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No longer do, under duress, and that they had -- that the clock was ticking, and the great frustration is that they feel that this report makes it look as though all of the intelligence leads that the cia claims to have gotten from these interrogations -- that it is like in saying they didnt lead to any -- breaking up any plots, is like looking at jigsaw puzzle when you have the picture and you have the pieces. they said they were looking at a jigsaw puzzle and had one piece to work with and tha...

Building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi and, more recently, the interagency high value detainee group, that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a few other comments on the claimed effectiveness of the cia interrogations. at no time did the cia coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for these techniques. the committee never found an ...

Welcome back to "hannity." put on high alert this now as the world awaits a new senate report detailing the cia interrogation tactics used in the wake of the september 11th, 2001 terror attacks. here with the very latest foxs own catherine herridge is standing by. catherine. >> sean, the aclu is behind democratic senator dianne feinsteins decision to make the findings public. >> this is a cia thats completely out of control, outside ot system of checks and balances that the constitution set up. ...

The code name cobalt to hide the actual name of the facility. it began operation in september 2002. the facility kept few formal records of the detainees housed there and untrained cia officers conducted frequent, unauthorized and unsupervised interrogations. using techniques that were not and never became part of the cias enhanced interrogation program. the cia placed a junior officer with no relevant experience in charge of the site. in november 2002, an otherwise healthy detainee, who was bei...

On enhanced cia interrogations that even the white house admits could put americans overseas in danger and tell dianne feinstein defended the timing of the reports release. >> our commitment to a just society governed by law, and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say never again. there may never be the riling time to release this report. the instability we see today will not be resolved in months or years. but this report is too important to shelve in definitely. >> former vice president...

Shaikh mohammed and his code name in the al qaeda operation under bin laden before he was interrogated. it was only after he gave up the name that he was subjected to 2 1/2 weeks of 24-7 waterboarding. 83 instances to the point where he passed out and had to be revived. something that the cia did not disclose and was disclosed by notes taken by the medics. >> thats a complicated case and i cant drill down into the details: in the period that was described before enhanced interrogations, he was r...

Decade ago, a stain on our value and on our history. the release of this 500-page summary cannot remove that stain but says to the people and the world that america is big enough to admit when its wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes. releasing this report is an important step to restore our values and show the world that we are, in fact, a just and lawful society. >> she then got the backing from a senator john mccain who has been an outspoken critic of the enhanced interrogati...

Operations conducted numerous inherently governor mental functions that never should have been outsourced to contractors. these contractors are referred in the report in special pseudonyms. they developed the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques that the cia employed. they personally conducted interrogations of the cias most significant detainees using the techniques, including the waterboarding of abu zubaydah and khalid sheikh mohammed and even for some detainees they themselves were in...

Did these techniques stop terror attacks? today, senators of both parties said no. >> coercive interrogation techniques did not produce the vital, otherwise unavailable intelligence the cia has claimed. >> i know from personal experience, that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good in intelligence. and what the advocates of harsh and cruel interrogation methods have never established, is that we couldnt have gathered as good or more reliable intelligence from using humane methods...

Was more brutal than the cia ever told the americans, ever told the congress, that it was poorly managed. the cia didnt really know what it was doing in managing this program and lost track of detainees for a period and that it misled the congress and white house department and president bush himself did not get briefed fully on this program, wolf, until 2006, according to the senate report, which is a big deal because, as you know, president bush in his biography describes that he was fully kno...