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C.I.A. Director, Admitting Agency Mistakes, Calls for End to Interrogation Debate Thursday December 11 th , 2014  at  5:30 PM 1 Share WASHINGTON —  John O. Brennan , the director of the  Central Intelligence Agency , on Thursday acknowledged problems and misstatements during the agency’s former interrogation program as he called for an end to a rancorous debate over brutal interrogation tactics. Mr. Brennan, in a rare news conference at C.I.A. headquarters, said agency leaders “still fundamentally disagree” with a Senate report that concluded that waterboarding and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques produced no valuable intelligence. “There was very valuable intelligence obtained from individuals who had been, at some point, subjected to E.I.T.'s,” Mr. Brennan said. He would not say whether he believed that the agency tortured any of the terrorism suspects it held and questioned for years. A Senate report this week desc