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Intelligence committee report on cia interrogations is set to begin two hours from now. its a 500-pang version of a 6,000-pang text. its expected to be graphic in detail. former vice president dick cheney is slamming the release in this report and the references he says to so-called torture. he set its a bunch of hooey. the proper was authorized and it was reviewed legally by the justice department before they undertook the program. cheney set the criticism of the cia is just a crock in his opin...

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Said to keep details of the program hidden from former secretary of state colin powell because he may quote blow his stack if he were to be briefed on whats going on in 2003, the chief of interrogations threatened to quit, writing in an e-mail, this is a train wreck waiting to happen and i intend to get off the train before it happens. the five-year investigation disputes claims the enhanced interrogation stopped attacks and led to information that located osama bin laden in pakistan. >> the com...

>> correct. i was here in the united states. >> and can you tell us where you went? >> no. >> all right. it was a cia black spot where they had him. you look at ways to possibly break their resistance to our methods and the next thing you know youre on a plane to go to a cia black site to participate in the interrogation of one of the worst terrorists were fighting. just as a man what was that like for you? you land, you walk into the room, are you scared? are you -- is he scared? what is going ...

Everyone who supports it and by the president and to some extent even by john brennan, the cia director himself. this is a partisan report. it is not a congressional report. this is a report that breaks rank with the fact that many top congressional leaders told the cia when they were conducting these interrogations, go to it. do whatever you have to do and then some to make sure that we are never attacked again. and the cia succeeded in that task for which they are now being pillared as being p...

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Big fight between the committee and the white house. and in fact you will not see the names of people subjected to a lot of harsh interrogations. we know the names of the people who were waterboarded because of many documents that have come out. but almost 100 people were held in black sites. many of whom remain anonymous today. >> it should be noted that senate republicans, republicans on this committee did not participate. it should also be noted that we did not, or the the economy itself did ...

Interrogations. this is going to be a chapter in our history. its one theyre willing to work through. i am determined to make sure as we go forward with the committee that there is a better understanding on what exactly it is that we do. >> calls for a better understanding. but from what im hearing, morale is quite low amongst members of the cia right now because they feel theyve been this roen under the bus. >> well, they have at least been pushed in the direction of the bus. because they haven...

Phobias, and thats just an analogy. were not saying we induced a phobia. but many people that have phobias, like dental phobias, the closer you get to a dental appointment, the more you try to get out of it, right? so thats the point at which the person begins to provide information. and if they begin at that point, there is no mention of enhanced interrogations in that intel because they werent used. you dont use them. so the point was to shift the persons priorities with the bad cop so that th...

>> i got you. >> so he fed them whatever they wanted to hear. >> as they say in courtroom dramas, youre leading the witness. >> correct. >> feinstein summarized the report on the floor today. >> the committee found that the cias coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. we took 20 examples that the cia itself claimed to show the success of these interrogations. our staff reviewed every one of the 20 cases. and not a s...