The head of the Central Intelligence Agency spoke out today as pressure continues to mount over the release of the Senate's report into the Agency's use of torture techniques.
John Brennan said the spy agency wasn't prepared for what would become its mission after the 9-11 attacks and that it was 'unknowable' whether interrogation techniques had provided good intelligence.
Here's our Washington correspondent Kevin Mcaleese
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In quite an unprecendented move, the Head of the CIA defended his agency against the Senate's devastating report on Torture.
Director Brennan opened by stressing that the Agency was unprepared for the task following the worst terror attack on US soil.
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But He also threw scorn on the way the report was compiled the Senate's investigation team
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H reiterated where the agency parted ways with the findings of the Senate study - but confessed he couldn't be certain of the efficacy of the CIA enhanced interrogation program
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His remarks followed further calls from the United Nation for criminal action to be taken against the CIA officials involved in the brutal techniques used on detainees... Juan Mendez is a UN expert on human rights and torture
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Earlier Former Vice President with the Bush Administration Dick Cheney told fox news the CIA Torture Report was 'Full of Crap'
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Detainees were Sleep deprived, keep in isolation and changed naked to concrete floors in various prisons sites outside of the US.
James Mitchell one of the contractors who put the CIA's interrogation program together told Vice news that there was hypocrisy in the US government's counter-terrorism actions...
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Director Brennan said lessons had been learned and the The CIA had changed it practices in line with the policies it is obliged to follow but his frustration with this chapter in the agency's history broke free in a surprisingly candid remark...
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The White House continues to emphasize the importance of rebuilding the country's moral authority, a campaign that will take some work as the international community joins US calls for criminal charges to be brought against at the heart of the torture affair.
Kevin McAleese
Washington.