i say goodbye to iraq and yes to independence. the non-binding fights with talent despite pressure from all sides iraq central government said it would never accept the speaking up of the country internationally the united nations wants the kurds push for independence could ignite more regional conflicts by the u.s. feed it would distract from the fight against so-called islamic states. that could say the fight is partly about acknowledging the contribution of the peshmerga fighters in confronting i.a. s. god gives us this land and we have to protect it with our blood. we made sacrifices for the land and god willing the kurdish state will be announced soon and we are ready to sacrifice ourselves for it.
really doing here. what s your reaction of what was released to you had? today? there s no question the cia systematically lied to the congress and therefore the american people including the top officials at the agency. but at the same time, lawrence, i ve been writing about torture for almost ten year nous. and although there are some new details in this report, it s been very well known for a long time in washington that the cia was brutally torturing people, not just at guantanamo, but at bagram and the entire american prison system as part of the war on terror. and for a long time, members of congress, the media, even the american population, more or less act a acquiesced to it. it s a reckoning nor all of us, not just that agency.
bipartisan stand against domestic enemies of the constitution. enemies of the constitution do not have to be people. the constitution is an idea. a memo can be an enemy of the constitution. domestic enemies of the constitution are the most dangerous enemies of the constitution because they have access to it. especially enemies of the constitution residing inside the government. senator feinstein exposed the ci a s new extinct enhanced interrogation techniques. a term which senator jay rockefeller said was the ci a s sanitized term for commercials.
several instances of people put in charge of these sites where supervisors even passed up the chain of the agency that people should not be in charge of things. and yet, they were still given these posts. and things we re reading here are not testimonies made by prisoners saying these are the bad things they did to. this is what people within the cia, within the program wrote to each other about what they saw happen to these people, or what they did to these people. yes. colleagues of these people saying they should not be put in charge of bases. they would anger management issues. they were concern with unsubordination. we had one example, a particularly disturbing one a critique that was passed up the chain of the cia chief of interrogations, i believe, who resigned saying he wanted to get off the train before it crashed. and i believe that note came in 2003 and we know now the program continued and the use of the techniques continued through far beyond 2003. so the fact that tho
think you re right, there wasn t a lot of eagerness to look into it. let s listen to what senator chambliss said today on the senator floor. everyone must remember that the cia was directed to conduct this program by the president. i have spoken with a number of cia officers over the years who remember the contentious debates about the program at the time it was being considered. but at the end of the day, the agency did what the president directed them to do. under color of law and based upon opinions issued and jut dated by the department of justice. but glenn, in the documents today, we discovered that the president didn t know as much about this, one, when it was first getting under way, didn t know as much about it apparently for possibly a number of years while it was going on.