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It's important to look forward and not backwards, and to remind ourselves that we do have very real security threats out there. >> that summer, the department of justice opened an investigation into allegations of torture at the hands of the cia. after three years of investigation, the folks at doj also decided they, too, would look forward, officially dropping their torture investigation, filing no criminal charges. but even after the doj dropped its investigation, the president made nice with the cia, the senate intelligence committee was pressing on. the committee spent four years conductin...

Unacceptable to me and i would make it my goal on day one of my tenure and every day thereafter to strengthen the trust between us. >> joining me, national security correspondent for "the new york times," mark mazetti who is author of the way of the knife, the cia, a secret army and a war at the ends of the earth. compelling reporting you've been doing. thank you for joining us. my first question to you is, do you have any sense, this report the senate intelligence committee report, not declassified but do you have any sense of what might be in it? what -- how much it may mirror the cia's own ...

That these methods didn't produce any valuable intelligence. in terps of the cia's internal review, the panetta review, it's our understanding it's a summary of documents. the panetta in 2009 put his staff on this project to basically figure out what they were turning over to the committee to summarize the documents. the panetta review is a series of memos that provides analysis. it's our understanding some of the documents do have some pretty critical assessments of the cia's own interrogation methods. >> were surprised at john brennan's 180 making the report job, a top priority, a year late ...

Interrogation where some of the most controversial practices on the war on terror took place. committee had access to million of classified cables and documents. in 2012, four years and some 48 million taxpayer dollars late, the senate report was finished. committee submitted its 6300-page report to the cia for an official response. according to "the new york times," quote, people who have read the study said it is a withering indictment of the program and details many instances when cia officials misled congress, the white house, and the public about the value of the agency's brutal interroga...

The cia's own account, the program's interrogation methods were designed to psychologically dislocate people and once the interrogation stopped the agency had to try and undo the psychological damage inflicted on detainees. one of the ways in which they bring people back effectively from insanity is by giving prisoners tasks to do. the fact that we as the united states of america are doing this and have to do this i find deplorable. >> we have -- exactly. i completely agree with you. we have to go back to the ora e original intention which is to have security in america. to win the hearts and ...