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Lot of efforts to circumvent oversight and to report to top officials exactly what was happening within that program. the president for his part has already reacted to the release of this report. i want to read for you what president obama has said in part. today's report reports one element of our nation's response to 9/11. the cia's interrogation program which i formally ended on one of my first days in the office. the report reinforces my long-held view that these harsh methods were not only inconsistent with our values as a nation, they did not serve our broader con t broader counterterror...

Bounds to what they said were okay? >> make no mistake about it, what senators feinstein and mccain described are crimes. it's a criminal enterprise which was described not only in the violation of international domestic laws, which we all knew about in the running of a torture program but equally unsettling was the determined effort to hide that program, including what both senators described as false information being given to them by former directors of the cia, the general counsel of the cia. some of the most disturbing new facts that came out of this presentation is the extent to which th...

Information about the program and its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the cia inspector general, the media and the american public. this conclusion is somewhat personal for me. i remember clearly when director hayden briefed the intelligence committee for the first time on the so-called eits at that september 2006 committee meeting. he referred specifically to a, quote, tummy slap, among other techniques and presented the entire techniques as minimally harmful and implied in a highly clinical and professional manner. they were not. the committee's report ...

In the last hour, if you've just been watching. i'd like to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. significant findings in this report that the cia interrogation techniques were far more brutal than were led on to government officials and that were released to the public. also, that the program itself was grossly mismanaged, that they circumvented congress and the white house in terms of effective communication and also advising. not only that but they underreported the number of detainees that they were subjecting to this harsh interrogation series of techniques, that ...

National security issed viseor tom done lynn is the likely source of the leak. >> we as members of the intelligence committee can't confirm whether the programs exist and yet you have national security advisor talking the covert action program. u.s. attorneys are proven record of independence they need to be objective saying campaign donations and reported vetting of presidential candidates. >> appoint tees of the obama administration are tasks with doing the investigation and reporting to guess who? to attorney general eric holder. >> senior intelligence official says the leaks stay in line...