that the cia concealed some of their torture techniques, overstated the effectiveness of their torture methods and claimed that torturing prisoners got them critical intelligence that actually was gathered by other agencies without the use of torture. one u.s. official telling the "post" tonight, "the cia described its program repeatedly to both the justice department and eventually to congress as getting unique otherwise unobtainable intelligence that helped disrupt terrorist plots and save thousands of lives." "was that actually true, the official says? the answer is no." senate intelligence committee is scheduled to vote on thursday whether or not to submit this report to president obama for declassification. we have been waiting to get public access to it for years. this is a major leak tonight about what is reportedly in the conclusions of that report. if this is what the report is, you can understand why the cia has been fighting so hard to keep it out of the public wry. much more to come about this bombshell reporting undoubtedly in days to come.