so because they believe america brought the terror war on its own. the far left is very consistent. it s always america s fault. therefore, anything that weakus. these people drive much of the debate about torture. the cia controversy is similar to the anti-police movement we re seeing. that was ignited by the deaths of michael brown and eric garner. over the weekend there were a few well-planned demonstrations implying that american police and prosecutors do not value the lives of black citizens. in new york city, a college professor was arrested for attacking police. there is the attack. two nypd officers were injured in the melee. the man, eric linsker, teaches at the city college of new york and has been charged with assault on a police officer and insi inciting a riot among other
not use poison gas. this is an asim mymmetrical conflict, the terror war and the use of torture is partly a result of that asymmetry. there aren t a whole lot of americans in captivity being tortured by al qaeda. so i think that changes that s one of the reasons you get the plurality, not exactly pro-torture plurality but torture as seen as essentially just another weapon of war. so, elise, this report comes out some time well, part of the report comes out in the next few weeks, the next few months. what do you think happens then? where should this debate go then? i think it s a debate the country needs to have. i also think that we need to look at this report and i do think that it was somewhat politicized for all the information they analyzed i don t understand why the key participants weren t interviewed. the cia? yes, yes. and who have stated their willing ne
going to be the man who s cross examining me. that s a huge challenge. correspondent in npr s investigations unit knows this case far better than any of us. what s the significance of this trial and of what it means not only the terror war but also personally for these victims? imagine if, god forbid, were you one of natal hassan s victims. in addition to the 13 who were killed, some have brain damage, some have partially paralyzed. they will have a lifetime of pain and imagine now that you go into this courtroom at ft. hood and the man who shot you approaches you, looks you in the eye and starts asking you questions and you have to say yes, sir, no, sir. that s what i keep trying to get in my mind and i can t wrap my brain around that. some of his victims say they ve had problems with the va, problems getting their treatment, yet he is still, if
dishonesty, incompetence, vengefulness and lack of moral compass, lead many to suggest that he is not fit to lead. the only problem is that his vice president, is equally unfit and even more embarrassing. what is this, this villainization of the president? what is it about him. it s desperation. these back-benchers trying to impress the hardest of the hard-core of their base. not just the base, but the hard-core of their base. what s interesting to me is that the president has decided to heck with it. to ignore them. the jackals. to just to ignore them and to pursue his own vision of foreign policy. don t forget, he just gave that speech where he talked about sort of the post-war post terror war age and he s picked and susan rice and samantha power,
to heck with it. to ignore them. to just to ignore them and to pursue his own vision of foreign policy. don t forget, he just gave that speech where he talked about sort of the post-war post terror war age and he s picked and susan rice and samantha power, two advisers that go way back to the beginning of his national campaign. who believe his vision of how to proceed in the world. and he s basically saying the heck with the right wing hard xd core base i m going to pursue my vision of foreign policy. the way i enunciate dd in cairo in 2009. i m going to try to do it. it s the day of the jackal right now. thank you howard and thank you, peter. i ve never seen this kind of carping and negativity. who is going to hurt more from this so-called scandal politics, president obama or the republicans? i think we know. we ve got new poll numbers on how americans view these so-called scandals and how the republicans are finding the old gop adage, start each day with a prayer and end it wit