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The shocking, controversial and long-anticipated report on the cia's use of torture, that report has been publicly released, reigniting not only the debate over the morality of torture but its effectiveness. whether, for instance, it saved american lives, whether it helps the u.s. capture and kill osama bin laden. former bush administration officials including vice president dick they chi argued the cia's enhanced interrogation program helped them interrupt terror plots, gain valuable understanding of al qaeda and led them to bin laden's hideout in abu dhaad bad. >> at no time did the cia's co...

>> the senate intelligence committee's five and a half year review of the cia's detention and interrogation program which was conducted between 2002 and 2009 is being released publicly. the executive summary which is going out today is backed by a 6,700 page classified and unredacted report with 38,000 footnote which is can be released if necessary at a later time. the report released today examines the cia's secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals and the use of coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases amounting to torture. over the past couple of weeks, i've gone throug...

The american public. third, the cia's management of the program was inadequate and deeply flawed. fourth, the cia program was far more brutal than people were led to believe. let me describe each category in more detail. the first set of findings and conclusions concerned the effectiveness or lack there of of the interrogation program. the committee found that the cia's coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. the cia and other defenders of the program have repeatedly claimed that the use of so-called inte...

Long-time hawkish ally, spoke out in a pretty historic speech today on the senate floor. >> what is true is that actionable intelligence that was, quote, otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. >> msnbc's joy reid is out on assignment but she learned new information about attorney general's eric holder's reaction to this report. joy joins me by phone. what can you tell us? >> i spoke with a senior administration official who made the point that the information that is new to the public, newly declassified intelligence report...

Building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi and, more recently, the interagency high value detainee group, that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a few other comments on the claimed effectiveness of the cia interrogations. at no time did the cia coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for these techniques. the committee never found an example of this hypothetical ticking time bomb scenario. the use of coercive technique methods regul...