“Deceit and obfuscation.”

That’s what CIA Director John Brennan offered Thursday, one observer says, at a press conference just days after the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on his agency’s torture program in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Brennan, who said there’s been “more than enough transparency” since the its release, criticized the committee’s process for the report as “flawed,” and said that “there were times when CIA officers exceeded the policy guidance,” and that “we fell short when it came to holding some officers accountable for their mistakes.”

J. Wells Dixon, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights told MSNBC’s Joy Reid: “I think [Brennan’s] presentation was just another example of the deceit and obfuscation we’ve seen from current and former government officials who have really tried to undermine this report at all turns.”  Dixon added that he doesn’t think Brennan “believes the lies that he’s telling.”

Brennan was asked whether the torture—or Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EITs) as Brennan and most members of the media there called it—was effective in providing useful counter-terrorism information. Dixon said that focus misses the mark.

“The question whether these torture techniques led to useful information or not is the wrong question to ask,” Dixon said. “The question to ask is, ‘What’s going to happen?'”