Northeast trudges through rain, snow, sleet and ice. We will tell you what you need to know. It looked pretty. Vermont is supposed to look like that. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Im christine romans. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. President obama is walking a fine line this morning in the wake of the senates report on the use of torture by the cia after the 9 11 attacks. The president who banned harsh techniques after taking office, supports the report. The democrats are upset that the president has not endorsed the conclusion that it prevailed on intelligence. Senator mark udall is calling for him to resign. Director brennan and his cia today are continuing to willfully provide inaccurate information and misrepresent torture. In other words, the cia is lying. The republicans mounting a coordinated attack on the Senate Report calling the release a danger to americans and a bet y betrayal of promises made to americans. To defend it as effective. We did exactly wh
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 repudiated by all. We fell short when it came to holding some officers accountable. Reporter at the same time, brennan tried to clarify that the program yielded valuable intelligence. Brennan now says detainees provided important and useful information, but he says no one can say whether the intelligence came as a result of harsh interrogations. The cia director stood a few feet from the memorial wall. It bears 111 stars representing employees killed in the line of duty.