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Other public emergency may be invoked as a justification for torture." nonetheless it was argued that the need for information on possible additional terrorist plots after 9/11 made extraordinary interrogation techniques necessary. even if one were to set aside all of the moral arguments, our review was a meticulous and detailed examination of records. it finds that coercive interrogation techniques did not produce the vital otherwise unavailable intelligence the cia has claimed. i will go into further detail on this issue in a moment, but let me make clear, these comments are not a condemnati...

Motivated, essentially the democratic senate's last chance to release it it shifts. and they say these methods produce no actionable intelligence. senate republicans say it led to the break-up of terrorist plots, the arrest of leaders, even the killing of osama bin laden. the white house today refused to wade into that debate over intel or the other big one, whether people should have been prosecuted over this. but they did call the release of the report an example for democracy. here's the vice president. >> we made a mistake. we made a mistake. we're exposing it. that will strengthen us worl...

Policymakers in their interests to collect intelligence for the benefits of germany. we get it. this is an adult relationship. the problem here is that they have iranian spies there. they have russian spies there. they have the whole host and panoply of countries spying in germany. i don't see them interested in throwing their chiefs out. and again, what's so concerning about this is there are times that the american intelligence services have provided information that have saved german lives because they had this convoluted rule system about what they can and can't do at the local level in ge...

Entire chemical arsenal has been removed from its borders. the most dangerous material is set to be destroyed aboard a u.s. ship at sea this. handover was part of a deal that was reached last fall under threat of u.s. air strikes, but questions still linger about whether or not syria is still hiding undeclared poison gasses that are not classified as chemical weapons. a federal court has released a heavily redacted 41-page government memo outlining the legal justification for a drone strike in 2011 that called anwar al awlaki, an american citizen in yemen. he was linked to an al qaeda affili...

Prohibits the nsa on the bulk collection of american records. the data is used to search for listenings to terror plots overseas. but the bill doesn't go far enough in protecting the american privacy. and the senate holding a vote on the controercy. molly has more on this. >> reporter: that nsa bill had overwhelming bipartisan support in the house passing 303 to 121. and prohibits the nsa from storing american phone records and requires them to keep the records for 15 months. and the nsa would need a court order to search the records for connecks to terrorist plots. one of the democrats call...