Thursday, December 11, 2014

Brennan says "unknown and unknowable" whether torture yielded intelligence

The Director of the CIA John Brennan says the interrogation techniques the US used in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks were "abhorrent", but he's defended his staff in a rare press conference at CIA headquarters,

He told reporters he "fundamentally disagrees" with claims by a US Senate Committee that torture served no useful purpose in gathering intelligence.

Our US Correspondent Simon Marks reports.

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