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A senate report on post 9/11 cia interrogation methods. tracy pots live in washington. some have called the report shoging. >> reporter: that's what diane feinstein called. she's part of the committee that wants to release it. it's not new. they approved it more than a year ago. but the public hasn't seen it yet. did the cia cross the line using water and other techniques to interrogate terror suspects after 9/11? did it work? is this how the u.s. tracked down bin laden? and prevented other attacks? we may soon know. the senate intelligence committee voted 11-3 thursday to give the pub lake lo...

Being told again today in "the washington post." the article quotes unnamed officials who say they have seen a damning 163-page report. the officials say it details how the cia misled the nation regarding its interrogation methods. in some cases taking credit for intelligence gathered by standard fbi interrogation methods and crediting so-called enhanced interrogation instead. that includes the intelligence that led to the whereabouts and ultimately the killing of osama bin laden. the report also includes previously undisclosed cases of abuse as well as new disclosures about cia black sites wh...

The report. that's a 400-page summary of a 6300 page report. joining me is ron suskind and author of four books on presidential power, including the bush-cheney administration. and his new book "life animated" is about the unique way his autistic son has learned to communicate. a correspondent who cowrote today's front story. greg, we got to start with you this. is so complete a statement that it just rocks me. to say in this breathtaking claim or report the senate committee is saying basically that torture never helped us. is that a fair statement? >> yeah, i think that's their bottom line co...

Illegal. i think the question is how much of the detail of what happened should properly be revealed to the public and that's being battled out between ci and the congress as it should be. that's basically how this dynamic should work. >> can i just jump in on that? >> should look at what the cia does and between the two, some balance should be struck. >> sam, go ahead. >> there's always been a tug of war within this administration over how much you should reveal about what we were doing both in the past and under this presidency, with respect to intelligence gathering, to interrogation method...

Agency's brutal interrogation methods, including waterboarding. committee chair dianne feinstein is pushing for parts of the report to be declassified. the white house says it supports her effort. the cia doesn't agree. last summer, cia director john brennan wrote 122-page rebuttal challenging specific findings and the report's overall conclusion about the program's value. in other words, the senate committee found that torture was ineffective. the president's cia chief doesn't agree with that finding. members of the senate intelligence committee fought back. in a hearing late last year, senat...