spokesperson. mike rogers is leaving congress, giving up his position as chair of the house intelligence committee. he was with candy crowley last sunday. he said there would be violence and deaths of americans as a result of the release of this report. we re going to follow up with him on that. bill harlow, who is the spokesman for the cia when george tenna was the cia director, we re going to have an extensive conversation with him as well. we re getting reaction to the extraordinary news conference that you and i covered at the cia with the director, john brennan. wolf, thank you very much. in our buried lead, a t-reactit-rex in the u.s. how one man involved in the story ended up in prison. y use helps you be ready anytime the moment is right. cialis is also the only daily ed tablet approved to treat symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex.
this is a program that, you know, the cia doesn t acknowledge exists because it is something that is still secret. now, i do think that it was interesting that he was making sure, speaking as a former white house official who oversaw this program, that he was trying to make sure that people understood that there was great care being taken to make sure that civilians, innocent civilians were not killed as a result of this program, wolf, and i think that s the big question that we re going to hear reverberate from this debate this week. in the next ten years, are we going to come back, see documents come out as a result of investigations showing that the cia, that the white house was not being careful enough to make sure that civilians were killed. wolf? evan, thanks very much. good questioning at cia headquarters. let s talk about all of this and a lot more. bill harlow is joining us right now. bill, thanks very much for joining us. what do you make about this question that evan asked
support us at redcross.org we re following the breaking news. an unprecedented news conference today by the cia director john brennan strongly defending his agency against torture allegations. brennan is drawing a sharp rebuttal from the committee chair, dianne feinstein. we re back with a former cia spokesperson bill harlow. she was tweeting i don t know if it was her or her staff i think it was her staff. they were tweeting during the course of the press conference,
world. that s their words, not ours. that was a testy interview with the chair of the senate intelligence committee, senator dianne feinstein. we re going to have more of the interview coming up. i want our viewers to see it. she says the cia interrogation program over these years was flawed and that it completely failed. let s get a different perspective. joiningis now is bill harlow, former cia director of public affairs and also the man behind this new website, ciasavedlives.com. thanks very much for joining us. i should point out, you re a retired u.s. navy captain, served at the pentagon when i was the cnn correspondent there. we ve known each other for a long time as well, just as i ve known senator feinstein for a long time. when you retired from the navy during the clinton administration, you went to work for public affairs at cia. you state through those early years of the bush administration. you were there when these enhanced interrogation tactics,
breaks that led the cia to determine that the courier, the kuwaiti, was likely to be living with bin laden in pakistan. this reads more like a careful agatha christie detective story than a story about the efficacy of coercive interrogations which some have criticized as torture. so the question is, did it contribute to the finding of bin laden? in the cia rebuttal which bill harlow just referred to, they do talk about a detainee called al balluki who was the first lead to bin laden was he the first recipient of enhanced interrogation? he was. and he spilled the beans? the senate report is a more powerful statement in many ways. first of all, it s much more fulsome. as a historian and journalist, it s a copiously footnoted back