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Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used duri...

This about myself. after 9/11 i didnt look to go sit on the swiss desk. i stepped up. i was not on the sidelines. i was on the front lines in the cold war and i was on the front lines in the fight against al qaeda. i am very proud of the fact that we captured the perpetrator of 9/11 khalid shaikh mohammed. i think we did extraordinary work. to me, the tragedy is that the controversy surrounding the interrogation program as ive already indicated to senator warner, i fully understand that, but it ...

Mr. rodriguez indicated to me that he planned to discuss it with the then-director goss. >> let me see if i can get one last in on it. >> when did you become aware that the cable authorizing the destruction of the interrogation videotapes had been sent? >> senator, as chief of staff, its a desk-bound job so i was at my desk at least 12 hours every day and i can see my computer screen so it was shortly after mr. rodriguez who sat right across the hall from me had released the cable. >> im over my...

With the then director goss. >> let me sea if i can get one last in. when did you become aware that the cable authorizing the destruction of the interrogation videotapes had been sent? >> senator, as chief of staff, its a desk bound job, so i was at my desk at least 12 hours every day, and i could see my computer screen. it was shortly after mr. rodriguez who sat right across the hall from me had released the cable. >> im over my time. ill ask more about this in classified session. thank you. >>...

Sit on the swiss desk. i stepped up. i was not on the sidelines. i was on the front lines and in the cold war and on the front lines in al-qaeda. im proud of the fact we captured the perpetrator of 9/11. i think we did extraordinary work. to me the tragedy is that the controversy surrounding the interrogation program which as ive already gated to senator warner, i fully understand that, but it has cast a shadow over what has been a major contribution to protecting this country. >> i respect a nu...

Keep people involved in the program, i think that is kind of a classic example you see too often a group of politicians get together and throw the professionals under the bus. bill: catherin kathryn has more. good morning. what do we expect from john brennan? >> good morning. this is the first time we will hear from john brennan. rare if not unprecedented to hold a news conference in virginia and take reporter questions. the director is in an unusual position defending the agency and interrogati...

This occurred six months after our study had begun. durhams original investigation of the cias destruction of interrogation videotapes was broadened to include possible criminal actions of cia employees in the course of cia detention and interrogation activities. at the time, the committees vice chairman, kit bond, withdrew the minoritys participation in the study citing the attorney generals expanded investigation as the reason. the department of justice refused to coordinate its investigation ...

Our study had begun. durhams original investigation of the cias destruction of interrogation videotapes was broadened to include possible criminal actions of cia employees in the course of cia detention and interrogation activities. at the time, the committees vice chairman, kit bond, withdrew the minoritys participation in the study. citing the attorney generals expanded investigation as the reason. the county of justice -- the department of justice refused to coordinate its investigation with ...

Office building in washington, d.c., one of secure facilities in that building designed to handle secret intelligence information. apparently inside that building, they then locked it up in a safe. >> the cia has previously withheld and destroyed information about its detention and interrogation program. including its decision in 2005 to destroy interrogation videotapes over the objections of the bush white house and the director of national intelligence. based on the above, there was a need to ...

Document, they believe undercut a lot of the cias denials and they knew the cia wished the senate hadnt had access to. senate staffers, knowing that, took that document. they took it physically out of that secure location in northern virginia and they apparently took it here to the hart senate office building in washington, d.c., one of secure facilities in that building designed to handle secret intelligence information. apparently inside that building, they then locked it up in a safe. >> the ...