and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off-base. >> now many former and still-serving c.i.a. officials will say that the agency simply did what the bush administration asked it to do and that it was legal. but one of the questions you're going to hear throughout the day is did the c.i.a. tell president bush everything that they were doing? chris? >> all right, barb remarks let's get perspective from sbun who definitely knows the answers to the questions this morning. the former director of the c.i.a. counterterrorism center, thank you very much for joining us this morning. the situation demands to have the politics stripped out. you wrote a lengthy and detailed assessment of this report so there's an op-ed online. you use a big word there, you use the word tendencious, meaning it's a biased report