Eric garner chokehold case. And a report regarding eliminating autism. Accountability emerging after a Senate Report revealed harsh c. I. A. Interrogation practices, many call torture. Many believe criminal charges should be brought against american officials. One senator called the c. I. A. Direct arrest liar and said he should quit. But despite thousands of pages of evidence its unlikely that anyone will be prosecuted. Reporter senator mark udall, democrat of colorado, who sits on the intelligence committee, has long been critical of the c. I. A. And its director john brennan saying that brennan and the c. I. A. Are continue to go willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent how ineffective torture is. Mark udall said the c. I. A. Is lying. Its bad enough not to prosecute these officials, but to reward or promote them and risk the enter great o integrity of the u. S. Government is incomprehensible. The president needs to purge his administration of highlevel officials in
And honoring malala. The youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Tonight there are calls from around the world accountability and for prosecutions after the Senate Report on torture by the cia. The worlds media and even some American Allies are using language like scandalous, devastating and a grave violation of democratic values. There are many here in the United States defending the agency and the tactics it used on terror suspects. Libby casey reports. Water boarding, sleep deprivation, tactics used by the cia on tee takenees in the post 9 11 era. Experts say thats not president s call. Its not the president of the United States to conduct a criminal inquiry as to the action hes of somebody who works at the cia thats an independent prosecutor, who can look at this without any sort of political interference and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. Reporter but there were calls on the senate floor from democrats for action. It
This is Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city. Im tony harris. We begin with questions of accountabiliti merging one day after a Senate Report revealed harsh c. I. A. Interrogation practices many call torture. The u. N. Counter terrorism chief calls for accountability. President obama is focusing on what his administration has done. Namely banning the socalled enhanced interrogation techniques. He said that will ensure that the same mistakes never happen again. But critics say thats just not enough. And those responsible should be prosecuted. Water boarding, sleep depravation, tactics use in the post 9 11. Its not the president obama who conducts a criminal inquiry into the action of somebody who works at the c. I. A. Thats the responsibility of a career federal prosecutor who can take an independent look at this, who can do so without political interference and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. But there were calls on the senat
Feinstein, and Committee Democrats on tuesday released the longawaited report on the Central Intelligence agency, the cias, detention and interrogation program. Senator Dianne Feinstein outlined the reports for major conclusions. First, the cias enhanced interrogation techniques, which includes waterboarding, were not effective in collecting intelligence. Second, the cia misled policy makers and the public on the cia intelligent program. Third, cia managers failed to supervise the program appropriately. And fourth, the program was far more brutal than the cia presented. Question, what does senator Dianne Feinstein hope to accomplish by making this report public . She hoped to damage the bush administration. But ill tell you what she did. What shes got here is a pretty vicious attack. Its a vindictive prosecutors document. She didnt talk to cia people. She didnt talk to the alleged people that did these grizzly things. She talked about things weve known about ten years. She said it was
World headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. A scathing report issued today details what the cia did to terrorism suspects in the name of 9 11 and in the war on terrorism. It describes the brutal treatment of prisoners in secret locations using torture tactics while hiding the truth from the american people, members of congress and at times the bush administration, all of it while this nation was at war with hundreds of thousands of troops in the fight. And it goes a long way toward answering the question were we made any safer, are we any safer today because of what went on in prison cells in the dark when no one was watching . We begin our coverage here tonight with our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. Andrea, good evening. Reporter good evening, brian. It is a devastating report for the cia which strongly objects to the conclusions, but now they are there for all of america and the world to read. For years the cia ha