that was a letter from john held gerson, cia director of congressional affairs dated january 8th. >> you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." as senate intelligence chair, the outgoing chair, dianne feinstein continues to outline the conclusions of the democratic majority's 5 1/2 year investigation into what they call is torture, enhanced interrogation of detainees under the bush administration. we go back to the senate floor. >> interrogations themselves or ever operated detention facilities. as the cia captured or received custody of detainees through 2002, it maintains separate lines of management at headquarters for different detention facilities. no individual or defense was in charge of the detention and interrogation program until january 2003. by which point more than 1/3 of detainees identified in our review had been detained and interrogated. one clear example, a flawed cia management was the poorly managed familiarity referred to in the report bite code name cobalt to hide the actual name of the facility. it began operations in september of 2002. the facility knew few f

it cites the former cia inspector general john held gerson who in 2005 wrote the following to the then-directorf the cia which clearly states the situation with respect to this report years later as well. and i quote. "we have found that the agency over the decades has continued to get itself intoes mes related to interrogation programs for one overriding reason. we do not document and learn from our experience. each generation of officers is left to improvise anew with problematic results for our offices as individuals and for our agency. i believe that to be true. i agree with mr. helgerson. his comments are true today but this must change. on march 11, 2009, the committee voted 14-1 to begin a review of the cia's detention and interrogation program. over the past five years, a small team of committee investigators pored over the more than 6.3 million pages of cia records the leader spoke about to complete this report or what we call the study. it shows that the cia's actions a decade ago are a stain on our value and history. the release of this 500 page summary cannot remove that stain. but