head to the facebook page join in on the conversation at #keep talking. the cia director firing back against a highly critical senate report on interrogation methods. john brennan defending the agency and taking on democrats. here s fox news chief intelligence correspondent katherine herridge. it would plunge us into a seemingly never ending more against a globally dispersed collection of terrorists with a murderous agenda. john brennan had a senate intelligence committee report that the enhanced interrogation program also known as eit s did not provide substantive leads in the decade long hunt for the al qaeda leader and pakistan. it was information obtained subsequent to the application of bit s from the detainees that was useful in the bin laden operation. brennan offered a more nuance assessment of the program in connection of the waterboarding
america is an expert on the most divisive form of politics in existence today. now, david, you ve been covering this a long time in watching the right wing a long time. they re trying to paint the president as a divider for explaining racial profiling and explaining a lot of the reaction to the verdict of george zimmerman. how do you deal with the right now all of the sudden becoming the experts on race? well, i think it s not all of the sudden. let s remember the context here. at fox news, the fish rots from the head. so back in 1968, you had roger ailes, who is now the fox news chief, using the n-word prepping richard nixon for a public appearance. this is part of the southern strategy at the time to attract democrats into the republican party by stoking racial hate and prestigious. then in 1988, you had roger ailes fingerprints all over the willie horton attack on michael
we heard cases where a journalist went to jail in a leaked case and they refused to reveal confidential sources and that has always been a tension between the justice department and journalists and usually turned out to be nothing. usually leak investigations went no where. this is a whole new dimension in which the justice department at least in the james rosen case suggested that the reporter was a criminal. actually said that in the affidavit. said he was part of a criminal conspiracy. coconspirator and might even be a flight risk. the fox news chief correspondent being a flight risk. this appears to be a new step for the justice department. the other thing is we now know that they seized the phone records from the ap. not just a fox thing. seized phone records from ap and fox as well. i tell you, you ask any washington journalist if they believe these are the only times they have ever done this i think people are wanting to see what else has been done by this justice department
we heard cases where a journalist went to jail in a leaked case and they refused to reveal confidential sources and that has always been a tension between the justice department and journalists and usually turned out to be nothing. usually leak investigations went no where. this is a whole new dimension in which the justice department at least in the james rosen case suggested that the reporter was a criminal. actually said that in the affidavit. said he was part of a criminal conspiracy. coconspirator and might even be a flight risk. the fox news chief correspondent being a flight risk. this appears to be a new step for the justice department. the other thing is we now know that they seized the phone records from the ap. not just a fox thing. seized phone records from ap and fox as well. i tell you, you ask any washington journalist if they believe these are the only times they have ever done this i think people are wanting to see what else has been done by this justice department
thanks, radhika we appreciate that. roger ailes, fox news chief says president barack obama is lazy and joe biden is lazy and the new personality from the uks s who whose interview charmed the internet. the american dream is of a better future, a confident retirement. those dreams have taken a beating lately. but no way we re going to let them die. ameriprise advisors can help keep your dreams alive like they helped millions of others. by listening. planning. working one on one. that s what ameriprise financial does.