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Behind leadership and saying that this report is inappropriate, they don't believe it was -- includes a lot of the information it should have and they're worried it's going to endanger people operating in the field, particularly given the fact that everything that's in the report happened years ago and it's a program that's not really being used anymore. and i think that's -- that's where you do see some partisanship. but even there, most of the republicans that we've talked to have been -- they don't really to want get out there and talk about this issue one way or the other. it's making ever...

The three years after 9/11. those who were in charge say the committee never once bothered to interview them, any of these former spies have launched ciasavelives.com calling it a one-stop shopping place for the other side. the cia says, simply put, the study tells part of the story. the cia then goes on to address each of the 20 case studies. also missing from the study were interviews with the detainees who survived these techniques. regardless of where you stand on the motivation behind the report, the use of these techniques and who was responsible, our embassies and military bases around ...

Doing counterterrorism activities. essentially you had the cia taking on drone strikes, hiring psychologists to come up with ways to torture information out of people. in a way, undercut the hard work the cia is so good at doing gather human intelligence and giving the policymakers and decision-makers the information they need. what happened after 9/11 is we had an explosion in the budget at the cia, so you had unlimited money. and basically nonexistent oversight and it resulted in really undercutting of the quality of information we have and diverted resources from where they should have been...

Of information that you use to validate another piece of information. and then you take another piece of the mosaic and eventually you get together and put a puzzle. so, was it totally valueless? it's hard to know. was it worth the compromising our moral position? probably not. and i think that's where -- what senator mccain said. after 9/11, and you have to remember the context of all of this, there was an atrocity and for many years the u.s. lost its way. and i think everyone can agree with that. and there was abuses not just by the cia. there was abu ghraib carried out by military police. t...

But effectively was hinting that they stonewalled congressional investigators at some point. kind of brings into question this whole idea of legislators, executives, we've been talking on a whole lot of issues but you see that relationship between executive branch and cia very, very close, even when there's a democratic president, too close for some in the senate here. >> luke russert, thank you for that. chief foreign correspondent richard engel. as luke just referenced, john mccain gave a very powerful, historic speech on the floor today. let's roll a bit of that. john mccain talking about w...