than good intelligence. and the president was careful not to call any of these harsh interrogation tactics crimes. and so far the justice department has given no indication that it will prosecute former c.i.a. officials for what happened during their interrogation program. and asked whether or not the president still stands by his claim that these interrogation tactics amounted to torture, a white house official said yes. alisyn and chris in. thanks for all of that. the release of the report on the c.i.a. s use of torture on terror suspects after 9/11 has law enforcement across the country on high alert. the fbi and department of homeland security issuing a warning about possible terrorist retaliation, cnn s pamela brown is tracking developments from washington for us. we ve learned the fbi, dhs join bulletin warning law enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists may want to exploit the torture memo findings as propaganda and use it as a recruiting tool. the bulletin
sleep deprivation, yes, those were approved techniques by the department of justice as not constituting torture. therefore we proceeded to include those in some of the ways we interrogated high level al qaeda terrorists. they were very tough. i m not going to say these techniques, the waterboarded and extending sleep deprivation, i won t anybody miminimize it, th tough tactics. federal officials are warning agencies across the country to be on alert out of fear jihadists could retaliate with some sort of attack. let s bring in justice correspondent pamela brown to find out more. good morning. good morning to you, carol. that s right, we ve learned the fbi and dhs sent out a joint bulletin warning law enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists may want to exploit the torture memo findings as propaganda, perhaps use it as a recruiting tool.
positions and water boarding, threatening to sexually abuse family members, rectal tubes, list goes on and on and this is just from the summary of the report. the details are certainly hard to listen to, but they re important to know about and we ll go into more detail in a moment. breaking news tonight related to this. a warning about what repercussions could be coming from terror groups and violent extremists in the united states. justice correspondent pamela brown on the latest with that. there s a terror warning. what do you know about it? the fbi sent out a bulletin warning law enforcement agencies across the country that terrorists that may try to exploit the torture memo findings as propaganda and using it as a tool. it could spark online reaction and influence home grown violence extremists. the big concern as it picks up steam on social media, it could inflame extremists. i want to emphasize the bulletin, it s unlikely to see violence in the near term and