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With the democrats. senator john mccain who was tortured in vietnam. he welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. heres now abcs jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says its flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. ...

But just last week, he defended the cia. >> were fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the cia. >> reporter: one key question, did the interrogations help get osama bin laden? the report says no. the cia says yes. that only through harsh interrogation did they discover bin laden the personal messenger and following the mess. >>er led to bin ladens hideout in pakistan. the report was done entirely by democrats and most republicans are trashing it, but not john mccain, who himself was t...

State colin poll. >> there are record stating that colin powell wasnt told about the program at first because there were concerns that, and i quote, powell would blow his stack. >> republicans warned the report could inspire more terrorism. >> trkd it could be used to incite unrest and even attacks against our service members e personnel overseas and our international partners. >> insisting the interrogations did help thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. >> some of the tactics...

Everything because theyre abused. thats not how real interrogations proceed. >> everybody in this is carefully vetted. theyre psychologists with no experience in interrogation designing these things and contractors who had shady backgrounds and records, some who created companies that were making millions of dollars off this. >> by the way, the company that made $81 million. $81 million. >> thats absolutely true. colonel, when you see just the sheer number of lies associated with this that the a...

Not changed. enter a report by democrats on the senate intelligence committee it says that the cia tortured captured al qaeda suspects and lied to congress about it. the senate intel committee is comprised of 8 democrats and seven republicans. all of the republicans, all of them refuse to endorse the report. , which by the way, cost $40 million to produce. the g.o.p. senators did that because they feel its a partisan situation designed to embarrass the bush administration. the report concludes t...

Harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees after the 9/11 attacks. that amounted to torture. >> i think in the midst of a national trauma, and uncertainty as to whether the attacks were going to repeat themselves, whats clear is that the c.i.a. set up something very fast, without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. >> the president was responding to senate intelligence committee chair, dianne feinsteins damning report on c.i.a. interrogations. that said detainees wer...

Was new. these types of tactics happen all the time, by the u.s. and others, officially, on the battlefield, on the fly. this happens, dont treat it lie its new, thats being intellectually dishonest, do you agree? >> i was the deputy commander of a task force of about 220 personnel with investigatives and interrogate everybodies at guantanamo, afghanistan and iraq. i can tell you we did not do this and we did not observe this. >> why would they have done such horrible things that are detailed in...

Interrogations from ten years ago? >> well, i think right now -- this is only my suspicion, sean, is that senator feinstein is worried about her legacy, and she was briefed on all this stuff. she knew everything. but shes trying to rewrite history and say, i knew, but i didnt really know. on the whole with the left, this attack on the cia is not only dangerous, but its immeasurably deceitful. remember, sean -- >> yeah, real quickly. >> back in the vietnam war, the left was able to call our troop...

Held responsible, i find that disingenuous at best. >> and in terms of making your point about the legality of it, in terms of the morality of it, when you were there and in afghanistan in the early days, was there anything you were uncomfortable with? >> well, no. at the time we werent engaged in these interrogations. i was there from 01-02 and these interrogation techniques came into play later on in 02. i should emphasize though, the necessity for speed and a variety of plans and policies tha...

Breaks that led the cia to determine that the courier, the kuwaiti, was likely to be living with bin laden in pakistan. this reads more like a careful agatha christie detective story than a story about the efficacy of coercive interrogations which some have criticized as torture." so the question is, did it contribute to the finding of bin laden? >> in the cia rebuttal which bill harlow just referred to, they do talk about a detainee called al balluki who was the first lead to bin laden -- >> wa...