mr haden has another take on this. he was the director of the c.i.a. during a period of time when torture was being used. there's a personal conflict there being involved. >> the last question on the political nation on the report that haden commented on. do you think it would have come out once the republicans took over the senate. it's now or never. there are still a number of republican leaders that would have wanted to release it, i don't think they would have had the votes needed to get a release. it had to happen, else the american republic, the world wouldn't have seen what happened. thank you for your time. thank you >>> let's move on to other news, and a frenchman kidnapped inmli three years ago arrived home. serge is the last french hostage to be released, and is seen greeted by french president francis hollande. earlier he was welcomed by the president of niger. it's not clear if a ransom was paid. local media say several rebel fighters have been freed. >> zimbabwean president robert mugabe called a meeting to replace the deputy he sacked. f

goss began to ask more questions of haden about it. she retired shortly after but haden told goss that he wanted to meet with diane rourke even though she retired. >> haden is no longer the head as said he does not think he should go to prison. >> an interesting comment by him. i am not sure what to make of it at this point. >> i want to show you president obama in 2005 when he was a u.s. senator talking about the patriot act which has direct motion with what we have been talking about. this is about 30 seconds and get your reaction to this. [video clip] >> if someone wants to know why their own government has decided to go on a fishing expedition through every personal record or private document from the library books you read, the phone calls you have made, the e-mail you have sent, this legislation gives people no right to appeal the need for such a search in a court of law. no judge will hear your plea. no jury will hear your case. this is just plain wrong. >> yeah. that is a very different view than what he has to day. one of the

here is michael haden speaking with cnn's jake tapper. >> she's saying that you misled congress.>> my response is, you've got to be kidding. i'm the one who argued within the administration, frankly, with the strong support of the president in 2006 during that first summer when i was director, that we had to go full monlty to the committees. this could not be just the president's program. it had to be america's program. >> bob, your former colleagues in the cia, some are named in this report. you say their names redacted. are they in line with haden on that, that it's not true that leaders in washington didn't know what's going on? >> they have told me over and over again that the -- the gang of eight, the two committees, intelligence committees, were informed in general terms. quite sure the committees weren't told about rectal hydration or leaving someone out to die of hypothermia. but it's normal in washington for the committees not to be given those details. what the cia does is if is there a mistake made like that or crime, they refer at the department of justice. it's up to

but i do know that i had meetings with both vice president of the united states and general haden and extended meetings where there were vigorous discussions. i said these things are torture, in violation of the geneva convention and convention against foretour. later on as you know in 2005 and 2006 we enacted legislation to prohibit what they were arguing for. bob, some of these -- you cannot -- i urge everyone to just read the report. these are the communications within the cia as to what happened. can't claim that tying someone to the floor and have them freeze to death is not torture. you can't say 18 times someone is waterboarded. by the way, on waterboarding it began with spanish inquisition. it was done during the philippine war. we tried and hung japanese war criminals for waterboarding americans in world war ii. >> schieffer: here is the thing. the vice president, dick cheney says that these things worked that we had to do it and they worked. do you think they worked? >> that is -- first of all i think we established that it was torture that is the big second question. let me

former cia director mike rally haden said that report will betray u.s. allies overseas, and make agency officers risk averse. >> this report will lead to a national espionage service that cia that is timid and friendless, that is say dress sit -- is a dangerous situation. >> don the cia senior lawyer during the bush-era program told fox this year that the interrogation provided valuable intelligence. >> it led to the destruction of other plans, the capture of other detainees. even the take down of osama bin laden. >> reporter: rizzo said that committee democrats seem agenda driven because none of the key players were interviewed. >> george tenent said that oversight committee leadership was briefed in 2002, and i can recall no objects raised. the report was finished last summer by negotiation intensified over redaction and whether proposal to use pseudonyms would reveal identity of cia officers who are still covert. >> current cia director john brennan threatened to resign if the redaction issue ar was not resulted. lou: thank you. thank yocatherine herr

director michael haden, who called the report a one-sided prosecutorial brief against the men and women of c.i.a. it's a trial and verdict rendered in absentia: it strikes me with everywhere speaking out on this, and many have a different opinion that it's difficult for the american people to figure out what is true and what is not. >> i don't think it's difficult at all. what the germ had to say was self-serving. just as general bush said yesterday is self-serving. they are trying to put it off on c.i.a. officers. when, in fact, it was a failure of leadership. these guys acted on instructions from above. including chief vt, chief of staff, the c.i.a. council, and c.i.a. directors up to and including mike. they are the ones that should bear the brunt of responsibility for a failure in upholding their oath to defend the constitution of united states. >> good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. good to see you. >> the c.i.a. and the nation's top law makesers are speaking about the report today as well. in a statement c.i.a. john brepan defended the interrogation tack

general michael haden, director of the n.s.a. for years has been saying all this time that there is considerable n.s.a. oversight which prevents abuse. i think that this report shows that they absolutely knew about the oversight and abuse is not as rare as he's been trying to tell the american people >>> we learnt that u.s. and coalition forces carried out 12 air strikes in the fight against yiing. u.s. central command said six strikes targeted the building on the town of kobane near the turkish border. coalition struck targets in many areas. syria says it's willing to participate in preliminary confrontations in moscow and restart peace talks. syrian television quoted foreign talks, they need the aspirations of syrians. members of the western-backed opposition dismissed the plan saying there's no initiative. >> tension between the u.s. and russia of late is pushing russia closer to its neighbour china. the european asian giants put years of this trust behind them. rory challands reports from russia's far east. >> reporter: the f

