and some democratic lawmakers have admitted they were briefed on these things years and years ago, and we all remember the days after 9/11 when people were afraid. there was some unity about going after these guys and getting the intelligence that we could. the report is now saying the intelligence didn t really help, these enhanced interrogation techniques didn t really take us anywhere. plenty of folks were saying, yes, they did, and they re pointing to specific instances of where those techniques actually led to actionable intelligence. your take? two claims. one, what was done was illegal. no, it wasn t. the legal advice at the time to the americans who were conducting these was, yeah, it was legal. it was done in the aftermath of september 11th. i live in new york. we assumed there was another attack coming imminently. the second thing was what was the intelligence gathered, was it effective? look, we ve had three former directors of the cia, deputy directors of the cia, people
shannon: thank you very much. we ve got breaking news on the new cia intel report. thank you both for your time. thank you. shannon: jon? jon: the report that all of washington has been waiting for and in some cases dreading is now officially out. the executive summary of the senate intelligence committee s 6,000-page report on the cia and its conduct in the days and years after the nerve attacks 9/11 attacks is now out in the public domain. it finds that the cia apparently, according to this report, routinely misled the white house and congress about the information that it obtained from the detention and interrogation of terror suspects. it also says that the cia s interrogation methods were more brutal than it has admitted to. it also accuses the cia of overstating the administration i m sorry, the information that it received as a result of techniques like waterboarding and one more thing, one more little nugget,
the cia has priestly said that only previously said that only three isn ts, including khalid sheikh mohammed, were summited to waterboarding. this report apparently finds there were other subjects of waterboarding that the cia has not talked about. again, it is going to be the topic in washington today. there you see senator angus king of maine who is, apparently, chairing the committee for today. senator diane dianne feinstein is going to be reading from the elements, i m sorry, from the executive summary of the report she s going to be taking to the well of the senate momentarily. at any rate, we will continue to keep our eye on that. it is a huge story. joining us to talk about it, former cia analyst and senior managing i m sorry, senior analyst and managing editor of lignet.com, fred nice. fred fleiss.
committee. the republicans on that panel do not agree with this, and former vice president dick cheney has already spoke b out spoken out saying in part, quote: when we had that program in place, we kept the country safe from any more mass casualty attacks. the program, he added was the, quote, right thing to do, and if i had to do it over again, i would do it. george bush said anymore over the weekend saying he believes this report sort of goes after intelligence officials who were trying to do their jobs and keep the country safe. it would do the country a disservice, according to former president bush, something i pressed josh earnest about yesterday. listen. does the president, current president share the former president s concerns at all, that some intelligence officials might, there might be an impression they re being thrown under the bus here? the president does believe, like president bush expressed, i believe, that the vast majority of the men and women in our intelligen
u.s. embassies preparing for increased security threats. ed henry is live with the story. reporter: it s interesting, because it is the white house playing both sides of this. on the one hand, josh earnest saying yesterday again and again that in the interests of transparency, the president and his top aides want to see this report out there, want it to see the light of day so the country knows what happened and that the country sees what the president believes was torture even though republicans insist that s not actually what happened. on the other hand, the white house secretary of state john kerry has also been expressing some of the concerns that republicans have had. secretary kerry on friday calling democratic senator dianne feinstein, the chair of the senate intel committee, raising questions about the timing of this release because of the threat from isis, other terrorists around the world and how this may stir up more trouble. it s interesting, because you also have to reme