Hello, im john berman. Michaela pereira is off today. Wed like to welcome our viewers to the United States and Around The World. Breaking news at this hour. A highly anticipated and extremely controversial report due out any minute details just what cia interrogators did to Terror Detainees after september 11 and if it worked. Any minute now senator Dianne Feinstein will present this report. Youre looking at live pictures of the senate well. The senator will detail tactics and policies used during the Bush Administration against al qaeda suspects waterboarding, sleep deprivations, reservations about secret overseas prisons. The socalled black sites, all that expected to be included. What is in the report is controversial, releasing it at all is controversial. Heightened security Around The World because of fears the
report could spark antiamerican violence. Evan perez has a preview of whats in the report. Also, dana bash who just spoke with senator Dianne Feinstein. Senior White House
after controversial report from senate democrats only its use of enhanced interrogation techniques. those reports based only on c.i.a. e-mails and transcripts, painted those techniques as practically worthless, even though the committee never bothered interviewing anyone involved in the program. the use of coercive technique methods regularly resulted in fabricated information. sometimes the c.i.a. actually knew detainees were lying. other times the c.i.a. acted on false information, diverting resources and leading officers or contractors to falsely believe they were acquiring unique or actionable intelligence. is she right? let s talk to former senior c.i.a. operations officer, gary burnson. good morning. good morning. what has diane feinstein and the democrats, what have they done to the c.i.a.? what they ve just done, this
applied rapport building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi, and more recently the inner agency high value detainee interrogation group that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a couple of additional comments on the claimed effectiveness of cia interrogations. at no time did the cia s interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for the use of these techniques. the committee never fountain example of this hypothetical ticking time bomb scenario. the use of coercive technique methods regularly resulted in fabricated information. sometime the cia actually knew
building techniques that were developed and honed by the united states military, the fbi and, more recently, the interagency high value detainee group, that these techniques produced good intelligence. let me make a few other comments on the claimed effectiveness of the cia interrogations. at no time did the cia coercive interrogation techniques lead to the collection of intelligence on an imminent threat that many believe was the justification for these techniques. the committee never found an example of this hypothetical ticking time bomb scenario. the use of coercive technique methods regularly resulted in fabricated information. sometime the cia new detainees