksm, of course, we intercepted a message that he sent to his fellow prisoners in which he says do not say a word about the courier. so we gained a lot of insight from our prisoners at the black sides about the importance of the courier, which eventually led to the takedown of bin laden. >> so in other words, youre saying that the accusation that these enhanced interrogation techniques were used beyond what we had already been disclosed youre s...

Appeal will be set for yet. if it isnt fast tracked, its likely to be somewhere in the middle of next year probably, and then if the court finds that she decided these matters of law incorrectly and that it should have been a murder conviction, there are actually grounds to call, believe it or not, for a retrial at that point. so its unclear which avenue of the law will be invoked, whether it will be a retrial, whether theyll be converting at the conviction. but that would have serious ramificat...

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...