thanks to four week fitness challenge and fund raiseers fearly 5,000 was paid to pay for haden's special bike. >> time for a check on sports. jeff skversky is liver at the "action news" sports septemberer, hi, jeff. >> a lot to get to tonight. let's start with eagles, scoring open seattle. eagles could not afford to have high flying officers come to a stop. and eagles are one of the worst teams in nfl scoring inside the 20. and five of the the last 16 trips in the red zone. doesn't get any easier against the number one ranked in the nfl. if they want to stay one in nfc east they better figure this out. >> it will be a battle out. there they'll come in ready to fight. they know we played pretty well up to this point. but, this say big game we need this, they need this. >> flyers need a win as well. we need it badly. flyers lost ten of 11 games coming into play out in la against stanley cup champ. it's been a wheel of miss fortunes and why they solved "the buzz" the puzzle against the kings. 1-0 flyers two minutes into the second on power play. that's win simmonds. flyers win 2-1 ending si

general haden had more to say about that let's listen. >> we thought we were doing the nation well. having lived in the period and looking bag on it now, we thought it was about the nation's will and in all these activities the president authorised them. the congress was briefed and we carried them out. the programme ran until december 2007. i was one of the people that had to be tested for anthrax exposure. should the programme have been stopped once the panic was over and we learnt a lot about al qaeda, and made progress in the fight against them. >> you have to take the issues one at a time. one of the so-called interrogation thords is that an individual was pushed. the door was designed so it would break. he was thrown against the door. it is designed to break. how is that something that under no circumstances on moral grounds could be considered. it does not strike me as anything other than a trick. i think so many people have latched on to the whole idea of torture, and used the word without having it - have any content. thinking that that wins the argument for them. it is com

we'll ask tough questions with former cia director michael haden about the gruesome details and the 26wrongly detained. then a government shutdown avoided jeff bush gives hipts on 20 16 and is family feud brewing for democrats. our power house round table takes on that and all the week's politics many all coming up this week, eva, nydia, back to you. >> thank you, martha. >> "action news" continues at noon. here are the stories we're working on for i a philadelphia man says home was fire bombed this morning sending five people including baby kneeing from the home. we'll have the latest on the investigation. >> and area school is taking a fresh lola approach to school lunches. hear what the restaurant have to say about the healthy food. >> for chris sowers, eva pilgrim, i'm nydia han have a pilgrim, i'm nydia han have a great morning we'll see you at how do they do it? hey, guys! yeah? yeah? two more sugar cookie lattes, please. all: coming up! dunkin's new sugar cookie latte has the taste of the holidays baked in. merry christmas! thanks but this gift, it's kind of half-fast. what's wr

a chance former director michael haden denied. >> if everywhere on the planet used c.i.a. as the model, the treatment of detainees on earth would improve. >> world leaders disagreed. the president of afghanistan called for an investigation after the report said there was evidence the c.i.a. used water boarding at in the prison in afghanistan. >> translation: this is really painful. the report indicates that some of our country men who were tortured were totally incident. >> the former president of poland who allowed a secret site said this would hurt in the future. >> translation: the americans by publishing the report in large part lose their ability. every country will wonder to what extent it can be trusted that some operations sometimes on the verge of illegality, but crucial for security would be possible to implement. >> other reaction focused on the issue of human rights. from rain - torture is shameful. china - the u.s. should clean up its own backyard first. russia - a further stain on the u.s. legislation on site. no one was involved. >> there was a career federa

so there's a whole thing at the end of the report, where haden is testifying and so, report has his testimonyand next to it, a -- what the report calls misrepprepare sensations and, his position is, this is what i was told, and i didn't run the program, and i didn't run it. and this is what records we're showing. so, whether people lied is an interesting open question. it's not resolved in this report. by the way, how this is playing out, let me show you some headlines, this is the guardian, and, in washington, torture the stain on america, and then you also have some papers from the mid-east, this is the 'daily news', out of egypt, u.s. warned the heightened tensions. and then, this is from arab news, c.i.a. torture brutal and ineffective. and also, this from the u.a. e., c.i.a. lies and brutality exposed. so, those are on the front pages. arthur, a republican, you are next. caller: good morning. this sounds like a bunch of political correctness gone haywire, and, i think the main thing, is to go back to the context of you know, things that were happening at the time. 9/11 and, such, and, ex

in a recent article in the jacksonville daily news regarding my no-vote on this bill, mike haden, a retired air force colonel and present director of governmental relations for military officers association of america, known as more, said, and i quote, an e-5 service member would lose more than $800 in purchasing power annually when the bill takes effect. this is going to cost them a a month just $600 in pay. in the same article, jim, a retired marine living in jacksonville, and serves as a senior vice commander of the local d.a.v. chapter said, that cuts could adversely affect military families. charlie brown, a quarter master for the v.f.w. agreed with master davis and said, the bill doesn't accurately reflect what service members actually deserve. mr. speaker, i would like to quote james madison and path buchanan. james madison wrote, and i quote, the power to declare war including the power to judge the causes of war is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature. mr. speaker, for too long we have not had policy debates on the floor of this house whether it be iraq, syria, or afghan