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According to the committee's chair woman senator dianne feinstein. yesterday, dianne feinstein went out of her way to call out ettinger though stopping short of mentioning him by name. >> i view the acting counsel general's referral as a potential effort to intimidate this staff, and i am not taking it lightly. from mid-2004 until the official termination of the detention and interrogation program in january 2009 he was the unit's chief lawyer. he is mentioned by name more than 1600 times in our study. and now this individual is sending a crimes report to the department of justice on the actio...

Tolerated. when he says innercity, and culture, these are code words for what he really means, black when you swap out black and brown people for its obvious semantic culture, there's a culture of black and brown men who aren't thinking of working. there are shockingly high levels of unemployment in the innercities, i can think of a dozen, even a hundred reasons why without getting near the culture of work. you may have also noticed that paul ryan cited a man named charles murray. he covered a book arguing that white people are smarter than black people. i would call that a dodgy citation, but...

And the destruction would violate no laws. on that advice, he ordered the tapes destroyed. one of the lawyers who gave that advice was robert ettinger, the man who is right now the cia's acting general counsel. and so the cia destroyed those tapes, when this became public, people went appropriately apoplectic. and an investigation was precipitated, the investigation that is now being fought over. now robert ettinger is representing the cia as it goes to war with the senate intelligence committee, to try to possibly interfere with the release of that same report. not only that, this is a man wh...

And years later, the lawyer who says is intimidating her committee, is the same lawyer who gave the green light to destroying tapes showing that torture. joining me now, liza goiteen, i can't really believe that this is the case. it seems to me at the very least, this lawyer needs to recuse himself from anything having to do with this report? >> well, that's certainly would seem to be one possible solution, in that it doesn't look good, it looks very much like retribution on this lawyer's part for a report that made the agency look bad and made him look bad. but i think it would be a mistake t...

Tolerated. when he says innercity, and culture, these are code words for what he really means, black when you swap out black and brown people for its obvious semantic culture, there's a culture of black and brown men who aren't thinking of working. there are shockingly high levels of unemployment in the innercities, i can think of a dozen, even a hundred reasons why without getting near the culture of work. you may have also noticed that paul ryan cited a man named charles murray. he covered a book arguing that white people are smarter than black people. i would call that a dodgy citation, but...