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A brutal attack discovered by a woman named jackie at a uva party but the story did not add up and its gotten even worse since then. three students who talked with jackie after the assault are contradicting parts of the story. one of them, randall, claims that she was never contacted by her even though she declined to comment. we dont know what happened that night and should take rape victims assertions very seriously. but we know the question for us is did she ignore facts in order to fit the n...

Cias response and some other republicans issuing their views. heres the key, on this question of did it work, for years the cia said it worked and made all asserts -- assertions about how effective it was and it saved lives when we gave them our report they came back and said whether or not it works is "unknowable" so it migrated from certainty to unknowable. i think that speaks volumes. these people who are now coming out and saying how well it works they are defending the undefendable. >> that...

Exterminate people. >> so we, too, should be animals? >> the way you defeat is to oftentimes act like. >> eric fehr a former interrogator and writes "i cant be forgiven for abu ghraib. most americans havent read the most, most never will. but it stands as a permanent reminder of the country we once were." echoes the comments company condition made on the senate floor. >> -- painful and unnecessary and contrary to assertions made by some of its defenders, and as the committees report makes clear,...

And developing right now a very busy hour on capitol hill on top of several congressional hearings including hearings on isis and benghazi. were expecting speaker boehner to speak any minute to talk about the bill or he could talk about what everybody else is talking about the torture report. welcome back to the rundown. senate republicans on the intelligence committee say the 500-page report on cia interrogation tactics is flat wrong. it claims that the program never saved american lives. forme...

But actually damaged our security interests as well as our reputation as a force for good in the world. its use was shameful and unnecessary and contrary to assertions made by some of its defenders and as the committees report makes clear, it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the purpothe perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks. i know from experience, that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. >> so harsh, strong words from one republic...

I thank the committee for the valuable public service. i have long believed some of these practices have amounted to torture and especially but not only the practice of waterboarding, which is a mock execution and an exquisite form of torture. its use was shameful and unnecessary and, contrary to assertions made by some of it is defenders and as the committee report makes clear, it produced little useful intelligence to help us track down the perpetrators of 9/11 or prevent new attacks and atroc...

Justify this and say the report shouldnt have been released or whatever, theyre talking about the program produced good intelligence. and thats true. the program was the detention of bad guys and they were interrogated and we internal gained a lot of good intelligence. the real issue is, how about these particular, what they call enhanced interrogation techniques? did they produce actionable intelligence? and i think the record is very strong in the report -- i sat down and took an entire week t...

Theyre doing as promised. the second thing is, the public may not know that much about, as we have tried to report as much as we can with the information that weve had, is that dorian johnsons testimony may have changed during what he said to the fbi and what he said that went to the grand jury, and what he said in front of television cameras. so this release of information could show that it did or did not. but i would imagine if they are, at this point, and again, im just assuming if they are ...

Assertions. there is a problem with racism in america. but to introduce racism, not race, into the garner race, clearly one was black and one was white. that is dangerous. you are saying something that may not be true without any evidence to back that up. we dont know if the officer was motivated by a racist tendency and that is dangerous -- >> i would like to respond. >> because the racism gets swept to the side. >> dan? >> this is a great conversation because i think now when we say race or ra...

Rebels and russian president vladimir putin. >> the separatists are removing evidence from the crash site all of which begs the question what exactly are they trying to hide? russia has urge them on and trained them. we know that russia has armed them with military equipment and weapons. russia and president putin in particular has direct responsibility to compel them to cooperate with the investigation. that is the least they can do. >> russia has released its first account of what it believes ...