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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 Thursday December 11 th , 2014  at  8:03 PM Top Stories - Google News 1 Share New York Times CIA Chief John Brennan Defends Agency But Questions Some Tactics NBCNews.com 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 ... John Brennan defends CIA after torture report in rare press conference CNN Torture Report: CIA Director Joh

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