Detailing the torture of prisoners held in the years after the terrorist attacks in new york and washington. Even as the public was being assured that terrorist suspects were not being tortured the report says they were. The catalog of abuse visited on the detainees including men who turned out to know nothing makes distressing reading. The debate now has moved to what happens once of Interrogation Program has been made public. Does the u. S. Move to prosecute those responsible for the torture it is, for the cover up and lies that kept it from the white house and congress. On the eve of International Human rights day u. N. Special ist scolded over the intelligence gathering post 9 11. He urged its now time to take action. The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in todays report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime. International law makes it illegal to grant immunity to anyone who carries out to
Received a massive report detailing the torture of prisoners held in the years after the terrorist attacks in new york and washington. Even as the public was being assured that terrorist suspects were not being tortured the report says they were. The catalog of abuse visited on the detainees including men who turned out to know nothing makes distressing reading. The debate now has moved to what happens once of Interrogation Program has been made public. Does the u. S. Move to prosecute those responsible for the torture it is, for the cover up and lies that kept it from the white house and congress. On the eve of International Human rights day u. N. Specialist scolded over the intelligence gathering post 9 11. He urged its now time to take action. The individuals responsible for the criminal conspiracy revealed in todays report must be brought to justice, and must face criminal penalties commensurate with the gravity of the crime. International law makes it illegal to grant immunity to
To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose to give the agency more power to actually select the definition that they wanted because they could have more power not on the hill at that point but with the agency defining it. Yeah. Well, i mean but if youre saying that the agency has the power, youre really saying that the groups that influence the congress to write those three different definitions were expecting some advantage from one or m
Eventually become an illegal attempt at election interference by the president s most subservient ally in the senate. Watching the news that prominent republicans leaned on the georgia secretary of state, also a republican, exclude legitimate ballots from being counted from the blockbuster report. Secretary Brad Raffensperger said he is under increasing pressure recent days from fellow republicans, including senator Lindsey Graham who he said questioned the validity of legally cast absentee ballots in effort to reverse President Trumps narrow loss in the state. Raffensperger said he was stunned graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to toss legally cast ballots. Today a witness to that call has come forward. He works in the secretarys offense, confirming graham did pursue the line of inquiry raffensperger describes, adding he couldnt speak to grahams state of mind or his intentions. But secretary raffensperger says he believes it was perfectly clear what graham was trying to ach
Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Nice to see you. Im john berman. It is tuesday, october 18th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. This morning, Melania Trump with the first statements of accusing her husband of groping and sexual assault. In an interview with Anderson Cooper, she rejects the claims stating they are an orchestrated conspiracy. She was asked about the comments on the 2005 access Hollywood Tape where he bragged about grabbing womens genitals because he was famous. She dismissed that as boy talk and he was egged on by billy bush. This is some of the interview. It was ten days ago. What did you think when you first saw it . I i said to my husband, you know, the language is inappropriate. It is not acceptable. And, i was, surprised because that is not the man that i know. And as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on. It was only a mic. I wonder if they even knew that the mic was on because it was kind of boy talk. He was egged on like egged on fro