Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used during the Bush Administration against al qaeda suspects waterboarding, sleep deprivations, reservations about secret overseas prisons. The socalled black sites, all that expected to be included. What is in the report is controversial, releasing it at all is controversial. Heightened security Around The World because of fears the
report could spark antiamerican violence. Evan perez has a preview of whats in the report. Also, dana bash who just spoke with senator Dianne Feinstein. Senior White House
coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring accurate intelligence or gaining detainee cooperation. we took 20 examples that the cia itself claimed to show the success of these interrogations. our staff reviewed every one of the 20 cases. and not a single case holds up. the cia director john brennan defended his agency in a press conference on thursday, arguing that it got crucial information from cia detainees. the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united states thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives. but let me be clear, we have not concluded that it was the use of eits within that program that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees subjected to them.
we did to japanese american citizens, we threw the constitution out the window. the pivotal question in all of this, did these torture techniques work? did they produce useful intelligence? the answer is still strongly debated. let s watch. the committee found that the cia s coercive interrogation techniques were not an effective means of acquiring active intelligence. actionable intelligence that was otherwise unavailable was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. we got an awful lot of information. look, we want to quibble, did we get this one here or that one there, but fundamentally, these interrogations of all detainees, gave us a home depot like storage on al qaeda on which we
program was formulated in the aftermath of the murders of close to 3,000 people on 9/11. it felt like the classic ticking time bomb scenario every single day. senator feinstein rejected that issue as he presented the report on the floor today. here she is. at no time did the cia s coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques. the committee never found an example of this hypothetical ticking time bomb scenario. that s interesting, guys. yeah, it is interesting. and i happen to trust senator feinstein. let s be clear here. in the context of the democratic party and the context of liberalism. she is perceived as a hawk. she has been on the side of the intelligence community. she s recently been fighting president obama s office to some
actionable intelligence that was, quote, otherwise unavailable, otherwise unavailable, was not obtained using these coercive interrogation techniques. okay. let s start with david ignatius in washington. you say, david, this was necessary to release for public accounting but what about national security? i found the report absolutely devastating. we ve known about these techniques. we ve known about this chapter in american life. but to see what it felt like for a young cia medical officer observing the first water boarding. the sense of sort of revulsion that officer felt. to read about how groups of younger officers watching the interrogation of these people would break down sobbing, they were so upset to see the person you described who was running the interrogation program,