He has just been released from prison. He will join us from his home, where he remains on house arrest while finishing his twoandahalfyear sentence. In 2007, kiriakou became the first cia official to publicly confirm and detail the Bush Administrations use of waterboarding. Ive come to believe firmly that torture is wrong under any circumstances. It is not something that a Civilized Society should sanction. It is something that we as americans should oppose. John kiriakou is the only official to be jailed for any reason relating to the torture program. If we are going to make prosecution or initiate prosecution, those prosecutions cant just be against the people who blew the whistle on the torture or who opposed the torture. We havent even investigated the torturers. John kiriakou for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Islamic State is claiming kidnapped aid worker kayla mueller, its last k
Essay might be getting the mail before you do. Plus in protecting your e mail might become a bit more challenging now that the nsa is racing to state three steps ahead of you. By building a quantum computer thats later in the shower. I am. Yet scribe in january thirty five pm in washington dc and the mob has and your watching artsy only begin this hour with a closer look Us Drone Program effectiveness and its future to estimates released by the pier on Investigative Journalism the long war journal lee and the new America Foundation are shedding light on just how it stands at the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle strikes have been since two thousand channel in all there been a total of four hundred sixty one strikes in pakistan yemen and somalia resulting in some three thousand five hundred twenty depths of the People Killed four hundred fifty seven or oh eleven per cent were civilians. Meanwhile the Defense Department released its annual report on the use of on an assist on this. The chorale dow
Goods, but ive actually got a steel plant right in the middle of seattle that makes the best rebar, the cleanest rebar point in the whole world i think. Under the criminal of the Commerce Department, but we will monitor that. Another time ill talk to you about drug prices. Happy to. Glad to see you here. Thank you. All right. Mr. Brady. Thank you, mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing. You know, trade is economic freedom. Its the ability to buy and sell, compete around the world with a as little government interference as possible, and what it means is that when that mom walks into a Grocery Store or that College Student goes online, the choices they see and the prices they pay are determined by them rather than some government somewhere. And so the work youre doing, ambassador, is just critical and results not just in new jobs here in america, but in new choices and families being able to stretch their pocketbook farther. So this has a real impact on our families. Thats why i hope ou
Mr. Hatch madam president , i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be rescinded. The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Hatch okay. Then, madam president . The presiding officer th the senator from utah. Mr. Hatch i rise to speak about the process weve been seeing here in the senate when it comes to settling major pie pieces of legislation. If you look at how the senate operates these days, i dont think anyone would say that were the greatest deliberative body anymore. We no longer have real debates, most bills dont go through committee where they can be refined and improved, and when the Senate Democratic leadership decides to bring a bill to the floor, we are far more often than not blocked from offering any amendments. The unimhoimen unemployment inse legislation before us is a good example. Republicans have filed dozens of amendments to this bill. Some of them would definitely improve the u. I. Lels. Others would address others would address the underly
Radically motivated shooting at a Grocery Store in buffalo, new york just last month, many, many attacks have devastated communities across the country. The response of secretary Homeland Security recently launched the new urgent review to assess the departments capabilities to address this rising threat. We are here today to discuss one of those capabilities in depth. Key piece of department Homeland Securitys toolbox has been the targeted violence and terrorism Prevention Grant program, or tvtp. Since 2011, the department has identified the need to partner with local communities to address the growing domestic terrorism threat. In 2016, dhs launched the countering extremist violence prevention program, but tvtp. However, weak management of that Grant Program undermine Homeland Securitys ability to determine the effect of this due to underfunding and concerns about the inherent anti muslim bias and some of that. It eroded trust with minority communities. It is local Community Leaders