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hello, i m john berman. michaela pereira is off today. we d like to welcome our viewers to the united states and around the world. breaking news at this hour. a highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to terror detainees after september 11 and if it worked. any minute now senator dianne feinstein will present this report. you re looking at live pictures of the senate well. the senator will detail tactics and policies used during the bush administration against al qaeda suspects waterboarding, sleep deprivations, reservations about secret overseas prisons. the so-called black sites, all that expected to be included. what is in the report is controversial, releasing it at all is controversial. heightened security around the world because of fears the report could spark anti-american violence. evan perez has a preview of what s in the report. also, dana bash who just spoke with senator dianne feinstein. ....
Review. quote, uncertainty regarding the bounds of the courts order and it s application for the activities of the fbi has caused the intelligence community to pause temporarily this critically important work. they argue that the government and the public are republican injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security forces joined. so that pretty urgent seeming intelligence reviewed has been stopped, the doj is saying here. because, despite the judges order to carry on while the criminal mastication is put on hold, the investigation and the intelligence committees review are intertwined. quote, the intelligence communities review and assessment cannot be readily segregated from the doj and fbi activities. okay, let s take a step back here for a second. the fact that the intelligence communities review has been halted, that seemed significant, to say the least. because every day we are finding out more about what was ....
The committee s majority staff reviewed more than 6.3 million pages of these documents provided by the cia as well as records from other departments and agencies. these records include finished intelligence assessments, cia operational and intelligence cables, memoranda, e-mails, realtime chat sessions, inspector general reports, testimony before congress, pictures and other internal records. it s true, we didn t conduct our own interviews, and let me tell you why that was the case. in 2009 there was an ongoing review by department of justice special prosecutor john durham. on august 24th attorney general holder expanded that review. this occurred six months after ....
Summary also indicated that the suspects did not, as a result of the use of these so-called eits, provide the kind of intelligence that led the cia to stop terrorist plots or arrest additional suspects. as a result, i think it s fair to say the entire committee was concerned, and it had proved the scope of an investigation by a vote it approved the scope of an investigation by a vote of 14-1, and the work began. in my march 11, 2014, floor speech about the study, i described how in 2009 the committee came to an agreement with the new cia director, leon panetta, for access to documents and other records about the cia s detention and interrogation program, so i won t repeat that here. from 2009 to 2012, our staff conducted a massive and unprecedented review of cia ....
Abu zubaida did not provide the kind of intelligence that led the cia to stop terrorist plots or arrest additional suspects. as a result, i think it s fair to say the entire committee was concerned and it approved the scope of an investigation by a vote of 14-1 and the work began. in my march 11, 2014, floor speech about the study, i described how, in 2009, the committee came to an agreement with the new cia director, leon panetta, for access to documents and other records about the cia s detention and interrogation program. so i won t repeat that here. from 2009 to 2012 our staff conducted a massive and unprecedented review of cia ....