--- title: Torture Report: CIA Director John Brennan Responds description: CIA Director John Brennan is addressing reporters Thursday afternoon for the first time since the release of the Senate torture report canonical: https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-11T18:45:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:47:12.737Z article:section: Politics og:title: Torture Report: CIA Director John Brennan Responds og:description: CIA Director John Brennan is addressing reporters Thursday afternoon for the first time since the release of the Senate torture report og:url: https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c0dff82731892f/69876e52e53aba25204d67e0/brennan-cia-1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: brennan-cia-1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Torture Report: CIA Director John Brennan Responds twitter:description: CIA Director John Brennan is addressing reporters Thursday afternoon for the first time since the release of the Senate torture report twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c0dff82731892f/69876e52e53aba25204d67e0/brennan-cia-1.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Live: CIA Director Addresses Reporters About Torture Report by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 11, 2014 6:45 PM UTC  AP by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Dec 11, 2014 6:45 PM UTC CIA Director John Brennan is addressing reporters Thursday afternoon for the first time since the release of [a Senate report](http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/study2014/sscistudy1.pdf) that [faulted the agency](http://time.com/3625453/torture-report-senate-cia-interrogation/) for brutal Bush-era interrogation tactics and for misleading Congress and the White House about it. Watch the news conference live above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/"},"headline":"Watch Live: CIA Director Addresses Reporters About Torture Report","datePublished":"2014-12-11T18:45:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:47:12.737Z","description":"CIA Director John Brennan is addressing reporters Thursday afternoon for the first time since the release of the Senate torture report","url":"https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/","keywords":["intelligence","Torture Report topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c0dff82731892f/69876e52e53aba25204d67e0/brennan-cia-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c0dff82731892f/69876e52e53aba25204d67e0/brennan-cia-1.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"brennan-cia-1","caption":"","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/intelligence/","name":"intelligence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3630368/torture-report-cia-john-brennan/","name":"Watch Live: CIA Director Addresses Reporters About Torture Report"}}]}] ```