likely coming home from school or work. the southeast light showers moving through. it s mild across the country. there s not a lot of cold air. there s no cold air coming our way either. it s going to stay pretty warm. the forecast today showers late in the day. temperatures near 53 in d.c. today. so no complaints with the temperatures! there hasn t been a lot of sunshine to be found. i m liking the little bit of a warm wave. it will last until at least christmas. some stories making news this morning. a credible new voice in the cia torture report. a new pugh poll reveals americans are somewhat supportive of torture. 51% said the cia s methods were justified. 29% degree isagreed. as for releasing the report 32% say it was the right decision. the fight festival in peru. folks settle old scores. it includes men, women, even children. there is some civility. people shake hands before
if you read it, it s a very interesting report by the last three cia directors and the deputy directors that was published in the wall street journal last week. they make the notation that the cia had gone to ask for legal opinion. the cia was cleared by the justice department to use these techniques. having cia directors say that we did nothing wrong, isn t probative in this debate. of course they believe they did nothing wrong. the investigation was launched on a 14-1 bipartisan vote by the senate intelligence committee. the report was approved for release on a bipartisan vote. the report itself comes up with numerous instances when the cia misrepresented to the office of legal counsel what it was doing and the results it was getting. so it calls into question this whole idea that it was approved to begin with. jonathan and the vice president he worked for, seemed to be hiding behind the fact, it can t be torture if it was approved by the justice department. well, it can be.
one-sided, flawed report that could have been published in rolling stone magazine. they interviewed not one single officer. they didn t interview rodriguez who ran the program for the cia. they didn t interview any of the directors. so for this notion, as david says, it s in the torture report. what s tortured is that feinstein has made a mockery to her legacy of not getting the facts out, taking no one s opinion other than [ all speak at once ] let me ask you the one point. i want to know if it s true or not. is it true that the justice department approved this program? yes. the justice department i thought it was the office of legal counsel. if you read it, it s a very interesting report by the last three cia directors and the deputy directors that was published in the wall street journal last week. they make the notation that the cia had gone to ask for legal
so dick cheney himself was lied to. now chuck asked him, does this mean you were misled? and he said, i wasn t. well, the question is, how does he know? did he go back and look at the intelligence and evaluate it himself? he s just out there saying things that are assertions, not facts, not citing any record or evidence to what s in this report. when it comes to whether it s moral or not, that s a matter of taste and one s own individual morality. but this report shows it didn t do what dick cheney said it did. let s watch the two who know about it. mccain and cheney. they disagree about what the tactics used amounted to torture. here s senator mccain, followed by the vice president. you can t claim that tying someone to the floor and have them freeze to death is not torture. you can t say 183 times someone is waterboarded, and by the way, on waterboarding, it began with
he know? did he go back and look at the intelligence and evaluate it himself? he s just out there saying things that are assertions, not facts, not citing any record or evidence to what s in this report. when it comes to whether it s moral or not, that s a matter of taste and one s own individual morality. but this report shows it didn t do what dick cheney said it did. let s watch the two who know about it. mccain and cheney. they disagree about what the tactics used amounted to torture. here s senator mccain, followed by the vice president. you can t claim that tying someone to the floor and have them freeze to death is not torture. you can t say 183 times someone is waterboarded, and by the way, on waterboarding, it began with the spanish inc zition. it was done during the philippines war. we ve tried and hung japanese