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Unconstitutional and questionable, but there is a distinction in the sort of the international human rights law insofar as killing in war is somehow permissible where as torture never is. and the prohibition of torture is always, and killing combatants is subject to debate. >> and the subject of drones is what happens if it is not a war, and if it is used in pakistan and afghanistan, or in syria, is it okay, and then in the u.s., and other areas, then it is the rules governing the laws of the u....

And tdrone, and which is morall unconstitutional and questionable, but there is a distinction in the sort of the international human rights law insofar as killing in war is somehow permissible where as torture never is. and the prohibition of torture is always, and killing combatants is subject to debate. >> and the subject of drones is what happens if it is not a war, and if it is used in pakistan and afghanistan, or in syria, is it okay, and then in the u.s., and other areas, then it is the ru...

The fact is that the routinely issues memorandas on the legality of the l.o.c. publishing the memorandas that you can do this or that, and we have the documents, and we are not the lawyers. >> and this is interesting, because if you look at the senate intelligence committee report, it will show that early on, the cia lawyers knew that they were committing torture and it is illegal and they had a problem. first, they went to the justice departments criminal division and said would you promise not...

On what can be contributed to the political process. i think the core of democrats will maintain that message going forward. we need to do that to convince people that we understand how they feel and that we are on their side. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> they always say to never bet against torture. other big story in the news today, the response to the torture report from the cia ahead. many people clean their dentures with toothpaste or plain water. and even though their dent...

Line staff should be given the benefit of the doubt, and the real issue is that this was a systemic campaign coming from the highest levels of government. >> that is right. that is right. >> and the political operatives within the department of justice basically signed the permission slip for, for torture to take place. >> and you work for amnesty international, and torture happens around the world, right? >> well, you see, this is it. this makes kens job and my job that much harder, chris, beca...

They voted against a sweetheart deal for wall street, voted against blowing up these limits on what can be contributed to the political process. i think the core of democrats will maintain that message going forward. we need to do that to convince people that we understand how they feel and that we are on their side. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, chris. >> they always say to never bet against torture. other big story in the news today, the response to the torture report from the cia ahead....

>> well, where it is similar is that almost every government says it is respecting the rights, and every government pretends it is behaving lawfully and in the case, the cia has lost the lawful cover and falling back on the utilitarian argument, but it is a weak utilitarian argument, because if you are going to violate the torture, you better be saving the world from a massive terrorist event, and when brennan said, that we got useful information and he was even there fudging, because he said th...

Unprecedented amount of sensitive c.i.a. documents to the committee and devoting considerable resources to help it with its review. unfortunately, the committee could not agree on a bipartisan way forward and no c.i.a. personnel were interviewd. >> so this report can be the subject of what is described as an all-out war. the c.i.a. accused committee staff of removing classified documents and c.i.a. agents actually hacked into senate computers being used for the investigation. they means they spi...

>> and here is the fact that line staff should be given the benefit of the doubt, and the real issue is that this was a systemic campaign coming from the highest levels of government. >> that is right. that is right. >> and the political operatives within the department of justice basically signed the permission slip for, for torture to take place. >> and you work for amnesty international, and torture happens around the world, right? >> well, you see, this is it. this makes kens job and my job ...

Unprecedented amount of sensitive c.i.a. documents to the committee and devoting considerable resources to help it with its review. unfortunately, the committee could not agree on a bipartisan way forward and no c.i.a. personnel were interviewd. >> so this report can be the subject of what is described as an all-out war. the c.i.a. accused committee staff of removing classified documents and c.i.a. agents actually hacked into senate computers being used for the investigation. they means they spi...