sleep deprivation, yes, those were approved techniques by the department of justice as not constituting torture. therefore we proceeded to include those in some of the ways we interrogated high level al qaeda terrorists. they were very tough. i m not going to say these techniques, the waterboarded and extending sleep deprivation, i won t anybody miminimize it, th tough tactics. federal officials are warning agencies across the country to be on alert out of fear jihadists could retaliate with some sort of attack. let s bring in justice correspondent pamela brown to find out more. good morning. good morning to you, carol. that s right, we ve learned the fbi and dhs sent out a joint bulletin warning law enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists may want to exploit the torture memo findings as propaganda, perhaps use it as a recruiting tool.
waterboarding, sleep deprivation and ice water baths and worse. the senate committee concluded that the harsh tactics simply did not work in getting valuable intelligence. and the justice department says it will not reopen its inquiry into whether crimes were committed, raising new questions of accountability and blame. we re covering all angles of this from capitol hill to the pentagon and beyond as this developing story unfolds. let s begin coverage with jim acosta at the white house. good morning, jim. good morning, carol. the white house has scheduled an early briefing this morning with reporters. that s scheduled to happen in about 45 minutes from now and i think the question about the torture report thereby question of the briefing for white house press secretary josh ernest. the president defended the relief of the torture report saying mistakes were made but former top white house cia officials are coming forward speaking out and defending their actions it was stinging critic
internal critiques, there was a selective ignorance to the kind of criticisms that were passed up the chain should be very disturbing. if the cia and if this government never does this kind of torture again, it will be because of what the united states senate did today. thank you very much for joining us tonight. thanks for having me. coming up, video of the shooting by new york city police last night that killed a suspect. you can judge if this was a correct use of deadly force. (vo) nourished. rescued. protected. given new hope. during the subaru share the love event, subaru owners feel it, too. because when you take home a new subaru, we donate 250 dollars to helping those in need. we ll have given 50 million dollars over seven years. love. it s what makes a subaru, a subaru.
it took this long to put this bill together. when you look at the number of agreements that had to be struck on funding levels, on riders and other provisions, there s a lot in this bill. and the appropriators did, frankly, a marvelous job, i wished the been done last week but it wasn t so here we are. i m proud of the work they ve done, look forward to it passing with bipartisan majorities in the house and senate in the coming days, thanks. we expected the house speaker to talk about this terror report or this cia torture report but he did not. he did talk about a spending bill. as you saw dana bash was in the front row. when she gets out of the briefing room she can brief us about exactly what went on. also still to come, a white house briefing is just minutes away. will the administration discuss the torture report and growing
the congress. barack obama responded tonight. the findings in the intelligence report were brutal. and it constituted torture. it s not who we are. it s about potential ramifications overseas and we ve taken precautionary steps to try to mitigate any additional risks. i think it was important for us to release this so that we can account for it so people understand precisely why i banned these practices as one of the first acts i took when i came to office. here s a sample of the details about cia interrogation