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Significant resources and funding. it was not however managed as a significant cia program. in the custody of the first detainee, the cia had not identified and prepared a suitable detention site. it had not researched effective interrogation techniques or developed a legal basis for the use of interrogation techniques outside of the rapport building techniques where official policy was at that time. there is no indication the cia reviewed the own history. thats just what held gerson was saying ...

Passed out. the only reason they know that they have notes from a medic brought in revive him. not cia notes. there was also the celebrated case which we did know about where the head of covert operations jose rodriguez actually erased video of the interrogations against the orders of the white house counsel and of the cia. and investigated by eric holder and people in the justice department to who followed up on this. and eventually there were no prosecutions. after he acknowledged destroying t...

Im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were following the breaking news. an unusual joint warning by the fbi and the department of homeland security. theyre telling law enforcement agencies nationwide to be on alert right now for a possible terrorist response to the senate report on cia interrogation. that report released today. the blistering document five years in the making details interrogation techniques adopted after the 9/11 terror attacks that are described as cruel, inhumane ...

>> good morning. im reena ninan. >> im t.j. holmes. glad you could spend some time with us. we begin with the controversial new report on cia torture being released in hours. former vice president dick cheney is among those defending the cia saying harsh interrogation techniques were absolutely, totally justified. >> cheney accused senate democrats who insisted the report be released for trying to rewrite history. abcs martha raddatz has more. >> reporter: despite the risk, the white house suppo...

Earlier this morning, senator angus king, the independent member of that senate intelligence committee, said to cnn "new day," did we torture people? yes. did it help prevent attacks? no. so there are lots of different opinions on this. lot of this is going to center on these waterboarding techniques that were used during the bush administration. president obama, when he came into office, one of his first executive orders was to ban the use of these enhanced int interrogation techniques. i was t...

A betrayal of the people who keep us safe. id give those cia officers medals, not reprimands. >> here we have the bush administration and they use enhanced interrogation techniques against terrorists. and we get actionable intelligence, some of which led to the courier which led to bin laden. then we got the obama administration, they release terrorists. what does that tell you about -- whats the right way to handle those that are committed to destroying our way of life? i mean, im having a hard...

Chambers they have, how are you going to interrogate the saudis? >> what they said was that they went beyond what the justice department guidelines were. >> these were all techniques that were brief, the senate and the house were both briefed on 30 occasions, i told u you about that, they couldnt come up with a no, they dwchbt tell them stop doing it. they didnt tell them not to do it, they went forward with it. hire are a couple of fallouts for it. for the record, i still think its okay to do s...

Applied rapport building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi, and more recently the inner agency high value detainee interrogation group that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a couple of additional comments on the claimed effectiveness of cia interrogations. at no time did the cias interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these te...

Powell and secretary of defense donald rumsfeld. there are cia records stating that colin powell wasnt told about the program at first because there were concerns t t that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack if he were breached. source e-mail from john rizzo dated july 31, 2003. >> colin powell will blow his stack. it makes you shake your head. you include all these quotes in your piece, josh rogen, view on the headline of your piece, "bush was kept in the dark." my first question to you w...

Laden. listen to this. >> the most important thing we got in the search for bin laden, came from using conventional interrogation methods. i think its an insult to the many intelligence officers who have acquired good intelligence without hurting or degrading prisoners to assert we cant win this war without such methods, yes, we can, and we will. >> now, these are two very different accounts. is there any evidence at all that the use of torture led to the capture of osama bin laden? >> i dont be...