past the deadline, we re not done yet. but the house passed a new spending bill. the senate will take it up eventually. maybe today, maybe over the weekend. wanna, that s the big question, you need to get an agreement to bring it up under the senate rules, if they get unanimous consent, meaning nobody objects, they could do it today. if anybody objects, it could go until monday morning sometime. that s the clock runs out, they have to do it by monday. the question after it passed in the house, tea party forces were mad. liberals were mad, in the senate, will a ted cruz stand up and say no i m not going to give you unanimous consent. we re going to run the clock to the end. or we don t know? that s one of the things that s been fascinating. i ve been watching the bill through capitol hill. you hear a lot of things from ted cruz. he s given a ton of foreign policy speeches, spoken on a number of issues. but he hasn t said what he s going to do on this bill. i think it makes it intere
host to some of the black sides where some of this went on. allies of the united states. not just in europe, but also in places like egypt and elsewhere. and the other thing is, does the c.i.a. put a full stop on this and move forward. i ve asked many people about that. you really put your finger right on it there. there s so much double-speak going on right now. who knew? who didn t know, what it was, what it wasn t. mr. brennan wouldn t use the word torture yesterday. although it seems to fit every definition of torture. when you have that going back and forth, it doesn t allow you to go forward. you spoke to alberto mora, the former general counsel of the navy. he said we knew what was going on and we were trying to stop it. unless the director is able to understand what the law and our values categorize this behavior as, then he s going to have to be told or we re going to have to find a new director in order to lead this agency, we
the practitioners, but those who authorize and directed this program are subject to prosecution under international law. and he pointed out that in italy, 22 c.i.a. officials have in absentia been convicted and sentenced to long prison terms because of a rendition of an italian egyptian who was taken to cairo and tortured there. so it is very, very grave matter of legal precedents. but perhaps brennan was not using the word torture, because he didn t want other people in the c.i.a., the troops to have their morale further damaged. he would be exposing himself to criminal responsibility, also. because if you used word torture, then the torture is illegal. well, you re absolutely right. it is illegal. and the united states is sett g signatory to the anti-torture convention. he said look, the president has already used the word torture.
the definition of a legal society is not coming up with explanations of why something is not torture. when i hear john mccain who sat in a prison cell for five years, we have every tool in the army field manual to get the intelligence we need from prisoners, that s what i need to hear. that s a good compass. you think he has any moral authority? i m willing to go with it. a done of it. great to see you. what do you think? tweet us @newday. and oil prices are dropping fast. falling below $60 a barrel for the first time in five years, is it all good news? it turns out what s good for your gas tank could be bad for the economy. we ll explain why i m an idaho potato farmer and our big idaho potato truck is still missing. so my buddy here is going to help me find it. here we go. woo who, woah, woah, woah. it s out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes:
the legal part of the military, they agreed with him and they said, this should not be happening, it doesn t produce any valuable information. and not only that, it doesn t go with the values of our nation. it shouldn t be happening. they agreed with his assessment. this is in 2002. but the civilians ignored that. and then came the torture memos, which so-called legalized this. the only way this works, this type of disclosure in the name of transparency, is if you own it, own what it was, and own what the change is. that doesn t seem to be being done effectively now because of this parsing of the word torture. is this working as a form of transparency by the u.s., or just hurting their reputation? well look, i think there are many reasons why director brennan may not have used that precise word. i spoke to the senior u.n. reporter on this who says what happened is quote a criminal conspiracy. and that all of those, not just