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Senator dianne feinstein. she held the floor for 40 minutes and admonished the cia. not just for with holding the information, but also for literally trying to cover up these activities. she accused the cia as going as far as illegally monitoring and spying on congress to keep information out of the committee's hands. that's what rachel called death of the republic type stuff. she accused one cia lawyer specifically, a lawyer who was allegedly involved in crafting the torture program, someone who's a key subject of this investigation. a guy who until today, get this, was still working as cia l...

What is the c.i.a.'s mission? to keep us from knowing what it does? >> this has been a battle going on for years. if you listen to what dianne feinstein said in the beginning of her remarks back in 2009 the committee learned that what the c.i.a. told the committee about the torture program was not true, was wrong and launched this big investigation to start this. it was all started because they felt they were misled by the c.i.a. if you listen to what mark udall said last night on the network and what dianne feinstein said on the senate floor, they are saying there is significant wrong doing i...

January, 2009, he was the unit's chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actions of congressional staff. the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how cia officers, including the acting general counsel, himself, provided inaccurate information to the department of justice about the program. >> dianne feinstein got up on the floor of the senate today and alleged that one of the cia staffers who she says not only effectively took part in the...

Say within the agency, within the cia, there are varying degrees of opinions about the torture program. and not everyone has the same opinion and has arrived at the same opinion. and i think the leadership right now is saying that, yes, they believe it was more effective than congress did, but whether or not they're saying that this is something they want to do going forward i think is a completely different question. i also think the president's spoken about this. you know, we can haggle over this for another ten years on whether or not this was an effective program. the president said this i...

Chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1,600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actions of congressional staff. the same congressional staff who researched and drafted a report that details how cia officers, including the acting general counsel, himself, provided inaccurate information to the department of justice about the program. >> dianne feinstein got up on the floor of the senate today and alleged that one of the cia staffers who she says not only effectively took part in the torture program but lied to the ...