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Positions that they post the guys name on the website. we are not necessarily allowed to know who that is at the cia. and senator dianne feinstein did not say his name today, but "the new york times" reports tonight it is likely to be this person who is officially the chief deputy general counsel of the cia which means he would be the number two in that office. the reasoning goes that the number one job in that office has been vacant since last fall, so it would make sense that this number two g...

Accessing their database networks to find that internal review. and senator feinstein is accusing the cia of spying on the committee and possibly breaking the law and violating the constitution in doing so. but this fight is not about spying. its about torture. its about the 6,000 page cia torture report that the agency does not want you to see. and today, feinstein gave us a hint as to why. >> the interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the cia detention sites were far different and...

Out that a man named jose rodriguez, who was in charge of covert action, ignored -- supposedly ignored what the bush attorney general and harriet miers was saying and destroyed tapes. videotaped evidence of what the so called torture interrogations. and by destroying those, he said to protect the men in the field from potential retaliation. that really infuriated the oversight committee so. the then cia director mike hayden goes up to the hill and says this shouldnt have happened, but the tapes ...

Did send some of its staffers to go read those written reports from the cia, and what they found in those written reports apparently upset them significantly. members of the intelligence committee were briefed on a lot of things that the cia had done, but apparently they were not briefed on this stuff. according to the chair, now, dianne feinstein, what senate staffers found in those reports, quote, was chilling. the interrogations and conditions of definement at the cia detention sites were far...

Supporter of the intelligence community throughout the nsa controversies. this goes back to the most controversial recent era in cia history, which is the detentions, the so called torture investigation. >> this really is in my view the perfect storm of oversight in the intelligence community. its the most sensitive issue for both the congress and the cia, interrogations and possibly torture. second, its post-snowden, where the oversight committees really did get beat up for not being intensive ...

>> for the last five years senate democrats have been investigating the torture program, despite what appears to ebe ebe a pattern of stone walling from the cia. when senator dianne feinstein accusing the cia of illegally searching staff computers to impede their investigation. why? because she says they are finding so far shows the cia has something to hide. >> the resulting staff report was chilling. the interrogations and the conditions of confinement at the cia detention sites were far diffe...

Department of justice about it, is now the person at the cia who is threatening to prosecute members of the senate staff who are about to expose what he did. the acting general counsel of the cia is not one of those positions that they post the guys name on the website. we are not necessarily allowed to know who that is at the cia. and senator dianne feinstein did not say his name today, but "the new york times" reports tonight it is likely to be this person who is officially the chief deputy ge...

Staff members were using to look into the cia interrogations. i think youll see some defense of the cia from republicans, even as democrat and barack obamas own party are going after his cia. >> yeah. it sounds like just the beginning, but jonathan, lets transition a little bit from too much government intervention to maybe not enough. just today crimeas regional legislature declared independence from ukraine ahead of sundays referendum on secession. with the ukrainian prime minister set to visi...

Opposition-controlled areas of northern syria. since then the ultra extremist group has imposed strict islamic law, held public floggings and executions and recently battled other execution groups in fighting that has led well over 2,000 dead. even al qaedas leader has demanded isis leave syria. missing in the interrogations is any mention of the assad regime. the only concern is the challenge posed by other opposition factions and local populists to isis. who is erasing the slogan and symbols o...

Called americas handling of the syrian civil war abysmal and shameful. 5,000 people have died in just three weeks. syrian radicals have provided cnn with a disturbing collection of videos of interrogations and even executions. this extremist group called isis has been disowned by al qaeda because of their brutality. an important warning for you in the morning, some of these images are quite graphic. ben joins us with this very important report. >> reporter: kate, this video is disturbing on many...