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Senator dianne feinstein. she held the floor for 40 minutes and admonished the cia. not just for with holding the information, but also for literally trying to cover up these activities. she accused the cia as going as far as illegally monitoring and spying on congress to keep information out of the committees hands. thats what rachel called death of the republic type stuff. she accused one cia lawyer specifically, a lawyer who was allegedly involved in crafting the torture program, someone whos...

What is the c.i.a.s mission? to keep us from knowing what it does? >> this has been a battle going on for years. if you listen to what dianne feinstein said in the beginning of her remarks back in 2009 the committee learned that what the c.i.a. told the committee about the torture program was not true, was wrong and launched this big investigation to start this. it was all started because they felt they were misled by the c.i.a. if you listen to what mark udall said last night on the network and...

January, 2009, he was the units chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actions of congressional staff. the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how cia officers, including the acting general counsel, himself, provided inaccurate information to the department of justice about the program. >> dianne feinstein got up on the floor of the senat...

Say within the agency, within the cia, there are varying degrees of opinions about the torture program. and not everyone has the same opinion and has arrived at the same opinion. and i think the leadership right now is saying that, yes, they believe it was more effective than congress did, but whether or not theyre saying that this is something they want to do going forward i think is a completely different question. i also think the presidents spoken about this. you know, we can haggle over thi...

Chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actions of congressional staff. the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how cia officers, including the acting general counsel, himself, provided inaccurate information to the department of justice about the program. >> dianne feinstein got up on the floor of the senate today and alleged that one of ...

Its been referred to the internal i.g. for the cia and out to doj, the investigation will hopefully give us a little transparency and insight into what actually transpired here and who possibly gave orders to whom to do what. so i think theres still a lot of questions to be answered, but at the same time, i think that the transparency issue with this report, i do, myself, believe that there should be something released to the public to be able to decide for themselves how they want to view this ...

Managed and carried out this program. from mid-2004 until the official termination of the detention and interrogation program in january, 2009, he was the units chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actions of congressional staff. the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how cia officers, including the acting general counsel, himself, pro...

Sanctioned the agencys torture program and approved the destruction of 92 pieces of evidence, that man, is now acting counsel for the cia. but all the secrecy, all this o opacity was according to the guy in charge.to t guy in charge. this after the attacks on september 11th -- >> we have to work sort of the dark side, if you will, we have to spent time in the shadows in the intelligence world, a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly without any discussion, using sources,...

Program. and that is astounding to me. >> so i think -- well, i will say within the agency, within the cia, there are varying degrees of opinions about the torture program. and not everyone has the same opinion and has arrived at the same opinion. and i think the leadership right now is saying that, yes, they believe it was more effective than congress did, but whether or not theyre saying that this is something they want to do going forward i think is a completely different question. i also thi...

>> 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...