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To a construct, a rationale to say they didn't tell us the truth. interrogations were the right thing to do. if i had to do it all over again, i would do it. on a personal note, i know scores of americans who lost loved ones on 9/11. i have watched their children grow up without mothers and fathers. if i were president, i would have authorized waterboarding and other severe interrogation methods of high ranking captured terrorists. it is morally correct to protect innocent lives from bare bare bare -- bar bare barbarians. it's not theory it's reality. we are a nation of laws but we are involve...

Good wednesday morning. i'm t.j. holmes. >> i'm reena ninan. here are some of the top headlines on "world news now." former heads of the cia are defending the interrogation methods. this after the release of a senate report which detailed the often brutal tactics used on terror suspects. full details in a moment. a fourth night of protests in the bay area. police firing rubber bullets overnight as they block another highway in berkeley. they stopped amtrak service and forced officials to postpone a city council meeting. severe weather taking aim on both coasts. some 36 million americans ar...

Agency colleagues about certain of those eits, such as waterboarding, nudity and others, where i professed my personal objections to it, but i did not try to stop it because it was, you know, something that was being done in a different part of the agency under the authority of others. >> so even he had personal objections to some of the things that they were doing. >> and he also said in response to this report that the interrogation methods helped. look, you and i can argue this back and forth. i'm glad it's out there. let the american people decide. the only point i was making with my comme...

That makes it sound like the cia was not only torturing bad guys like ksm or abu zubaida, but inon sent people. >> you're using the word torture and i would dispute that the people in enhanced interrogation program, that was harsh, brutal tactic. >> you're not disputing that the force-feeding people rectally is torture. >> no, absolutely not. those were abuses. the system was not perfect. there were abuses along the way. >> it's more than abuses. they were abhorrent. >> i'm not going to contest that. >> it sounds like innocent people, not just bad guy, innocent people were subjected to this to...

Who had been a drift since thanksgiving. the man was tired, hungry and dehydrated but otherwise okay. he's expected to be back on land today. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, december 10th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." we begin with the cia on the defensive following the release of the scathing report on torture. former heads say those interrogation methods saved thousands of american lives. >> but the report says the use of waterboarding produced no worthwhile intelligence. here now abc's karen travers in washington. >> reporter: humiliating abu...