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Important part in our nations security. and has thousands of dedicated and talented employees. what we have found is that a surprisingly few people were responsible for designing, carrying out and managing this program. two contractors led the interrogations. there was little effective oversight. analysts on occasion gave operational orders that interrogations and cia management of the program was weak and diffused. our final report was approved by a bipartisan vote of 9-6 in december, 2012, and...

Details in todays report on these brutal interrogations of suspected terrorists. also, north korea now praising the cyberattack on a major movie studio. but are the north koreans behind it? brian todd is getting new information. stay with us.

>> the majority side of the intelligence committee has spent the last four years and $40 million focused on a program that effectively ended over eight years ago while the world around us burns. >> the chair and vice chair of the select committee on intelligence released this report on enhanced interrogation techniques, the so-called torture reports. the cias use of enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of gaining intelligence from detainees. the interrogations of cia deta...

Not enough people with experience because as bob has said, the cia wasnt in the interrogation and detention business. it didnt know how to do that. and, in fact, the bureau -- the cia had the bureau of prisons come and visit salt pit. and they were -- these guys from the bureau of prisons, they were astonished at what they found. so, you know, that doesnt surprise me. >> bob baer, do you think anyone here should be prosecuted? >> well, yeah, i think somebody should. laws were violated. i think d...

Far more detail than im going to provide here about things that were in these interrogation sessions. and the summary itself includes only a subset of the treatment of the 119 cia detainees. there is far more detail all documented in the full 6,700-page study. this summarizes briefly the committees findings and conclusions. before i wrap up, id like to thank the people who made this undertaking possible. first, i think senator jay rockefeller. he started this project by directing his staff to re...

That the harsh interrogations lead to finding bin laden. i want share what he said yesterday and ill get your response. >> youre asking a difficult question there are varieties of views on. the presidents views wherever you come down on the equation of, yes, it yielded information that was helpful. it yielded information it was crucial, or no, it didnt yield any helpful information. the president believes regardless what the answer to the question is, that the use of these techniques was not wor...

>> who knew the locations where these interrogations were taking place? >> well, the people in the cia had to know about it. and i cant tell you how many people those were. i was one of them. outside the cia, you know, honestly, i dont believe the vice president was ever told where the locations were. >> where the black sites were? where the secret cells were? >> yeah, yeah. >> why wonderful the vice president of the united states or the president for that matter, in a daily intelligence briefin...

Seen in covering this to the report. >> i have spoke tone a lot of people who were involved in the program. some of the people who are named in the report. some people who consistently opposed these enhanced interrogations. a lot of them are raising questions. raising questions about why its coming up now. why its just the cia that is being singled out for this program. why congress is pretending like it didnt know what was going o. so many people knew. it wasnt a program that was over one or tw...

Respond more quickly. and of course all the security forces at embassies in that region are also on a heightened state of alert. fortunately in many of those countries they often get some kind of indication from the local host country intelligence services that something may be amiss but so far, its been pretty much flat lined. >> chris mentioned the redaxs in the report. what are we not going to see? what are we not going to read when this comes out? >> youre not going to see anything to hold a...

>> they would get it. and i asked them that very question. they said they were driven by the vice presidents office, dick cheney. he said, look, you guys have no intelligence on al qaeda. and dont tell me youre going to put more resources on it. i want some intelligence. we dont want to get attacked again. and -- well, we can do hostile interrogations as we know them. and he said do it. this was politically driven from the top. >> adam goldman. i want to just hear your voice about driven from th...