CIA chief claims agency ‘did a lot of things right’

The director of the CIA has defended his agency from accusations in a Senate report that it used inhumane interrogation techniques against terrorist suspects with no security benefits to the US.

John Brennan opened a rare news conference by recounting the horrors of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, his agency’s determination to prevent another such assault, and the fact that CIA officers were the first to fight and early to die in the Afghanistan war.

He conceded unauthorised and in some cases abhorrent methods were used against captives.