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During the show. given everything, its really impossible to get around it. its a little disclaimer before we begin the conversation here. hard to get around it, because reaction is pouring into the highly intelligent report on cia interrogations released on tuesday. it states the agency repeatedly deceived the white house and lawmakers ab its methods t. report claims cia interrogations after the 9-11 attacks were ineffective and much more brutal tan represented t.cia is pushing back the director...

Speaking to "the kelly file" last night he confirmed his involvement in the interrogation of ksm. khalid sheikh mohammed. you walked into a room with khalid sheikh mohammed. >> yeah, i was the -- yes. yes, i did. >> what condition was he in? what was he wearing? how was he restrained? >> i dont think he was wearing anything. but in general, what i remember about those first interrogations was that he was arrogant, that he was a mentally arrogant. >> did you feel like you were in the presence of ...

Punishment they distribute. vice president cheney was talking about life and death. the days and months after 9/11, america was desperately trying to learn about the enemy that attacked us and stop any further assaults on american soil. so, some harsh measures were used. i believe justifiably. although mistakes were made in the fog of war, always happens. u.s. aid did not overreact by roughing up jihgejihadists. we did overreact by invading iraq. the solution is to stop the witch hunt now and pa...

Up next, see what happens when ed henry challenged that argument. and some of the top democrats now attacking the cia say they were never told about these enhanced interrogations. the cia says that is a lie. the investigation into who is telling the truth just ahead. >> madame speaker, just to be clear, youre accusing the cia of lying to you. >> yes, misleading the congress of the united states. misleading the congress of the united states. introducing the new philips norelco shaver series 900...

Asked to help. how? >> they asked me to take a look at the manchester manual initially and figure out -- which is a manual that lists their interrogation strategies and figure out what sorts of resistance behaviors you might see on the part of detainees. after that later they asked me if i would look at the behavior that was engaging to see if he was using any of those resistant strategies. >> so you reviewed the manual al qaeda was using to teach its own fighters how to resist things like water...

A white house briefing is set for this hour. many people including president obama and republican senator john mccain agree details needed to be aired. others like former cia chief george 10 and and vice president dick cheney says this is puts u.s. people in danger. peter doocy at the white house. good morning, peter. >> reporter: good morning, shannon. the big debate is whether or not the interrogation method worked. cia is insisting they did and sometimes the very harsh methods were very effec...

People did what this report says they did. dianne feinstein is the chairwoman of the senate intelligence committee. theoretically its her committee that authorized this. either the report is going to say they went beyond the authorization or the cia lied to her about what happened. >> that is what its going to say according to reports weve read this is according to reports from cbs news that it contains evidence the cia went beyond what was legally allowable and that the agency lied to the white...

And you capture a terrorist who knows where it is and wont tell you where and you cant evacuate the city. do you think there is anybody who would not advocate using any method, any means at all to receive that information? the answer is no. so the question is do you acknowledge that and then establish the limits of when and where and what youre allowed to do? or do you pretend that youre holier than thou? and even in those circumstances you wouldnt do anything? >> so on a sliding scale how close...

Of the 9/11 attacks and other high ranking al qaeda leaders that allowed the cia to focus on that name, say thats the guy we need to find, he will lead us to bin laden. without those interrogations, he is just another name in another file with hundreds of other names. >> and he broke under waterboarding he was subjected to. looking back on this, do you have any moral problems with what you justified in the justice department? do you have any moral problems at all, did you make any mistakes? >> o...

Truth and say never again. >> reporter: on the allegation the cia program was not effective, a former cia officer with firsthand knowledge of the interrogations says 9/11 architect khalid sheikh mohammed, one of three detainees waterboarded by the cia generated 2,000 intelligence reports, a matrix of information from khalid sheikh mohammed, his nephew and a third detainee combined with technical intelligence that identified usama bin ladens courier and their hideout in pakistan where navy s.e.a....