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These are people in the fight against america. it is only people who we are engaged in conflict with, in war with that are identified and listed as possible targets for the drone program. >> you support killing these terrorists? >> i support the drone program. i absolutely do and so do most of these people talking about this report. dianne feinstein is a strong supporter of the drone program and she's right. and i agree with her. >> senator, stand by. we have more questions. i want to go through this report with you, senator james risch of the intelligence committee. we'll resume the conversat...

We're following the breaking news, fear of terrorist retaliation following the release of the senate report on alleged cia torture. it's prompted an unusual warning by the fbi and the department of homeland security to all u.s. law enforcement agencies across the country. we're talking about the report with republican senator james risch of idaho. he's a member of the senate intelligence committee. john mccain, republican senator, a man you know well, he himself was tortured in vietnam during the vietnam war. he went on the floor right after dianne feinstein, strongly endorsed what the committ...

I'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we're following the breaking news. an unusual joint warning by the fbi and the department of homeland security. they're telling law enforcement agencies nationwide to be on alert right now for a possible terrorist response to the senate report on cia interrogation. that report released today. the blistering document five years in the making details interrogation techniques adopted after the 9/11 terror attacks that are described as cruel, inhumane and degrading. we're covering all angles of the breaking news with our correspondents and our gu...

Taking down the al qaeda leader. >> brian, didn't some of those interrogations lead to what were described as fabricated information about bin laden's so-called courier? >> yes, he said when the cia built confidence that they knew all about bin laden's courier, they went to khalid sheikh mohammed to ask him about the courier. mclaughlin said mohammed denied any knowledge about the courier, they say mohammed was lying about it. he lied to them to protect bin laden but in lying to them, he tipped them off that the information they had about that courier was right. >> brian, thanks very much. joi...

The proposed program before it was finally approved so they were in before the thing was actually put into place. >> and what about the chair, the chairman and the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee and the house intelligence committee at that time? were they told about what you guys at the cia were doing? >> yes. the program officially began when i received the memorandum from the department of justice approving the techniques. >> do you remember who you briefed specifically? >> i was not in that particular briefing. but it was originally the chairman was a democrat senator. >...