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Severe storm on the west coast. it was quite a doozy. sony executives forced to apologize after leaked e-mails reveal some ugly comments. and the celebrity who has claims against bill cosby. the cia director defending the agency but admitting his mistakes. this came days after a scathing u.s. senate report on cia interrogations. the tactics amounted to torture. but britain had a different take as we learned from cnn's barbara starr. >> reporter: in a 45 minute long press conference. john brennan never used the word torture to describe interrogation practices. >> i consider them abhorrent.

Imagine a full disclosure kind of place. not even on cia practices against terror detainees can change that. however, that report put out by committee democrats has shaken the agency and moved director john brennan to speak out. today from headquarters in la lanki lankily, not far from the inscription it reads not far from the truth and the truth shall lay you free. and edited and sometimes contradictory version of the truth as he sees it. the details now from barbara starr. >> reporter: in a 45 minute long press conference, cia director john brennan never used the word torture to describe int...

Torture to describe interrogation practices. >> as i said, in some instances i believe them to be abhor ebt and i'll let others describe them. >> he defended his agency, reminding everyone of the difficult challenges after 9/11. >> in our pain, we pledged to come together as one and to do what we could to prevent osama bin laden and his killing machine from ever carrying out another attack. >> it led to so-called enhanced interrogation techniques against detainees, waterboarding, being put in stress position, deprived of sleeps and chained to walls. he admitted mistakes were made by some but n...

John brennan served at the cia under president bush, was a big supporter of these tough interrogation practices and continues to be now a cia director under president obama. and in fact, agrees more with perhaps with former vice president cheney than the current vice president biden or current president obama. because john brennan in the last 25 hours put out a statement saying these harsh tactics worked. they brought in good intelligence. and they helped prevent terror attacks. something this white house disagrees with. so there's a contradiction within the administration. a final point i'll ...

On cia interrogation practices. dianne feinstein u.s. senator from california calling some of the cia tactics torture. george tenet saying the program saved thousands of american lives. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge joins us. catherine, first of all this alert. what about that? >> what's missing in the conversation is this is in fact a self-inflicted terror alert. if the report had not been released. the alert that it could provoke violence would not be necessary. >> released by the democrats on the senate committee as well as support of the obama administration sort of m...