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Toggle open close The Declaration of Independence cataloged the ways in which King George III infringed upon American liberties. Among King George’s offenses listed in the Declaration was “Transporting us beyond the Seas to be tried for pretended Offences.” The king claimed the authority to seize American colonists and force them to stand trial in Great Britain for criminal offenses allegedly committed in America. Almost 250 years later, another foreign tribunal—the International Crimin...

Investigating john brennan looking for call logs in his role how the investigation began. joining me now, fox news contributor lexie marshall and marc thiessen. welcome to you both. are you there? >> i am. >> shannon: let me read through some of this. "the new york times" talking about this, talking about there is going to be the presumption or the appearance that the president is using the doj to go after his enemies, the president has long attacked mr. brennan as part of his narrative about "d...

For emails, call logs and documents relating to his role in how the russian investigation began. welcome to you both. are you there? >> i am here. shannon: the new york times talking about the presumption or appearance the president is using the doj to go after his enemies, the president long attacked mister bannon -- brennan about his narrative of deep state cabal of obama administration officials to sabotage his campaign. it is a potential avenue for proving those claims. where do you think th...

Help rudy judeigiuliani, it waso back and look at 2016. to barr has a parallel investigation on involving italy, australia, the u.k., and it is not getting as much attention, but it is important because it is the arm of the federal government. >> and john durham and his day today responsibility for it opinion someone that you have covered in the context of the cia investigations. >> he was brought in in the bush administration to examine the interrogation program. he has a history of going after...

Being carried out by john durham who is a career prosecutor. he investigated the cia interrogation program. is he completely nonpartisan. straight arrow. and there is nothing wrong with the president of the united states or the attorney general talking to foreign leaders and saying i want you to cooperate with an official justice department investigation. steve: right. thats one of the reasons,. >> in fact, actually that the attorney general is out and about overseas and is he trying to talk the...

>> you fill in the gap between what happened between 9/11 and gitmo. and you tell the story of how we interrogated these detainees. it remains clear here there was a blank slate as to what the protocol was. >> theres two floss jphilosopi. with the secretary of state donald rumsfeld saiding why cant we get there that fast. the downside of that, you go into something like the interrogation program, without a lot of policy and procedures, what you get as the book outlines is the first period of the...

To the united states and prosecute them even if you dont have enough information? what are you going to do? the cia quickly says we didnt have sort of a game plan for the post 9/11 world. were going to create our own secret prisons overseas in our own interrogation program. there are problems with the interrogation process. the program matured. simple proposition early on. if you have a prisoner and you cant leave him in his home country, what are you going to do with them? >> tell us why every ...

Prisoner. you have to come up with the conclusion. are you going to take them home to the united states and prosecute them even if you dont have enough information? what are you going to do? the cia quickly says we didnt have sort of a game plan for the post 9/11 world. were going to create our own secret prisons overseas in our own interrogation program. there are problems with the interrogation process. the program matured. simple proposition early on. if you have a prisoner and you cant leave...

Did they suit their purpose or did they go overboard? >> for a very short time they did. look, black sites start in 2002. you have a simple question. you take down an al qaeda prisoner. you have to come up with the conclusion. are you going to take them home to the united states and prosecute them even if you dont have enough information to bring them to trial? the cia quickly says we didnt have sort of a game plan for the post-9/11 world. were going to create our own secret prisons overseas and...

So many of the fbi officials, justice department officials, intelligence community officials, theyre gone now. theyre no longer in the government. and thats why he needs to launch this major investigation. >> i actually think this is ant b a bad thing. look at one of the most significant political investigations in my lifetime, going back to watergate. i suspect there was some nastiness in the investigation. i agree completely on the characterization of durham that the investigator who was broug...