Known psychiatrists, Robert Jay Lifton. For the past five decades, he has written extensively on the psychological dimensions of war, from the u. S. Atomic bombing of hiroshima, to doctors who aided nazi crimes, to nuclear war. The atrocities produced in situations where ordinary people kill large numbers of civilians as occurred in the vietnam war and which i wrote about, that continues to haunt us in our war fighting in iraq and afghanistan. We learned, or should learn from, what we have done and what others have done to us. Amy for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Dozens of people were killed across yemen on wednesday in one of the worst days of fighting so far. The heaviest violence was seen in the southern port city of aden where those were killed kind of fleet and to the north 35 civilians were killed by an airstrike. Speaking during a visit to saudi arabia, secretary of state john kerr
Thomas well start right back at 1 00. Thomas im a Research Fellow here at the cato Institutes Center for constitutional studies and managing editor of the cato review. I know how insanely cooperative and timely and patient for them to make it happen. Thanks everyone that trevor named and thanked in the First Amendment. We have a First Amendment panel at constitutional day. Its smack dab at the wheelhouse here at the levy center. This year was unusually light in one respect in i believe there was one on First Amendment speech and youll hear professor armijo speak about that. We have one case on First Amendment speech. One case on First Amendment religion clawses. And two cases on clauses. And two cases on the states doctrine which arguably touches on many of the same values as the freedom of speech and the press. Namely, the values of transparency and the open marketplace of ideas. On First Amendment speech, youll hear about a case that might have first seemed to concern municipal fine
The cia is lying. There was a lot of cherry pick going on by this committee. Thoesz wse who put together Senate Report. Torture dependent just happen, after all. The cia tortured detainees for years. Torture is something we avoided. Water boarding thats ka lating into near drownings. We thought we were doing the nations will. Theyre responsible for the use of these techniques. Of course theyre going to defend them. The level of abuse was torture. Absolutely devastating to read. Helps our enemies recruitment efforts. What are we supposed to do in kiss them on both cheeks and tell us please, please, tell us what you know. My president would have ordered these interrogation methods. I have no sympathy for them. Torture doesnt work. More often than not, you get bad information. Talking points is siding with the cia people. It did, in fact, produce actionable intelligence. I have a book on world war ii killing patents so i know what im talking about. I would do it again in a minute. Washing
Torture dependent just happen, after all. The cia tortured detainees for years. Torture is something we avoided. Water boarding thats ka lating into near drownings. We thought we were doing the nations will. Theyre responsible for the use of these techniques. Of course theyre going to defend them. The level of abuse was torture. Absolutely devastating to read. Helps our enemies recruitment efforts. What are we supposed to do in kiss them on both cheeks and tell us please, please, tell us what you know. My president would have ordered these interrogation methods. I have no sympathy for them. Torture doesnt work. More often than not, you get bad information. Talking points is siding with the cia people. It did, in fact, produce actionable intelligence. I have a book on world war ii killing patents so i know what im talking about. I would do it again in a minute. Washington is the place where you never, never have to read the report to attack the report. I havent read the report but i kno
Agency officers used interrogation techniques that had not been authorized. Were abhorrent and rightly should be repudiated by all. But brennan would not call it torture. I would leave to others how they might want to label those activities. Brennans explanation, the c. I. A. Was not ready after 9 11. The program was uncharted territory for the c. I. A. And we were not prepared. And he maintained the agencys enhanced interrogation techniques or eits produced intelligence, even though he conceded it was unknowable if the same results were obtainable without harsh methods. It is our considered view that the detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques provided information that was useful and was used. In the ultimate operation to go against bin laden. Thats in sharp contrast to the torture report from Democratic Senate Intelligence Committee chair, dianne feinstein. She responded to brennan in a tweet that critical intelligence that led to bin laden was unrelated to