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Press secretary under president obama and executive of global strat jess group. president obama came out today and said enhanced interrogations made it harder to pursue intelligence with our partners. lets assume thats true. why keep highlighting that? >> i think as you had in that clip from joe biden. its a uniquely american thing to take something from -- something that americans did, didnt do right and actually explore it, explain it to the american people and make a clean break from the past...

The officials wont take side between the cia and the senate and the way the interrogations worked. senator john mccain mounted a stirring defense from the senate floor. >> i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners were produced more bad than good intelligence. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conv...

He started this project by directing his staff to review the operational cables that describe the first recorded interrogations after we learned that the videotapes of those sessions had been destroyed. and that report was what led to this multiyear investigation. without it we wouldnt have had any sense of what happened. >> without jay rockefeller, we would have learned nothing about the cia today. john d. rockefeller ivs great grandfather was americas richest man. his grandfather built rockefe...

Are saying you and the horse you roa --you rode in on, we had it. bill: you are sayinged the interrogations worked? >> we got an awful lot of information. do you want to equitable over this one here or that one there. fundamentally these interrogations of all the detainees gave us a home depot-like storage of information on al qaeda on which we relied -- we are still relying on it today. bill: you are quoted as saying it led you to 8,000 intelligence reports. but the report undercuts that number...

Every embassy flying an american flag. as several of my colleagues have just pointed out, endanger the working relationship weve had with a 58 of different countries in trying to deal with intelligence gathering. in short, it was a big step in the wrong direction. >> some of the tactics that were written about in the senate intelligence report were brutal. and as ive said before, it constituted torture in my mind. and thats not who we are. >> republicans denouncing the reports release are being ...

Torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions the united states not only joined, but, for the most part, offered. >> the c.i.a., while acknowledging shortcomings and mistakes is pushing back on aspects of the report, including the idea the c.i.a. misled about the effectiveness of the program. the current c.i.a. director argued the program was, in...

And we will not do it again. >> this is a new york times peter baker report. the officials wont take side between the cia and the senate and the way the interrogations worked. senator john mccain mounted a stirring defense from the senate floor. >> i know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners were produced more bad than good intelligence. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured ...

Operations had not defied white house justice department and cia orders towards those videotapes. thats why michael hayden had to go to the hill and say, lets give you these transcripts of the interrogations and see if you can recreate the fact that those tapes exist. >> david ignacious earlier we spoke with the former cia director michael hayden. you were there. i want to show you this part when we asked him about the discrepancy about his past testimony and there are many. i have a list of at ...

Impossible to get around it. thats a little bit of a disclaimer. hard to get around it. because reaction is pouring in to the highly controversial senate intelligence committee report on cia interrogations that was released on tuesday. it states the agency repeatedly deceaived about its methods. were ineffective and much more brutal than represented. the cia is pushing back. director john brennan challenge, key findings alongside former directors who dismissed the report as one sided and marred ...

The effectiveness of the program. the current c.i.a. director argued the program was, in fact, effective. writing quote\, interrogations of detainees on whom enhanced interrogation techniques are infused did help twart plans and save lives. intelligence gains the programs were critical to our understanding about al-qaida and continues to inform to this day. six former deputy directors also weighed in with an op ed in the wall street journal reading we designed at a time when welat n relationship...