This is Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city. Im tony harris. We begin with questions of accountabiliti merging one day after a Senate Report revealed harsh c. I. A. Interrogation practices many call torture. The u. N. Counter terrorism chief calls for accountability. President obama is focusing on what his administration has done. Namely banning the socalled enhanced interrogation techniques. He said that will ensure that the same mistakes never happen again. But critics say thats just not enough. And those responsible should be prosecuted. Water boarding, sleep depravation, tactics use in the post 9 11. Its not the president obama who conducts a criminal inquiry into the action of somebody who works at the c. I. A. Thats the responsibility of a career federal prosecutor who can take an independent look at this, who can do so without political interference and conduct an investigation and reach a conclusion based on their own view of the facts. But there were calls on the senat
A little more than a year since the disastrous government shut down by a do nothing congress. They agreed on a spending bill that will keep the government funded through september. Lawmakers have until tomorrow evening to read it before a suspected vote hours ahead before the trigger point of another government shutdown. Republicans only approved funding for the department of Homeland Security until february. Homeland security handles immigration, so the bill will give republicans a chance this winter to block president obamas executive order that protects five million unauthorized immigrants. In this bill however, there is a lot more from federal spending. In the horse trading that prompted this preliminary agreement, both sides agree to the tenfold increase to what donors can give to the international party. They prevent the District Of Columbia to use its own money to regulate marijuana, which voters legalized last month. It legalized swaps and regulations on truck drivers. The legi
Information about the program and its effectiveness to the white house, the department of justice, congress, the c. I. A. Inspector general, the media, and the american public. This conclusion is somewhat personal for me. I remember clearly when director hayden briefed the Intelligence Committee for the first time on the socalled e. I. T. s at that september, 2006 committee meeting. He referred specifically to a quote actually slap end quote among other techniques and presented the entire set of techniques as minimally harmful and implied in a highly clinical and professional manner. They were not. The committees report demonstrates that these techniques were physically very harmful and that the constraints that existed on paper in washington did not match the way techniques were used at c. I. A. Sites around the world. A particular of particular note was the treatment of abu zubaydah over the span of 17 days in august of 2002. This involved nonstop interrogation and abuse, 24 7, from
Are you sure you want to say that, your knowledge . In fact today was the payout you you want to say that the incremental medicaid payment would, in fact, have had a surplus, not a deficit. My recollection of the numbers and i have not looked in a while by the end of the decade on a yeartoyear basis the Affordable Care act lowered the deficit. I believe that would have been deficit. You are aware this cbo has revised the number and now show a deficit and have really since shortly after the parties changed and they redid their numbers. Are you aware that they show a deficit . They no longer stand behind the numbers trying passage . I sure wish you had been aware of it. You had not heard that. I dont think so. We will check on that. One of the things that i think about and talk about is that we have a a limited amount of time to be in these offices. I am so sorry, mr. Gruber, that you said what you said. You said. You can call it conjecture, whatever. What it does is distract. It it dist
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