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She's a career professional. i think she'll have to answer for some of the things she did but for the most part i think the agency is out of that business. >> need, what do you think? >> i think it was a covert action program. they are designed, conceived and authorized by policy makers. by the white house in particular and by the president of the united states himself. we can't look at this as something that gina haspel herself cooked up. this is something that hundreds, if not thousands of agency personnel during that dark period did pursuant to policy aims. i think these brave men and women...

Shortcomings identified in the report are the following. the cia used poorly trained and nonvetted personnel. individuals were deployed in particular interrogators without relevant training or experience. due to the cia's redactions to the report, there are limits to what i can say in this regard. it's a clear fact that the cia deployed officers who had histories of personal, ethical, and professional problems of a serious nature. these included histories of violence and abusive training treatment of others. and should have called into question their employment with the united states governmen...

Released. due to poor recordkeeping, a full accounting of how many specific detainees were held and how they were specifically treated while in custody may never be known. similarly, in specific instances, we found that enhanced interrogation techniques were used without authorization in a manner far different and more brutal than had been authorized by the office of legal counsel and conducted by personnel not approved to use them on detainees. questions about how and when to apply interrogation techniques were ad hoc and not proposed, evaluated and approved in the manner described by the cia...

Detainees, mueller said that videotapes were, quote, not being made, end quote, but did not disclose that videotapes of previous waterboarding sessions had been made and still existed. source, e-mail from scott mueller dated june 7th, 2003. there are many, many more examples in the committee's report. all are documented. the third set of findings and conclusions notes the various ways in which cia management of the detention and management program from the inception to the formal termination in january of '09 was inadequate and deeply flawed. there is no doubt that the program was by any major...

Military veterans had this scathing review of what this report says, john mccain. but we have current troops serving overseas. is there grave concern, given what was reported today for those people? >> yeah, there's a lot of concern although, as he said, these people do not need an excuse to go after americans. it's what they do. this may drive up the recruiting effort for isis and other organizations to see what the americans are all about. we've got to stop this evil. that could happen. i think people are going to take this as the condemnation because there's not one positive thing in that r...