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Department. so there are many mistakes that were made and the agency officials will admit that today, but they also want people to understand that the twin towers were lying in a heap of ruin at ground zero. they were doing what they thought was necessary to defend the country. and in addition, brooke, i think it's important -- >> yeah. >> -- at that time, members of congress were yelling at the agency saying this has been a colossal intelligence failure, get any information you can about al qaeda. who are they? whether there are attack plans, how can we stop the next attack? and that context ...

Intelligence that helped thwart attack plans. they say it was critical to our understanding of al qaeda and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day. and, of course, they disagree with the accusation that the cia systematically and intentionally misled on the effectiveness of the program, congress, various entities of the executive branch and the public. so there is a lot of pushback to this report in addition to the voluminous report itself, which details some horrific things done by the cia to detainees. >> so there was the pushback, there was also the potential prosecuti...

Was more brutal than the cia ever told the americans, ever told the congress, that it was poorly managed. the cia didn't really know what it was doing in managing this program and lost track of detainees for a period and that it misled the congress and white house department and president bush himself did not get briefed fully on this program, wolf, until 2006, according to the senate report, which is a big deal because, as you know, president bush in his biography describes that he was fully knowledgeable about what was going on, that he supports it and thought everything was done properly. >...

Then. here's what the cia director, john brennan, an official statement from the cia said today in response to your report -- our review indicates that interrogations of detainees on whom e.i.t.s, enhanced interrogation techniques, were used 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 continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day. john brennan, a man you know well, a man i know, he was appointed cia director by president obama, not by george...

Is using social media to try to get other people to help them that that would get reported to the fbi and that has. that's how the fbi has been able to thwart so many people that have said they're going go overseas and join isis physically or have been radicalized here to do an attack. many of those attack plans or aspirational plans have been thwarted because someone called the fbi and said "check out this person's social media contacts." >> tom fuentes, thanks for your insight as always. i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. stay with cnn tonight for an exclusive meet the al qaeda terrorist ...