WITH GWEN IFILL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 @ 11:00PM
This Week on Washington Week: Senate Report on CIA Interrogations & Bipartisan Budget Deal
CIA Director John Brennan is strongly defending his agency following the release of a critical Senate Intelligence Committee report about the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program. The Senate’s so-called “torture report” accuses the CIA of misleading the White House and Congress about the effectiveness of harsh tactics used against terrorism suspects following the 9/11 attacks. Brennan is calling the process by which the Senate committee arrived at its report “flawed.”
Plus we’ll take a closer look at how Congress was able to reach a bipartisan budget deal to avert another government shutdown.