pages and in the words of this administration official, poppy, there s not going to be anything lost in the narrative. so it sounds like when we see this report when it s released it will be bringing to terms what the intelligence community was doing at the cia in some of these sites, enhanced interrogation techniques were going on, according to this intelligence committee report. and dana, looking athe the politics, this doesn t really split along party lines completely, right? as jim mentioned you have the dependent ang us king supporting it, republican senator susan collins supporting it. i wonder did some republicans vote to declassify some of this? are some backing the white house? some of them are, john mccain as jim mentioned is a perfect example. he has been out there on issues against torture as somebody who was tortured. he was of course a prisoner in vietnam for seven years. he says this has to come out,
mistake. we shouldn t have done what we have done and we will not do it again. i think that s here are some of the key findings from the senate intelligence committee s report on cia interrogation techniques. they found it to be more brutal than originally thought, that it involved more detainees than originally thought and the senate report acknowledges that it lacks critical oversight and calls the report flawed. one of the members of the senate intelligence committee, a democrat from new mexico. thank you for joining us. you voted to release this report now, right? i did, wolf. why? you know, i think the key findings are critical to get out there to make this right. i think what people will find in the report is that it finds that any reasonable person, that the
it s a republican administration. they could look back with an unsparing view as well. so the obama administration is very aware of that, wolf. some suggesting they are going to look beyond the president s use of drones to go after suspected targets in which civ civilians are not just tortured but killed and that s going to be a potential for investigation down the road. i want to go to dana in a moment but if you look at this report put out by the senate select committee on intelligence, it sounds like major crimes were committed by u.s. officials at the highest levels of the government violating the use of torture. here s the question, because i know you re speaking to your sources over at the justice department, are charges going
capture terrorists, save lives and also say it did play a significant role in finding osama bin ladin. there s a clear discrepancy about the flaws of this report that dianne feinstein released. they disavow the program, say it was a bad idea. john brennan put out a statement saying we did not always live up to the high standards that we held for ourselves and what the american people expect of us. however, they are walking a fine line. they say there are at least three detainees that provided valuable intelligence that led to the finding of osama bin ladin, khalid sheikh mohammed and two others. you can see the cia s description valuable came from
in the aftermath of the release of this report, charges going to be filed against bush administration officials, cia operatives engages in torture? well, attorney general holder said he was very bothered and that s why he ordered a second investigation of this program, wolf, and decided in the end there was no prosecutable crime and they are standing by this today and that does not mean that they endorse this or it s not a moral program clearly eric holder and the president himself, they both described this as torture so they think this is very bad the question is, can you prosecute anyone? no. the u.s. did engage in torture and that would be violations of international law, u.s. treaty obligations and potentially the u.s. could be