called the home depot supply of data and information and links between people and it is not quite that simple that a+ b does not equal see. the information they gleaned on the whole help them to disrupt blocks and bring in additional people plotting to carry out attacks the future be at not because of waterboarding. we water boarded 83 times. was he a fourth time going to work? 107th time going to work? how many times we do the same thing and expecting a different result? you have an ethical problem the way it was carried out, but the fact remains there is no effort to prosecute even in the light of this report that has just come out because they were given a justification to carry out the program in time. after world war ii because at the time water torture, we executed people for that at that
operative, they did not conduct the type of investigation that would require interviews. there was none of that, it was based on written reports. the senate did a hatchet job on the bush administration and the cia. because they will not be in power in january. as a matter of fact, i m talking with the release of the report and the release of the report is not take into account in order report with the cia response. martha: why would that be, brad? alan, does it bother you that did not talk to the people who carried out the programs and did not include their own senate intelligence committee colleagues? i think he was right to criticize a report for saying there was no recommendation. what do you do next. what are the guidelines that could come out of this. the question is is what we
a hearing about to get underway on the hill. martha: the cia is under fire after a senate committee released a controversial report of member of thisactic. committee wanted this information out there. the majority intelligence committee has spent the last five years and off $40 million focused on a proper that effectively ended over 8 years ago while the world around us burned.
he s thankful his agency was able to redact enough material from that report so as not to put u.s. forces in more harm s way. bill: many are asking the following question. why release the report at all? steven hayes is all of them. fox news contributor. good morning to you. make sense of it. why was it put out? i think dianne feinstein has wanted to put this out for a long time and the democrats on the committee wanted to make their case. we have 499 pages of an executive up are you that is a prosecutor s brief. it s manhattan to be one-sided. they didn t attempt to bring in interviews with top agency officials. what surprises me about this is the mainstream media is treating this as if it is not a one-sided case and failing to even note it
time to release this report. but this report is too important to shelf indefinitely. we are a national war. we have a problem with isil in iraq and syria and north africa. we have u.s. personal, intelligence officials military and special operators in harm s way. when you look at why would we release it now? what did we have to gain? in this case i believe we have been thrown under the bus and the politicians are playing political football with the cia. martha: what is the white house saying the potential threat inspired by releasing this potential report. reporter: a senior