All we got was executive summary. Its damning. It says tactics were brutal. People in stress positions for days. Dozens of water boarding one another after a lot of humiliation and threats and people left to die. Dishonest and they did not always tell truth to congress and white house and most of us ineffective they did these things often when they didnt need to which i thought was most troubling aspects of it all. What was your reaction of the report. My reaction is reaction pretty much of mr. Brennan current cia director under president obama he thinks this report is fictitious at best and supportive of the tactics. Those are been public statements. I talked with allen durshwitz he thinks were not having honest conversation about this we shew debate these things whether theyre needed at times or not. I would say two things, tam, first, why would anyone be surprised. We saw photos from abagra years ago we saw torture and it was a scandal. Number two the person best suited in governmen
As hank myers said, i am privileged to be the president and ceo of the National Constitution center in philadelphia which is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. What an inspiring charter that is. I am thrilled to be here at the Gerald R Ford symposium for our symposium on gerald ford. This is the first of what we hope will be a series of collaborations with libraries across the country where we will join in partnership to explore not be political legacy of the president s, but their constitutional legacy. We forget in partisan politics , every person who serves as president makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the constitution, and the limits in places on governmental powers. I could not imagine a better panel than the one that we are going to talk about today. This panel is devoted to president fords domestic policy and features scholars of the Ford Administration as w
But they later revised the number to 21 to exclude the gunman. Authorities said 47 people were wounded. European Union Leaders observed a minute of silence at the beginning of their meeting in brussels. We need to be absolutely clear about what we face. This is the latest example of extremist terror. And we have to fight it with everything we have. A statement purportedly issued by the Islamic State group appeared online thursday claiming responsibility for the attack. It described the gunmen as the groups fighters. It also suggested the possibility of more attacks. Tunisias president told a french tv station that the dead gunmen are linked to an Islamic Extremist Group called Ansar Al Sharia in tunisia. The organization is said to be associated with al qaeda. The president has not mentioned any connection between the gunmen and the Islamic State group. Authorities beefed up the security in tunisias capital a day after the worst attack the country has seen in more than a decade. Offici
A minute of silence at the beginning of their meeting in brussels. We need to be absolutely clear about what we face. This is the latest example of extremist terror. And we have to fight it with everything we have. A statement purportedly issued by the Islamic State group appeared online thursday claiming responsibility for the attack. It described the gunmen as the groups fighters. It also suggested the possibility of more attacks. Tunisias president told a french tv station that the dead gunmen are linked to an Islamic Extremist Group called Ansar Al Sharia in tunisia. The organization is said to be associated with al qaeda. The president has not mentioned any connection between the gunmen and the Islamic State group. Authorities beefed up the security in tunisias capital a day after the worst attack the country has seen in more than a decade. Officials say they are deploying soldiers on the streets to guard against another assault. Japanese police have sent specially trained officer
Heal wounds. It is time for our negotiating partners. To seize the moment power in the hands of western documents nuclear deal is elusive. And a man who accused india of influencing umpires resigns as the president of world cricket. Thank you for joining us. Fighters from the refugee camp. It was the focus of heavy fighting in 2012 when rival opposition groups move in and a government siege last year saw camp residents pushed to starvation. Stefanie dekker has more from beirut. The fighting is ongoing between i. S. I. L. And a group, a Palestinian Group affiliated with hamas. There are other groups in the camp some Al Qaeda Affiliated groups. The activists say they seem to remain neutral. It started as a turf war not a turf war, but tit for tat. I. S. I. L. Is accused of killing a leader. It kidnapped a number of fighters, and this is when i. S. I. L. Stormed the camp. They had moved the refugee camp them what used to be 160,000 Palestinian Refugees. 18,000 besieged for two years. Desp