brought before the international criminal court in the hague for crimes against humanity. let s go to dana bash up on the hill. it looks like dianne feinstein got a nice rousing bit of endorsement but a whole bunch of republicans are pretty outraged by the decision to release this report. that s exactly right. john mccain in this case is not representative of his party. remember when george w. bush was in office, mccain really fought him on using these techniques and most republicans think that this is wrong from the inside out meaning they don t agree with the content of the report. they think that it was, in the words of the incoming senate intelligence senator richard bird, that they didn t get the facts properly, that they didn t interrogate or actually question the interrogators who actually did this and that s why it is
information from captured terrorists. it s a thorough and thoughtful study of practices that i believe not only failed their purpose to secure actionable attacks on our allies but actually damage our security interests as well as our reputation as a force for good in the world. the techniques were used during the administration of george w. bush. he spoke out in support of the cia before the report was officially released a couple of hours ago and former vice president told dick cheney that the cia should be decorated, not criticized. he says conclusions that the cia conducted a rogue operation are, in his words, quote, a bunch of hooe y hooey. the intelligence report is saying that they did provide
to intelligence committee and said make your redactions. they came back and this report came back yesterday, wolf, 93% unredacted and i m told from one senior official and the narrative is not lost on the public and it s clear, some of the techniques and details of the techniques use are two an extent that we haven t seen before this extensively. so i think there s a shock value in this report that a lot of people are not able to absorb until they release this. and so they are really revealing and putting out there to the american public what was done in a previous administration. it s a little bit of a tricky balancing act because president obama is going to leave office in a couple of years and then things done in this administration would be very much open game for the next administration.
specific anywhere but we want to be prepared and we are. and jim, do you get a sense from chuck hagel, the outgoing defense secretary himself, a long-time senator, republican senator from nebraska, he served on these committees over the years, that like john kerry, he was concerned about the timing, the release of this report right now because it potentially could endanger americans? i know he s walking a little bit of a delicate line right now but do you get a sense he would have preferred this report not come out? reporter: well, i think it s a tough call because, on the one hand, he is very aware of the timing. here s a defense secretary and an administration that is running two wars again in this region in afghanistan and in iraq and expanding that war in iraq pretty much every day. so you have that balance. but on the other hand, i think there s resignation that there was knowledge out there of cia use of enhanced interrogation
once the senate takes over, the republican chairman is going to be releasing it, very slim. very slim indeed. dana bash, jim acosta, evan perez, we ll go through this report and get more details. a former cia officer and former democratic of the house committee will offer tleheir vi of the scathing report. later, we re going to hear in an exclusive interview with the defense secretary chuck hagel, we re going to get his take on the release of the report and on the mission in iraq and syria. lots of news happening. we ll be right back.