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He welcomed the report and backed its findings. former heads of the spy agency are speaking out saying those extreme interrogation methods did save lives. here's now abc's jonathan karl. >> the tactics were harsh but the cia says it's flat out wrong to say they did not work. the brutal interrogations the cia director george brennan said did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. and in a fiery defense of the spy agency's honor, three former cia directors and their deputies say in "the wall street journal" the senate report is a partisan attac...

The torture was brutal, the detainees were waterboarded, and others were fed rectally. it didn't even produce intelligence. they strongly disagree with these assessments. do you believe that these tactics were needed? >> i think there are two sides to this. i think tomorrow, for example, in the "washington post," you're going to read from john mclauk lan, the acting director of the cia in 2004 and deputy director for a four-year time period at the critical sequence, and he will make the case that indeed they did work. jose rodriguez was in charge of the harsh interrogation methods. he's been a...

Think their captors will believe it. i know they will say whatever they think their torturers want them to say if they believe it will stop their suffering. most of all, i know the use of torture compromises that which most distinguishes us from our enemies. our belief that all people, even captured enemies, possess basic human rights which are protected by international conventions, the united states not only joined but for the most part, author. i know, too, that bad things happen in war. i know in war, good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to ...

Gouging during an emergency. a slow moving storm is churning through the region today dumping heavy rain on the coast and snow inland. flood watches are posted as up to four inches of rainfalls. winter storm warnings are in effect for interior sections, expecting from six to 12 inches of snow. the senate report condemning cia interrogation methods after the naa 9/11 attacks. we'll talk about it all with to the panel when we return.

Intelligence to defute or energies but torture leads to more misleading information than actionable intelligence. and what the advocates of harsh and cruel interrogation methods have never established is that we couldn't get more reliable intelligence from using hugh maybe methods. most importantly we got in the search for osama bin laden came from using conventional interrogation methods. i think it's an insult to the many intelligence officers who have acquired good intelligence without hurting or degrading prisoners to assert we can't win the war without such methods. we can and we will. bu...