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

Call is torture, enhanced interrogation of detainees under the bush administration. we go back to the senate floor. >> interrogations themselves or ever operated detention facilities. as the cia captured or received custody of detainees through 2002, it maintains separate lines of management at headquarters for different detention facilities. no individual or defense was in charge of the detention and interrogation program until january 2003. by which point more than 1/3 of detainees identified ...

Applied rapport building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi, and more recently the inner agency high value detainee interrogation group that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a couple of additional comments on the claimed effectiveness of cia interrogations. at no time did the cias interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these te...

Its legal counsel was considering the legality of the coercive techniques. in those communications, to the department of justice, the cia claimed the following. the coercive techniques would not be used with excessive repetition. detainees would always have an opportunity to provide information prior to the techniques. the techniques were to be used in progression starting with the least progressive and proceeding only if needed. medical personnel would make sure that interrogations would not ca...

What did secretary hagel have to say about that? >> reporter: he said that he was encouraged by what he heard both from u.s. commanders and from iraqi officials. he met the iraqi prime minister today. iraqi forces finally coming off a defensive footing slowly some minimal offensive operations. that said, a lot of expectations management here, meeting with american commanders. theyre saying its going to be several months before theres any major operation by iraqis to take back any significant pie...

Read, you know, the new details coming out in this report. and ive got to tell you, you know, i looked through many parts of this. we have an entire team looking through this. and i was struck by one particular thing. >> whats that? >> in 2003. in 2003, we have the cia send g sending, asking the white house, you know, because the white house is going out and saying we treat prisoners humanely. and you have in 2003, the cia general council scott muller, going back to the white house saying, look,...

Included going after all the witnesses, everybody in the agency, everybody in the administration. people who were actually involved in the program. >> on page 15 is the summary. if i may. on page 15 of the summary, it makes it very clear that general hayden testified before the committee on this. secondly, the group of folks, including mr. harlow, general hayden, and others who have organized this website, cia save lives.com, they actually posted mr. brennans letter to the committee from june of...

Important part in our nations security and has thousands of dedicated and talented employees. what we have found is that surprisingly few people were responsible for designing, carrying out and managing this program. two contractors developed and led the interrogations. there was little effective oversight. analysts, 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 i...

>> not now. i will tomorrow. >> the report claims three cia officials lied to congress and 20 of those interrogations produced nothing. but the cia may not end up taking all of the heat on this because they say congress was briefed about those interrogation that were being used at every step. >> the investigation is underway after a small private jet fell out of the sky and crashed into a maryland home. six people died, all three passengers in the plane plus a mother and her two young sons in a ...

Zubaida and al nashiri. senator bond similarly directed two of his staffers to review the cables. the designated staff members completed their review and compiled a summary of the content of the cia cables by early 2009 by which time i had become chairman. the description in the cables of cias interrogations and the treatment of detainees pressed a starkly different picture from director haydens testimony before the committee. they described brutal around-the-clock interrogations, especially of ...