Franken: CIA misled Congress, administration on interrogation

The Senate Intelligence Committee report on detainee interrogations is "a sobering reminder that torture is immoral, and it's not who we are," said Sen. Al Franken in a response to the release Tuesday.

The Minnesota Democrat joined The Daily Circuit Wednesday to discuss the findings.

"Not only did the CIA mislead the Congress, it misled the administration," he said. "For the most part, it misled the president until he was really told around 2006 about this."

The report concluded the CIA conducted brutal interrogations of detainees at secret overseas facilities in the years after the 9/11 terror attacks.

President Barack Obama says the techniques "did significant damage to America's standing in the world.'' Arizona's Republican Senator John McCain says the country gave up "too much'' in `"the expectation that torture would make us safer.''