CIA director John Brennan gave a press conference on Wednesday afternoon defending the agency from the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's use of torture during the Bush administration. During the speech, Sen. Dianne Feinstein — the leading force behind the report — fact-checked Brennan's assertions. And it was devastating. For example, when Brennan said it was "unknowable" whether torture was necessary to produce useful intelligence, Feinstein pointed out that the CIA's own records show that the best intel was obtained without torture: Brennan: "unknowable" if we could have gotten the intel other ways. Study shows it IS...
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