The Senate Intelligence Committee's summary of its report on the CIA's interrogation practices found that the agency "provided inaccurate information to the White House, Congress, the Justice Department, the CIA inspector general, the media and the American public."
Reaction to the summary's release was swift.
CIA Director John Brennan in a statement said the agency "acknowledge[s] that the detention and interrogation program had shortcomings and that the Agency made mistakes," but he said his agency's review of the interrogation techniques found they "did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives."
Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., said the release of the study "will present serious consequences for U.S. national security."
"The fact that the CIA's Detention and Interrogation program developed significant intelligence that helped us identify and capture important al-Qa'ida terrorists, disrupt their ongoing plotting, and take down Usama Bin Ladin is incontrovertible," the statement said. "Claims included in this report that assert the contrary are simply wrong."
We'll update this post as more reactions come in.
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