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The american public. third, the cias management of the program was inadequate and deeply flawed. fourth, the cia program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. let me describe each category in more detail. the first set of findings and conclusions concerned the effectiveness or lack there of of the interrogation program. the committee found that the cias coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation....

Formulating this response. first of all, they say this is appropriate to what you were talking about before the break. we hope and have confidence governments will understand this is a program that ended years ago. obviously they are concerned about that, including relationships with allies. also in the short-term as we have been reporting for the last couple of days. they say they reviewed the security posture in every u.s. post around the world. they are watching social media for propaganda an...

Political instability or any other public emergency may be invoked as a justification for torture. nonetheless, it was argued that the need for information on possible additional terrorist plots after 9/11 made extraordinary interrogation techniques necessary. even if one were to set aside all of the moral arguments our review was a meticulous and detailed examination of records. it finds that coercive interrogation techniques did not produce the vital unavailable intelligence the cia has claime...

Third, the cias management of the program was inadequate and deeply flawed. and fourth, the cia program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. the first findings talk about the effectiveness or lack there of and found that the coercion techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. the cia and other defenders of the program have repeatedly claimed that the use of so-called interrogation techniques was necessary to get deta...

What they did was legal and that it did gain the country valuable intelligence that prevented additional attacks. the senate democratic report begs to differ outlining what can only be said as brutal interrogation techniques including something called forced rectal feeding. thats just the beginning of it. abu zubaydah, a top al qaeda operative, deprived of sleep for 17 days as part of his interrogation. other practices and let me walk you through it, other practices the report details, detainees...

And i think they pointed out some of the reasons why. they anticipated the difficulty. first of all, they said they have hope and confidence that foreign governments will understand that theyre doing the right thing. theyve been in touch with them. theyve been briefing them on this report. but clearly, there are some concern about both what our allies and nonallies will do with information contained in this report. they added to what we already knew, there was stepped up security. they said they...

Previous administration, the bush administration, had agonizing choices to make but that some of the choices they made were "contrary to our values." and then the president goes on to say about this enhanced interrogation technique program and about the report, it says "the report documents a troubling program involving enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects in secret facilities outside the united states and it reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only ...

Enhanced interrogation techniques. >> well, the senate intelligence majority report meticulously documents these issues and how we found out about where different high value targets were and john mccain said an hour ago that the abuse of prisoners produces more bad than good intelligence, that captors will say that -- that detainees will say whatever their captors want them to say. >> so youre saying that the cia is flat outlying? >> im not saying that they are lying. there are obvious different...

I think the way we got that enintelligence was the way we trust prisoners, the way the fbi and military has done that and i think that prees practices as the report documents, were out of line with our values and were not as effective as using the traditional interrogation techniques. >> the cia statement, gary, also goes on to say -- and this, once again, is in total contradiction to what the report concluded, that information that the cia obtained from these enhanced interrogation techniques t...

>> outsourcing to contractors to do this kind of dirty job. so the question is, what kind of oversight was done over these contracted individuals? and what kind of action was taken to either eliminate, you know, the use of bad interrogation techniques, or even just make the interrogation itself much more easier, less costly, much more effective? we dont know. >> mark and laith, thank you both for your time this evening pch. still ahead, republicans are back to their old tricks, playing hide an...