Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman yesterday spoke in support of President Obama's opposition to releasing new photos allegedly showing U.S. troops abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today The Takeaway is looking at the ongoing controversy over how detainees were treated when in the CIA's custody-- and what allowed the Bush administration to use what the CIA called "enhanced interrogation techniques." Could Congress have stopped it? Vicki Divoll is a government teacher at the U.S. Naval Academy and was Former General Council of the State Intelligence Committee. She joins The Takeaway now to discuss whether four representatives can possibly constitute oversight.
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So Nancy Pelosi "doesn't recall". Jane Harman "doesn't recall".
Dick Cheney recalls things that never happened.
Barack Obama won't recall. (And thus joins the ranks of executive branch members committing impeachable crimes.)
A government of absolutely Zero accountability joins the oligarchs who enjoy absolutely zero accountability.
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