CNN CNN Newsroom With Carol Costello December 10, 2014 15:31:00
Sleep deprivation, yes, those were approved techniques by the department of justice as not constituting torture. therefore we proceeded to include those in some of the ways we interrogated high level al qaeda terrorists. they were very tough. i'm not going to say these techniques, the waterboarded and extending sleep deprivation, i won't anybody miminimize it, th tough tactics. >> federal officials are warning agencies across the country to be on alert out of fear jihadists could retaliate with some sort of attack. let's bring in justice correspondent pamela brown to find out more. good mornin...