bose, cuban, associate embassy. walks into the cuban embassy once and we want to know for years, many researchers and investigators and journalists, what did the cia learn in surveillance that might have indicated oswald was a danger and when he returned in october to america, did they tell anyone? chuck, you know the answer. didn t tell anyone. what the cia always does. gather information, put it aside but we don t know what the information was. one theory, they didn t know they had that information until after the assassination. that kind of bureaucratic snafu that would not surprise me at all, as a matter of fact, because it wasn t as though they file a lot of information on a lot of people. my favorite part of this entire episode after the assassination langley headquarters of cia sends a sort of request down to the mexico city cia chiefs and says, hey, you guys are doing video surveillance on the cuban missions and soviets. send us a picture of oswald.
foreign relations committees. senator, thank you for joining us. i am sure you saw james clapper on meet the press the other day saying he hasn t seen evidence of collusion up until january 20th. you say you haven t seen hard evidence. without anyone having seen hard evidence, should there still be an investigation? i think this is a critical investigation for the defense of our democracy. i am encouraged that the senate intelligence committee members this week have begun to get access to the intercepts at langley headquarters that will begin to provide insight into whether there is a fire here. there is a lot of smoke. there are a lot of concerning allegations of or evidence of some ties between the trump campaign team and russia, but there is no hard evidence or proof yet. that doesn t mean that it doesn t exist. and in order for us to get to the bottom of this, in order for us to resolve this cloud that s
it is friday, december 12th. the battle is escalating as john brennan steps into the spotlight to talk about the techniques claiming they caused useful intelligence. reporter: christine, a cia director, with a live news conference from the langley headquarters. cia director john brennan made his first public appearance since the democrats released a bombshell report of the brutal allegatio allegations. he never used the word torture, but it went beyond what was authorized. he called them abhorrent. and rightly should be
thanks for joining us this morning. john berman has the day off. the use of harsh techniques is escalating at director john brennan steps into the spotlight defending the techniques. cnn reporter evan perez has more from washington. reporter: christine, unprecedented for the cia director. a live conference from the langley headquarters from the agency. john brennan made his first public appearance since senate democrats released a report describing brutal interrogations of terrorists. he never used the word torture, but some of the gruesome techniques went beyond what was authorized. he called them abhorrent. they used techniques that had not been authorized, were abhorrent and rightly should be