this president's national foreign policy national security policy are not being debated loves jeremy scahill foreign policy writer for the nation who also exposed blackwater's sordid misconduct economists and receive their culture coverage of the d.n.c. and i love how he just threw out the whole agenda and pretty much made the show his own and because he called out and this n.b.c. is a lacking for the democratic establishment instead of going along with their scripted narrative jeremy scahill is our hero of the day so if he's the hero who's the villain well you might have missed out on that at this news amongst all the d.n.c. r. and c. mayhem lately a human rights watch report just uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding than previously acknowledged by the cia detailing brutal treatment of detainees a u.s. run lockups abroad after the nine eleven attacks wider use of waterboarding than they previously led us to believe no really now let's go back to the man overseeing the torture program at the time which we none other than george tenet former cia director under the bush administr

jeremy scahill has also talked about how journalists in yemen, for example, have been held on obama'ser for reporting closely from al qaeda. i think chris has a legitimate concern. the judge and a compelling argument. what was done about this case is a hearing in march when the government came before her and the judge said, can you tell me whether any of these plaintiffs would be held under the ndaa? they're like, know. since then they have tried and on their appeals to this day, they have tried to say, no, we guarantee none of these plaintiffs will be held if what they told us is true, if they're acting independently. but one of the other plaintiffs, has ties to wikileaks, we know the government has subpoenaed her communications. we know that bradley manning -- >> icelandic member of parliament. >> yes, and involved in the collateral murder video. we know that bradley manning is being accused of helping al qaeda for allegedly leaking wikileaks. anybody has a legitimate fear of being prosecuted. >> i want to turn to the upcoming elections, to match romney who has defended obama's appr

. >> joining us now is jeremy scahill my colleague at the nation where he is national security correspondenteally striking. yesterday we talked about the classic cultural war issues and how aggressive democrats seemed on things they had previously been on their heels about, things like marriage equality and choice for women and the immigration dream act. they seemed to be leading with that. and the same dynamic i think seemed to be true on foreign policy and national security, the invocation of osama bin laden, the ridicule -- there was almost this amazing reversal if you look at the 2004 republican convention to the 2012 democratic convention, here is -- i want to show, here is dick cheney in 2004 employing this ridicule against john kerry. >> even in this post 9/11 period, senator kerry doesn't appear to understand how the world has changed. he talks about leading a more sensitive war on terror. as though al qaeda will be impressed with our softer side. >> and now here is john kerry who, of course, was the butt of all those jokes eight years ago being the one who is doing the mocking in wh

jeremy scahill did a superb report and found in mogadishu, the somali authorities operate in a securityector prison called a hold of a basement in their building. the caa and gauges -- >> we have to leave it there. thank you so much, professor alfred mccoy, whose book is called "torture and impunity." democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 new york, new york 10013. [captioning made possible by democracy now!]

. >> joining us now is jeremy scahill my colleague at "the nation" where he is national security correspondentyesterday we talked about the classic cultural war issues and how aggressive democrats seemed on things they had previously been on their heels about, things like marriage equality and choice for women and the immigration dream act. they seemed to be leading with that. and the same dynamic i think seemed to be true on foreign policy and national security, the invocation of osama bin laden, the ridicule -- there was almost this amazing reversal if you look at the 2004 republican convention to the 2012 democratic convention, here is -- i want to show, here is dick cheney in 2004 employing this ridicule against john kerry. >> even in this post 9/11 period, senator kerry doesn't appear to understand how the world has changed. he talks about leading a more sensitive war on terror. as though al qaeda will be impressed with our softer side. >> and now here is john kerry who, of course, was the butt of all those jokes eight years ago being the one who is doing the mocking in what was by far th

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