that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture when i went on a.b.c. news in december two thousand and seven and i said that not only was the cia torturing prisoners but that the torture policy was an official u.s. government policy that was approved at the very top by the president of the united states himself the cia filed what's called a crimes report against me the next day with the justice department the justice department never stopped investigating me from december of two thousand and seven until i was finally arrested in january of two thousand and twelve so to say that this the disk. case is a result of a name that was found in a in an attorney's brief at guantanamo is just simply not true they were looking for something that they were going for something to pin on me what i find most gracious about your case is had you been actually accused of torture of human rights violations you wouldn't have gone to jail know. they they would dismiss any accusation because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices but yet y

being tortured it's because of rogue cia officers well that just was simply not true so i want on a.b.c. news to talk about the capture of up was a beta the reporter asked me if i was a beta had been tortured i said he had and i said that it was torture and that it was official u.s. government policy the very next day the cia filed what's called the crimes reported against me the justice department began investigating me and never stopped investigating me since december two thousand and seven in addition to that i've even been audited by the i.r.s. every single year since i gave that interview so just yeah i mean just the chilling . in fact kind of punishing you in any sense of the way it's a program of harassment absolutely is absolutely and it's course you know passing the buck to say it's just a few rogue cia officers it's just like. where they're just like it's institutionalized i mean we know that it was from the top down. you know i just can't help but thinking. of torture you know when obama got elected he said he condemns torture really when you look at the evidence of dr borden in gu

l a times reiterate the same gaza militants break cease fire with rocket attack into israel and a.b.c. news is close behind but first to gaza rocket in three months rattles cease fire. all right well it is a fact that gaza fired their first rocket since the ceasefire this segment called weapons of mass distraction for nothing the corporate press is so quick to pounce on a rocket attack against israel but where were they during the dozens of instances in the last three months where israel has been in violation of the cease fire incidents we would never hear about from the corporate media just check out this chart all of israel's violations information is on the record from the un's office for the coronation of humanitarian affairs which shows as the number of recorded instances of israeli attacks against palestinians since the ceasefire take a look for deaths ninety one injuries sixty three instances of shootings along the border and thirty attacks against palestinian. fisherman you see according to the same records before the rockets fired against israel which thankfully resulted in no inju

being tortured it's because of rogue cia officers well that just was simply not true so i want on a.b.c. news to talk about the capture of up was a beta the reporter asked me if i was a beta had been tortured i said he had and i said that it was torture and that it was official u.s. government policy the very next day the cia filed what's called a crimes reported against me the justice department began investigating me and never stopped investigating me since december two thousand and seven in addition to that i've even been audited by the i.r.s. every single year since i gave that interview so just yeah i mean just the chilling effect kind of punishing you in any sense of the way it's a program of harassment absolutely absolutely and it's course you know passing the buck to say it's just a few rogue cia officers it's just like. where they're just like that it's institutionalized i mean we know that it was from the top down. you know i just can't help but thinking. of torture you know when obama got elected he said he condemns torture really when you look at the evidence of dr borden in guant

being tortured it's because of rogue cia officers well that just was simply not true so i want on a.b.c. news to talk about the capture of up was a beta the reporter asked me if i was a beta had been tortured i said he had and i said that it was torture and that it was official u.s. government policy the very next day the cia filed what's called the crimes reported against me the justice department began investigating me and never stopped investigating me since december two thousand and seven in addition to that i've even been audited by the i.r.s. every single year since i gave that interview so just yeah i mean just the chilling effect kind of punishing you in any sense of the way it's a program of harassment absolutely absolutely and if course you know passing the buck to say it's just a few rogue cia officers it's just like. where they're just like it's institutionalized i mean we know that it was from the top down. you know i just can't help but thinking. of torture you know when obama got elected he said he condemns torture really when you look at the evidence of dr borden in guantanamo

with the nonprofit with a.b.c. news and here's what i know and in those e-mails were a lot of allegations from women saying that senator and one of his long time donors from florida and i dr that they had been you know using these women as prostitutes in the dominican and two of them said they were under age when it started to happen now this particular culture we spoke with look she's in the business of seeing adult men for consensual adult activities that include a payoff at the end she she doesn't blame anybody for doing that but what offended her on a very basic level was the idea that he was taking advantage illegibly of teenage girls who were under the age of majority and that's what brought her out of the woodwork and really the difference between her case if you can call it a case and these women in the dominican republic is that and prostitution is legal in the dominican republic it's not if you're over eighteen it technically actually illegal if somebody if a third party makes money you can't be a madam or a p

