president obama put a career prosecutor in charge of it. they spent three years looking at all of these. they came up with a finding of no prosecutable offends were involved. the second question we want to examine is, was it effective? the senate report says enhanced interrogation here s cia director john brennan. the detention and interrogation program produced useful intelligence that helped the united states thwart attack plans and save lives. senator, the three cia directors who oversaw this program say it was central to foiling terror plots and helping to capture al qaeda leaders. the problem with there s a trick in the way they say it. they describe the interrogation program but they don t distinguish between the enhanced interrogation techniques and the
going to work, but i do feel compelled. i feel like this is maybe the only way to make sense of what has really happened in american politics. we have tried things like this before on the show. in june 2011, you may remember that we built something called the post-president clinton modern american political sex scandal consequenceometer, where we graphed post-bill clinton political sex scandals on two axes. it was more creepy to less creepy, hi, mark sanford. the other axis was more prosecutable to less prosecutable. we ve created this sort of chart. that was june 2011. before that, we also on this show once built a matrix of televangelist infidelity. where we broke down what can sometimes be a confusing subject. where it feels like all the televangelist infidelity goes together, so we broke it down. was there crying, was this not the first time, was it a church employee, was there a hooker, was there the hooker a guy, was there meth. did you make your wife be present at your tv apolog
before on the show. in june 2011, you may remember that we built something called the post-president clinton modern american political sex scandal consequenceometer, where we graphed post-bill clinton political sex scandals on two axes. it was more creepy to less creepy, hi, mark sanford. the other axis was more prosecutable to less prosecutable. we ve created this sort of chart. that was june 2011. before that, we also on this show once built a matrix of televangelist infidelity. where we broke down what can sometimes be a confusing subject. where it feels like all the televangelist infidelity goes together, so we broke it down. was there crying, was this not the first time, was it a church employee, was there a hooker,
well when i say accounting fraud, what i mean is, you know, in the financial system the way the books are kept and the market to market accounting and level one and two and three accounting, all of those types of things. perhaps if i stead was fraud, there s a little strong of a word, because it s technically maybe legal and maybe enough gray areas to maybe not fair nunchts essentially what s not true. it aloud the financial companies and that s where all this was, to basically report whatever they wanted to. a lot of these problems were sort of hidden. they were there, but you couldn t really get a sense of what they were. and then we get back to the regulators not having done their job. and there s a lot of reasons we re in this mess. the question is what are we going to do to get out of it? bill black, where do you begin to answer that question? well, first, it was fraud, and it is prosecutable, and in the savings and loan crisis for