Also, join the conversation on cspan wj is our handle. You can also send us emails. We will get to your thoughts in just one minute. Joining us is candidate delaney. He is here to take your questions about this intelligent report. When you begin with what Dianne Feinstein had to say. She talks about the findings of this report. We have 20 findings and conclusions which fall into four general categories. First, the cias and enhanced interrogation techniques were not an effective way to get a better intelligence information. Second, the cia provided extensive amounts of inaccurate information about the program a end its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia inspector general, and the American Public. Third, the cias management of the program was in adequate and deeply flawed. Fourth, the cia program was far more neutral billion people were led to believe. What did we learn from this report . About theknown a lot basics of what was done to al qaeda detainees after 9 11. There has been a lot of reporting on the techniques, on waterboarding, things that have been pretty shocking. In this report, we learned about new techniques that we have never heard of before. Thingsty unpleasant like rectal feeding, death threats. Werearned the techniques used in combination of rate. Of days and seem to be far more brutal and gruesome than previously understood. We also learned there is a case to be made, whether that is otherwise or useful, was notable information gained through these techniques. Ex did we learn who, that, and when . s they did not have access to white house information. There were some records in there about white house conversations, but for example, the records show the cia did not brief president in detail. Secretarys condoleezza but believed him, is debatable. He knew some of the details, if not all of the details. If the records show who knew what went within the cia, of course many people in the cia are not named in this report because they are undercover work over. When did this report take place, into did it . It took race in socalled countriess in certain like poland and thailand. The other thing interesting about this report is it sheds light on the extent to which this program was run by contractors. Psychologists. Are notbeen known, they named. They are under pseudonyms. We learn in this report the cia paid the company run of the psychologists 81 million dollars. These two men were really driving get the program. With the of helped techniques and the application of techniques. They were not u. S. Government employees. Expert happened to the contract . When did it end . Are these folks still with the cia . Is a stub with the government . It ended in two thousand nine been the u. S. Government and these product these projects. Bills are paid as part of this thing. One of them gave an interview to the guardian. Know, these guys have become wealthy and they are retired now. Be for this program ended, before 2009 before obama and did with an executive order what they mean is the brutal to inques that happened this report in a large amount happened after 9 11. Waterboarding that was ended soon after that. I do not have the numbers right in front of me. After 2006. Off we are taking your comments about this. The majority of democrats on the panel, and me give you the numbers. , democrats, independents. We have an intelligence writer with us this morning and he will be able to answer most of your questions about this report. It is over 400 pages. That is the predicted version. What is the full version . It is 6000 pages. We may not see it for over 25 years. The executive summary could a couple hundred pages. Lets you about the Majority Committee had to say it yesterday. It was led by a retired republican from georgia. Here he is on the senate floor. Putting this report out today is going to have significant consequences. Addition to opening old wounds internationally and domestically, it could be used to incite unrest and even attacks against our Service Members and international partners. Report could also stoke a additional mistreatment or death of american or other captives overseas. It will and dangerous cia personnel, sources, and future intelligence operations. Will damage our relationship with several Significant International counterterrorism partners at a time when we can least afford it. Factworse, despite the that the administration and many of the majority of these consequences, they have chosen to release the report today. The United States today is faced with a wide array of security challenges across the globe, including in afghanistan, pakistan, syria, yemen, north africa, ukraine, and the list goes on. Instead of focusing on the problems right in front of us, the majority side of the Intelligence Committee has spent the last five years a lender over 40 million focused on a program that to effectively ended over eight years ago while the world around us burns. Why do this report . Why release it now . This is the First Official comprehensive Public Accounting of one of the darkest chapters in american history. The people who prepared this report think it is really important that the public learned that is done in their name. This is about accountability and oversight. It,e is no doubt about there is a intelligence assessments did say there is a risk of violence and american facilities because of this report. Many feel it is a with basque many feel it is a risk worth taking. Who did they interview . Interview any of the participants and that has been a point of contention. The Committee Says there was also a criminal investigation by the Justice Department. Department, according to the committee, refused to work out a deal where they could bring in witnesses jeopardy. Pose them to without that, no cia official code testify without the risk of coming under criminal investigation. So they decided it would be a documentary review. 