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one of the issues that came up with a hearing this past week for the c_i_a_
nominee john brennan imma talk with hayes brown something progress was not
on the issue none of the issue of these a drone attacks an assassination times
but also the issue of waterboarding here is that senator carl levin asking the
nominee bran in about whether waterboarding is torture here's a clip
from the hearing this past week
well red opinions as to whether or not
waterboarding is torture
not just in the future those opinions the attorney john as mike with uh... bus
soniya i've read a lot of legal opinions i've read in office a legal counsel
opinion in the previous ministration that said in fact waterboarding could be
used so from the standpoint of of that
in our i cannot point to a single legal document on this issue but as far as i'm
concerned waterboarding is something that never should have been employed m
as far as unconcerned that will be a fun thing to do with it waterboarding
than by the geneva conventions
i believe the attorney general also has said that this country in contravention
of the geneva convention again i'm not a lawyer or legal scholar to make a
determination about what isn't by elation of an international convention
well without him being elevated legal definition about whether it's a with
fits within the geneva convention just his pledge just brennan's pledge that
uh... the administrations first is concerned we'll never involved in
waterboarding again is that enough
i think uh... i get a great started
and really will depend on bread into opportunity were dropping twenty paper
because there's no way
confirmation connect up a good point
i think i will agree with him on the back back
their it very briefly to talk with deeply and john you it'd be pushing
interest me what amazing etiquette developer on the book actual log and
train them
for immigration purposes
so articulate brunette
you can get a lawyer taping anything about the walk on the books
but what about looking said
without directly he personally believe that waterboarding is torture
and should not be used by any administration
did emphasize that the other ministration none perhaps thought it
might be able to stay for a couple of years and whether you know how to say
the waterboarding trying to move away from map but also the drone program
there really hasn't been much attention there hasn't been much scrutiny and i
imagine that's to the ministrations saver
it it'd be a government
freer hand which what every administration wont hopefully and one a
mockery and cheer on the creek
oppler copy had paid believe
being run
so they could have been getting a better patrick
the problem now is that the government
his idbi paper drone program there's far too much reporting out there that book
is typically on a drone and not the broader particulate program itself
and tell us a little bit more about the broader targeted telling them to be fair
this is not visa not just drona tracks nor f_-sixteen's are assassination
squads
uh... to kill where we see fit right it's just not not just the drone program
involved in this
right that it completely correct artwork
people hear about that they've heard about greater grown public overhead
shooting nickelback acted like it that i could get a number of orange right now
most of them
that majority of the program deals with um... or national keylogger
appreciate where al-qaeda
and that the whole of the problem of that nature strikes which aren't which
will give people a closer
but the polka series on the killing of americans like
allah lagi arm
and that's what that meant this white paper really field with andrew greeley
karo oscar for the administration uh...
but but got mad at the top of it is not going to be going away anytime soon
well i a haze it's been uh... it's a it's just a ghastly right i think this
is a something that there's gonna be around now for a while and
thankfully perhaps the media a lot of our colleagues who have been asleep at
the switch on this uh... starting pay more attention in demanding more answers
on the obama administration hayes brown from think progress who covers these
issues of national security hayes thanks for being part of program today we
proceeded
bacteria on it
you're very welcome