Mark Udall currently giving a career-defining speech about the CIA to an empty Senate floor, two dozen tourists, and one reporter. #thistown
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 10, 2014
The search for One Fucking Basic Thing We Can Agree About continues with "torture is horrific and useless." Let's really try for this one!
— David Roth (@david_j_roth) December 9, 2014
Max Fisher, at Vox:
… There’s something crucial we shouldn’t lose sight of: Torture was a terrible idea from the beginning because it was clear from the way the program came together that the CIA’s torture regime was never going to work, because it was based on copying Chinese torture methods designed not to elicit truth but to force false confessions…
BREAKING: pointing out that other countries do worse does not in fact absolve the United States of torturing people. #tuquoquery (1/2)
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) December 9, 2014
If your respond to US torture with "what about Russia?" you're using the same gambit Putin's acolytes use in response to US criticism (2/2).
— Daniel Drezner (@dandrezner) December 9, 2014
There are stark differences in opinion on torture along party lines. http://t.co/UDCFBa97F0 pic.twitter.com/6ONYLnSyIg
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) December 10, 2014
“This inhumane and brutal treatment never should have occurred.”- GOP Senator Susan Collins does not join minority report.
— Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) December 9, 2014
As Udall talks, worth noting that McCain is the only Republican to take the floor in support of releasing CIA report http://t.co/VxweFGrCTH
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) December 10, 2014
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