6 million documents. Including transcripts that with directors. There are Interview Transcripts that are called upon for this critics of this report have said, how do you really know what happened if you could not talk to the people who actually carried out the interrogations . No did they talk to the people who were allegedly tortured force data allegedly tortured. I remember hearing something accusing someone of taking data of computers. The report get into the committees interference with the investigation . I do not believe it does. Not to the tide can recall. Would whose wroarl were overstated but some of the people who received the worst treatment, nobody debates that, and, the head of the journalist, nobody is debating that he was a bad guy. The issue is, what. Is this the kind of thing that the United States of america should be doing to anybody . Lets go to the report or page 37, where, when this program begins, because they returned this, on september 17, six days after the terrorist attacks, president george bush signed a notification, to author rise the director to capture and, Detain Persons, who post a continuing serious threat of violence or death of the u. S. Persons, and interests and the Committee Says, that although the c. I. A. Had been provided limited. Yeah, that was another interesting thing. That was as secret finding. We had never seen that. And that was interesting thing that came out of the report, no mention of entire row investigation, they had to go back to the Justice Department and, white house to get permission. Wasnt like, they got legal permission, which we can get into later to do. Of the things, not all of the things that they did, and that finding, you know, c. I. A. Officials were criticizing this report, saying you have to consider the context of the time, nine 11 just happened and, we were sure that following attacks were coming and there was very little visibility about props within the inside and the surveillance tools, and, that we have now, were not in place, so there was, a feeling like, and that covert order was part of it, heres what we tbheed to do, to start cracking the next plot. What nita, good morning to you. Caller good morning, thank you for bringing this up, i do fully believe, that we did nothing wrong, that we had to able to save our people over there and, these people will do anything, how many have lost their heads and, how many have gotten blown up and, new york, and my goodness. Were just getting so squishy, that we dont want to do anything, about war. And if we dont get with it, and win these wars, well be there forever. Okay. To her point, will this practice continue . Has it legally and by the president , by executive order been banned . By executive order which is reversible, by the next president and, mitt romney said he would consider using these techniques again. But, i mean, the practical answer is no, the c. I. A. Has been so seered by this experience, and, they have said as much, and, three directors, including the three directors have repute yated these techniques, the c. I. A. Itself, crist sizing this report acknowledge serious mistakes in the program. And, several former c. I. A. Officials acknowledge that some is indefensible, and it went beyond what they were allowed to do, so we had this combination, it was not well run and, so seconder i mean, nobody, very few people are saying that the agency is blameless here. The former c. I. A. Officials, the directors, tenant, and, goes, and, haydon, and, john, and steven, all writing in todays washington wall street journal their response. They saved lives, is what theyre saying, in therapies in the wall street journal and, they take the Senate Report and, break it down and, refute certain claims within it, and they say, that by releasing this you can put more americans at risk. Well go to maxine next. Independent caller. Caller good morning, and thank you for taking my call. I just hope i can compose myself to explain, what i think about this report, being released. I was disgusted, and now im more disgusted with Diane Feinstein, there was no reason to release this report. All they have done, is stir up animosity, in the middle east, and, every military person that we have over there is in danger now. This is a totally political ploy by the democrats, and Diane Feinstein, i used to have respect for her, i have lost all respect for her. She is, in my opinion, has taken her direction, from obama, and this is obamas getting even for the republican win in the last elections and im disgusted. To your point, let me show you what republican john mccain had to say, who was tortured by vietnamese and he was on the floor yesterday, and he talked about, he was the first republish xan to speak right after the senator, listen to what he had had to say about releasing this report. The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow. It causes us difficult tits at home and, abroad, it is sometimes used by our enemies in attempts to hurt us, but the American People are entitled had to it, nonetheless. They put know when the values are disregarded, by our Security Policy says even those policies that are conducted in secret. They must be able to make informed judgements, about whether those policies and the personnel, who supported them, were justified and compromising our values. And whether they served the greater good, or whether, as i believe, they stayed in our national honor, did much harm, and also practical good. What were the policies . What was their purpose . Did they achieve it . Did they make us safer . Less safe . Or did they make no difference. What did they gain us . What did they cost us . The American People need the answers to these questions. Yes, somethings must be kept from public dislow sure to protect operations, sources and methods, and not the answers to