forty my income tax return to show that i was broke that i got absolutely nothing out of going on a.b.c. news in two thousand and seven and blowing the whistle on torture absolutely nothing now will president obama he has vowed to have this transparent administration in here talking about this way to make government accountable does make it transparent so the american people can know exactly what decisions are being made made how they're being made and whether their interests are being well served. now how would you compare president obama has administration to the bush administration with the exception of the formal ban on torture i'm honestly not seeing a lot of difference between the obama administration in the bush administration except maybe that the obama administration has killed far more people using drones than the bush administration ever did but i've believed from just about the beginning of the obama presidency that this was really an extension of the bush counterterrorism policy there was nothing new and gentle and i know that you've worked with with whistleblowers what do you th

in december two thousand and seven i said on a.b.c. news that the cia was torturing prisoners and that torture was an official u.s. government policy that went all the way up to the president as time has passed and has as september eleventh has has you know has moved farther and farther back into history i think i've changed my mind and i think that waterboarding is probably something that we should be in the business of doing why do you say that now because we're americans and we're better than that the next day the president said . and i still smile when i think about this the president said i don't know this man i don't know this man's motivation i don't know why this man would throw me under the bus but i did i threw the president under the bus here somebody who speaks out with courage to those who speaks the truth to power i admitted to confirming the name of a former colleague to a journalist who was looking for former cia officers to interview for a book. plain and simple and i mean they were going to get him on something. having lun

that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture when i went on a.b.c. news in december two thousand and seven and i said that not only was the cia torturing prisoners but that the torture policy was an official u.s. government policy that was approved at the very top by the president of the united states himself the cia filed what's called the crimes reported against me the next day with the justice department the justice department never stopped investigating me from december of two thousand and seven until i was finally arrested in january of two thousand and twelve so to say that this the disk. is a result of a name that was found in a in an attorney's brief at guantanamo is just simply not true they were looking for something because they were going for something to pin on me what i find most gracious about your case is ahead you've been actually accused of torture of human rights violations you wouldn't have gone to jail know. they they would dismiss any accusation because the us government has classified everything related to its torture practices but

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that my case was about a leak i have always believed that my case is about torture when i went on a.b.c. news in december two thousand and seven and i said that not only was the cia torturing prisoners but that the torture policy was an official u.s. government policy that was approved at the very top by the president of the united states himself the cia filed what's called the crimes report against me the next day with the justice department the justice department never stopped investigating me from december of two thousand and seven until i was finally arrested in january of two thousand and twelve so to say that this the disk. case is a result of a name that was found in a in an attorney's brief at guantanamo is just simply not true they were looking for something that they were going for something to pin on me what i find most gracious about your case is ahead you've been actually accused of torture of human rights violations you wouldn't have gone to jail know. they they would dismiss any accusation because the u.s. government has classified everything related to his torture practices bu

a.b.c.'s this week sunday debating gun control with economist paul krugman on the show barletta deflected any talk about new gun regulations instead opting for a new mental health laws and dealing with our violent culture even made a stunning comparison take a look. it's really becoming more than dealing with mental health and our culture is our cultural lending itself that we're raising children that are desensitized to murder and his two killing i look at the end of the differences and the countries that have affected can have a lot of oh you were when you need to stop obesity of course not. the fact is don't kill people guns kill more than ten thousand people in america every year but someone bought out by the gun industry like congressman barletta you want to understand that and that is very very ugly. so here's a question for you what do you geraldo rivera richard dreyfus and jerry seinfeld all have in common but yet what do those three men have in common with musicians like barry manilow sting and boys to men i mean what could possibly bring all of these musicians actors comedians and news anchors tog

a.b.c.'s this week sunday debating gun control with economist paul krugman on the show barletta deflected any talk about new gun regulations instead opting for a new mental health laws and dealing with our violent culture even made a study comparison take a look. at the very beginning of men in dealing with mental health and our culture is our cultural lending itself that we're raising children that are desensitized to murder and his killing i'll get the international differences and countries that have affected can have a lot of oh you were when you ended up obesity of course not. the fact is don't. kill people guns kill more than ten thousand people in america every year but someone bought out by the gun industry like congressman barletta you want to understand that and that is very very ugly. so here's a question for you what do you geraldo rivera richard dreyfus and jerry seinfeld all have in common but yet what do those three men have in common with musicians like barry manilow sting and boys to men i mean what could possibly bring all of these musicians actors comedians and news anchors together what