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What's clear is that the cia set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. >> reporter: the president was responding to senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein's damning report on cia interrogations that said detainees were waterboarded, kept in dungeon conditions, others naked, hooded and dragged while being slapped and punched. the report said the agency misled the bush administration about the program and no cia officer up to and including cia directors briefed the president on the tactics before april, 2006. in response to the repo...

Brutal tactics did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. feinstein told cnn that's wrong. >> an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> reporter: but three former cia directors say their program helped lead to the killing of osama bin laden. in an op-ed in the "wall street journal," george tenant, michael hayden and porter goss insisted they suspected bin laden was plotting to blow up new york city with a nuclear weapon adding it felt like the classic ticking time bomb sc...

All of those documents. cia director john brennan strongly disagreed with the senate report's findings. he said this, "our interview indicates interrogations of detainees subject to enhanced interrogation did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. the intelligence gained from the program was critical to our understanding of al qaeda and it continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day." why would he say that if it wasn't true? >> that's typical of an intelligence service anywhere in the world to exaggerate cases like this, but if...

Produce intelligence, that helped thwart attack plans. feinstein told cnn that's wrong. >> an examination of the records going back to the beginning of the program indicates that this is simply not true. >> but three former c.i.a. directors say their program helped lead to the killing of osama bin laden. in an op-ed in the "wall street journal," three officials said they suspected that bin laden was planning to blow up new york city with a nuclear weapon. many top republicans accuse feinstein of unleashing a political attack. >> it's very clear this appears to be simply an attempt to rewrite h...

He welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. here's now abc's jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says it's flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. and in a fiery defense of the spy agency's honor, three former cia directors and their deputies say in "the wall street journal" the senate report is a partisan attac...