tape asks? bashar she says. she s in the remains of a living room judging by the cushions on the floor. the girl is obviously too young to understand what is happening, but she knows enough to say the name. she s been told who s responsible. bashar al assad. after ordering a year long campaign of repression followed by outright carnage, he promised the u.n. to stop. the final deadline tomorrow morning. back when he agreed to that troop pullout proposal on march 27th, he toured the streets homs. we re showing you one of his photo op that day. the other the bombardment in the hours before he arrived in homs and after he left and almost every day since then. that day when the dictator of syria was smiling for the cameras, 57 people died. today in homs and across syria tanks rolled, shells exploded, snipers fired, and at least 145 people died. in other words, the slaughter goes on. more than 700 have been killed since assad announced a cease fire on april 2nd. nearly 1100 since h
release that report. the senate debate today was thoughtful and well reasoned on both sides. and left very few of us undecided. this program has been and remains one of the most vitalle tool agains in the war against terrorists. today, the trofrian and damning torture report was finally released. this is the result. $40 million, 5 1/2 year, and this is only the summary. let me now turn to the contents of the study. gruesome details on what was done in the name of intelligence gather popping. this was done in our name, the american people s name. detainees were often subject to harsh and brutal interrogation. stripped naked, diapered, physically struck, constantly shackled in isolated cells. they were deprived of sleep for days. these harsh techniques were
during the show. given everything, it s really impossible to get around it. it s a little disclaimer before we begin the conversation here. hard to get around it, because reaction is pouring into the highly intelligent report on cia interrogations released on tuesday. it states the agency repeatedly deceived the white house and lawmakers ab it s methods t. report claims cia interrogations after the 9-11 attacks were ineffective and much more brutal tan represented t.cia is pushing back the director challenges key findings alongside former directors who dismiss the report lopsided and defined by errors him dianne feinstein spoke about the report yesterday on the senate floor in graphic details. reporter: detainees were subjected to the most aggressive techniques immediately, stripped naked, typeers, physically struck and put if various
immediately. stripped naked, diapered, physically struck and put in various painful stress positions for long periods of time. they were deprived of sleep for days. in one case up to 180 hours, that s seven and a half days, over a week with no sleep. the cia lead several detainees to believe they would never be allowed to leave cia custody alive. detainees at one facility, described as a dungeon, were kept in complete darkness, constantly shackled in isolated cells with loud noise or music and only a bucket to use for human waste. now, andrea mitchell reports there were even more horrifying conditions. dungeons where one detainee stripped naked died of hypothermia. bin laden lieutenant was water boarded for two and a half weeks