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cnn news 2014-12-13

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: A strongly divisive U.S. government report leads off our show this Wednesday. It involves controversial interrogation

techniques used by the Central Intelligence Agency in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the U.S. The report was released

yesterday by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Its job is to oversee and monitor the intelligence activities of the U.S. government.

In order to get information from terrorism suspects, the report says the CIA would deprive them of sleep, sometimes for days, sometimes in

uncomfortable positions. It says some suspects were beaten, and some were water-boarded, when water is poured onto someone`s face and head to instill

a fear of drowning.

Critics including President Obama called these methods torture and say they are ineffective in getting information. Defenders including the CIA called

the methods effective and say they helped prevent terrorist attacks.

Yesterday, U.S. security officials warned law enforcement that the report could influence extremists and terrorists to attack the U.S.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thousands of U.S. military personnel on heightened alert, anticipating the release of a report by the Senate Intelligence

Committee on top secret interrogation tactics and torture of CIA detainees.

REP. MIKE ROGERS (R) INTELLIGENCE CHAIRMAN: Our own intelligence community has assessed that this will cause violence and deaths.

The Marines are positioned in key areas, ready to respond to potential violent reactions directed at U.S. embassies and military bases around the

globe. Believed to be included in the report, details of water-boarding and other interrogation tactics in the years after 9/11.

The CIA believes the so called enhanced interrogation techniques including water-boarding provided key information that prevented other terror attacks

and led to the capture of Osama bin Laden.

But the report questions the effectiveness of those procedures. Critics of the $50 million report question the timing of its release.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: When would be a good time to release this report, and it`s difficult to imagine one. Particularly

because of the painful details that will be included, but again, the president believes that it is important for us to be as transparent as we

possibly can be about what exactly transpired, so we can just be clear to the American public and to people around the world that something like this

should not happen again.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Former Vice President Dick Cheney dismissed the Senate report saying, the CIA`s interrogation methods were "absolutely

totally justified."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Cheney who hasn`t read the report strongly defended CIA leaders arguing the program itself was worth it, adding "As far as I`m

concerned, they ought to be decorated, not criticized." That sentiment was echoed by former President Bush.

GEORGE W. BUSH: These are patriots, and whatever the report says, if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base.

AZUZ: Next today, gas prices, they are free falling, and it looks like they are only going to get lower. The U.S. national average for a gallon

of gas was $3.26 one year ago. It`s about $2.67 now. By next spring, analysts predict it will be below two bucks a gallon. Why?

U.S. oil production, for one thing, it`s booming. Even though a method called hydraulic fracturing or fracking is controversial, it`s yielding a

lot of oil. Also, the price of crude oil, the biggest factor in the price of gas, it`s dropping. There`s less demand for crude in Asia and Europe

where economies have slowed down. All this is good for us, drivers, it`s not for countries whose economies depend largely on crude oil sales.

The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, has a new way for you to wrap your mind and your hands around history. It`s

using three-dimensional imaging to scan everything from Abraham Lincoln`s facial structure to a T-Rex toe. And if you have access to a 3-D printer,

you can use it to create replicas of priceless and matchless museum artifacts.