these questions. By providing them, the committee has empower he had American People to come to their own decisions whether we should have employed such practices in the past, and consider permitting them in the future. He is in support of releasing report from the senate inever Intelligence Committee. So were getting your thoughts and comments about the Senate Intelligence report, on entire row investigation techniques, and, ken, is an intelligence writer, and well go to jackie next. Dem Court Reporter particular caller. Caller good morning. My comment is that, the United States always tries to present itself as the humanitarian nation, and nation of free people, and, the American People had called for transparency. Im in my opinion, this is another case, of the United States of america, presenting the rules, and, not abiding by them. Them. Okay. Did they break the rules of International Law . Guest well, im not a lawyer, so im probably not qualified toy opine on that question. Which, what they argue, is that, these techniques were sanctioned by the Justice Department. The legal opinions, have been repute yated and criticized and thats one of the main reasons that they were not charged. There was a long criminal investigation into these cases and it was reexamined, and the decision was made not to charge anyone and thats one of my major questions, i would like to see the legal reason, and understand what informs those cases when everyone is acknowledging that they exceeded the guidance, those memos, that approved some of these techniques, those were exceeded. And water boarding was not done the way the Justice Department laid out in the memos, that it should be done. And so, that is one of the big questions. International law, thats something im not qualified to discuss. Is there an issue there with the lying to the congress, and lying to the white house officials. Well, i mean, the report, has whole sections what they call misrepresentations and it is not clear, whether the miss representations were inteptional. These, this program was working and producing good intelligence. In some cases that was mallish us and, there was false fabrications, that werent learned about until later. So theres a whole thing at the end of the report, where haden is testifying and so, report has his testimony, and next to it, a what the report calls misrepprepare sensations and, his position is, this is what i was told, and i didnt run the program, and i didnt run it. And this is what records were showing. So, whether people lied is an interesting open question. Its not resolved in this report. By the way, how this is playing out, let me show you some headlines, this is the guardian, and, in washington, torture the stain on america, and then you also have some papers from the mideast, this is the daily news, out of egypt, u. S. Warned the heightened tensions. And then, this is from arab news, c. I. A. Torture brutal and ineffective. And also, this from the u. A. E. , c. I. A. Lies and brutality exposed. So, those are on the front pages. Arthur, a republican, you are next. Caller good morning. This sounds like a bunch of Political Correctness gone haywire, and, i think the main thing, is to go back to the context of you know, things that were happening at the time. 9 11 and, such, and, excuse me, the c. I. A. Perhaps was using methods that they thought were tried and true. All right. Well go to bill. Independent. You know, as a decorated disabled vietnam veteran, im appalled. As your guest stated, none of the c. I. A. Drkters were interviewed, and none o of the participants, and this is like you base a persons alcohol lifl by going to the garbage can, and instead of asking them if they drank today. I think it any american, overseas is harmed because of this report, this add minutestration, and Diane Feinstein should be held accountable. We are not under the gentlemagenevaconvention. So, compared to the bee heading that ises and offers have done, i just, im just so mad about this, that i can believe that the Democratic Party could be so vindictive to release this report, because they have sour grapes over losing the last election. Lets talk about the first part of that. What do you make of it . I think that, while it would have been better, if they could have interviewed people, at the end of the day, the 6 million documents are so revealing and, they included, c. I. A. Cables and emails, and sometimes, the documents tell stories, and, that these things work, he may not know. The documents tell a story, and any journalists understand, it can tell a story, more valuable than interviews. There are reporting of what happened at the time. I think, i dont think thats a grounds on which to disbelieve this report. And this report, americans, would judge our standard by what the isis terrorists are doing. The former c. I. A. Officials, under the Bush Administration have created a website, to to refeut this report, while the senator was on the floor speaking, and they went live with their website. And arry fresher tweeted out the link, at the same time, with this. C. I. A. Officers who worked there have set up a webpage with their side of the story, and its called c. I. A. Saved lives. Com. Who is behind this website . Well, the former directors, and former c. I. A. Officials have been gearing up for months. They knew it was coming, and they have a very Sophisticated Campaign and, interviews, and, so, theyre setting, theyre protecting their reputations and theres a heartfelt believe, that, i think, whats debatable here, did they work . That is the most debatable part of the report. And everyone thought, its been known for months. That was the conclusion. That was always going to be a tough thing to prove. The report is comprehensive, and makes a lot of detailed arguments. But it is going to be hard for those ever these people, they were trying to protect the