WASHINGTON (AP) — American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are bracing for possible security threats related to Tuesday's planned release of a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques, the White House says.

The report from the Senate Intelligence Committee will be the first public accounting of the CIA's use of torture on al-Qaida detainees held in secret facilities in Europe and Asia in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. The committee is expected to release a 480-page executive summary of the more than 6,000-page report compiled by Democrats on the panel.

"There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to U.S. facilities and individuals all around the world," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday. "The administration has taken the prudent steps to ensure that the proper security precautions are in place at U.S. facilities around the globe."

Likewise, Army Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said that "there is certainly the possibility that the release of this report could cause unrest" and therefore combatant commands have been directed to take protective measures.

According to many U.S. officials who have read it, the document alleges that the harsh interrogations failed to produce unique and life-saving intelligence. And it asserts that the CIA lied about the covert program to officials at the White House, the Justice Department and congressional oversight committees.

Earnest said that regardless of whether the U.S. gleaned important intelligence through the interrogations, "the president believes that the use of those tactics was unwarranted, that they were inconsistent with our values and did not make us safer."

While the White House has said it welcomes the release of the summary, officials say they do have concerns about potential security threats that could follow.

On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the committee chairwoman, to "consider" the timing of the release. White House officials said Obama had been aware that Kerry planned to raise the issue with Feinstein, but they insisted the president continued to support the report's release.

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Associated Press writer Lolita C. Baldor contributed to this report.

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U.S. embassies abroad are heightening security ahead of Tuesday's release, the White House says.
Months of planning

A coalition of faith leaders from the Micah Institute at the New York Theological Seminary perform a spontaneous "Die-In" protest at New York City Hall in response to police violence in New York December 8, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

By Scott Malone, Karen Freifeld and Emmett Berg

NEW YORK/BERKELEY, Calif. (Reuters) - Basketball stars in New York joined racially charged nationwide protests on Monday night against the failure of a grand jury to indict a white officer over the death of an unarmed black man after being put in a police chokehold.

Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James and other players wore T-shirts emblazoned with Eric Garner's last words "I CAN'T BREATHE," in pre-game warmups at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, where Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate were among thousands who came to see the team play the Brooklyn Nets.

In California demonstrators blocked a train and a major freeway late on Monday, part of continuing night-time protests over the death in July of Garner, a father of six, which happened after police put him in a banned chokehold.

The decision in the Garner case came little more than a week after a Missouri grand jury cleared an officer in the fatal August shooting of an unarmed black teen, Michael Brown.

In the California college town of Berkeley, near San Francisco, more than 50 people blocked an Amtrak train. Some lay on the tracks, while others sat on a sofa on the rails.

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Several hundred protesters roamed Berkeley streets elsewhere on Monday night, blocking roads and shutting down a major freeway. Monday's demonstrations came a day after police said five people were arrested when a hundreds-strong crowd threw rocks and other objects at officers and many stores were looted.

Outside Barclays Center, a group of about 300 protesters blocked streets and chanted, "I can't breathe," in memory of Garner, and "Hands up, don't shoot," a reference to Brown's death in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

In downtown Phoenix, about 200 protesters marched to police headquarters over the killing of an unarmed black man by a white officer in what authorities described as a struggle last week.

Protesters demanded that police release the name of the officer involved in the fatal shooting of 34-year-old Rumain Brisbon, a man police suspected of selling drugs.

REVIEW OF POLICE KILLINGS

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New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Monday sought the power to probe all police killings of unarmed civilians in the state.

It remained unclear whether New York Governor Andrew Cuomo would grant Schneiderman such powers. Like the Democratic mayor of New York, Cuomo has tried to walk a fine line -- expressing concern about the grand jury's decision not to charge an officer in Garner's death while not alienating the police.

The order, if signed, would only affect new cases of unarmed civilians killed by police.

On Monday U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, whose office is investigating the Garner case, unveiled a set of changes to federal law enforcement guidelines intended to set an example for local police, according to a Justice Department official.

In Cleveland, where the U.S. Justice Department last week said police routinely use excessive force, Samaria Rice, the mother of a 12-year-old African-American boy shot dead by police in November, told reporters she was seeking a conviction.

Her son, Tamir Rice, was shot near a recreation center while carrying a pellet gun that was a replica of a real gun. The boy's family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and the two officers involved, one who shot Rice on Nov. 22 and one who was driving the police car.

"Tamir was a bright child, he had a promising future and he was very talented in all sports: soccer, basketball, football," Rice said. "He was my baby."

(Additional reporting by Fiona Ortiz in Chicago, Kim Palmer in Cleveland, Sebastien Malo in Brooklyn, Noel Randewich in Berkeley, Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, and David Schwartz in Phoenix; Additional writing by Sharon Bernstein and Curtis Skinner; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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Experts in training police said today that it will be difficult for New York City to change the habits of its police officers with just three days of retraining on the use of force.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner William Bratton announced last week that 22,000 officers would undergo the retraining session. The announcement came as protests roiled the city over a grand jury's decision to clear an officer in the killing of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died after being put in a choke hold during an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.

"It's very difficult to train real life in the classroom, but they're going to have to do the best they can," retired NYPD detective Joe Giacalone told ABC News.

The former detective said, "It's going to all come down to the firearms training. Discretion is something that needs to be taught."

Dr. Maki Haberfeld, chair of John Jay College's Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, said the training sessions appeared to her to be more of an effort to mollify public opinion than a serious attempt to change the city's policing.

"I don't think you can un-train police officers in three days, police officers or anybody else for that matter," Haberfield said. "It's very, very problematic."

"You automatically perceive it not as professional development, but as a type of punishment," she said. "To me it's really truly just to satisfy the public."

Giacalone said the re-training will be a "huge undertaking" for the NYPD.

"If you're taking this many police officers off patrol, you're going to have to back bill them. This is going to be a very expensive thing, but in the long run it should help out," he said.

The first day of the retraining will be dedicated to the "foundations of policing" followed on the second day will emphasize "smart techniques."

Much of the second day is dedicated to communication skills, "understanding ego and abuse of authority" and language concerns. The poster from the press conference noted that "cursing at police is NOT disorderly conduct," according to the NYPD's poster on its retaining.

An overarching theme that Bratton and de Blasio tried to stress during their announcement last week was that the force hopes to build trust through respect and how they want to have better communication skills so that force is not used unnecessarily.

The training will conclude on the third day with "tactical skills." The tactical skills portion will likely receive the most scrutiny since that is when officers will be reviewing the approved ways to use force. Moves like an arm bar, bar hammer lock, rear tackle and then the aftercare of a subject were listed by the NYPD as issues that will be addressed during that time.

The training coincides with a plan to have senior officers pair with younger officers to continue their training on the job.

ABC News' Ron Claiborne contributed to this report.

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