within a week to ten days, this is the kind of thing that was happening when i was out at the c.i.a. for five days and nights when even now trying to tell the american people that they were confident and telling the truth. so i just want to clarify. you didn t know that the secretary of the program, it looks like condi rice didn t know about the program. there were a lot of people at the highest levels of government in the executive branch who did not read into the fact that we were torturing people. i think that s true. i ll go out on a limb who said the only person who was completely read in. but the one who had been read in the need for the law to cover their rear ends and the need to continue the program because it was effective was richard bruce cheney. he was the man in the shadows orchestrating all of this. the story the c.i.a. sold the white house and the american people and the effectiveness for the interrogation program,
in the need for the law to cover their rear ends and the need to continue the program because it was effective was richard bruce cheney. he was the man in the 145 doe shadows orchestrating all of this. the story the c.i.a. sold the bhiet house and the american people and the effectiveness for the interrogation program, that s ahead.
left the iraqi government it turns out could not continue to hold them. several hundred u.s. service members have been ordered back to iraq, bolstering u.s. embassy security, embedding with iraqi troops. we re at a moment in our history that calls for a good and vigorous national debate about how our country should respond to what s happening now in iraq. what we ve had instead is deja vu. same architects who led us into that war a decade ago sharing their self-proclaimed expertise about what we should do in iraq now. and while it is maddening to see those same voices being treated as experts on the very subject they were so famously wrong about, it s more important than that even to remember that they weren t just wrong. the iraq war gets short handed now as an intelligence failure. u.s. policymakers were just acting on bad information. that is not what the iraq war was. it was a deception. and this is important. it was the deliberate manipulation of intelligence in order to
that war, we find ourselves engaged in a national debate about potentially going back. sunni militants on the march in iraq, overtaking the same cities the u.s. military fought to hold years earlier when u.s. troops left the iraqi government it turns out could not continue to hold them. several hundred u.s. service members have been ordered back to iraq, bolstering u.s. embassy security, embedding with iraqi troops. we re at a moment in our history that calls for a good and vigorous national debate about how our country should respond to what s happening now in iraq. what we ve had instead is deja vu. same architects who led us into that war a decade ago sharing their self-proclaimed expertise about what we should do in iraq now. and while it is maddening to see those same voices being treated as experts on the very subject they were so famously wrong about, it s more important than that even to remember that they weren t just wrong. the iraq war gets short handed now as an i
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