John Brennan on Senate CIA Detention and Interrogation Report


CIA Director John Brennan spoke to reporters about the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation practices. He called the enhanced interrogation techniques program uncharted territory when it was implemented and admitted the agency was unprepared for it. 

CIA Chief John Brennan Defends Agency But Questions Some Tactics - NBCNews.com

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CIA Chief John Brennan Defends Agency But Questions Some Tactics
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Some CIA officers employed interrogation tactics that were "abhorrent" in the years after Sept. 11, but the agency "did a lot of things right" to keep the country safe at an agonizing time, Director John Brennan said Thursday. In an extraordinary press conference ...
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Brennan: CIA was unprepared to detain, interrogate suspects

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CIA director John Brennan says the Central Intelligence Agency was unprepared to detain and interrogate Al-Qaeda suspects after the 9/11 attacks. Duration: 00:35.
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CIA director: Tactic 'abhorrent;' value 'unknowable'

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CIA Director John Brennan defended Thursday his agency, in the wake of the release of an explosive report outlining Bush era interrogation techniques, saying those techniques were useful to finding Osama bin Laden.

CIA chief: Results of harsh interrogation unknown

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Did the CIA's harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects yield crucial information that could not have been obtained another way? CIA chief John Brennan says the answer cannot be known....

CIA chief recounts 9/11 horrors

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- CIA Director John Brennan is defending his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspect with no security benefits to the nation....

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