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>> john brennan in what some thought would be a defense of the torture program but instead he made explicit his agreement with most of the criticism of the cia in the senate intelligence committee report. >> the cia was unprepared to conduct and intention and interrogation program and our officers inadequately developed and monitored its initial activities. the agency failed to establish quickly the operational guidelines needed to govern the entire effort. in a limited number of cases, agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized, were abhorrent and rightly shoul...

Deceitful about how that torture program contributed to getting evidence from him. as you know, you've had the fbi agent who was in charge of this on your show. that all came out before they brought in the torturer -- >> he provided useful information under fbi techniques that were not coercive. they started torturing him thereafter and got nothing else useful from him. >> they'll say that the torture program -- i should say that the interrogation program got this out. but what they don't distinguish is the legitimate interrogation done by fbi and cia officials and this ham handed, amateurish ...

We troll tlood awe lot of the shared information and now let's sit down with the people involved from the program, agency, and pursue these and say look we've got a document here about abu zubaydah, or bin ail machine, wh al shooeb. that's one of the things missing from this massive report. >> tom, the other side of this is they say we didn't do it because we had the documents, we didn't need to deal with people we think might be deceptive for us, do you think that was a legitimate basis for not doing the i the interviews? >> no, i think the interviews would have been necessary to do a complet...

So are we done with torture? are we proud of ourselves for being willing to admit what we've done and be open about it? that's not even settled. stay tuned. friday's the next chapter in that. and, and this is a difficult one. are we done with this in terms of people who are currently serving in the u.s. government? the cia cooked up its torture program under president george w. bush. today, though, in what may be his final speech as a united states senator, colorado democrat mark udall took to the floor of the senate and said one of the ways this whole thing is not over is that some of the peo...

>> there is good news op the senate intelligence report on torture and that is that no one in the government knew anything about torture before the cia got into the torture business. they didn't have a well trained cadre of torturers ready to go, and so as senator rockefeller described it yesterday, they made everything up on the fly. the 123459 report indicates that the torture program was ineff t ineffectual and involved much more torture than anyone previously imagined and that it was a cesspool of corruption. a former military psychologist was given $81 million, instantly making him the hi...