palestinian cabinet member died after he and other protesters fought with israeli troops in the west bank. this marks the latest deadly violence between the palestinians and israelis. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas called it a barbaric act and the israeli military reports its proposed a joint investigation with the palestinians. security i should say video shows security forces firing tear gas and witnesses say one israeli security officer held that cabinet member by the neck. the official later sat on the ground and leaned on a rock with his chest with hand on his chest. israeli officials say medical examiners will conduct an autopsy to determine how he died. ahead, the senate s torture report. from cia torture. senate senator mark udall calling for the head of the agency to step down but the white house is defending the cia director. two sides of this story coming up from the fox news deck. we re all keeping an eye on the dow which is in the tank today.
of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. reporter: as for the president s claim that those harsh interrogation tactics amounts to torture, white house secretary john ernest was asked that question, he said the president still stands by that claim. jim acosta reporting live from. u.s. troops around the world are bracing for the threat of retaliation to the so-called terror report. the senate investigation steer bid dianne feinstein detailed the cia s brutal tactics to interrogate some 9/11 terror suspects. here is senator feinstein reeling off a long laundry list of documented abuses. an otherwise healthy detainee who was being held mostly nude and chained to a concrete floor died at the facility for from what is believed to have been hypothermia. detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques
jihadists calling for retall las vegas against america. the state department warning u.s. citizens in some country where is cia torture took place, they could face anti-american violence. a u.n. human rights official applauded the report s release, but warns that international law requires the u.s. to prosecute any wrong doers, something that it does not look as though the justice department is going to pursue. special investigator ben emerson from the u.n. writes, the individual responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in today s report must be brought to justice and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the grate of their crimes. cnn s karl penhaul is live with the global revelations of this report. good morning, christine. essentially on the street, yes, concern about the contents of this report but hardly surprised in the public that we already
site cobalt manager during the period in which a cia detainee died and numerous cia detainees were subjected to unapproved coercive interrogation techniques. and of course, it s no surprise that they didn t have anyone who knew how to do this. the cia wasn t in the business of doing this kind of torture. yes, absolutely. and that really stands out, the example you pointed out. and sadly, several instances of that explained throughout the report, where we had these officers who were put in charge of these detention sites who clearly were not qualified to run a kind of interrogation program like this. as that passage would continue with that officer that you were referring to, there was actually a supervisor who issued a warning to the agency saying that this person should not be put in charge of a detention site. he was concerned he wasn t going to follow orders. we see that example.
president bush said the agency was wrong to use harsh interrogation techniques on terror detainees after the 9/11 attacks that amounted to torture. i think in the midst of a national trauma and uncertainty as to whether these attacks were going to repeat themselves, what s clear is that the cia set up something very fast without a lot of forethought to what the ramifications might be. reporter: the president was responding to dianne feinstein s damning report saying detainees were waterboarded while others were naked, hooded and dragged being while slapped and punch. the report says the agency misled the bush administration about the program and that no cia officer up to and colluding cia directors briefed the president on the tactics before april, 2006. in response to the report, cia director john brennan said the