CIA Chief Challenges Torture Report Findings

America's current CIA chief is weighing in on the so-called "torture report" released by Senate Democrats this week.

The study reveals how some members of his agency used harsh interrogation methods, such as waterboarding, on terror suspects shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
    
CIA Director John Brennan says the information gained from what he calls EITs, or Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, was valuable in fighting al Qaeda -- an enemy American intelligence knew very little about at the time.

He added the techniques even helped secure the success of one the military's prime missions, killing Osama bin Laden.

"There was information obtained subsequent to the application of EIT from detainees that was useful in the Bin Laden operation," Brennan said.

Brennan said it's impossible to know whether that same information would have been obtained had the interrogators used less harsh techniques.