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Be used, if as the director of central intelligence, you and another president, or this president, were faced with an imminent threat? could there be another covert finding and rulings and advice from the attorney general? that would lead you and your successors to say we should do this because there could be some value to prevent an attack on america? >> as far as what happens, if in the future, there is some type of challenge that we face here, the army field manual is the established basis to...

Detainee, not part of the interrogation program. not designed to soften him up any questioning. >> critics of the torture report, asked whats the difference between harsh interrogations under president bush and classified drone attacks under president obama. one intelligence committee member insisted the drone program is legal. >> i believe that the c.i.a. is acting within the law in the intentions right now. thats as far as i want to go. >> and all of these attacks on the c.i.a. prompted a spir...

From the attorney general that would lead you and your successors to say we should do this because there could be some value to prevenn an attack on america? >> as far as what happens if, in the future, there is some type of challenge that we face here, the army field manual is the established basis to use for interrogations ft we, c.i.a., are not in the detention program. we are not con testimony plating at all getting back in the detention program. so i defer to the policymakers in future time...

It looks to not be as strong but will go through southern portions of california too. thats monday into tuesday. and the long range computers estimate how much rain we could get in the next ten days. were looking at another 2 to 3 to 4 inches. we can deal with, you know every three to four days if we get two or three inches. its the eight inch block busters thats when we have the problem. >> bill karins, what a pro. i start talking and the mic open is you keep going. youre extraordinary. >> i de...

Challenge that we face here, the articleny field manual is established basis to use for interrogations. we, cia, are not in the detention program. we are not con testimony plating at all getting back into the tension program using any of those eits. so i defer to the policymakers in future times when there is going to be the need to be able to ensure that this country stays safe if we face some other type of cry sisz. >> i defer to the policymakers, means if they want to do this again, they know...

Repudiated by all. we fell short when it came to holding some officers accountable. >> reporter: at the same time, brennan tried to clarify that the program yielded valuable intelligence. brennan now says detainees provided important and useful information, but he says no one can say whether the intelligence came as a result of harsh interrogations. the cia director stood a few feet from the memorial wall. it bears 111 stars representing employees killed in the line of duty. and brennan was spea...

We were able to get con fegszs from them. we were able to interrogate people who were imvolved and get confessions. we almost stopped 9/11 based on our interrogations. however, as we know, there was a chinese wall between the intelligence and the contract so the information would not pass to the f.b.i. on a timely basis to sop the investigation. this is not me whos saying that. this is a 9/1 1 commission. and so we know how to interrogate people. what shocks me is to see that there were some peo...

Rulings or advice from the attorney general that would lead you and your successors to say, we should do this because there could be some value to prevent an attack on america? >> as far as what happens in the future, there is some type of challenge that we face here, the army field manual is the established basis to use for interrogations, and we, cia, we are not in the detention program. we are not contemplating at all getting back into the detention program and using any of the policies, but ...

Interrogation techniques, in his words, valuable information. he said some of the actions were unauthorized and abhorrent and admitted the cia sometimes exceeded the legal authority during interrogations. he spoke to the nation and the world in a live address from cia headquarters and he began by recalling the horrible moments by 9/11 where planes ran into buildings and america changed forever. the plane in new york and then in shanksville, pennsylvania. and then he spoke of the heroism of the e...

The senate democrats report? >> no. the paul thing is before that. >> were not talking about powell. >> you have several times that the president and vice president were kept in the dark from the cia. that comes from the senate democrats report in which they did not talk to any of the directories ask them did you keep something from president. >> in the presidents own book says that. >> no, he didnt say that. he said he believes he had the information he needed. >> so did dick cheney. i dont und...