A  Senate report on the controversial interrogation techniques the CIA employed in the wake of September 11 is expected to label those techniques torture and conclude they did not produce much actionable intelligence, reports CBS News.

Disclosure of the report will not end the torture debate.

On Sunday, former CIA officials and lawmakers sympathetic to the agency criticized the report and disputed the conclusion that the controversial techniques did not reveal any valuable information. Several supporters objected to the word “torture” and urged Americans to read supplemental reports that are more favorable.

“What I think people need to remember is that when the CIA undertook these techniques, they had multiple legal opinions from the Department of Justice, specifically saying it was not torture,” said former acting CIA Director Michael Morell on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”

Saying America needs to take “responsibility” for its mistakes, President Obama defended the decision to declassify the report.

“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks,” said the president on Friday. “We crossed a line. And that needs to be…understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that, so that hopefully we don’t do it again in the future,” said the president. Obama stressed that the men and women at the CIA were “patriots” who labored under “enormous pressure” after 9/11 to prevent another attack.

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, speaking Sunday on CNN, seconded the way the president defended the CIA, saying the agency rightfully worried about the possibility of more attacks.

“I think it’s an object lesson to future presidents, future intelligence agencies, future Congresses about how things can get off the rails, how things can go awry,” said King about the report.

“It bothers me that this whole thing is tarring the whole agency. It was a relatively small number of people,” said the senator. “….But they’re still trying to justify it and argue it wasn’t torture, which is nonsense…it’s unjustifiable,” said KIng.