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Use them were dedicated to the terrorist attacks and i know their responsibilities were grave and urgent and the strain of their duty was onerous. i respect their dedication and appreciate their dilemma but dispute wholeheartedly that it was right for them to use these methods which were neither in the best interest of security nor the ideals we have sacrificed so much blood and treasure to defend. the knowledge of the dubious efficacy motivated my sponsorship of the detainee treatment act of 20...

Dedicated to securing justice for the victims of terrorist attacks and protect americans from further harm. i know their responsibilities were grave and urgent. and the strain of their duty. i respect their dedication and appreciate their dilemma. i dispute that it was right to use these methods and was neither in the best interest of justice or the security or the ideals we sacrificed so much blood and treasure to defend. and the abuse of prisoners motivated by sponsorship of the detainee treat...

Terrorist attacks on the u.s. homeland and against our military forces overseas. al qaeda affiliate statements to interrogators led to the identification of jose padea and al qaeda operative tasked with conducting a terrorist attack inside the united states. the interrogation of ksm and akned disrupted plotting. a critical base of operations in the war on terror in africa. and at that time, home to some 1,600 u.s. military personnel. theres no telling how many lives this program saved in those p...

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...

Do you think this report should be released? >> well, jon, its worth noting that this report was originally approved on a bipartisan basis by all the republican members of the intelligence committee except for one, because there are republicans who had some problems with this, with this program, the enhanced interrogation program. when it became clear this was not going to be an objective investigation, the republicans pulled out. now, i was a cia analyst for 19 years, i was with the house intel...

Compliance in which they would cooperate and provide information. the study concludes that both claims are inaccurate. the report is very specific in how it evaluates the cias claims on the effectiveness and necessity of enhanced interrogation techniques. specifically we use the cias own definition of effectiveness as ratify and approved by the department of justices office of legal counsel. the cias claims that the eits were necessary to obtain otherwise available information that could not be ...

Information. the study concludes that both claims are inaccurate. the report is very specific in how it evaluates the cias claims on the effect i haveness and necessity of its enhanced infair gags techniques. specifically, we used the cias own definition of effectiveness as ratified and approved fts office of the legal counsel counsel. they claim that it was necessary to obtain, quote, otherwise available, end quote, information. that could not be obtained from any other source to stop terrorist...

Point, evan, of the four points that she makes in this release, one of them is that in no time did the cia course of interrogation technique lead to the imminent threat intelligence. thats what shes saying that, no, nothing came of it. >> cia disputes that. >> and we will get a 100-page -- rebuttal to that. that is her view of the report. >> yeah. but, look, we have to be careful youre not to trash the cia. the cia was acting as a fujs of the executive. it was doing what was told to do. the folk...

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>> reporter: good morning. you got a lot of folks on pins and needles. first of all, the intelligence community here at home and also you have the foreign governments who may have provided assistance to the united states. this is all part of a report deviling into the c.i.a.s interrogation techniques, things like sleep deprivation and water boarding which some say amounts to torture. this is being done at the behest of diane feinstein who shares the intelligence committee. she says we need a tho...