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committee are expected to
finally get the redacted version
of their report.
according to the a.p. which
yesterday obtained new
information on the
still-classified report, the
report concludes that the agency
kept secretary of state colin
powell as well as some u.s.
ambassadors in the dark about
the harsh techniques and secret
prisons, and that some of the
ambassadors informed about inter
guyings of al qaeda detainees at
black sites were instructed not
to tell their superiors at the
state department.
the a.p. also reveals that while
the report does not draw the
legal conclusion that the cia's
actions constituted torture, it
makes clear that in some cases
those actions amount to torture
by a common definition.
the timing of the
declassification will be up to
senator dianne feinstein.
joining me now is senior
national security and
committee are expected to
finally get the redacted version
of their report.
according to the a.p. which
yesterday obtained new
information on the
still-classified report, the
report concludes that the agency
kept secretary of state colin
powell as well as some u.s.
ambassadors in the dark about
the harsh techniques and secret
prisons, and that some of the
ambassadors informed about inter
guyings of al qaeda detainees at
black sites were instructed not
to tell their superiors at the
state...
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some very angry senators on
capitol hill today.
senator udall issued a statement
that says i have lost confidence
in john brennan.
i am concerned about the
director's apparent inability to
find any flaws in the agency he
leads.
the white house is defending
john brennan, but one would
imagine that the senators on
this intelligence committee are
not going to let it simply end
here with an apology from john
brennan.
>> well, i suspect not.
you've had several senators
including senator widen
demanding to know having a clear
accountability of what happened,
who, perhaps, ordered this
intrusion.
how it happened.
i think there will probably be
some internal wrangling over
this because, look, the white
house has said john brennan has
said and a lot of people on
capitol hill have said they want
to get this report out and put
this entire matter behind them,
and i think that not just the
findings of this internal cia
some very angry senators on
capitol hill today.
senator udall issued a statement
that says i have lost confidence
in john brennan.
i am concerned about the
director's apparent inability to
find any flaws in the agency he
leads.
the white house is defending
john brennan, but one would
imagine that the senators on
this intelligence committee are
not going to let it simply end
here with an apology from john
brennan.
>> well, i suspect not.
you've had several senators
including senator...
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i'll just read a couple of
highlights.
at one point one of the
questions is doesn't the report
that the senate intelligence
report make clear that at least
some who authorized or
participated in the rendition
and interrogation program
committed crimes?
they asked again, whether the
justice department will revisit
the decision not to prosecute
anyone.
there could be criminal charges
here, jonathan.
>> we'll have to wait and see
and the state department will
have to answer overseas to other
governments demanding to know
what's in this report.
there are governments that will
be implicated in this report for
hosting black sites and also
it's very curious because you
know, when the justice
department issued its statement
saying that it has no --
insufficient evidence to pursue
criminal investigations and it
added, quote, at this time,
unquote.
>> indeed.
>> and so, indeed, it appears to
have left the door open for
possible -- for a possible
i'll just read a couple of
highlights.
at one point one of the
questions is doesn't the report
that the senate intelligence
report make clear that at least
some who authorized or
participated in the rendition
and interrogation program
committed crimes?
they asked again, whether the
justice department will revisit
the decision not to prosecute
anyone.
there could be criminal charges
here, jonathan.
>> we'll have to wait and see
and the state department will
have to answer overseas to...
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yesterday with john brennan's
apology some.
>> so according to the cia, john
brennan, because of the
seriousness of senator
feinstein's allegations asked
the cia inspector general david
buckley to conduct an internal
review of the buckley came up w
number of cias, attorneys and
specialists inappropriately
accessed a database that was
supposed to be accessed only by
the senate committee staff by
agreement of the cia.
the cia will dispute the way a
lot of people are interpreting
the finding here as well as the
yesterday with john brennan's
apology some.
>> so according to the cia, john
brennan, because of the
seriousness of senator
feinstein's allegations asked
the cia inspector general david
buckley to conduct an internal
review of the buckley came up w
number of cias, attorneys and
specialists inappropriately
accessed a database that was
supposed to be accessed only by
the senate committee staff by
agreement of the cia.
the cia will dispute the way a
lot of people are interpreting
the finding...
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response -- the response by john
brennan that you just played,
the question is whether or not
the cia had hacked into this
computer in an effort to thwart
the committee's investigation
and john brennan said absolutely
not.
the definition of the word hack
may be what's at play here
because at least as far as the
cia is concerned they can't hack
into their own computer system.
this was a system that the cia
provided to the senate staff,
but i suspect that a lot of
people are going to say that's
splitting hairs and indeed, the
cia did hack into this system to
determine whether or not the cia
had an internal review of the
interrogation program, that
according to senator feinstein
and others, actually confirmed
the findings of the senate's own
report.
>> let me ask you, there are
some very angry senators on
capitol hill today.
senator udall issued a statement
that says i have lost confidence
response -- the response by john
brennan that you just played,
the question is whether or not
the cia had hacked into this
computer in an effort to thwart
the committee's investigation
and john brennan said absolutely
not.
the definition of the word hack
may be what's at play here
because at least as far as the
cia is concerned they can't hack
into their own computer system.
this was a system that the cia
provided to the senate staff,
but i suspect that a lot of
people are going to say...
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turns out they did.
according to mcclatchy, an
internal agency review finds cia
employees did, in fact,
improperly access computers used
by the committee while its staff
was researching a report on the
cia's highly controversial
detention and interrogation
program.
so those claims by senator
feinstein, the ones john brennan
called beyond the scope of
reason, it turns out they were
dead on.
so dead on that brennan himself
actually apologized yesterday to
feinstein and the committee's
vice chair, saxby cham bliss.
hours ago, a member of the
senate intelligence committee
tweeted, the cia broke into
senate computer files and tried
to have senate staff prosecuted
and unacceptable in a democracy.
turns out they did.
according to mcclatchy, an
internal agency review finds cia
employees did, in fact,
improperly access computers used
by the committee while its staff
was researching a report on the
cia's highly controversial
detention and interrogation
program.
so those claims by senator
feinstein, the ones john brennan
called beyond the scope of
reason, it turns out they were
dead on.
so dead on that brennan himself
actually apologized yesterday to
feinstein and the committee's
vice chair,...