Arguments for and against socalled enhanced interrogation techniques used by the cia in the fight against al qaeda. First we must start at the beginning. Trace gallagher reports from our newsroom. Lets begin with the ;kn pa that everyone including president obama agrees to in the days and months in unprecedented times. There were incredible reports of a second and third wave of the attacks in the midwest. Including reports Osama Bin Laden was trying to get a nuclear weapon. They recognized the intention and interrogation program. The cia admitted at the time it had little if anycqyp experienc housing and interrogating detainees. Tentpu months after 911 then attorney general John Ashcroft included a list of enhanced interrogation techniques or eit including sleep deprivation, use of diapers and waterboarding. Here is cia director john brooks. There were no easy answers. And whatever your views are7bo eits our nation and in particular this agency did a lo of things right during this dif
director says. there was useful intelligence, very useful valuable intelligence that was obtained from individuals who had been subjected to eit. whether that could have been obtained without the use of those eit s is something that is unknowable. enhanced interrogation led to the capture of osama bin laden. the report disputes that and goes on to krit ties the via for management and peru tality for the enhanced interrogation program. the report was declared the democratic majority staff and not a single cia official involved in the program with interviews. during enhanced interrogation two detainees died and there was not enough ed to file charges against the officers involved. mel gwinn? trace gallagher, thank you. he called this a travesty the